Are you this old?
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k0ua
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In Missouri, ours were either a red or a green plastic (some sort of hard plastic, which was often warped) coin, that was embossed during manufacture, and 10 of them were worth a penny. They were pretty much a thing of the past when I was a kid in the 60's, but I had some of them. for a while.
2LaneCruzer
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k0ua
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A little research yielded that the green ones wore 5 mills and the red ones were the 1 mill plastic coins here in Missouri
I found a place selling them for 75 cents each. Sure would have been a good investment to buy a few tons of them "back in the day".
turnkey4099
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I got called on a Washington State law. At a bar and saw a friend at a table. Grabbed my drink and went over to talk to him. NO - You can't do that, a wait person has to carry the drink over for you. It was canceled a few years later. I did get a weak excuse 'to keep guys from unwanted attention to females'.
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'62 or up to '69, remember the local gas station as also the local ice store. They sold big blocks for the locals to use in old style ice boxes. We had a refrigerator, but it could not make ice. When my dad had a gathering, I would get the ice. And then had to chop it down to fit the coolers the beer went into.
turnkey4099
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When I was a teen back in the 60s, most states' drinking age was 21, but it was 18 in N.Y. It was a bit of a drive, but a lot of kids would go over there Saturday nights, there were a couple dive bars just over the state line and probably 2/3 of the clientele were from N.H. or Vt.
Most of the clubs only looked at the year on your license when they'd card you at the door. My birthday's in December, so I had little trouble getting in when I was 20. Funny thing, about 2 weeks before my birthday the bouncer at a place I'd often go looked at the actual date and noticed I wasn't quite 21 yet. Since I was enough of a regular that he recognized me, he just said "be careful" and let me in. Imagine that happening today!
Figures, N.H. dropped it's drinking age to 18 a couple months after I turned 21. Not that I was ever a big drinker/partier, but that's kinda what you did then.
I went out partying on a leave from the AF and went to a bar. Got thrown out on my birthday eve just about 2 hours before I turned 21. I guess the 2 years I had been gone they had forgotten me. Used to go there regularly until I joined up.
Molalla1
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The short hair made you look younger?
Oaktree
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What were they used for? Did your state mint its own coins or were they used for something else?
Prior to EZ Pass our state used to sell tokens for use at toll booths (at a discount), but that's the only state "coin" I've ever seen.
k0ua
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Some of the taxes in the state were in tenths of a cent, and these could be used to pay them. Kind of like the idiotic old pricing of gasoline prices of 9/10 of a cent per gallon tacked on to the end of the full purchase price. Like 2.99 and 9/10 cents per gallon. It is stupid, it is archaic, but there you go. Why do we even have pennies in our society? The actual penny costs 2 or more cents to manufacture if it was made of copper, which they are no longer made from, and haven't been for many decades now, but yet we still have them.
Why not all prices that end in 5? As in $2.95. Would that really make a difference in the pricing of anything? Can you buy anything for less than a nickel now? No of course not. Yet we still have the penny for some reason.
I could go on and on about stupid policy's but what purpose would it serve?. None. Just like a Mill.
