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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1953402, member: 15199&quot;]I have doubts about the vending machine stories in all of the history coin blogs. I have seen many of that era&#039;s vending machines, and the only ones taking cents I recall were candy corn and gumball size candies. Sodas, and cigarette machines, etc. were usually nickels on up. Slugs ( usually from various punch-outs were used to imitate nickels and that is where the magnet came to reject). The cent machines usually used a rotating device using the size of the cent rather than the composition. But there are some older members on the forum that may remember the machines better. </p><p><br /></p><p>I still recall going past the &#039;Buster Brown Shoes&#039; store and putting my feet in the x-ray machine so parents could see that we needed larger shoes. Just there on the sidewalk and of course we did every time we walked by <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I wonder how many rads it put out through the tin device . Now kids just use cell phones next to their brain <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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