ROWE Cigarette Machine
July, 2006

Gameroom Magazine published an article by Richard Bueschel, "The Vanishing Cigarette Vendor."
It featured this 1934 Rowe "Aristocrat" Cigarette Machine.
Dick's article is in Gameroom Magazine, February 1997.
I'm not a Cigarette Machine Collector, but saw this Coin OP, and had to have it.

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Cigarettes Offerred: 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.
Yes, it does work, but I paid $4.00 a pack for the Cigarettes,
and you can get them out of my newly, aquired, Cigarette Machine for Twenty Cents!!!

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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July, 2006.
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