Coca-Cola Glasco GBV-50 Slider

Circa 1958

Model 130000

The Glasco GBV-50 Slider is an iconic 1950s vintage Coca-Cola slider vending machine known for its compact chest-type design.  These machines feature a mechanical, manual slide-and-release system that held 50 (6-12 oz) bottles by the neck in a chilled wet bath, along with space to pre-cool 60 more bottles, making them highly sought after collectibles for garages or game rooms.

Often called the "slider" because users slide bottles along 5 perpendicular trails each holding 10 bottles to release the mechanism. A manual, coin-operated system that, in original form, sold bottles for 10 cents.

The Glasco GBV50 Slider or Glasco Starlet (its marketing name) is a cooler and vending machine with a chromed top lid with a chrome handle first introduced by Glasco in 1957. On the front, it had the fishtail Coca-Cola logo used after 1958 on some machines. This also had a bottle opener and catcher on the front left side and a Glasco metal plate logo near the top right corner. 

 This is a chest-type cooler adapted to release bottles manually with a coin entry plate to the left side of the machine. To use it, you had to open the lid to pick your selection, deposit your coin that would mechanically allow you to release the bottle inside and then slide the drink to a butterfly-type release.

It had a very simple chest design on the outside, while on the inside it was mechanically complex.  This vending machine was produced from 1957 until 1962.