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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by DebtDeflation on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:48AM (#34502422)
I'll never forget the cigarette vending machines that were in the entrance area of every supermarket around here in the 1970s and 1980s. They had very distinctive clear acrylic "knobs" attached to long metal rods, that you would pull to dispense a pack of cigarettes after depositing money. It was a design unlike any other vending machine I've ever seen.
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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by unwind on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:53AM (#34502462)
Something like this: [1]? Not sure if those are in fact not clear acrylic, or just grimed up.

[1]: https://whereandwander.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Vintag...

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Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray by DebtDeflation on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#34537027)
That's it, though those knobs do look a bit different from what I remember.
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