Trash Can Tots Complete Series Stickers 🗑️ Vintage 1980s NOS Vending Set, 10 Strips / 30 Characters retro_law_enforcement_decor and the Western-craze cultural moment

and the Western-craze cultural moment it was designed to serve

Printed and pressed metal — not a painted enamel piece — with a substantial back that gives it structure and the pin mechanism you would expect from a dime-store novelty piece meant to be worn and shown off

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roughly nine million Italians left the peninsula

and everything described here is drawn from the label in the photographs and from the documented history of Camulos and the del Valles

Trash Can Tots Complete Series Stickers 🗑️ Vintage 1980s NOS Vending Set, 10 Strips / 30 Characters retro_law_enforcement_decor and the Western-craze cultural momentThis is the complete series of Trash Can Tots the goofy, gloriously crude little sticker strips that rattled out of supermarket vending machines all across America in the mid 1980s. What you are looking at is the whole run: ten uncut strips, thirty different characters in all, still new old stock from the factory box and never fed through the coin slot. For anyone who grew up dropping quarters into those spinning sticker dispensers by the grocery