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Occupy the Chocolate Shoppe!

pasttensevancouver:

Don’t Be a Sucker, 1947.

When the price of chocolate bars rose from 5 cents to 8 cents, kids across BC mobilized in protest, including a boycott. This one was in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, but similar actions took place in the Fraser Valley and New Westminster. 

Source: Vancouver Sun, 26 April 1947

(via neighborhoodr-vancouver)

• #chocolate
• #children
• #protesting
• #vancouver

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   Occupy the Chocolate Shoppe!

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    FREE MARKET IN ACTION II . . . NO INTERMEDIARIES OR REGULATORS NEEDED HERE.

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    If only chocolate bars were 8 cents now, I’ll be so fat. Hahahahaha.

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    * How inspiring~ I wonder what has happened those spirits… I like the sigh that says “LET THE SUCKER PAY 8 CENTS, WE...

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