Coin-Operated Fortune Teller, Zoltar

Zoltar, the Fortune Teller, is the coin-operated machine in the movie “Big” that changed Tom Hanks’s character into a grownup. The publicity from the movie created a market for the machine and copies were made in the 1960s and ’70s. Coin-operated fortune-telling machines were popular at amusement parks and penny arcades in the 1930s and […]