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Originally Posted by darkhorse9
I believe Chocodiles debuted AFTER 1979. I don't believe they ever had baseball cards.
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Actually, it seems they were available as far back as 1977. Several newspapers had ads for them in 1977 -1979, but I did not see any in a spot check from 1976:
This from the Houston Herald May 19, 1977:
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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