PopKulture's photos with the keyword: Manufacturing

Imagine yourself in an episode of 'Mad Men' and you just ran out of Lucky's... with the handsome and handy Stoner cigarette machine located right there in the lobby, you don't even have to run down to the newsstand at the corner to satisfy your cravings. You'll be back before Joanie even notices you're gone! Advertisement from Stoner Manufacturing Corporation, Aurora, Illinois, 1957.

Nevermind what the doc or the mrs. back home says, you're jonesing for some vintage candy in a major way, and the Stoner Univendor's calling like some sweet siren. You're only human - how can you resist? Besides, it's 1957 and the Russians are breathing down our necks like never before, so what's the big deal? It's not like that one Bit-O-Honey is going to make a difference when the other shoe drops. Advertisement from Stoner Manufacturing Corporation, Aurora, Illinois, 1957.

The Stoner Cafe' isn't at all what it sounds like! This sleek, deluxe coffee vending machine from Stoner Mfg. Corp. is a glowing monument of postwar industrial design. Advertisement from Stoner Manufacturing Corporation, Aurora, Illinois, circa 1950's.

Vintage advertising flyer for Ray's Track by Bally Manufacturing of Chicago, Illinois, then the pinball capital of the universe. By the mid to late 30's, every manufacturer was rushing to cash in on the frenzied popularity of Ed Pace's Paces Races, the prototypical horse-racing consule of the type shown above, and Bally's founder and namesake, Ray Maloney, proved no exception. By my reckoning, Baker and Evans came closest in duplicating Pace's success, but then World War II got in the way, and the postwar gambling vacuum was filled in part by pinball-styled bingo machines and in greater part by a certain desert city...

Vintage advertising brochure for Bally Manufacturing's 1936 Snappy. Machines such as this offered one shot per coin and were more for gambling than what we think of today as pinball machines. Both the flyer and the machine itself, I must admit, with its wonderful Art Deco adornments, do indeed look "snappy!"

Vintage advertising flyer for Bally's 1936 All-Stars pinball machine, though not in the common view of the word. Pinball prior to 1947 meant no flippers, believe it or not. You'd just launch the ball, skillfully as possible, and then nudge the machine short of "tilting" it. Many machines like the one pictured above were "one-shots," or one ball per coin, and featured pay-outs. It took pinball many years to break the gambling stigma of the 1930's, and until the advent of the flipper, it was a tougher case to argue.