cigarette machine

The building has fluorescent tube ceiling lights and a 1950s cigarette machine.

He attends to the exquisite detail of Bobby’s physical world — the sounds and feel of an oil rig in a storm, the touch and clunk of a cigarette machine in a bar, the step-by-step process of removing a bathroom cabinet or digging up and carting off buried treasure.

The curators retrieved the cigarette machine that stood against a wall at the Kibitz Room at Canter’s Deli, once a late-night hangout for rock stars and actors.

“Everything is geared toward the old,” said Alessio Vittorio Lai, 16, the great-great-grandson of “The Pistol,” as he fed coins into a cigarette machine one night.

Johnny had responded, "Oh, we don't want a cigarette machine."