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| Photo Colin Dalziel
Also, were they sited outside some of the small dairy shops at Falcon Road West or Montpelier Terrace?
There was certainly one at Lindt's at Brighton Place, Portobello. Anne, Iain and I would accompany our grandfather to pick up one or two messages and occasionally be allowed to buy a drink. For a child these machines were fascinating-the ones I recall were slightly different to the machine illustrated above in that they were a deeper blue and had six red buttons; the tetra-pack carton of cold milk was dispensed with a satisfying thud as it landed in the large drawer and before one opened it there was always the small frisson of excitement that it was indeed the requested product! |
Postscript: What are your memories of vending machines-Spangles, Wrigleys and Beech Nut gum, Nestle chocolate?
Yeah,we had one at Firhill,dispensed orange juice as well as milk.That's if you could get you're money in the machine before some bully took it off you.
ReplyDeleteAgree-they recently had some on sale again and Iain Hoffmann kindly bought me some-tried one, but rest remain in the freezer! Perhaps an allegory for the blog?
ReplyDeleteI remember a Beech Nut machine at the foot of Ardmillan Terrace. On the way to the Hearts home games we'd get off the 4 bus there, cross the road and feed a thrupenny bit into the machine, hoping that you'd be the fourth turn of the wheel and get a second free pack.
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