Old Retired Guy's extra thumbnail

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Old Retired Guy's extra thumbnail
Old Retired Guy's extra thumbnail

This handy little dude might not have a thousand and one uses, but once you have one you'll wonder why you didn't get it sooner. A welcome assist in opening packages, scraping off labels or all those other onerous tasks which endanger your own precious fingernails. TSA approved (probably, maybe, I mean really, who knows?).

On a far more esoteric tangent there's that quarter up there in the corner seemingly for scale. It looks just kinda funky here, but it was once tarted up totally in bright red. It's becoming increasingly difficult - if not impossible - to find red quarters these days, but at one time they were relatively common.

So what's the deal? Back in the day (Gather 'round children. Y'all comfy now?) there were these big blinking boxes universally placed in public eating and drinking establishments - usually by borderline nefarious types, expressly to play the current musical hits of the day. Without pictures! Imagine! These things were called "Juke Boxes" and you could select your favorite tunes, maybe 3 or 4 for a quarter and the whole joint would exalt in your musical sophistication.

Early on, the owners of these "Juke Boxes" found they could enhance revenues by keeping the tunes flowing - as a suggestion to the clientele, you understand - rather than letting the boxes sit idle, waiting for someone to select J11 (Johnny B. Goode: artist C. Berry) and so gave the proprietors of these joints a certain quantity of quarters to feed the machines, universally painted red with nail polish, so they could easily separate them from the actual harvest when the machine was emptied of coins. Eventually, counter to intentions, these red quarters found their way into general circulation and here's one I found many years ago which did not photograph well, the bastard.

I guess I should have learned how to PhotoShop.

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Taken on: April 16, 2016
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Camera: Canon PowerShot G6, f/2.8, 1/8 sec, 23mm (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G6
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure Time: 0.125 sec (1/8)
Focal Length: 23mm
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Picasa
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