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Starting a national crusade to cast away coin-operated commodes, Gessel told newsmen, "You can have a fifty-dollar bill, but if you don't have a dime, that metal box is between you and relief." [4] Membership in the organization cost only $0.25, and members received the Committee's newsletter, the Free Toilet Paper.
The Paris Métro operates coin-operated toilets in its underground stations; and even non-mechanized toilets occasionally have attendants who accept tips. In Germany, many lavatories at service stations on the Autobahn have pay toilets with turnstiles, though as in France, customers typically receive a voucher equal to the toilet fee.
A self-service laundry, coin laundry, or coin wash, is a facility where clothes are washed and dried without much personalized professional help. They are known in the United Kingdom as launderettes or laundrettes , and in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as laundromats .
For those of you under 60, coin-operated toilets were once a common feature (and revenue stream, if you will) in public restrooms in many parts of America. Generally, the locks were situated on ...
A multi-bay, coin-operated self-service car wash in Seattle, Washington. A self-serve car wash is a simple and automated type of car wash that is typically coin-operated or token-operated self-service system. Newer self-service car washes offer the ability to pay with credit cards or loyalty cards. The vehicle is parked inside a large ...
Equipment used for pets, animals kept primarily for a person's company, protection, entertainment, or as an act of compassion. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pet supplies . Subcategories
A plain metal washer, if of the correct size and weight, may be accepted as a coin by a vending machine. A slug is a counterfeit coin that is illegally used to make purchases. The object substituted may be an inexpensive object such as a washer or a coin from another country with far lower purchasing power than the coin it is being passed off as.
A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit.These devices are used in a wide range of automated machines, such as retail kiosks, supermarket self checkout machines, arcade gaming machines, payphones, launderette washing machines, car park ticket machines, automatic fare collection machines, public transport ticket ...