Vintage Vendo Model 110: Fully Restored NuGrape Soda Vending Machine – VM6223

• Type: Adjustable Shelf, Refrigerated Vending Machine With Door
• Manufacture: Vendo
• Denomination: 10 Cents
• Model: 110
• Branding: NuGrape Soda (Features Extremely Rare Raised Embossed Lettering And Logos Directly On The Machine).
• Vending Capacity: 110 8 Oz to 12 Oz Bottles, Including Longnecks And Beer Bottles (Shelves Adjust To Allow For Larger Or Smaller Sized Bottles)
• Era: 1950’s
• Place Of Manufacture: Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.
• Color: Yellow/Purple
• Dimensions: 64 Inches Tall By 33 Inches Wide By 18 Inches Deep
• Condition: A Fully Working, World Class Fine Art, Museum Quality, 101 Point Restoration Certified And Signed By H.J. Nick. This Includes All Parts Both Inside And Out, Even Those That Are Not Seen, And All New Electrical Components To Original Factory Condition.
• Additional Features: Bottle Opener

Vintage Vendo Model 110 Additional Vending Machine Restoration Details

Our restorations are the finest quality available anywhere due to our attention to detail, and the fact that no one has been doing it for longer. This means that unlike other restoration shops out there, we repaint even the parts that you can’t see. We restore old soda machines, slot machines, candy vending machines, vintage visible gas pumps from the inside out. Any of our vintage restorations, including this vintage Vendo Model 110 vending machine, are guaranteed to the same functionality that would have been expected from a new machine ordered from the manufacturer. This means not only the sheet metal, but every working part including motors, fans, and coin acceptors.

Furthermore, all of our restorations are done to historically correct specifications with original, period correct signage and paint schemes. This ensures if a collectible item that will have future appreciable value. Journey back to a period in time when you could get an ice cold soda at any roadside soda shop. This machine is very popular with collectors, and becoming harder to find as fewer and fewer people are letting them out of their collections.

Vendo Company History

Vendo was founded in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri, by brothers Elmer F. and John T Pierson. With help from J.E. Hagstrom and purchased patent for a lid that could be attached to coolers, the brothers developed an innovative vending lid that was much more practical than any other one available at the time. Nicknamed “Red Top”, this vending lid moved the opening to the bottle rather than the bottle to the opening and was the first of many innovations introduced by the Vendo company.

After the outbreak of World War II, some of the company’s work force was dedicated to producing radar detection systems as well as various other electronic equipment for the military.

Examples of original Vendo 110 manufacture brochures.

As well as manufacturing military equipment, Vendo was authorized to produce and send 5,000 beverage vending units for military training camps and war plants to help raise morale. For its efforts, company earned seven Army-Navy ‘E’ Awards awards for “excellence in fulfilling government military contracts”. The 1948 Coca-Cola “Vendo Decapper” used 17 steps to dispense bottle, remove cap and pour into cup, eliminating the need for customers to dispose of bottles.

After the war, the Vendo company began expanding globally. By 1956, vending machines were being shipped internationally to 20 different countries. At the same time, Vendo began experimenting with new ideas. Vending machines that dispensed varieties of goods were manufactured and distributed and existing beverage vending machines were given a new, sleeker look. It was this time that the company began creating completely automated convenience stores and restaurants as well as drive-in refreshment stations.

Read More At: Vendo On Wikipedia

NuGrape Soda Company History

 

Vintage NuGrape Soda bottle.

 

NuGrape is a brand of grape-flavored soda pop. The NuGrape brand was created in 1906, first bottled in 1921, and by April 1933, The National NuGrape Company was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1922, licensing rights were sold to the Olla Bottling Works in Olla, Louisiana where it was made and distributed for many years. NuGrape was followed up by the popular Sun Crest brand of soft drinks in 1938. In 1965, the National NuGrape Company introduced Kickapoo Joy Juice, a product based on Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip. All three brands were acquired in 1968 by The Moxie Company (renamed Moxie-Monarch-NuGrape Company and later Monarch Beverage Company). In 1970, Moxie-Monarch-NuGrape discontinued domestic U.S. sales of Kickapoo Joy Juice.

In 1999, NuGrape and the Nesbitt’s line of carbonated drinks were acquired from Monarch Beverage Company in Atlanta by Big Red, Ltd. of Waco, Texas under its North American Beverages Products division, which also included Nesbitt’s. The National NuGrape building still exists in Atlanta at 794 Ralph McGill Blvd., but is not open to the public. Today, NuGrape is usually found in parts of the southeast United States. Specifically, it is sold in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, northwest Alabama, and the eastern half of Tennessee. NuGrape is almost impossible to find for sale west or north of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Read More At: NuGrape Soda On Wikipedia