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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8506912, member: 19250&quot;]So if one googles world fairs, Expo&#039;s etc...one will find all sorts or souvenirs from the events. Just about everything one can think of in the 1800&#039;s /1900 &#039;s terms, spoons, post cards, thimbles,watch fobs, plates , as well othef items known to be available for purchase as both a remembrance as well pratical useage.</p><p>Yet the availability to take home a little something, besides your experience attending the fairs...</p><p>These were the working Joe&#039;s tokens to have in hand a little remembrance of a special day. </p><p><br /></p><p>I started a thread like this one on another foum.</p><p>I was schocked as to a response by one member....His reply&quot; I took, the kids to Disneyland, we saw those machines...you put money in them and this CRAP comes out... I gave the kids a ice cream and we </p><p>Walked on...I guess I don&#039;t appreciate fake money....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts are you don&#039;t appreciate life... as again one mans trash is anothers treasure... and at 68 years of age.... I still hold items as such very dear. </p><p>These little medal disc ,smashed, carved, or what ever are lifes treasures.... be they yours or a piece of history that at one point in time belonged to another....they may of been in the pocket of a solider who stormed the beaches of France, or pinned to a womans blouse as a reminder of that solider....</p><p>A small gift to a sweatheart at a Sunday school picnic... so many scenarios so many treasures... now ours to appreciate, not only&nbsp; art or the material they are made from..... but the story each piece holds! </p><p>These&nbsp; are the treasures.... for us to appreciate for a short 100+/- years...then rediscovered by another to again give the small token a voice as to how its importance was and still is.... a treasure ,and a story of a day in the life of someone just like YOU![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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