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I'm much more interested in the metal typer(?) -- machines that have a custom medallion in them and you get to stamp a message into their circumference letter b

• Melatonic 2mo ago
  Not sure I know what that is - more details ?
  • gcanyon 2mo ago
    It's a machine that has custom medallions in it, typically themed to the location. All but one that I've seen have been aluminum. You pay in, then you have an arm that you can spin around an alphabet to select a letter. Then you pull a lever, and that letter gets stamped into the medallion. You can do this around the circumference of the medallion, up to something like 25-30 letters. When you're done you pull another lever and the medallion drops out, engraved with whatever custom message you entered. In the movie Harold and Maude, Harold and Maude are sitting on the shore near an amusement park, and Harold says "I made you something" and gives her one of these medallions from the park, reading "Harold loves Maude." She expresses appreciation, then throws it into the water. He's stunned and asks why, and she replies, "So I'll always know where it is." Whenever I come across one of these machines I make a medallion that says "Geoff loves Katerina" for my wife, but over many years, she only has four of them. I'd like to find more machines. As I said, most are aluminum. There used to be a machine like this at the exit from Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. That one used "doubloons" made of some other (heavier) metal.
    • Melatonic 2mo ago
      Very cool !!