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<p>[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 298599, member: 136"]Hablin, I did find this little bit of info:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Vending Machines </b></p><p><i><font size="4">In 1891 Baker’s began selling its chocolate bars from early coin-operated vending machines <b>made by Williams Automatic Machine Company</b>. These machines probably dispensed Baker’s sweet chocolate bars such as Caracas, German’s, and Century Sweet. The small size of these machines enabled chocolate to be sold in single quantities, in a wider variety of locations anywhere around the country. No longer would one be limited to buying chocolate bars in the grocery stores.</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>from: SWEET HISTORY: Dorchester and the Chocolate Factory <a href="http://www.bostonhistory.org/bakerschocolate/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bostonhistory.org/bakerschocolate/" rel="nofollow">www.bostonhistory.org/bakerschocolate/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Accessed here:</p><p><a href="http://earlybirdpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SWEET_HISTORY_2005.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://earlybirdpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SWEET_HISTORY_2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://earlybirdpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SWEET_HISTORY_2005.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 298599, member: 136"]Hablin, I did find this little bit of info: [B]Vending Machines [/B] [I][SIZE=4]In 1891 Baker’s began selling its chocolate bars from early coin-operated vending machines [B]made by Williams Automatic Machine Company[/B]. These machines probably dispensed Baker’s sweet chocolate bars such as Caracas, German’s, and Century Sweet. The small size of these machines enabled chocolate to be sold in single quantities, in a wider variety of locations anywhere around the country. No longer would one be limited to buying chocolate bars in the grocery stores.[/SIZE][/I] from: SWEET HISTORY: Dorchester and the Chocolate Factory [URL='http://www.bostonhistory.org/bakerschocolate/']www.bostonhistory.org/bakerschocolate/[/URL] Accessed here: [URL]http://earlybirdpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SWEET_HISTORY_2005.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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