Do kids still sell this paper? Another post (Highlights)made me think of it, so I thought I would ask. Man, I sold a lot of those papers to my neighbors on my trusty Schwinn Racer! Anyone else?
Thanks
Q
…to be honest, I didn’t think it was a real paper…nobody I ever knew delivered it, nobody I ever knew bought it, nobody I ever knew had ever even seen a copy of it…as a matter of fact, most people I know have never even heard of it.
My brother and sister did try to sell flower seeds though, as also advertised on the back covers of comic books…
so Quasi…you sold it: just what the hell was Grit all about anyway and why would somebody want a subscription to it, rather than, say, their local newspaper?
GRIT was the forerunner of todays tabloids (you name them, I never read them), but in a much softer vein. They were a weekly Reader’s Digest (of sorts) for rural folks.
I gotta tell ya’, I still have such happy memories of delivering these papers to pretty housewives who were waiting just to have something to read while their husbands were working the cotton/yarn mills. I think it was worth the 10 cents a week to them (and to me!) to get away from the drudgery for a while.
If I could hang some sentences together, I sure would like to bring those sweet memories to life: “Hello, Mrs. Johnson! Here’s your GRIT!”
“Okay, Q! Pick up your payment in the mailbox this Sat’day!”
And it was always there.
Q
I remember reading Grit at my grandfolk’s ranch in Montana when I was a kit. One of those artifacts of a bygone day like the Police Gazette in the barber shop
What a fantastic question! Back when I was a mere slip of a lass, in the late 60s & early 70s, I pondered the mysteries of “Grit.” It certainly was never a staple of suburban Long Island readers! It’s good to know that my assumption that it was meant for farmer-types was not entirely without merit.