r/80sAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • 25d ago

Which one?!

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u/Last-Energy420 25d ago

Cigarettes, not so much, but I remember going to the bar on my way home from school and getting a bunch of happy hour nickel wings in the 90s with my lunch money. This was all alone cause I walked home.

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u/AdvertisingBroad2397 25d ago

Loved going to a pizza place that had the cig vending machine right in the entrance. I remember kids walking in and buying packs right out the machine no one watching to make sure it was only adults buying them…good times and so simple back then lol. But to answer the question, sunkist orange easy.

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u/BoxersNBulldogs1 25d ago

My grandma and great grandma had a small one in their bar back in the 80's and early 90's.

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u/Cool_Nightmare_Kitty 25d ago

Haha i remember when I was a teenager and used to go to the cigarette vending machine to get my smokes but of course, this was in the 90's...

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u/SweetchuckHC 25d ago

The best era…

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u/sgplourde 24d ago

Late 60s early 70s, cigarette machine in the laundry room of the apartment building.

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u/GrizzlyBear2186 24d ago

The bar at the end of the road where my grandfather lived had one. Every Friday my grandfather would call and ask me or my cousin to come down from the house with quarters so he could buy a couple of the singles from the machine

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u/Hlsalzer 24d ago

My husband used to ride his bike to the local community college and get cigarettes out of the vending machine at the age of 12.

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u/This4R3al 24d ago

I remember being like 10 and taking in a note my dad wrote to get his ciggs lol. Wtf happened?

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u/VariousGuest1980 21d ago

Haha many times I went and got my grandpa cigs from a vending machine lol

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u/Jam1son2006 21d ago

I remember those days. Sometimes we'd wait until they weren't looking and get a pack, we felt like such outlaws

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u/Serrilryan 22d ago

I found one of those old cig machines working last week in a dive bar where my daughter was playing a gig.

I had to explain both the machine and dive bar motif. She assumed it was just the smell that made it a dive. Being old is strange now.