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Remember when you got a free 'church key' with every 6 pack? [View all]
And EVERY restaurant had a box of advertising paper matchbooks at the cashier's counter?
Airlines put a complimentary 4 pack of Winston cigarettes on your meal tray.
And you got a meal in coach too.
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As a 12yo, played Crazy Ball at the County Fair. I won 15 cartons of cigarettes.
Midnight Writer
Aug 2020
#2
Visiting a Travel Agent who types something on a computer machine to plan your trip.
Marcuse
Aug 2020
#5
Party lines unless your family could splurge on a private line. You pick up the phone
mobeau69
Aug 2020
#7
And everyone in the house had to be sooo quiet during a long distance call so you could
tblue37
Aug 2020
#10
You got your milk delivered and had a galvanized, supposedly insulated milkbox sitting on your front
mobeau69
Aug 2020
#12
Yep. We use to call Grandma and Grandpa and let it ring twice to signal we were home from their
mobeau69
Aug 2020
#16
I liked the little rectangular boxes that held small wooden matches.
No Vested Interest
Aug 2020
#31