re: I remember what it feels and sounds like to pull the knob on a cigarette vending machine

I guess I'm an Old Fart... My dad had a grocery store when I was young. I remember when cigarettes cost 65 cents and the machine only took quarters. My job was to slice the wrapper of the cigarettes open an insert a dime. So, when you would pay 75 cents you would receive 10 cents change.

One time I was with my dad at some shop that had a cig machine with electric push buttons.

I was probably 5 or 6. I started pressing buttons and packs started coming out.

My dad got a kick out of it.

used to sneek in the back door of the Holiday Inn and use these

Also no rewind. I believe he is referring to cassette tapes, along with the 8-track.

It didn’t flip. It just had 4 sections or tracks, with 2-4 songs in each section. To hear a song again you had to hit the selector again to skip through the other three sections so the section your song was on would come up next.
It made playing the same song over and over until you could nail the drum solo problematic.

$3.50? I remember them back in my college days at $.75

That was a long time ago. . . . . .

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I remember seeing cigarette vending machine on the sidewalks in Germany in 2003.

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they have beer machines on sidewalks in Japan, bus stops, even on Mt. Fuji

Not only do I remember the sound and the tension on the knobs, but I remember when you only needed two quarters to make it work.

eta: I see Merits and Vantage at the bottom left. I don't think those brands even exist anymore. Those were my fallbacks if they were out of Winstons.

My dad and uncles would always let me get their cigarettes for them. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world

Anyone else old enough to remember going to the bar with your old man?

In the late 70’s, early 80’s at around 10 years old, my mom would send me down to the nearest 7-Eleven on my bike to buy her Marlboro’s.