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Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on 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
Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on 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.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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.
Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on 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.
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on 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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