It's Monday. My scanner is broken so I can't continue uploading old 35mm images. But it's a nice day, so why not hop in the car and drive over to Madison and buy $115 worth of oil paints? I saved $76 on the 15 tubes. They were on closeout. Anyway, I had the camera in case I ran into something unexpected. And so I did, in Michael's Custard on Lake Monona in Madison.... This treasure of Americana is an original Coca-Cola machine. All modern soda vending machines descended from this baby. It stands about 5' tall (for scale, that brown panel to the right is a trash receptacle common to food places) You placed your dime or nickels in the coin slot located between the 10 cent signs. If you tried using a slug, the mechanism would drop the slug out through the coin return slot and onto the floor. You gripped the aluminum paddle on the and turned it; you can see the scuff marks. It required a bit of strength, as it operated the pulleys of the bottle storage mechanism and moved a new bottle into place. Then you opened up the door to reveal a rotating series of bottles held horizontally. The one nearest you was unlocked. You gripped the bottle by the cap and pulled it out. The bottle was a big 8 ounce bottle sealed with a cap. You stuck the end of the bottle into the bottle opener located below the coin return slot. A quick tug and you bottle was open and ready to consume. When you were done, you placed your empty on a wire rack standing to one side. Here's the text of the signs, for completists: (1) Deposit dime or 2 nickles. (2) Press handle down -- Release (3) Open door -- remove bottle 2 cents deposit on each bottle taken from premises.