I remember as a young kid in the 70's buying Coke from that exact vending machine while on vacation on Lake Winnepesaukee New Hampshire. Tasted so freaking good, still used glass bottles too
Coca Cola still uses glass bottles. And in Mexico they do the returnable bottles in crates. They still use glass bottles in the United States Coca Cola. God Bless
For a while I worked for one of their competitors in Fresno CA. Their machines were more Pepsi and other brands oriented. That was Vendolator Mfg. One of the jobs I did was to lay out and electronically test the wiring harnesses before being placed in the machines.
The best part of those tall coolers with the glass door, you could open the door but the bottles won’t release until you pay for it. If you have a straw and a bottle opener, you used to be able to get free Coke, open the doors pop the cap insert the straw and drink! Bottle never leaves the cooler!
I'm 75 When I was a kid It cost $0.35 You seem to movies and 4or5 cartoons. A cup of soda from the machine was a nickel. Large popcorn 7 cent Candy bars a nickel And a large selection of one and two cent hard candies You could party down on a $1 weekly allowance
@@patrickbush9526 you have a good memory to recall the exact prices! I remember candy bars being 50¢ when I was growing up in the 80s but couldn't begin to recall how much a movie was.
I visited my local house of prostitution many years ago… They had one of these Vendo Coke machines in there… And that’s why I kept going back… I swear!
Wow that is funny. I was thinking more like...hey Bob, you gotta a dime so I can buy a Coke >>> Bob says...never mind a dime, reach into my tool bag and hand me that giant crow bar...we're gonna bust into this son-of-a-bitch and give everybody a Coke. Then, we'll steal all the change.
I was fired once for not checking the bathrooms often enough at a highway Shell station to keep them clean. I say the owner was "fixated" on them as all I remember was being in them if I wasn't pumping gas. Bailey's Shell @ the Thorne Ave. off ramp on 99 in Fresno.
it's funny, ppl consider 'mexican coke' to be the best today because it doesn't have any HFCS in it and still comes in glass bottles, but in mexico their coke *does* have it and the sugar cane version is made in mexico *for* the american market.
13:08 "Mr. Hopkins you've spend allot of money this spring painting and fixing up and remodeling your service station...... sure would hate to see it burn down! let me show you the new Vendo Model drink machine" Jeez its the Coke Cartel
You got my attention at “arouse”. That poor man spraying the red paint was in a cloud of overspray...breathing it all in...my gawd what that did to his health.
The good ole days. When men were men and women were women. When women wanted to be feminine. Dressed like it too. So much more innocence. Common sense. Not like today. Was very lucky to have grown up in the 60’s. 70’s.
I have the light up sign from one of those machines. I had to make a wood box for it and put in LED tape behind it. It's still as beautiful today as it was in 1961.
For those where life is the crime of way they'd be attempting to figure out how to rob the machines. Then it would be a fair bet that the machines did not work half the time. And with no Fonz around. Putting the money in - that part always worked. Never any malfunction there. But getting what you paid for in return. That would have been where the functionality became somewhat more vulnerable.
When I was about 7 in 1966, I would go to the vendo machine at the dental office at the end of our street, put in a dime and if you were fast enough you could pull two bottles out at once!
The painter without a mask, only to have rainbow lung and dead before 60. I worked in an office where the manager owned an old vending machine. Different brands of pop based upon the taste of everyone in the office. Each bottle sold for 25 cents. Only repaired once in 15 years.
@@RodCornholio I’m not shore I was lucky found mine working I know we have a 50s Frigidaire refrigerator aka beer cooler in my dads garage we changed the compressor to take 410A
Wonder what each of these models cost? Would be interesting to know how many Cokes at 10 cents a pop it took to recoup the cost. And how much profit you could make on a 10 cent coke after that.
not to mention where you're supposed to pick cokes up at wholesale, or if it's delivered. i'm just completely guessing that the higher end machines would go for about $250 in 1965, which is a little over $2000 today. i don't know if low inflation back then would have lowered or raised the price, though, but i think when inflation is reasonably low the price would decrease. inflation began to really rise starting in the mid-60's. so, using my made-up numbers, you'd have to sell 2500 ten cent cokes to make $250, which would take 6.85 years if you sold one a day, or 3.4 years if you sold two a day. of course, you still have to pay for your product. now, when i owned a small convenience store there was quite a bit of profit in pop, so let's say the profit was five cents if i remember correctly (which no doubt i am *not*), putting you back up to the 6.8 years at selling two per day. this doesn't account for labour, interest on a loan, or any possible fee a coke distributor might charge for delivery. now, if you could sell four a day at ten cents and make 50% profit, you're around 3.4 years, which is rather inline with today's expectation of paying off a small loan in 1-5 years. then again, i suck at math and i'm just making wild guesses cuz i can't find any numbers on it. i'm sure the real math on it makes it a much better deal than my bullshit makes it sound.
@@manlymcstud8588 ... I will not debate your cost figures but you might want to rethink the number sold a day. Be more like a min of 10 a day and maybe more like 30+ in a busy location especially if it's a 24 hr spot.
Back when the guys who filled the vending machines knew sales and profit. The guys who fill vending machines today, just tell you to phone the sales number or visit the website.
The Canteen rep that comes and fills up the vending machines at my job never has anything good to say about his company... Canteen buys Coca-Cola products...Coca-Cola no longer owns the machines
who would ever have thought machines would have a satellite hook-up so you can use your a credit card? 'well, i can't buy a coke today because there's a bad storm outside....' vending companies now pay a business to put their machines in.
And then someone had the idea “wood grain” that will never go out of style. And I never stooped anywhere and said “well why I’m here for a coke how about a set of tires too”.
All the postwar delusions lined up here: sprawl, junky materialism, automobile dependency, endless consumption, planned obsolescence, and last but not least, carbonated caramel-flavored sugar water.
Exactly. Amazing that repairmen back in the day dressed in such an official looking uniform. Try dressing like that today and everyone assumes the guy is a cop.
I can not believe the guy painting isn't wearing safety glasses and a respirator filter mask. I wonder what his lungs looked like after a career at Vendo.
Those machines with the bottles horizontal. We kids carried a cup and a bottle opener, you just popped the top and half the bottle ran into your cup, more if you tipped the machine. Which is why they didn't make those type of machines for long.
A couple fake things I noticed: At 3:58 the window air conditioner does not look like a production model. It has no power cord showing and it looks like a fake plastic housing mounted to a sheet of painted plywood in the window opening. At 6:28 the guy touches the oscilloscope. It has no probe plugged into the front panel to take a measurement, and, there is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing, in the Venmo wiring which would require the use of an oscilloscope. I think a test light or continuity tester would do fine with switches, thermostat, and solenoids. Perhaps I'm wrong but the showing an oscilloscope may be just to produce laboratory wow factor to the unknowing audience.
Also, at 3:47 the guy is showing a fancy outboard housing. I doubt that made production as there is not much space inside for the cylinder head and carburetor. Looks nice though.
Man I love everything about this era. The speech, the sounds, the styles, the attitudes.
I love it all too (except for racism:sexism of course). Reminds me of my grandparents.
@J Chow if only we could live like that but with the acceptance of today....
@@proudkiwi7641 acceptance of what?
@@warrax111 race, culture, religion, gender, sexuality.
Here in west Tennessee we still have plenty of those machines all over and have a local coke factory in my town . will always love it
I remember as a young kid in the 70's buying Coke from that exact vending machine while on vacation on Lake Winnepesaukee New Hampshire.
Tasted so freaking good, still used glass bottles too
You ever seen Dr. Leo Marvin while up there in Lake Winnepesaukee? lol
I missed the 1970...
@@theblackstoneproject9917 I came here to ask where Bob was!!!
@@theblackstoneproject9917 I was thinking the same thing.
Coca Cola still uses glass bottles.
And in Mexico they do the returnable bottles in crates.
They still use glass bottles in the United States Coca Cola.
God Bless
Beautiful work! I can see why those are so highly prized by collectors.
I bet a lot of those machines could still be going today.
The collector value of any of these machines would be huge.
Alot of those are still being used today. Huge collector market
I have a V-63 in my living room still running nicely.
Yep quality workmanship.
They are in Fallout 4.
For a while I worked for one of their competitors in Fresno CA. Their machines were more Pepsi and other brands oriented. That was Vendolator Mfg. One of the jobs I did was to lay out and electronically test the wiring harnesses before being placed in the machines.
I just acquired a pepsi vendorlator for free. Tag says is a MFG
My Coke machine was made before these "New" models. I like the older Raised Lettering Red and White models.
thought this was going to be about architecture until that housewife stood there and stared at the cokes for 5 minutes. lol
lmao Yeah, I wondered what made her take so long to decide which one to grab.. Meth is a helluva drug.
no one picks up an item off the supermarket shelf like that...
Today, those machines worth a lot of money. Collector items!
Heck just a 6 pack of them cokes unopened would fetch a good bit.
What do you mean _Arouse Impulse??_
The last era that America was truly great. The country peaked around the mid-60's. We've gone downhill since then.
Back when industry films were well made!
Wow no PPE even while painting.
But they had a wash-down draft booth to catch the overspray and fumes!
the non filtered cigarettes made up for it
Watching that I was like WTF?!?!?
Lead paint back then? Or earlier?
Yep, that's when people weren't bitches.
Those machines sure have a crisp clean look
😆😆😆 He said Crisp like 20 times....
Now I'm saying it....cut my grass and my yard is crisp ! 😆
@@Holly1960- i enjoy a good crisp clean look
Originally released in 1959.
Those old-fashioned Coca-Cola vending machines are works of art. I once got a can from one in a local laundromat when I was a kid.
I remember most of those Coke machines put out some ice cold bottles of Coke…😋😋😋
The best part of those tall coolers with the glass door, you could open the door but the bottles won’t release until you pay for it.
If you have a straw and a bottle opener, you used to be able to get free Coke, open the doors pop the cap insert the straw and drink! Bottle never leaves the cooler!
Remember the soda cup machines in movie theaters? The beverage would dispense and go down the drain...then the cup would drop down.
I'm 75 When I was a kid It cost $0.35 You seem to movies and 4or5 cartoons. A cup of soda from the machine was a nickel. Large popcorn 7 cent Candy bars a nickel And a large selection of one and two cent hard candies You could party down on a $1 weekly allowance
@@patrickbush9526 you have a good memory to recall the exact prices! I remember candy bars being 50¢ when I was growing up in the 80s but couldn't begin to recall how much a movie was.
@@Gofraudme Then the movie theatres or cinemas banned you from bringing in outside drinks and snacks and buying their overpriced stuff.
I visited my local house of prostitution many years ago… They had one of these Vendo Coke machines in there… And that’s why I kept going back… I swear!
Wow that is funny. I was thinking more like...hey Bob, you gotta a dime so I can buy a Coke >>> Bob says...never mind a dime, reach into my tool bag and hand me that giant crow bar...we're gonna bust into this son-of-a-bitch and give everybody a Coke. Then, we'll steal all the change.
Was that one your mother worked in?
😂
That's what we're talking about, perpetual profit from prostitution and coke.
I suspect you went back for the bbc
One of the "salesmen" (talking perpetual profit) was Detroit channel 4 weatherman Sonny Eliot.
Removes the Kewaunaw Peninsula ... and squeaks it.
@@gibran53 One of the all-time greats in Detroit television.
"... just as they expect good restroom facilities."
2021 and prior: Yeah.. well that didn't work out!
I was fired once for not checking the bathrooms often enough at a highway Shell station to keep them clean. I say the owner was "fixated" on them as all I remember was being in them if I wasn't pumping gas. Bailey's Shell @ the Thorne Ave. off ramp on 99 in Fresno.
Coke used to be Coke!... I miss the old days!
it's funny, ppl consider 'mexican coke' to be the best today because it doesn't have any HFCS in it and still comes in glass bottles, but in mexico their coke *does* have it and the sugar cane version is made in mexico *for* the american market.
He meant cocaine. I guess he's 136.
I actually remember these machines in gas stations, motels, and other areas of commerce. I was born in ‘60 !!
Alot of Detroit shots!!! Also the little model's of the Coke machines look like the desk top chillers they make now...
13:08 "Mr. Hopkins you've spend allot of money this spring painting and fixing up and remodeling your service station...... sure would hate to see it burn down! let me show you the new Vendo Model drink machine" Jeez its the Coke Cartel
I'd love to have one of those Coke machine mockups...
I remember the vending machines with Coke bottles in the late 70s. There's nothing like an ice cold Coke in a glass bottle.
Empathy and caring for the customer.
You got my attention at “arouse”. That poor man spraying the red paint was in a cloud of overspray...breathing it all in...my gawd what that did to his health.
Don't get so excited, its just lead based paint.
A flask of coca cola will cure his ills.
@@JM-yx1lm lead based paint I dare say it would do a whole lot of health problems down the road
yeah, well, these guys didn't feel the need to live to be a 100 anyway....
The good ole days. When men were men and women were women. When women wanted to be feminine. Dressed like it too. So much more innocence. Common sense. Not like today. Was very lucky to have grown up in the 60’s. 70’s.
This had me as soon as the music started!
Anything Coca Cola (including coke vending macjo es) from the 1950s is beautiful ART.
THANK YOU for this post!!
I'm so excited cause I'm buying one but need to find a service manual
Look up the model # there's bound to be some where for the thing.
This is a masterclass in product design!
When the US was classy and stylish. People were respectful and well spoken.
I have the light up sign from one of those machines. I had to make a wood box for it and put in LED tape behind it. It's still as beautiful today as it was in 1961.
For those where life is the crime of way they'd be attempting to figure out how to rob the machines. Then it would be a fair bet that the machines did not work half the time. And with no Fonz around. Putting the money in - that part always worked. Never any malfunction there. But getting what you paid for in return. That would have been where the functionality became somewhat more vulnerable.
Is the announcer John Forsythe?
I thought the same. I think it is.
yes
This kept me on the edge of my seat
When I was about 7 in 1966, I would go to the vendo machine at the dental office at the end of our street, put in a dime and if you were fast enough you could pull two bottles out at once!
The painter without a mask, only to have rainbow lung and dead before 60.
I worked in an office where the manager owned an old vending machine. Different brands of pop based upon the taste of everyone in the office. Each bottle sold for 25 cents. Only repaired once in 15 years.
It was really windy back in the 60s
Back when money had value. 10c for a bottle of coke.
Lol the lady at 16:17 is so addicted to coke, she not only buys a 6 pack she HAS to grab one from the machine while she buys more coke!
This was great fun -thanks!!!!!!!
I own one of these machines still keeps cokes 35 degrees
Curious. Do you know if the coolant was ever replaced/recharged?
@@RodCornholio I’m not shore I was lucky found mine working I know we have a 50s Frigidaire refrigerator aka beer cooler in my dads garage we changed the compressor to take 410A
@@jasongilbert2267 Thanks.
The problem with America is we stopped wearing work uniforms with bow ties and hats.🙂
You didn’t have to adjust your pants waist often because your belt was the same height as your nipples.
J Hancock, Sadly We forgot how to love America and began to learn to hate it....
14:05 that is clearly misleading and would warrant multiple lawsuits today. They have no proof that traffic or sales will increase.
Right, Mr. Olson, but there's no proof it won't, either. Let the leader in soft drinks lead YOU, to perpetual profit
Beautiful. Loved it.
i wish i thought of going to the 'marketplace' as an 'exciting festival' as opposed to a carnival freak show.
Try some place other than wal-wal
It eventually turned into one of the first episodes of How It's Made.
All that paint and no respirators ! Ahhh the good ole days !
Wonder what each of these models cost? Would be interesting to know how many Cokes at 10 cents a pop it took to recoup the cost. And how much profit you could make on a 10 cent coke after that.
not to mention where you're supposed to pick cokes up at wholesale, or if it's delivered. i'm just completely guessing that the higher end machines would go for about $250 in 1965, which is a little over $2000 today. i don't know if low inflation back then would have lowered or raised the price, though, but i think when inflation is reasonably low the price would decrease. inflation began to really rise starting in the mid-60's.
so, using my made-up numbers, you'd have to sell 2500 ten cent cokes to make $250, which would take 6.85 years if you sold one a day, or 3.4 years if you sold two a day.
of course, you still have to pay for your product. now, when i owned a small convenience store there was quite a bit of profit in pop, so let's say the profit was five cents if i remember correctly (which no doubt i am *not*), putting you back up to the 6.8 years at selling two per day. this doesn't account for labour, interest on a loan, or any possible fee a coke distributor might charge for delivery.
now, if you could sell four a day at ten cents and make 50% profit, you're around 3.4 years, which is rather inline with today's expectation of paying off a small loan in 1-5 years.
then again, i suck at math and i'm just making wild guesses cuz i can't find any numbers on it. i'm sure the real math on it makes it a much better deal than my bullshit makes it sound.
a case of Coke back then was less then a dollar.
@@manlymcstud8588 ... I will not debate your cost figures but you might want to rethink the number sold a day. Be more like a min of 10 a day and maybe more like 30+ in a busy location especially if it's a 24 hr spot.
I fell asleep listening to the guy describing his designs, and I woke up with a bill and a new vending machine in my house, please help!
I have an Ideal slider royal crown cola slider in my garage now keeping adult beverages chilled
1:10.....is the woman in the film the same woman on the advertising sign??
I've been playing Fallout 4. I'm pretty sure UA-cam recommended this because of it.
Back when the guys who filled the vending machines knew sales and profit.
The guys who fill vending machines today, just tell you to phone the sales number or visit the website.
The Canteen rep that comes and fills up the vending machines at my job never has anything good to say about his company... Canteen buys Coca-Cola products...Coca-Cola no longer owns the machines
who would ever have thought machines would have a satellite hook-up so you can use your a credit card? 'well, i can't buy a coke today because there's a bad storm outside....' vending companies now pay a business to put their machines in.
The great voice of John Forsythe.
SHoover1226, you're an angel for saying that...
@4:29 mufukas had a window unit? No central air in the 50s I guess
Spray painting without a resporator. Handling fiberglass without gloves.
Tough as nails back then! (With a 39 year old life expectancy)
Well the fiberglass looked like it was plastic coated but still...
Needs Mike and the Bots
The giant bag of potato chips beside the Coke display was only 89 cents! They were practically giving it away!
Not really. That would be about the same as 5+$ today. Or 1/2 hr of min wage.
I want those perpetual profits too
And then someone had the idea “wood grain” that will never go out of style. And I never stooped anywhere and said “well why I’m here for a coke how about a set of tires too”.
Had the same thought about the tires.
All the postwar delusions lined up here: sprawl, junky materialism, automobile dependency, endless consumption, planned obsolescence, and last but not least, carbonated caramel-flavored sugar water.
Damn... I saw this and went to go get a diet coke... advertising from WAY downtown.
phenylalanine dipeptide ("Diet" anything) is the #1 chemical consumed by people with chronic obesity problems.
No such thing back then. Diet Coke came out in 1982
@@mowingcowboy .... I was going to say that.
More so than you think. No dite back then.
Yes mr.new york designer man...we looked over your shoulder drawing a straight line...
I didn't really need any gasoline for my car, but I just had to have a bottle of that sugar water with cola flavor, I do miss that cocaine thogh.
Can you run a car on Coke and Mentos ?
That ended about a half century before the time of this original filming. Before that it was only “Trace amounts”.
By golly those Vendo machines sure looked swell. I sure wish I was a Vendo salesman with a clean pressed uniform and pants to my waist.
don't forget the hat, and i bet your shoes had to have a mirror reflection!
What a refreshing video?!
Thought the thumbnail was Andy & Barney.
Exactly. Amazing that repairmen back in the day dressed in such an official looking uniform. Try dressing like that today and everyone assumes the guy is a cop.
The taller guy looks like Rodney Dangerfield from the side. 😂
If ever there was a man with less oomph selling oomph ;)
0:54 to 1:10 i shit you not she looked at the coke bottles for 16 seconds before she selected one. Theyre all the sammmmme
This makes me want to hike up my pants and snort coke!
3:39 Mr. Excitement! Calm down you maniac!
Profit + Profit = Perpetual Profit!
The love of soda pop is the root of all kidney disease
I can not believe the guy painting isn't wearing safety glasses and a respirator filter mask. I wonder what his lungs looked like after a career at Vendo.
Those machines with the bottles horizontal. We kids carried a cup and a bottle opener, you just popped the top and half the bottle ran into your cup, more if you tipped the machine. Which is why they didn't make those type of machines for long.
Couldn’t they have just flipped the bottles facing the bottom part ? I’m not too sure how these machines work lol.
Would have never thought of doing that.
13:54 you can just make out the October 13, 1958 issue if Life. So most likely this was filmed in October of 58!
Fucken Machine took my quarter!
Cars looked cool,,buildings ehhh.
Yea but will there be profit?
What ever happened to that cola company?
Canteen is the vending machine company of today.
i'm pretty sure there's a vendo machine somewhere in japan selling ramen...or "mystery toys" lol
Luv the harps.
Now I’m thirsty.
Lol I thought she was going to start making out with that coke display 👍♥️
Other than NJ and one other state, getting people out of their car at the "service" station is not a problem.
Anyone else relentlessly riff this short?
No safety equipment for the employees back then.
I want one!
👀Look at the size of that bag o’ chips @ 1:15 👀 Bet it was mostly full too!
Gee, perpetual profits you say? Sign me up, chief, I'll take it!
This guy could sell ice to an Eskimo. I guess that's not how to say that in 2021. I mean frozen water to an Eskimo.
That was the joke.
A couple fake things I noticed: At 3:58 the window air conditioner does not look like a production model. It has no power cord showing and it looks like a fake plastic housing mounted to a sheet of painted plywood in the window opening. At 6:28 the guy touches the oscilloscope. It has no probe plugged into the front panel to take a measurement, and, there is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing, in the Venmo wiring which would require the use of an oscilloscope. I think a test light or continuity tester would do fine with switches, thermostat, and solenoids. Perhaps I'm wrong but the showing an oscilloscope may be just to produce laboratory wow factor to the unknowing audience.
Also, at 3:47 the guy is showing a fancy outboard housing. I doubt that made production as there is not much space inside for the cylinder head and carburetor. Looks nice though.
@@robertlagasse1763 um. Did you miss the part where they said basically they make models first ?! 😕😐
3:55 That's the guy from Napoleon Dynamite who shot the cow and ran the chicken egg farm when he was 40 years younger!! Thumbs up anybody?
8:00 someone call OSHA!
Good one! :)
OSHA won't respond..I called OSHA New York office to complain about my employer..OSHA Rep. sided with my employer
Guy had a healthy pair of red lungs