Query: Are you able to remedy the thriller of this membership card and pin for me? It appeared to have that Fifties enchantment to me and that was most likely why I had bought it for only a greenback. I picked this up at a present about 10 years in the past. I haven’t come throughout a lot details about it since and have by no means seen one other prefer it.
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Reply: One spotlight of a kid’s life throughout the Nineteen Forties-Sixties was the invention of premiums. Many had been discovered inside cereal containers and the like, however essentially the most coveted premiums had been membership premiums resembling yours from Al’s Kiddie Membership. Membership premiums appealed to youngsters in that they needed to ship away for them, after which had the anticipation of ready for them to reach. The idea alone was interesting to be accepted by a bunch the place in any other case one was not accepted and boosted one’s shallowness enormously. A child may very well be a child along with his desires of what membership entailed.
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Membership golf equipment, ephemera and premiums had been an everlasting staple of the Golden Age of radio history. Most youngsters had been laborious pressed at the moment to recall a pal who was not a member of 1 radio or tv membership or one other. Some golf equipment had been interwoven in a number of methods, combining radio, comics, magazines, TV and even motion pictures. Advertising angles had been sensible, and the sense of bond, or kinship with one’s specific membership or fan group, was much more heightened when it was a secret society of 1 variety or one other.
Kiddie golf equipment had been held throughout the U.S. in theaters on Saturdays throughout the ’50s and ’60s. As your membership card and pin point out, Al’s Kiddie Membership was held Saturdays at 2 p.m. on the Warner Theatre of Washington, D.C. We did learn in regards to the Kiddie Membership of Huntsville, Ala., held on the Lyric theater. Anybody who was a preteen and attended the junior excessive went to the Lyric on Saturday mornings. The Kiddie Membership was a lifestyle for many. Whereas there, most youngsters would sing or carry out an act. The very best act would win a prize. After the membership, a film was performed. Highschool introduced an finish to at least one’s half within the Kiddie Membership. Your membership card and badge in mint situation would convey at the very least between $10-$20 every, and extra if the suitable demand is current within the market on the time of sale.
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