Once upon a time, like half a decade ago, Capitol Hill used to be weird. Like a woman in a jester costume skipping through the neighborhood on the regular. A short-lived death-and-haunts boutique called the Nevertold Casket Company. And on a stretch of sidewalk on John Street, the Mystery Coke Machine.
The retro dispenser appeared sometime in the late 1990s, according to the Seattle Times. The soda logos betrayed its age with an old Coke swish and a retro Pepsi circle. But eventually all six selection buttons were replaced with the word “mystery,” and for 75 cents (later a dollar, still cheap) passersby got a
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