Did you know that the New York City subway system used be full of vending machines? City Lab takes a look all the way back to the turn of the 20th century, when a man named Artemas Ward won the vending contract for the NYC transit system and made millions selling gum and the like. Ward died in 1925 and the vending machines disappeared sometime in the latter half of the 20th century. [City Lab; photo by Danny Lyon]
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