LA Bantam - Book Vending Machines Part IV

Here is the third machine in our survey of mid-century book vending machines.

International Mutoscope Corporation of Long Island, NY developed a machine for Avon Publishing Company called Vend-Avon. It was installed in Idlewild and La Gaurdia airports in the summer of 1950. The machine had a capacity of 350 to 650 books, depending on volume thickness, stood about 6 ½ feet high and occupied 3 by 1 ½ feet of floor space.

There is a short article in the August 5, 1950 Publisher’s Weekly about the Vendavon [sic]. In common with the other machines of the era Vend-Avon lasted a very short time.

Publisher's Weekly August 5, 1950, page 574