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Tommy Woods
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From: Scouser
Registered: Feb 2011

posted September 30, 2014 04:17 AM

Hi
Does any forum member remember using jam jars as an entrance fee at the cinema ?

Typically it was 2 jars per person

Can't be just me that remembers

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted September 30, 2014 11:39 AM

There was a time when juniors to Saturday Morning Clubs used to take silver milk bottle tops but whether that included their admission I do not know.

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Osi Osgood
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posted October 01, 2014 12:08 PM

Is that similar to "canned food drives" at our local cinemas? You bring in a few cans of food and you get in free.

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Tommy Woods
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From: Scouser
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posted October 01, 2014 01:19 PM

No Osi
It happened over here due to poverty,families couldn't afford to give kids entrance fees,however,glass had an intrinsic value so jam jars (empty] had a small value,if you took it back to a store they would give you typically a half penny,cinemas use to accept them and cash them in themselves.

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David Ollerearnshaw
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From: Penistone Sheffield UK
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posted October 01, 2014 02:03 PM

My dad who's coming up to 80 this year used to take jam jars to the local cinema.

Me I used to go behind the pub and get a few empty pop bottles to get the deposit in a shop.

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