ROWE Cigarette Machine
December 2010

Gameroom Magazine, February, 1997, published an article by Richard Bueschel, "The Vanishing Cigarette Vendor."
It featured this 1934 Rowe "Aristocrat" Cigarette Machine.

J R, had this Cigarette machine in the trunk of his car & offerred it to us.

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Cigarettes Offerred are : Lucky Strike, Phillip Morris, Old Gold, Camel, Chesterfield King
Only takes nickles and dimes.
Cigarettes are Twenty Cents, and gives a free box of matches. (Cigarettes at Walmart are $4. a pack.) Notice the 1 cent Porcilain penny scale.
We have perfume vending machines, postage stamp machines, change machines, etc.

Automatic Age Magazine, June, 1934.
In the article, Dick suggests that a coin-op collector should try to snatch up an
1880's cigarette machine installed by Buck Duke. Dick says no collector has one yet.

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about the ROWE Cigarette Machine to: pinbally@bellstexas.com .

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