And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1960, Cafeteria of the Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio Texas. 16 oz bottles of 7-up or Coke for a nickel and a penny...dispensed almost frozen from a vending machine. Had more than a few, although nickels and pennies were hard to come by.
There was a time that nickels and dimes bought stuff.
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I am pretty sure that I never saw soda pop for 6 cents. Maybe a nickel or a dime.
ReplyDelete1960, Cafeteria of the Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio Texas. 16 oz bottles of 7-up or Coke for a nickel and a penny...dispensed almost frozen from a vending machine. Had more than a few, although nickels and pennies were hard to come by.
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