Apollo Fruit Gum Vendors
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Re: Apollo Fruit Gum Vendors
im not so sure it isn't an original machine, the name plate looks professional,the photos look original and the music box,which acts as the slot clock, plays a Beatles song,although to be honest,a Beatles song much later than the machine would appear
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Re: Apollo Fruit Gum Vendors
I think the top flash is homemade or amateurish at the least.
The reel strips would be easy to manufacture, and I can't help but feel the makers would have recast the Apollo panel to reflect its proposed nomenclature.
As for the music box, I recall every tatty gift shop on the parade at Paignton was selling Beatle musical boxes to hysterical prepubescent school girls. In fact eBay has a couple or three for auction on it's first page right now.
I'll tell you what I think happened. Someone had come across an Apollo Gum Vendor in which; like the one I found nearly thirty years ago, the tiny music box mechanism had given up the ghost. They found a replacement which happened to "Plinky Plonk" out a bar of Hey Jude. So on that basis let's change the theme and chance our arm.
I don't like chancers.
By the way it's not heavy, they're made from aluminium, plywood, thin metal sheet and plastic.
It's made to vend a ball gum every play and two every fourth. It would be easy enough to blank off some of the chambers to give a random vend as described.
The reel strips would be easy to manufacture, and I can't help but feel the makers would have recast the Apollo panel to reflect its proposed nomenclature.
As for the music box, I recall every tatty gift shop on the parade at Paignton was selling Beatle musical boxes to hysterical prepubescent school girls. In fact eBay has a couple or three for auction on it's first page right now.
I'll tell you what I think happened. Someone had come across an Apollo Gum Vendor in which; like the one I found nearly thirty years ago, the tiny music box mechanism had given up the ghost. They found a replacement which happened to "Plinky Plonk" out a bar of Hey Jude. So on that basis let's change the theme and chance our arm.
I don't like chancers.
By the way it's not heavy, they're made from aluminium, plywood, thin metal sheet and plastic.
It's made to vend a ball gum every play and two every fourth. It would be easy enough to blank off some of the chambers to give a random vend as described.
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