Before And After: Arizona's Disappearing Coin-Operated Rides

It's the end of an era of coin-operated grocery store rides and one photographer documents the disappearance.

There was a time when outside many American storefronts, 25 cents could buy a child a two-minute ride on a stallion, an Indy racecar, or a giant rabbit. Though most did nothing more than jerk back and forth, mechanical coin-operated rides made boring errands suddenly thrilling for kids. As photographer Ernie Button documents in his series "Back and Forth," these beloved rides may now be an endangered species.

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