"Not to the bunker on the east coast"
It's funny, butt whenever I think of Tarrytown, I automagically think of Tareyton cigarettes. That was the brand my dad smoked when I was a kid, then he switched to Salems. When he was laid up with a back injury for about 8 weeks, he would tell me to take some change off the dresser and walk or ride my bike to the nearest tavern, Frank & Mary's (nott the one in Chicago - a different one in the boondock rural Norffwoods that is long GONE now), to buy him a pack of Tareytons from the vending machine. IIRC, they were 55 cents a pack in the vending machine where you pull a rod ~OUTTward and the smokes are dispensed. It might have been 45 cents a pack - I can't really be shure - butt I recall it was only three coins usually.
Now-a-daze I doubt most bars would even allow an unaccompanied minor into a tavern, and certainly nott to buy smokes. And those vending machines are gone.
When buying gasoline/petrol/benzine the other day, I looked at the board behind the Czech~OUTT clerk and saw that cigs are now up to $70 a carton. Wow!
Even the generic brands were $59/62 a carton. Craziness.
