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Old 12-18-2011, 06:30 AM
Daave Daave is offline
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Originally Posted by leadlike View Post
The contest is very similar to those that are featured in the book and movie "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio". It is a true story of a mother who, having little money and a large family to care for, entered every high-stakes jingle contest there was from the early 50s until they went out of style in the mid 60s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pri...Defiance,_Ohio

Typically, if she won something like the Motorola, it would have been sold for cash.
Hah that movie was filmed here in Ontario only a short jog from me up the road.
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