The coin-operated laundry industry has undergone a revolution. No longer dingy, unsafe, boring places that customers must endure on a weekly basis, laundromats are becoming fun and attractive ...

Circus Circus has expanded on its status as the only Strip casino still offering coin-operated slot machines by installing $5 coin machines to go alongside its $1 machines. The slots are a throwback ...

Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell ...

Longtime hacker [Peter Jansen] was so impressed with a piece in The Onion from last year that he decided to build this coin-operated Texas Instruments graphing calculator console on a whim (video ...

Coin locks like this essentially vanished from American restrooms in the 1970s, but are making a comeback at the Wichita downtown library, where you need to get a free token from a service desk to ...

I hadn’t seen a coin-operated toilet in more than 50 years, until I recently visited the library in downtown Wichita. They’re Baaack. In an effort to fight vandalism and misconduct, two of the three ...