Vending machines- everyday and unusual.

[majorhoundii]

Leodian wrote: tilly wrote: Leodian wrote: In what I feel sure will not be long before it becomes a cashless society it may not be that many years time when people will look back with some amazement that it used to be possible to get paper money from 'vending machines' (ATMs). They will also be amazed that you could make a phone call from a box on a street corner how the hell did we manage without mobiles.Not a problem is the answer. It's not really the thread to mention this but it seemed appropriate in view of tilly's post. Of the many things that have changed in recent years one that always amazes (and amuses) me is that people just don't seem to mind that their mobile phone conversations can be readily heard. People don't seem at all bothered about others hearing what they say! The weirdest mobile phone conversation I've ever overheard was on a train one evening from London to Leeds. There was a woman in the next seats to us, and she was working away at her laptop. Her phone rang and she answered it. It was clearly her nanny. I heard her say "get him to bed then ring me and I'll sing him a little song." The phone duly rang about 15 minutes later and she proceeded to croon a lullaby down the phone to her offspring. Takes all kinds.

[Pong e Beck]

Has anybody a disc they recorded in the booth in the railway station concourse?

[Tasa]

Pong e Beck wrote: Has anybody a disc they recorded in the booth in the railway station concourse? Yes, I still have mine, recorded in 1965! I sang "All Things Bright and Beautiful" followed by "The Grand Old Duke of York". The booth was sited where Wetherspoon's is now. I'm sure I've mentioned it on another thread on Secret Leeds, but no idea which one!I also remember another vending machine in the station concourse in the 1960s, for printing self-adhesive embossed metal labels on strips. You had to laboriously turn a dial then press the button for each letter. No chance to correct typos, unlike modern Dymo machines!    

[Carona]

I also had a disc made in a booth on Weymouth sea front. I sang "Close to you" (The Carpenters). Quality was pretty dire. Cost me 50p.

[simong]

majorhoundii wrote: The weirdest mobile phone conversation I've ever overheard was on a train one evening from London to Leeds. There was a woman in the next seats to us, and she was working away at her laptop. Her phone rang and she answered it. It was clearly her nanny. I heard her say "get him to bed then ring me and I'll sing him a little song." The phone duly rang about 15 minutes later and she proceeded to croon a lullaby down the phone to her offspring. Takes all kinds. That's not rare. I know someone who spent a lot of his time on the road working with museums and if we were in the same town, we would get together for a pint, and at around 7:30 he would make his excuses and go back to his hotel to read his daughter a story over the phone.Another friend used to be a guitar roadie, and had a son two years ago while doing a world tour with The Darkness *clang* and spent his first year being a Skype Daddy. He quit and got a proper job so he could be at home for him every night.

[simong]

Leeds City Museum has a penny squasher machine which, for a pound, turns a penny into a flat medallion. I have a few other squashed pennies from other places in Britain and the world.

[BLAKEY]

headingleylad wrote: Looking at JonLeeds's message, reminding me of raisons in small boxes being available in vending machines, I think they were called Sunshine.     Headingleylad - was it SUNPAT" ?? I remember them too, chocolate coated ??, and they were delicious. I think they could also be bought "by the quarter" in sweet shops.

[BarFly]

I think they were Sun Maid (I had to google it as I couldn't quite recall it):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Maid

[Uno Hoo]

BarFly wrote: I think they were Sun Maid (I had to google it as I couldn't quite recall it):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Maid No, it was Sun-Pat. AFAIK it's still a brand of Peanut Butter.Speaking of vending machines, the ones in the Gents are still going strong! Over the years I've seen them subjected to graffiti, the funniest of which, for me, were:- "Buy Me And Stop One!"and"This is the worst chewing-gum I've ever tasted!"However, you know inflation has become rampant because there's now only two in a packet of three

[j.c.d.]

majorhoundii wrote: Leodian wrote: tilly wrote: Leodian wrote: In what I feel sure will not be long before it becomes a cashless society it may not be that many years time when people will look back with some amazement that it used to be possible to get paper money from 'vending machines' (ATMs). They will also be amazed that you could make a phone call from a box on a street corner how the hell did we manage without mobiles.Not a problem is the answer. It's not really the thread to mention this but it seemed appropriate in view of tilly's post. Of the many things that have changed in recent years one that always amazes (and amuses) me is that people just don't seem to mind that their mobile phone conversations can be readily heard. People don't seem at all bothered about others hearing what they say! The weirdest mobile phone conversation I've ever overheard was on a train one evening from London to Leeds. There was a woman in the next seats to us, and she was working away at her laptop. Her phone rang and she answered it. It was clearly her nanny. I heard her say "get him to bed then ring me and I'll sing him a little song." The phone duly rang about 15 minutes later and she proceeded to croon a lullaby down the phone to her offspring. Takes all kinds. In a Garfoth club last Friday i went to the Gents and there was a man having a sl.sh and holding a conversation on his mobile with his other hand.... who says men can't multi task.