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  • PAWN SHOP WORKER: Oh man what is that?

  • It is an old Wrigley's gum vending machine.

  • PAWN SHOP WORKER: OK, I'm assuming it took a nickel?

  • Yeah, it looks like it did.

  • That's about all I can figure out.

  • Yeah.

  • And Doublemint probably was their most popular gum.

  • It won awards for the jingle, double the fun.

  • Everybody remembers the twins.

  • And coincidentally, [inaudible] see twins right there.

  • [catcall]

  • [kissing sound]

  • JEREMY: I came to the pawn shop today

  • because I wanted to sell my vintage Wrigley gum dispenser.

  • I've been a Wrigley Juicy Fruit fan my whole life.

  • My granddad actually kept a pack in his pocket.

  • So it brings back some memories for me.

  • I'm looking to get $500 for it.

  • I mean, everybody knows Wrigley's gum.

  • Somebody's got to be out there that

  • finds something like this valuable and wants to buy it.

  • That's cool.

  • Where in the world did you get this?

  • Actually, my granddad was kind of a pack rat back in the day.

  • And when he passed away, we went through his garage,

  • and he had about a million old things like this.

  • And this one looked kind of cool.

  • So I kept it for myself.

  • The Wrigley company is the world's

  • largest maker of gum, period.

  • [inaudible] like in the 1890s, William Wrigley

  • moved to Chicago.

  • And he was actually selling soap.

  • But in order to get people to buy his soap,

  • he was giving them free pieces of bubble gum.

  • The funny thing was is that his gum

  • was more popular than his soap.

  • So he stopped the soap and just started selling the gum.

  • What do you want to do with it, man?

  • JEREMY: I want to sell it.

  • Do you have any idea of what you're

  • looking to get out of it?

  • Well, I was hoping to get $500, if that's possible.

  • You know, we all got to dream, man.

  • Goals are not a bad thing.

  • But $500 for this?

  • I mean, there's no way.

  • Here's what I'm going to tell you, buddy.

  • There was millions of these things created.

  • And you'd have to almost give it to me for free.

  • And what I would pay for it, would--

  • I'd almost break even restoring it.

  • Are you sure you can't make me an offer, man?

  • It seems it's really old.

  • Somebody might find some use out of it.

  • But I mean, there's just--

  • there's no money here.

  • JEREMY: All right. - All right, man.

  • Take care.

  • Thank you.

  • I was a little bit upset.

  • I came in here thinking he was going to make me an offer,

  • thinking that there's somebody out there who will buy it.

  • Should have been valuable to him.

  • I absolutely think he is making a mistake

  • by letting me walk out of that door with that vending machine.

PAWN SHOP WORKER: Oh man what is that?

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