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The bathrooms at the Stack's in Menlo Park are in a publicly accessible part of the building, so they use tokens to keep homeless people from sleeping in them.
Round wooden disc with small hole in center. Blue in color. Stamped in both sides the following: "MEAT" above hole in disk, "VIANDE" below hole, "CANADA" along the top curve of the disk, "RATION" along the bottom curve.
The practice of rationing was practiced in Canada from 1939-1947. Meat was rationed from May 27, 1943 to February 29, 1944 and from September 9, 1945 to March 26, 1947. The second period of meat rationing gave rise to the holed, blue "meat ration" token, a pressed-wood token given as change as one-eighth of a weekly meat ration coupon.
A 1s/- token with 'WM. Lees Smithfield Market Birmingham' on. Not sure of it's age, however Smithfield Market is long gone demolished in the 1960/70s, now the location of the newer outdoor Bullring markets or thereabouts. This was found in a collection of other random coins/tokens of my grandmothers in West Bromwich, however I'd love more information on this, what it was used for, who is WM Lees, how old it actually might be?
I thought it was interesting that the Major Magic's tokens say "for use only at Major Magic's" and yet they have so many other tokens from other places. I used to live in Northville, MI.
After all the jewelry the Purple Mage was obliged to wear as status markers, this little token of devotion is that much more precious to Nightowl.
The Central Wales Line operates on a token system, so Llandrindod box is largely redundant nowadays.
150240 waits for the off with 2V04 Shrewsbury to Swansea, Sunday 17.2.13
The seldom seen (certainly from a passenger service) Great Rocks signal box. The box controls access to the single line to Buxton and works to Peak Forest on the other side. Seen from the East Lancs Firebrand on Friday 30th September 2016.
The token for the single line from Buxton (just surrendered by the driver of the rail-tour) can be seen in the possession of the signalman.
After driving all day in the pouring rain (and driving snow) from Fort Madison, Iowa to Fremont, Nebraska to get out of the crap weather, I was rewarded with a grubby Union Pacific GE in DPU mode in drop-under sunset light. Well worth the time, eh?
CANDIANO
SUPER
FOOD STAMP CREDIT
1¢
IN ELIGIBLE FOODS
Date: Circa 1970s
Source Type: Token
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Plasco Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Albeno and Margaret E. Candiano was the owner of Candiano Super Market located at 701 West Chicago Avenue in East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana.
In March 1968, Candiano Super Market was "disqualified from participation in the Food Stamp Program for 60 days" in an action taken by the United States Department of Agriculture. The disqualification was based on Candiano's violation of "program regulations by accepting food coupons in exchange for ineligible items." Regulations excluded the purchase of non-food items and certain imported goods with food stamps.
Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government issued coupons to families and individuals whose income level was below a certain threshold. The purpose of the coupons was to assist in the purchase of food. Today, SNAP cards are issued by the federal government for the same purpose.
During the 1970s, the lowest denomination of federally issued "food stamps" was one dollar and federal law prohibited the exchange of food stamps for money. Hence, to solve the issue of providing change to customers, companies issued credit tokens in lieu of money. These tokens could then be used to purchase "eligible food" items.
The federal law changed in January 1979 and retailers were allowed to provide change to customers as long as the coins amounted to less than one dollar. This new law essentially eliminated the use of food stamp credit tokens in the United States.
⦿ Wagaman No. E-400a; rarity modern
Sources:
The Times, Hammond, Lake County, Indiana; March 22, 1968; Volume 67, Number 236, Page 5B, Column 4. Column titled "Disqualified."
Wagaman, Lloyd E. 1981. Indiana Trade Tokens. Fairfield, Ohio: Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society. 302 p.
Copyright 2019. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
My Trip to the Mid Hants railway consisting of simply riding the Bus between stops to record and photograph along the line, a change of plan from what I normally do on Railway visits.
Visiting Loco was 45596 Jubilee Bahamas from KWVR.
Having just collected the Freight, we see 76017 passing 41312 with the freight in question, and the signalman passing the token to the footplate crew to allow them to use the single track to Ropley.
Photo copyright: Georgie Read
Taken at the Northern Lights Arcade at the Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City.
Camera: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX1
RD16009. The token exchange at Thuxton on the Mid Norfolk Railway.
The signalman is holding up the pouch containing the token for the next section ahead and the fireman is holding out the pouch containing the token for the section that we are just leaving.
A first generation diesel multiple unit bound for Wymondham is waiting for our Dereham bound train to clear the single line section.
Saturday, 26th August, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
More details of this line can be found here: mnr.org.uk/index.php?route=common/home
From Melbourne Australia a halfpenny token to be used to purchase merchandise from the General Marine Store.
Julie Borowski speaking at the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Medium: pastel on colored paper.
Original: 18"x24" available.
Giclee prints: 5"x7" and 8"x10" available.
Email: info@ritaelsner.com
Notes: Somewhere over Colorado. A keepsake of my grandmother's from her years acclimating to life in NYC. It reminds me that feeling out of place can be a gift.
This is for the February 2018 challenge "Chocolates"
Photo credit Sally Robertson
I used Prismacolor pencils over an acrylics base.
Artist name: Clariece S. Kirkwood.
Sorry the white of the the rose is a bit over exposed from the camera😵😵😵
After all the jewelry the Purple Mage was obliged to wear as status markers, this little token of devotion is that much more precious to Nightowl.
Awaiting the arrival of the 1040 from Bridgenorth (non stop through here!) to exchange the single line token.
"For the first five years after the bombing, a simple chain link fence surrounded the Murrah Building site, and from the earliest hours of the rescue and recovery operations, visitors posted messages and personal items on the fence. It became such a tradition to “visit the fence” in Oklahoma City that sections of the original fence were incorporated in the permanent Memorial, and guests still leave their convention nametags or hastily scrawled notes of hope there."
Ref: www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/secondary.php?sectio...
Homeward
by Rand
Rest at ease my love
For I sail the breeze home
To thee.
Fetch the preacher and set
Fire on dry wood, have blown
To me.
Best please God above
For I sail the breeze home
To thee.
Fetch the tailor and set
Lace on white goods have sewn
To thee.
Rest at ease my love
For I shall seize home.
Not to be buried at
sea...
Not to be buried at
sea...
Not to be buried at
sea...
I sail home to thee.
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*Created for the Our Daily Challenge topic:
A TOKEN
Seen on a regional bus line; Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Mexico).
Learn more about Mexico's chicken buses at my travelog.