Modern Mechanix
Issue: Dec, 1931
Posted in: Origins
Posted: 07/19/2006
2 Comments

Coin-in-Slot Automat Delivers Ice (Dec, 1931)

Wow, that is a REALLY big ice machine.

Coin-in-Slot Automat Delivers Ice
MEET the new ice man — an automatic ice distributing automat which has recently made its appearance in Los Angeles. You simply drop fifteen cents in the slot and out comes a 25 lb. ready-wrapped cake of ice.

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2 comments
  1. Stannous says: July 19, 20068:57 pm

    need room for the two little gnomes and the wrapping paper

  2. SpaceMonkeyX says: July 19, 20069:03 pm

    This reminds me of “The Mosquito Coast”

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