Bet you're too young to remember

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:10 am

When I was a kid I pedaled "Grit" newspapers, you didn't get cash but instead "prizes" up to and including a new .22. Also, there was some kind of salve that had the same deal, cant remember the name of it.

Pisgah · Post by **Pisgah** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:33 am

jnyork wrote:When I was a kid I pedaled "Grit" newspapers, you didn't get cash but instead "prizes" up to and including a new .22. Also, there was some kind of salve that had the same deal, cant remember the name of it.

You lose the bet! PM me and I will e-mail you my address so you'll know where to send my winnings!

arjunky · Post by **arjunky** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:49 am

That paper wasn't that long ago was it

Byron

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:52 am

Well, I'm glad to know that there are others here who remember past 1954. I feel like a spring chicken now!--------6

EdinCT · Post by **EdinCT** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 1:26 pm

I remember my grandparents reading The Grit. My Mom was a town girl and had little interest. But I remember!

Don McDowell · Post by **Don McDowell** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 1:40 pm

You lost the bet, now pay up.

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:04 pm

I remember "GRIT", never read one, but remember the Ads...so if I remember GRIT does that mean I should be dead...just saying... :)

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:10 pm

Well, I don't but I do remember past 1954, if only a little, well I would if I could remember. Truth is for some reason most of the memories I can recall started around 5 years old. Then again, it's probably good we don't remember being infants and toddlers, cuz then we'd already know what's coming on the back end.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:22 pm

I remember seeing the ads in comic books.... I was already selling newspapers, greeting/Christmas cards, and mowing lawns, and playing in a paying polka band....
http://www.grit.com/grit-history.aspx#axzz2oWIQIzA1

milton · Post by **milton** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:25 pm

Good ole Cloverine Salve;it'll cure anything!!!!!!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 4:07 pm

Yep, y'all are OLD! Only thing I remember about 1954 is fallin' off my brother's bike...

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:23 pm

I was born in 1960 you old fanny burbs!

Thanks for making me feel young again.

hayabusa · Post by **hayabusa** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:55 am

30wcf wrote:I remember "GRIT", never read one, but remember the Ads...so if I remember GRIT does that mean I should be dead...just saying...

30wcf, I hope not, because I delivered GRIT from my bicycle as a youngster myself.
busa

Gobblerforge · Post by **Gobblerforge** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 6:56 am

Friends Call Me Ji wrote:I was born in 1960 you old fanny burbs!
Thanks for making me feel young again.

Yep.

The cool part for me is I already look like I'm in my 60's so I'll be able to be "That old guy" for a long time. White beard and all.
Gobbler

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 7:51 am

Um... Jerry? I was selling Grit in Lander as late as 1979... maybe 1981 (7th grade)

wm · Post by wm » Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:40 am

I sold Grit to my neighbors and on my daily newspaper route in the late 70's.

As I recall I earned a Zebco fishing rod and reel, a football a couple times and some baseballs & a bat.

Wm

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:55 am

Old Ironsights wrote:Um... Jerry? I was selling Grit in Lander as late as 1979... maybe 1981 (7th grade)

I am surprised at this, thought they were long gone by then. In fact, they are still around as a magazine.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:01 pm

I sold cloverine salve back around 1948. I also sold christian mottos that glowed in the dark!
Others sold lifetime light bulbs, seeds, magazines etc.
http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/ ... salve.html

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:06 pm

Friends Call Me Ji wrote:I was born in 1960 you old fanny burbs!
Thanks for making me feel young again.

I missed being a 1960 baby by 3 days.

I was actually two weeks overdue.

I do remember the Grit advertisements for sales people
in the Boys Life magazine.

MacEntyre · Post by **MacEntyre** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:45 pm

I remember when color TV, area codes, direct dialing, transistor radios, satellites and zip codes were invented... and a coke cost a nickle!

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 8:31 pm

I remember Grit. I am reading the current Jan./Feb. issue now.
It has turned into a slick and very good bi-monthly magazine for small farmers and hobbyists. http://www.grit.com/#axzz2odPJagc5

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:40 pm

MacEntyre wrote:I remember when color TV, area codes, direct dialing, transistor radios, satellites and zip codes were invented... and a coke cost a nickle!

Dunno about "invented"... but we didn't have a Color TV until the early/mid '80s...

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