coin-operated

Thousands of motels once advertised coin-operated vibrating mattresses and other phenomena from last century.

Mom would drive into Santa Monica to wash and fold mountains of towels, socks and underwear at a coin-operated laundry on Montana Avenue.

Watch it rise in the sky from the Griffith Observatory, which has free public telescopes as well as coin-operated ones.

For the zoomers reading, that’s a coin-operated phone you can use to make calls.

While in line to pay, I watch children take turns on the coin-operated Sandy horse.