Ever Heard Of Put A Penny? Here’s One!

We had one of their stores too but it was about 12 miles away. My mother went there at least once a week.

 

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Never had a Thrifty but we did have a drug store on the corner 3 blocks from the house. They had a soda fountain as well. I could get a big candy bar (a lot larger than one of todays), a comic book, a fountain drink and change back from my quarter. Yes, the quarter was 90% silver. That was what circulated at that time and I was still in dingle digits but I needed both hands to count the years.