cocoku: 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 The children of Vancouver protesting a hike in chocolate bar prices - 1947. So cool! I grew up real close to here. Those kids were so badass!

cocoku:

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

The children of Vancouver protesting a hike in chocolate bar prices - 1947.

So cool! I grew up real close to here. Those kids were so badass!