What Do You See Still In Use

[Creighton]

No Photo's but. Vendo 81 Ventura, CA. Champion Horse ride in Post Falls, ID. Another at HiVee in Lawrence KS. Merry go-around affair Lawrence KS. in front of one of the antique stores. Bad shape...
Stamp a penny machines everywhere. Like the Mold A Rama's.

Creighton

[Chedki]

Saw this cool Reindeer ride last year in Nevada.

[SIGNGUY]

The Como Zoo in ST. Paul MN has one or two mold a Rama's still in use... my kids used to get molded Gorillas and Giraffes from them...

also there is a Laundromat next door to my office that is running a 70's Pepsi Can machine,, not sure on model but running great and vending 50 cent cans of soda.

[Aahgo]

Funny, somebody at work just sent this link to me on the Mold-A-Rama.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/moldaramarama-the-secrets-behind-chicagos-plastic-souvenir-empire/0cdbea6b-d991-420a-9a3e-62dcc0c072d1

[ajf5577]

Funny, somebody at work just sent this link to me on the Mold-A-Rama.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/moldaramarama-the-secrets-behind-chicagos-plastic-souvenir-empire/0cdbea6b-d991-420a-9a3e-62dcc0c072d1

That is a great story. I just spent the weekend in Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge finding all of the smashed penny machines. This sounds like a trek of a different color- Finding all of the Mold-A-rama machines.

[HowDueYouDue]

That is a great story. I just spent the weekend in Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge finding all of the smashed penny machines. This sounds like a trek of a different color- Finding all of the Mold-A-rama machines.

Pigeon Forge is actually where I first used one of those penny machines. An onlooker was convinced it was illegal since I was defacing money.   

[Creighton]

Think the penny mashers get a pass. Illegal to deface/alter US coinage. Treasury Dept. hopefully is busy with more important issues. Hate seeing jigsawed Standing Liberty's.
Creighton
 

[ajf5577]

Pigeon Forge is actually where I first used one of those penny machines. An onlooker was convinced it was illegal since I was defacing money.   

There is a statute specifically regarding the penny machines and relative to defacing US currency for novelty purposes vs malicious purposes. It's posted on many of the machine. I have a few thousand smashed pennies and I'm a piker when it comes to collecting them. Some people are really serious collectors!

Sorry to hijack this string.
Meier has restored coin op Pony Rides in their stores around Indy.

[dr galaga]

99% of all Mold-A-Rama machines on location are owned by two companies, one in Florida and one in Chicago. The Chicago company (which now officially owns the Mold-A-Rama name) has a list at http://mold-a-rama.com/index.php?p=1_17_Molds-in-Production. It's a little dated, but most of the information is correct. A few years ago I started a Mold-A-Rama Facebook page so people can trade information on current molds and locations since there are a number of collector pages out there, but are not updated that much anymore. http://mold-a-rama-locations.com/ will take you there. I collect MARS (as they are abbreviated) and have almost 200 in my collection.

[HowDueYouDue]

Thought I would share this given the points above on penny presses

https://newjersey.craigslist.org/atq/5634256455.html