<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of <i>Atlas Obscura</i> at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mystery-soda-machine">http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mystery-soda-machine</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 class="title" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: BebasNeue; font-size: 44px; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(50, 46, 42); text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgba(239, 237, 232, 0.65098);">MYSTERY SODA MACHINE</h1><h2 class="subtitle" itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: MuseoSlab; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(144, 144, 132); opacity: 1; background-color: rgba(239, 237, 232, 0.65098);">An old vending machine without a past serves up beverages from its seemingly magical insides</h2><div><br></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.75em; border: 0px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A contraption out of time, Seattle's Mystery Soda Machine dispenses cans of sugary pop for just 55 cents, and while no one knows who stocks this aging landmark, the real question is what it will spit out when the "Mystery" button is pressed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the corner of John Street and 11th Avenue East, in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood lies the world's most mysterious soda vending machine. Nobody knows the true history of the rusting machine, which looks like it was spat straight out of the Seventies, but locals continue to plunk down their change and the machine never seems to run out of stock. Who first installed the outdoor machine, who stocks it, and who collects the money are all a mystery. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The modern antique offers a comparatively limited selection of drinks with yellowed plastic buttons offering Coke, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Barq's, but the intriguing button marked "Mystery" generally produces none of these. According to one report, after spending five dollars in change on the mystery button, the machine produced six different brand of soda, none of which had their own button on the machine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Given the air of the unknown that surrounds the vending relic, many locals have tried to divine the origins of the machine and its endless wellspring of name-brand soda, but so far no answers have been forthcoming, no matter how many times the "Mystery" button is pressed. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seattle's mystery soda machine</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:B1B50C86-3284-44D6-A306-6EA4AFD4168B" alt="image.jpeg" id="B1B50C86-3284-44D6-A306-6EA4AFD4168B" width="640" height="795"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:83733714-635D-4212-9AEF-A7250C0761B6" alt="image.jpeg" id="83733714-635D-4212-9AEF-A7250C0761B6" width="640" height="482"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.75em 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-----------------------------------</p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>