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Seattle’s Mystery Soda Machine Has Gone Missing
- prolikewh0a 8y agoLive right near it. Coin slot was totally broken and inoperable before it went missing. Sad times for the only original business left in Capitol Hill.
- Aardwolf 8y ago"No one knows who put it there. No one knows who stocks it." Is that statement real? If you live near it, have you never seen a truck, car or person restocking it? Thanks :)
- brainwad 8y agoCapitol Hill Seattle blog posted a picture of people stocking it a while back: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-mystery-of-the-capitol-hill-mystery-coke-machines-mysteries-revealed/ http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-myst.... But before 2014, it was mostly true, yes, there was no documentation on who was stocking it.
- lb1lf 8y agoI guess it has become part of the myth of the machine - better not dig too much, as it is a much better story if there's some mystery attached. For starters, assuming it is not powered off batteries/solar, someone provides power to it; they are unlikely to do so for free; a little bit of asking around would probably solve the 'mystery' right there.
- newman8r 8y agoIt sounds very Wonka-esque
- plandis 8y agoThere was a little locksmith shop right by it. I thought I’d chime in with this totally unrelated fact :)
- prolikewh0a 8y agoI have heard of people getting things other than sodas from it, such as little toys or trinkets, however I only got random sodas. I haven't seen anyone stocking it, or not that I remember. It kind of starts to blend in when you walk up John St every day. It was a well used & battered with the elements, dull looking soda machine.
- comesee 8y agoWhy was there so much graffiti on it? I thought cap Hill was a good neighborhood.
- paulie_a 8y agoIt's probably a higher density neighborhood, which tends to means more assholes. I live in a nice neighborhood and constantly see new tags to point I want to start writing "sucks" under the persons name.
- igotsideas 8y agoThat’s not graffiti, that’s tagging.
- fenwick67 8y agotagging is graffiti but okay
- igotsideas 8y agoComing from someone who grew up in it, it’s two different things. Think of graff as art and tagging as throwing up your alias to get your name seen or mess up someone’s piece. But okay :)
- mattkevan 8y agoLove urban mysteries like this. In London we had the Hellraiser bus shelter. A few years ago a VHS of Hellraiser appeared on the roof of a bus shelter on Old Kent Road. It sat there for a few years until suddenly a second copy appeared. Then another. Sometimes they all disappeared, only to return stronger and more numerous than ever. We have such sights to show you...
- kqr2 8y agoPictures: https://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/11/13/hellraiser-bus-stop-mystery-solved/ https://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/11/13/hellraiser-bus-...
- analogmemory 8y agoI hope it’s just getting a cleaning/tune up. I got many fun flavors of Shasta back when I lived near it. Glad they made all the flavors mystery ones. Half the time it was out of stock.
- bcaulfield 8y agoWhen I was in Boy Scouts, the older scouts would always tell us there was a cola machine at the top of a local peak stocked with something called Inca Kola. Of course, there was no such thing, but I was surprised to later learn that Inca Kola is real.