#1- 1 quarter buys you 15 minutes on a Magic Fingers® vibrating bed.
#2- John Joseph Houghtaling invented the Magic Fingers® vibrating bed in 1958.
#3- John flew on 20 missions as a gunner in WW II.
#4- Magically, John lived to the ripe old age of 92 (he died on June 17th, 2009).
#5- The success of the Magic Fingers® bed is largely due to the fact that the engine is not a part of the bed like other models.
#6- To prevent coin looters Mr. Houghtaling invented the first version of the magnetic strip based debit card as an alternative means of payment.
#7- The Magic Fingers® bed has been featured in a Jimmy Buffet song (This Hotel Room), Kurt Vonnegut’s Salughter House Five, and a Supernatural episode.
#8- In the 1960s approximately 250,000 hotel rooms featured the Magic Fingers® bed.
