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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8343083, member: 19250&quot;]Growing up in the sixties was a wonderful time...I&#039;ve often thought how fortunate&nbsp; I was to be born and raised in this time peroid. ....I never would wish for a do over....to any other time.</p><p>To those of you who weren&#039;t part of this time line...well hopefully this thread, and post from us who were enlighten you to how things really were....</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t uncommon for companies to give aways all sorts of Swag...</p><p>Just about everything and anything one can imagine.</p><p>You had a monthly Fuller Brush man....who stop by the house, he always had some small gimmie to put in your hand,with hopeful thoughts of selling you something.</p><p>Not only was there a Fuller brush man...but the Jewel T company...long before shopping malls..you had salesmen knocking at your door...showing and selling their products...</p><p>Companies in general knew a foot in the door with a little swag...generated sales!</p><p>Encyclopedia&#039;s , footwear, cookies,&nbsp; pretzels and chips....etc...etc...all came to the front door.</p><p>And guess what? They all made money to support their famlies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your numastics swag...encased cents, coins,and what ever you have found that was the key to a&nbsp; door to door salesman.&nbsp; Here is an Morgan silver dollar a give away from Armour Star meats...you will notice I said Armour star*</p><p>As in those days that was their branding....not just Armour...see the * in the lower right after Armour.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479655[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1479656[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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