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From the time it opened in Philadelphia in 1902, the concept of the Automat captured the imaginations of Americans. This history explores the Automat look, atmosphere, and impact, and includes many authentic Automat recipes, including Boston Baked Beans and Macaroni and Cheese.
Features photos, descriptions, and prices for over 300 coin-op vending machines dating from the late 1890s to the 1960s. Common to rare machines include those that dispensed candy, gum, peanuts, tobacco, aspirin, breath pellets, matches, stamps, and cigars. Also includes hints for finding machines, restoration, servicing, common terminology, price ...
This work traces the history of the vending machine from its inception to its current place in popular American culture, with the eight chapters covering significant eras. Successes and failures of the machines, economic factors influencing the popularity (or lack thereof) of vending machines, and the struggle of the industry to become a dominant ...
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Fawcett
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 192 p. Includes illustrations. Pages and binding like new. Minor edgewear front cover and tiny crease bottom right corner. Features secret FBI "buggings" of Sam "The Plumber" De Cavalcante, leader of the New Jersey mafia family, plus Angelo Bruno, leader of the Philadelphia mafia family. Volz and Bridge were reporters for the Newark Evening News, New Jersey's then largest newspaper. The wiretaps of De Cavalcante offer the most complete view of life in the ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wash DC Army 15 Dec 1982.
Date Published: 1982
Description: VG-; cv soiled. 11" wraps; fold-out chart; personnel, equipment & utensils, sanitary facilities & controls, construction & maintenance of food service facilities, mobile food units, temporary food service, field food service, vending machine operations; leftovers; storage and use of poisonous and toxic materials in food service facilities; sanitary facilities and controls; 3 appendices including references. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio: Gold Medal Products Co., 1961.
Description: 121 pp.; yellow, white and black paper wrappers; rare concession stand equipment catalogue from the 1960's, with photographic, black and white illustrations of machines, equipment, supplies and hats, and detailed descriptions of each, with prices; index at front; with order blanks printed with maps to the company's offices on 1825-1839 Freeman Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio; with instruction sheet, "Installation and Care of Floss Machine Ribbons", and a side-stapled 8 1/2 by 11 inch manual, "Your ... read more
Description: 1890. HMSO. First. Disbound loose sheets with clear protective covers. 7.5x11. Complete specification for patent application together with drawings. read more
Description: 1901. HMSO. First. Disbound loose sheets with clear protective covers. 7.5x11. Ex-libris. Complete specification for patent application together with drawings. read more
Description: 1910. HMSO. First. Disbound loose sheets with clear protective covers. 7.5x11. Ex-libris. Complete specification for patent application together with drawings. read more
Description: 1909. HMSO. First. Disbound loose sheets with clear protective covers. 7.5x11. Ex-libris. Complete specification for patent application together with drawings. read more
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