Need a Nickle for the Soda Machine: Vintage Vending Machine Ads

I have some new friends in the ad collecting business and they are avid fans of Soda Pop Vending Machines! They have taken kindly to my web site deovoted to the soda industry: THE SODA SHOPPE VINTAGE ADS on eCrater.

As always when I meet "virtually" new customers, I become interested in their interests. I have discovered some beautiful sites for those interested in collecting, restoring or enjoying antique vending machines.

The Antiquities Vending Co has been in business since 1989. They have beautiful graphics on thier site.

Another great site for those interested is Soda-Machines.com

Evans Vacuum Cap...Guarantee Hair Grower

In the early 1900's it was decided that baldness could be cured by increasing the blood flow to the scalp. Enter The Evans Vacuum Cap. It was as you can see by this 1905 advertisement: the GUARANTEED Hair Grower.

In his (her) book: Baldness: A Social History, Kerry Seagrave writes that Evans claimed only 5% of people every requested thier money back. Thus I guess they were able to achieve a 95% success rate?

Here is a great picture of the machine on the fellow's head. The cap seems pretty secure. And we can see by this ad that women can enjoy the results of a good vacuum cap too. All of these, are of course, for sale in my shop: Old Ad Store

WHAM-O..or where's my BLOWGUN Dude?

In 1948 Arthur "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr founded WHAM-O®. It became known as the gurus of blockbuster fads. While most everyone knows they marketed the Hula Hoop and the Frisbee, did you know that in the 50's they had an entire line of sporting goods...especially for the hunter!

My particular interest in these 1956 ads is that my two brothers wanted every blow gun, dart gun and hunting slingshot that Wham-O could produce. My parent's were not as cooperative and I think the only thing they ever got was the slingshot. There was something just a little sketchy about sending away for something in the back of magazines, even if it was Field & Stream.

More Wham-O ads can be found in my store: Old Ad Store