Coca Cola Cooler Shell
Posted by: brwhiz
N 37° 06.494 W 113° 35.065
12S E 270353 N 4110004
This piece of Coca Cola Memorabilia sits in front of the historic Judd Store at 62 W Tabernacle Street in downtown St. George, Utah.
Waymark Code: WMFEQB
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2012
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This shell is all that remains of an old-style Coca Cola vending machine. The bottled drinks would be lined up in horizontal slots inside the cooler. You deposited your money, opened the lid, selected a bottle, slid it to the vending station, then lifted it vertically through the dispensing gate that would pass only one bottle at a time. There was a bottle opener with a built-in but removable container that caught the tops as they were removed.
I bought many a bottle of soda, and not just Coke, from these machine in my youth many, many years ago.