Coca-Cola Glasco Cooler GBV-50 Vintage

Description

Up for auction is a vintage Coca-Cola Glasco GBV-50 full size cooler in very good condition.  Since purchasing fifteen years ago, item hasn't been plugged in and therefore unused during that time period.  Winner will likely want to verify cooling ability and/or refurbish.  Item has a couple of dings and scratches--as to be expected for an item from the 1950s--with great eye appeal overall.  Local pickup only.
Glasco actually began as the Glascock Brothers Manufacturing Company, a company that was founded in 1892 to build washing machines.  In 1929 they produced their first Coca-Cola cooler.  The Standard, as it was called, was the first mass-produced Coca-Cola cooler.  Because of this, Glascock is often referred to as the 'grandfather' of all Coca-Cola vending machines.  The company name was changed to the Glasco Corporation in the 1930s.  Through the early 1960s, Glasco only made soda vending machines for the Coca-Cola Company.  The Universal Match Company acquired Glasco in the 1960s.
The GBV-50 was a significant vending machine for the Glasco Corporation.  It marked their re-entry into the bottle vending business after dedicating several years to producing vendors that dispensed pre-mixed Coca-Cola into cups. The Glasco 50 was manufactured from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.  The Glasco 50 was built for dispensing bottles of Coca-Cola.  This machine operated manually by opening the lid and sliding the bottle to the opening.