It's a rainy and windy morning on the Vineyard and I'm looking at
Historical Pics on Twitter. Then I jumped to
shorpy.com and came upon this photo of the kind of cigarette vending machines that were commonplace in the entrances to supermarkets and restaurants in the 1960s.
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| Marion S. Trikosko ~ U.S. News & World Report. |
It reminded me of how my black sheep of an older brother used to hustle change out of these machines by sticking about half an inch of a lollipop stick under one of the plastic pull-out handles, usually one of the less popular selling menthol brands on the lower right of the machine. This wasn't discernible to the eye and prevented pulling out any other handle or using the coin return lever. He'd go back a few hours later, remove the stick, pull down the coin return and it would rain coins like a slot machine.
Years later he stole
this book from The Remarkable Book Shop on Main Street.
Alas, there is no honor among thieves. According to
Wikipedia:
"Hoffman would not respond to accusations that he had plagiarized the book, as claimed in an article by Izak Haber in Rolling Stone magazine (No. 92, 10 September 1971), entitled 'How Abbie Hoffman Won My Heart and Stole Steal This Book.' Haber is acknowledged in the book as having done a great deal of the research."
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