BUSINESS SHOWS YOU CAN BOTTLE NOSTALGIA.Byline: John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Jeff Walters' mountain warehouse is an eerie time warp, crammed with rusting soft drink machines that swallowed the dimes and nickels of thirsty youngsters 50 years ago. Here is a Hire's root beer cooler, circa 1953. There is an 8-foot-high Coke machine, a massive red monolith, that automatically uncapped its 7-ounce bottles and poured chilled Coca-Cola into paper cups. Next to it is a 1947 Coke chest that once bathed bottles in icy water. On the floor, near the spanking spanking Pediatrics Corporal punishment, usually of children, in which the buttocks, are pummeled, swatted, or otherwise struck. See Corporal punishment Sexology Slapping, usually of the buttocks as a part of sexuoerotic activity. Cf Sadomasochism. 1963 Chevrolet Nova convertible that won't fit in Walters' garage, is a 40-year-old Dad's Root Beer Dad's Root Beer is an American root beer created in Chicago in 1937 by Bernard Berns. It is currently produced by the The Dad's Root Beer Company. Dad's became the first product to use the six-pack format invented by the Atlanta Paper Company in the 1940s. picnic cooler, faded yellow, that cost $300. A half-hour after he bought it, Walters refused an $800 offer. ``It's the ultimate niche business,'' said Walters, 38, a trafficker in nostalgia and a pack rat-turned-entrepreneur. ``I'm not getting rich but I'm having fun,'' he says. Walters and his wife Melinda sell mail-order parts for old soft-drink machines out of his Memory Lane warehouse 50 miles east of Sacramento. He's one of a handful of such sellers in the country, a published expert who even has customers referred to him by the soft drink and vending machine manufacturers, such as Vendo The Vendo Company is a large retailer of cold beverage vending machines. Founded in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri and now based in Dallas, Texas, Vendo is one of the largest manufacturers of vending machines in the world. , Cavalier and Westinghouse. ``That's all I sell - soda machine parts,'' he says. ``They (the companies) threw a lot of stuff away in the 1970s. I get calls from them all the time, and I get calls from people looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. stuff and the companies can't help them,'' he said. Walters scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the nation looking for parts and old machines. If he can't find parts, he'll have them made, using subcontractors to replicate the originals. After getting laid off from his job on a Southern California auto magazine, Walters turned to soda machine memorabilia to make a living full time. He's been buying and selling equipment since 1989. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Soda vending machines collected from through the decades line Jeff Walters ``Memory Lane'' warehouse in Camino, Calif. Associated Press |
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