Heading for the dump?

[roger]

It looks like this Talking Scale has been placed at curbside and free for the taking.
Scrap iron is currently selling for 10 ct. pound...........Any takers ? ROGER

[john t peterson]

I think Gameswat is purchasing an airline ticket. You should at least rescue the enamel sign, Roger.

J Peterson
Weighing in, USA

[roger]

The good news is that the one of a kind coin-op "Speaking Scale" has been rescued and resides at Shady Pines, U.S.A.

The bad news is that the scale operates on one yen and announces your weight in Chinese. ROGER

[coppinpr]

the scale operates on one yen and announces your weight in Chinese.

I think you're just trying to stop people from turning up with a flatbed truck and a crane, but you have given the game away, why would it take Yen and talk your weight in Chinese..........Ah Ha!!
Does this make the scale the oldest inhabitant of Shady Pines?

[roger]

The handyman at Shady Pines is having a difficult time converting the speaker head of a gramaphone
so it works in the Chinese scale. ROGER
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[roger]

The Shady Pines "Talking Scale" was made by an American manufacturer, AHRENS.
All surviving machines speak in American which is a special dialect of the English language.
Certainly, AHRENS had the capability to record in any language; so, the Chinese model , which gave everyone a chuckle, was within the realm of the company.

Even greater technology was introduced some years later when SCOPITONE came on the scene.

ROGER

FOR A BIT OF NOSTALGIA WATCH THIS VIDEO

[coppinpr]

THAT has to be the worst music video ever made, its so bad I kept thinking it was supposed to be a joke, true, the shooting range wouldn't be out of the question in today's U.S.A. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse following the three girls who all seemed to be dancing(?) to different songs it switched to the arcade with the singer sitting on what looked like a giant sex toy disguised as a horse

p.s. they changed their clothes 5 times for a day at the beach

[john t peterson]

Where did all the good times go? They died in that video.

J Peterson
Bad times, USA

[pennymachines]

The Shady Pines "Talking Scale" was made by an American manufacturer, AHRENS.

The scale you showed is the cast iron Moore Talking Scale made by the United Vending Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1915. I don't think there was an American scale maker called Ahrens.

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London-based, Ahrens Ltd., under proprietor (and German immigrant) Charles Ahrens, made a wooden-cased Talkie Weigher in 1932, which by all accounts had a very plummy British accent.

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The British Automatic Co., 14 Appold Street, London made I Speak Your Weight in the 1950s.

Every year the British public pop a million pennies into machines designed to speak, dial or stamp their true weight. Do they get their money's worth? To find out, the Sunday Mirror conducted an experiment with machines used by people from all over the country at London railway termini. Our picture shows Carolyn Martin at Liverpool Street Station where the machine said 8 stone 6lb, the dial showed 8st 7lb. 4th April 1965

[brigham]

"One at a time, please..."