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Has anyone seen this before? I found this today and thought it was pretty cool. I would love to have one of those mini machines that the designer has.
http://www.archive.org/details/RefreshingLo

I bought this DVD on ebay a year or so ago. Great video.

great movie, what happened to this country, now everything is made in china, take a look what we are in for next  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv59PJ30WeM 

Everyone should watch this, the end is very good!!!!

Both videos were good.

I like the mono tone voices from the Vendo video, oh yeah, don't forget the harp playing when they change scenes from one Vendo "salesman" to another.  Very classic ancient video.  I fel like I am watching the 1950's movies grade school again.

As for video two, I personally like incadescent bulbs better.  I tried to use the compact flourescents in some of my beer signs.  Thinking that lower wattage and brighter bulb made sense.  On some scrolling signs, the effects are lost with the compact flourecents.

   I am not a true tree hugger, But I hate polluting, and I hate the fact that my household makes so much waste per week. I am trying to find ways of reducing the amount of waste my household makes, including the amount of wasted energy. I have converted to the CFM light bulbs, but as I did so I wondered about the true savings to the environment.
   I am not an expert but it sure seems to me that Mercury should not be an item used in huge quantities in the average household. (Yeah, what is considered huge?) And I thought about what the congressman was saying (two years ago) as I bought all those expensive Chinese made light bulbs, which surprises me that they are all chinese made (can you say monopoly).
   I did the same thinking when I priced the new Japanese made hybrids. It would take me years to save the money in fuel needed to offset the extremely high price of these cars. And I was comparing them to the vehicle I need, the all too infamous and all too wasteful SUV. Which I drive because it is the only thing besides a mini van that will carry all my little minions. 
   And I can't figure out how people get their bags of aluminum cans inside their Smart Cars so as to take them to the recycling yard. (You see, I recycle everything I can, and I need a truck to do it with). It is almost like getting a Vendo 64 into the backseat of a Ford Thunderbird. And how you guys pull that off, I'll never be able to figure.

As for the Vendo Video, Cool...very cool. Thanks for sharing

thanks for posting, great film.  things seemed so simple in the past...

Bet those people making those machines never imagined someone would be restoring their handywork 40 years later!

That's cool Vendo movie. I want a pair of the vendo cover alls.

Jeff...quite the vid. That's pretty sad. Forcing you Americans to use those light bulbs! :Oo: Everything it seems is made in China. I used to be a machinst. Ha!!!! China and India started to do it for pennies on the dollar! And Junk too!

 Canada started pushing those lights 4 or 5 years ago. Now they tell us not to use them as they'll burn your house down :jawdrop:

Love the Vendo Movie!  The office building shown at 1 min 20 sec into the film looks a lot like the Ford World Headquarters Building (aka The Glass House) in Dearborn, MI as pictured from the east parking lot off of Mercury Drive.

Very cool stuff!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

I like the nice Vendo shipping boxes!

Great little movie and I sure enjoyed seeing the machines actually being manufactured at Vendo.

Did anyone notice the scenes where the cabinets are being painted? The guy had no respirator.

Ken--the lack of a respirator on the painter caught my eye as well and I will be that was some good leaded paint.

I also noticed the that guys installing the insulation were not wearing gloves or masks or safety glasses!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking: