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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8166589, member: 20201"]1933 Century of Progress Chicago World's FairSo-called Dollars35 mm Gilt Bronze Hi-Ho HK464 [ATTACH=full]1425980[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1425983[/ATTACH]   I have two official medals here known as So-called Dollars. The "Hi-Ho" and the "Cheerio". There must be some song with those lyrics together, wouldn't you think? In 1933, A&P took part in the World's Fair in Chicago with a canopied boardwalk where tea dances were held, and free tea and coffee samples were distributed. The many listeners to "The A&P Gypsies" came by the thousands to the A&P Carnival, a 2,000-seat amphitheater. [ATTACH=full]1425982[/ATTACH] The most popular forms of advertising of the late 1920s were radio programs with a sponsored musical feature.It could be a large symphonic group, a dance orchestra, or a song-and-patter team and it would usually carry the sponsor's name."The A&P Gypsies" was a musical series broadcast on radio beginning in 1924 with band leader Harry Horlick, who had learned gypsy folk music while traveling with gypsy bands in Istanbul. "The A&P Gypsies" performed here during The 1933 World's Fair.Harry Horlick on the left. Frank Parker, a tenor on the right. [ATTACH=full]1425995[/ATTACH] I watched several funny and interesting videos but did not spot the A&P events. People looked like they were enjoying themselves in the depression years at The World's Fair. Established in Manhattan in 1925, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known everywhere as A&P operated more than thirteen thousand grocery stores nationwide, with more than forty thousand employees. By 1950, approximately ten cents out of every dollar spent on food in the United States passed over A&P counters.A&P's decline began in the early 1950s, when it failed to keep pace with competitors that opened larger supermarkets with more modern features demanded by customers.By the 1970s, A&P stores were outdated, and its efforts to combat high operating costs resulted in poor customer service.A&P was for sale in 2013 but could not find a buyer. Declaring a loss in April 2015, it filed for its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 19 of that year.All of its supermarkets were sold or closed by November 25, 2015. Cheerio HK464a [ATTACH=full]1425984[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1425985[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1425996[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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