In the early twentieth century there was an explosion of coin-operated vending machines offering just about everything you could think of including gum and candy, cigarettes, postage stamps, and transportation tickets for buses, trams and trolleys, jukeboxes, your weight, and of course pay telephones. 

Where were they typically found? How were they operated? Listen and find out.

"Put a Nickel in the Slot" song by Wingy Manone And His Orchestra. Recorded in 1935.

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