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All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4 This tweet was posted on August 30, 2018.

The countertop Futura fortune machine illuminates its predictions from a roll of 35 mm film inside, visible through a lighted window atop a plastic “crystal ball.” #CoinOperated This tweet was posted on August 30, 2018.

Based on the roulette wheel, this gum vendor and trade stimulator features colorful graphics depicting a fortune-teller and crystal ball. Each penny played on The Gypsy Fortune Teller dispensed a ball of gum. #CoinOperated This tweet was posted on August 30, 2018.

Fortune-telling was so fashionable that some machines, such as The Gypsy Fortune Teller, advertised the subject and did not actually offer a fortune. #CoinOperated This tweet was posted on August 30, 2018.

All objects courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4 This tweet was posted on August 14, 2018.

Jackson Vending’s safety match vendors, popular in cigar stores, public houses, and saloons, dispensed a box of safety matches from a rotating carousel housed under a glass dome. #CoinOperated This tweet was posted on August 14, 2018.

Postage and postcard machines conveniently vended items for mail correspondence outside of the post office, such as the Duplex stamp vendor, which fed one- and two-cent stamps from rolls behind glass sides. #CoinOperated This tweet was posted on August 14, 2018.

"The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4 This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.

This version of Log Cabin offered $1 for the central shot, or between two and five cigars from alternating pockets in the lower trough. #coinoperated This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.

In 1901, Caille Brothers of Detroit patented Log Cabin, a nickel-operated bagatelle game and trade stimulator. Log Cabin features a spring-loaded plunger for shooting and pioneered the mechanical ball lift. #coinoperated This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.

During the 1890s, electrically operated automatic #phonographs were nicknamed “nickel-in-the-slot” machines and produced by various manufacturers under license from Edison. #coinoperated This tweet was posted on July 24, 2018.

Modern #jukeboxes trace their origins to coin-operated phonographs. Marketed as automatic phonographs, these late-nineteenth-century machines combined wax cylinder phonographs with a #coinoperated mechanism. This tweet was posted on July 24, 2018.