An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s) pic.twitter.com/J2vkEniVRT
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December 13, 2014
I'm skeptical (yet amused). [UPDATE: It's real!]
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My dad worked at the Jacob Schmidt brewery in St. Paul in the '50s. Beer on tap, all day, every day.
My brother worked at Schmidt also, on 7th St (Fort Road now) across from McDonald's.
That's definitely photoshopped.
You can't rely on an uncorroborated photo to be the evidence of anything.
Seems like it might be from the UK, "whisky" is British spelling, "full measure" is a Britishism, and "evva" sounds like British slang or dialect.
But hey, offices have the free coffee pot. Employers think that it makes employees more diligent.
Maybe there's a kind of enterprise that would benefit from drunk employees. Can't think of one though.
"A whiskey vending machine shown at the Second Automatic Vending Exhibition in London, 1960."
Found via Google Image Search.
Yeah, most brewers nation-wide had free beer all day, (in New Orleans, JAX along the riverfront in the Quarter and the Dixie and Falstaff brewers along Tulane Ave opposite each other did) but "whiskey?" With the others: it's photo-shopped.
Those crazy Brits! They misspell whiskey, they drink their beer warm, and they drive on the wrong side of the road. What a country!
Heh, should've looked before I posted. BOB sinks the putt..
I did a fair bit of work for the government of Québec back in the '80s, and was quite delighted to discover that even during the *morning* break the workers would bring out bread, wine, cheese, pickled eels and other goodies.
And the coffee was better than anything I ever had in English Canada or the States. Germany, France, and Netherlands offices also have good coffee. Sadly, of the three only France had wine available at the "pause".
Yeah I found it too. "Evva a whisky and soda or whisky and water dispensing machine of Rollason Aerocessories Ltd at the 2nd International Automatic Vending Exhibition and Convention
15 February 1960."
Huh.
As believable as Eddie Murphy's Mr. White,
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37b_1257286049
In the early seventies I worked in a fabricating shop when I was in college. The old guy who was the liaison to the shop from the office was impossible to work with in the morning. Everyday he went for a one hour lunch to the road house up the street and had two high balls. He was the nicest guy to work with the rest of the day. We tried to save all our questions for the afternoon.
Another job I had during school was at a large manufacturing company in Philly. I remember watching executives coming back from two hour lunches sort of wobbling across the parking lot. I think of that when I watch Mad Men.
Bob just found another tweet of the same old picture. That it names an exhibition doesn't convince me that there was a such thing.
I don't get why you'd be suspicious of a photograph — it's photoshopped — but not of text naming an event.
(Or have we Googled to establish that there really was a vending machine event?)
The machine in the photo is definitely British; the signage says to deposit two shillings and sixpence. As for its authenticity, I see no reason to doubt that the photo is genuine, but I do not believe for a moment that it was “sometimes found in offices.”
Photo by Ron Case/Getty Images, originally published in Life magazine. I see no real need to research further.
In Germany in the 70s it was not uncommon to see workers at train stations driving baggage wagons while swigging a bottle of beer. The old Gnome-like guy who tended the rubico (artificial clay) tennis courts at Garmisch had a two-litre/day allotment written into his contract and was usually in the bag by mid-afternoon. (used to work in the pre-war Yugo Adriatic salt-mines and spoke seven languages--wore purple lederhosen--a real character, lol)
I do not believe for a moment that it was “sometimes found in offices.”
Just as 'zero' is a percent, 'never' is a time.
Here's somebody else using the same machine.
"Maybe there's a kind of enterprise that would benefit from drunk employees. Can't think of one though."
A good number of exotic dancers get waxed on something before doing their gig.
Don't ask me how I know this.
The photo is genuine, and it is available for license on Getty Images. It was shot on Feb. 15, 1960 by Ron Case. It is image number 3267670 in the Getty catalogue if you want to verify. Captioned 15th February 1960: At the Second Automatic Vending Exhibition in London, a woman helps herself to a vending machine-mixed whisky and soda.
"A good number of exotic dancers get waxed on something before doing their gig."
And a good number of exotic dancers get bikini-waxed.
I am Laslo.
She sure looks happy
Ahh, the decadent 1960s.
Japan still has vending machines on the streets where anyone can get cold beer or an entire liter of Suntory whisky.
I was told by my friend in Tokyo that young people under legal drinking age are strongly discouraged from use of the vending machines. And then my friend laughed.
That would work in the US, too, right?
@mikee/
In New Orleans in the 50s/early 60s I had a friend who rigged his car with a keg in the trunk and a pull-tap on the dash-board. I have a picture of a N.O. motor-cycle cop who pulled him over for speeding sharing a beer with him--such was the zeitgeist of the times in N.O, in the 50s/early 60s, lol!
PS: Schweigman's supermarkets had a bar inside at the deli counter and drink cup-holders in their market baskets as well. "Shop 'til you drop!" LOL!
Makes perfect sense as a Mad Men era convention gimmick for someone trying to sell vending machines.
Siemens of Munich, where I worked in the 70s, sold beer, wine and schnaps in the cafeteria, and we often had weisswurst and beer for breakfast and Friday afternoon was common happy hour at someone's office desk.
I don't have any trouble believing it. I've seen vending machines for alcoholic beverages in Japan.
As a parenthetical, my sister's teenage kids refuse to believe that in olden times, like the 1970s, not only were there vending machines for cigarettes, but they could be found in unsupervised areas and that a pack of cigarettes could be purchased for routine pocket change.
Here in Jacksonville up until the mid 1980's you could drive up to Jax Liqours ( a local chain) and they would hand you a mixed drink(s) out the drive through window directly into your car. At the time it wasn't illegal to drink while driving just illegal to drive while drunk. The laws have been changed.
cigarette machines that sell art!
http://www.artomat.org/
Your feet ma'am are almost as big as your mouth.... You're the one who could use a lesson in manners.
"Not from you whiskey breath!"
When I first came to Montana in the 1970s, the bars would always offer go-cups at closing time.
So your dashboard would end up with all these stinky half-filled cups of liquor the next day...good times.
jimbino said...
Siemens of Munich, where I worked in the 70s, sold beer, wine and schnaps in the cafeteria, and we often had weisswurst and beer for breakfast and Friday afternoon was common happy hour at someone's office desk.
This brings back memories.
When I was an apprentice in a tool and die shop in Skokie there was a shot of schnapps on your work bench every morning or on the machine you were using. Everybody in the shop, except for the owner and us apprentices, were from Germany.
To this day I can't stand schnapps
In Florida, circa 1974, we stopped in a liquor store to buy more beer, on our way to Miami for a Santana concert. The floor of the car was crowded with bottles, so much so that the car clinked when it moved. I noticed an unmarked police car pulling up alongside us, "We are so screwed," I thought at the time. The cop car's door swung open and hanging on the door was a can of beer. Like us the officer was just stopping for more.
There were also gas stations that had beer in refrigerators right between the gas pumps. Great times.
When talking about scotch or Irish whisky, that's the correct spelling. When talking about bourbon or Tennessee sipping whiskey, the Brits use the same spelling we do.
As long it doesn't negatively affect their behavior and performance, then, why not? The compelling interest does not arise from orientation, but with behavior.
Scott- it'll always be W 7th to me!I remember my dad taking us down to the brewery to pick up a few cases- the Jefferson Avenue hill seemed enormous to me as a little kid. I have a lot of Schmidt's paraphernalia around- what I really want, though is one of those covered wagons that were lamps! That'd make my Christmas!
There are days when one would wish that were an actual thing in one's office.
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