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forgot Lawrence Welk.an old canadian show was archie and friends,was a noon-hour show.
my family had the first B&W tv on the block,my older brother used to invite his pals over to watch,charged them a nickle apiece.
we were also the first to get a color tv too.
i remember an old mom and pop store,used to take bottles in for cash.he got smart and would only give us product in trade for the returned bottles.
 
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Steve,
Grand dad had a late 40s Chevy with the back seat taken out. That was his 'truck'. He'd load that old car till, just like you said, he couldn't see out the rear view mirror because the candy boxes were piled so high. But, he would load the car based on his stops. First stops, the candy was on the top and on until his last stop which was the bottom of the pile. Everyone knew and loved him. His last name was Finke and kids used to wait outside the store he was delivering to because they knew Mr. Finke would give them free candy on his delivery days. Back then the store owners weren't caught up in profit anxiety so there was no problems with him giving out a free candy bar now and then. Today the store owners would be calling their lawyers. :)

Tom
 
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Ana one, ana two, ana I forgot Lawrence Welk, tooljunkie. Just looked up Archie and friends but that started after I was grown up enough to be at work. Definately CBC though.

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. What would New Years have been with out them. Dick Clark was a nice replacement though.

Steve.
 
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Tom,
I can picture the kids hanging out in front of the store and I'll bet your Grand Dad had lots of help carrying the boxes into the store. Every kid in the city knew his car as well so he got plenty of waves as he went by.
The store owners weren't as caught up on the bottom line as you said. They wouldn't begrudge the kids a treat and it did keep then tied to thier store when they did get money.

Like tooljunkie said some of the stores wouldn't give you money for the bottles just goods and we knew who they were so we walked a mile to the store that gave you the cash and we walked the same mile to spend our money when we had it and Heaven couldn't help the kid doing anything else. The store keeper looked after us and we looked after them.

The bill was written up in the bill book with those miserable carbon papers between the pages. Bill was paid out of the cash register and the bill was put in. No 30,60 90 day payment plan.

What city did your grand parents live in?

Steve.
 
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Tom,
Forgot to add that the salesmen I was talking about usually sold work clothes to factories and gas stations. Things like 8 pairs of really good socks for $2.00, Nylons for the ladies at a great price, gloves, coverall's and if they didn't have your size they would next week.
Didn't like what they had, what did you want? No obligation to buy them but you always did because the poor guy went out of his way to get them and you couldn't get them anywhere else.

They were the last of a dying breed.

Steve.
 
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LOL, is there any YooHoo lovers out there. Chocolate milk in soda bottles. The bottles were really small and skinny. There was a Shell gas station in our neighborhood that had one of those Coke machines where you had to slide the bottle along two rails then pull it out through a gate. We found out that the YooHoo bottles would fit through the gate without putting any money in the machine because they were so skinny. A bunch of us were addicted to YooHoo, just because it was free. :)

Tom
 
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for us canadians,i remember playing with firecrackers every summer.not legal in canada-at least manitoba.yet they will let us light off little bombs that send flaming projectiles into the sky.go figure.
the BoardWalk at Grand Beach,with the arcades.the big machines with the grapple that took all our bottle money....
 
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When I was in high school I had an afternoon shop class. I used to bring my guns to school and put them in my locker so I could take them to shop and reblue barrels and refinish stocks and grips.

We were doing a play my senior year and a friend had to have shotgun for the play. We got through and went out behind the school and let the girls shoot the gun. Our band director came out and wanted to know what we were doing. We told him the girls wanted to shoot the gun. He said "ok but y'all be careful"...
 
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I remember when we didn't wear seat belts, our cars didn't have them. I still remember getting in trouble for climbing up on the package tray and looking at the stars, I probably Would have got away with it if mom hadn't saw me when another car came up behind us.
 
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How about the Ronco commercials that started selling christmas items in september. Every item was a must have.

I still have the LP, Harmonica Kids Play 50 Polka Favorites for only $3.95.

Steve.
 
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Tooljunkie,

We can get fireworks here in Vancouver still because the Chinese and Shiks use them in religious parades. Not sure if the 4" cannon crackers are still available.

Probably a good thing we can't since I know one kid with an eye missieg and two others with some fingers that are shorter than when they started out. Lesson #1 was put the 4" cannon cracker down befor you light it since the wick might burn faster than you think.

Steve.
 
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fasteddy said:
How about the Ronco commercials that started selling christmas items in september. Every item was a must have.

I still have the LP, Harmonica Kids Play 50 Polka Favorites for only $3.95.

Steve.
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I still remember commercials for the Ronco In-the-Egg Scrambler. I think it was $19.95.
 
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Ilikeabikea said:
I always liked the Popeil pocket fisherman.....
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I saw a profile of Ron Popeil once; how he got started and what was interesting was that many of his items were actually his own inventions. They showed his house and garage/workshop where he built the prototypes for his gadgets. Funny but if they had been built to last there were some neat ideas. The problem was that they were all made of cheap plastic and broke after a few uses.

Saturday Night Live and Dan Ackroid used to parody the Popiel commercials. They were great. Remember Bass-O-matic?

Tom
 
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2door said:
I saw a profile of Ron Popeil once; how he got started and what was interesting was that many of his items were actually his own inventions. They showed his house and garage/workshop where he built the prototypes for his gadgets. Funny but if they had been built to last there were some neat ideas. The problem was that they were all made of cheap plastic and broke after a few uses.

Saturday Night Live and Dan Ackroid used to parody the Popiel commercials. They were great. Remember Bass-O-matic?

Tom
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"Now that's a pretty good bass Ron."
 
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