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1960s vending machine Beatles Record!

Last weekend my dear Mother
was texting me frantically from an estate sale.to get my booty over there!... three days later we emerged and started looking through all the boxes of treasures we bought to see what was actually there!!! (yes, we went home at night but too exhausted to unpack everything!) have you been to a sale like that? it's awesome 
AAnnnyyywhooo...... long story short .... at the VERY end of the sale I ended up grabbing a projector and some discs I THOUGHT went with it.........
fast forward 2 later that night......... started checking out the projector and opened the little blue folder and saw "REVOLUTION THE BEATLES" ........hhhhhhmmmmmm?! this doesn't go with the projector! 
here's what I found........

 did you know they tried to market mini records in vending machines?!  If you didn't, don't feel too bad, it didn't take much to miss the very brief period these little discs were offered...1968-69...less then two years!  Americom Corporation of New York introduced a new music format for singles called the pocket disc.  Some came in little blue or red cardboard folders and they were sold at the counter or in special vending machines.

3.75" diameter!
Those were the Days Mary Hopkins

 Mary Hopkins was one of the first artists 
the Beatles signed to their Apple label


QUICK JOEY SMALL (RUN JOEY RUN) & (POOR OLD) MR JENSEN
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus Buddah Records




http://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagerecycling

sources and more info about POCKET DISCS
http://www.friktech.com/btls/tapes/pkd.htm http://yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/usa/flexi/pocket.html

3 comments:

  1. What a find! This is what we picker's and junk'rs live for! Awesome they did so well at auction, Congrats!!! Sweet sweet Beatles!

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  2. right?! too fun!! the auctions were exciting!

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  3. With vending machine business, you can be your own boss. It is you who will determine the vending machine business plan, and decide which vending machine to buy, among the different available vending machines like soft drink dispenser, toy dispenser, gum ball dispenser, etc.

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