That is ultimately the charm of Woolworth’s Good Luck Tokens. The tokens were important because they were part of daily life. They were not valuable, but they were part of the way we lived day-to-day.
A worn little token can evoke the sounds of coins falling into a vending machine, the appearance of an old five and ten cent store, and the excitement of walking out of a store with some small prize tucked into your pocket. Little money. Little metal. But a memory that people have chosen to keep.
To me, that is why I enjoy things like this.
They remind us that the smallest objects are often stored in our minds longer than the larger ones.
