mechanical ATV

… buy purified water, use a pay phone, buy a newspaper, ride a mechanical ATV or mechanical horse. Of the five three are getting harder to find and being phased out. Times and what the public needs or wants is changing.   Today my mission was to find and photograph a coin operated mechanical horse. Couldn’t be too hard, right? They have been in front of almost every supermarket for decades. Well actually it became my quest which no amount of internet research could solve and the phone search was just as fruitless. It came down to driving around to locate what I was looking for, a coin operated pony. The image here sort of sums up my dilemma and captures what is happening to these outdated bits of our culture.  In my opinion they will soon become part of our history.