Slot Machine Vends 25c Sunburns (Mar, 1935)
Slot Machine Vends 25c Sunburns
SELLING sunburns at twenty-five cents an installment, new slot machines being installed in Broadway barber and beauty shops are attracting New Yorkers seeking that Palm Beach and California complexion.Upon depositing a coin in the slot, a violet ray lamp gives off radiations for seven minutes. Patrons are warned to wait three days before the next treatment, said too frequent usage gives painful burns.
I read this as “Slot Machine Vends 25c Sideburns”, which is a much better invention.
Includes corneal scarring at no extra charge!
Because simply going outside and looking up doesn’t help “whip old man Depression”. At least not for the inventor of this thing!!
“Let’s see, lunch or a blast of UV, which is the best use of my quarter?”
It was probably cheaper to go see a two movies with a newsreel and a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Makes you wonder what year they started describing it as a suntan vs sunburn?
My mother said she could go to the movies as a little girl, get a soda a popcorn and a candy bar (if I remember correctly) all for a quarter. And that was back in the 60′s. So I imagine a quarter in the late 30′s would be… quite a bit more.