When I was in college (in Colorado), several of us were standing in line to get food or drinks or something when something clunked into a bucket.
Guy #1 “Fifteen dollars in bucket number 6”
Guy #2 “And a Schwinn fastback bicycle” #3 “And Hanes stockings for your mom” #4 “Looking for a boy” (pointing fingers like an arrow)
Guy behind the counter “What?”
Guess just a lot of people from Chicagoland. (I was from Wisconsin but we got WGN on our cable as we were one of the original cable subscribers when we got a grand total of 8 channels, but if you didn’t have cable you got TWO channels and not NBC which had football, so we had cable and got WGN with Bozo and hockey)
A group of us would run to my house when we were in junior high to watch All my Children (when it was only a 30 minute show) and eat our lunch, watch the Grand. Prize. Game! at 12:25, and run back to school for our next class. I think our lunch ‘hour’ was for 45 min so we really had to run.
You might be younger than me @abasket, so maybe it had switched to weekends only after my time (early 1970s)
In the olden days, they dropped a silver dollar in bucket #6 and the total built until someone won, so you could win $1 or $100 or however much was added since the last winner.
They also picked the contestants by scanning the audience and having two flashing arrows on the screen and when it stopped, that was the winner. Lots of ‘oh, that’s a mom’s nose’ or ‘oh no, another boy, we’re looking for a girl’. Also that Bozo was lame. The other one a lot more natural.
Hollywood Squares and Truth or Consequences! Loved both. For a fabulous blast from the past, including groovy music, watch this. Paul Lynde was so dang funny and sharp!
Always felt bad for the “C” listers who got the middle boxes (excluding the center box) that were rarely called. Also some crazy bad tic tac toe playing.
