Oh, dear, oh, dear. Bud Lite. Wouldn’t want this competing with the drug dealers.
My fraternity had one of those. My favorite was the button marked, “Mystery.” 25% chance of getting a Heineken, 75% Blatz or Olympia.
When I was in the Navy we had beer machines in the barracks.
I smell SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL....
We did this in my fraternity in college - had an old Pepsi machine that dispensed bottles. Because we couldn’t change the amount charged (25 cents), we just put an empty in between every bottle of beer.
So, if you had 50 cents, you could buy a nice cold beer.
Never, EVER doubt the power of engineering students when the guy/girl ratio is 10:1.
There's always one.
/johnny
Heck, that’s nothing. In Japan, you can buy whiskey from vending machines on the street.
Ohio State University early 70s.
Was visiting a dorm. They had a coke machine stocked with beer bottles.
Only cost a quarter each.
Prefer a Pepsi mahself, but darned if I’d pay 3 bucks for it!
Another free marketeer successfully put out of business.
Like many others here, I once worked in a warehouse where we had an indoor coke machine. One button was marked “Out of order” which translated to “Budweiser.” The machine made enough money on soft drinks during the day, that it funded the end-of-day beers.
Trinidad’s a rough neighborhood in DC. Not worth the $3, mon.
As my friend says --(he owns 4 rooming houses here) 'Schlitz Malt Liquor, the choice of homeless drunks everywhere!'
BTW, my friend business is thriving.... he just bought another building to house homeless families...
One of the most pleasant surprises I had after I got my commission was finding beer in the BOQ vending machines.
Nothing like dropping a couple quarters for a beer after a long day of flying in the tropics.
Of course, that ceased during the early Clinton years.
My barracks in Korea had a beer vending machine. $0.75/can. One night, I got a 7-pack for the price of one. I bought the first beer, and it emptied the rest in that column (total of six). The machine still showed I had a credit, so I pushed another button and got a seventh beer. Good times. I did, however, go to the housing folks and let them know what happened. I didn’t want to lose the machine or privileges due to theft/malfunction, since the vending machine was the only place you could get a beer after curfew in town and before the clubs opened again in the morning. They didn’t ask me to re-imburse them for the extras, they just thanked me for the information. The machine was there for my entire two years. :-)
The police disabled a Pepsi machine? Well, there’s another lawsuit. Does somebody have a video of the attack? Can’t we all just get along?
LOL, this takes me back to my teen years in the early ‘70s. There was an auto body shop / junkyard nearby that had a soda machine outside the business shanty, close to the road. The machine dispensed cans of several regular brands of cola, root beer, and ginger ale. But there was also an unlabeled button that dispensed... cans of beer! It wasn’t supposed to be known to the public, but as happens with this kind of thing, word got out. We would visit at night when the place was closed and pop our quarters into the machine.
The last beer vending machine I saw was at Area 12 of the Nevada Test Site in ‘92, it sold the “white can” generic beer. Even though the next nearest beer was 50 miles away in Mercury, it didn’t do much business.