Ladmo Bags
In the mid-1960s, the Ladmo Bag first appeared on the show. The Ladmo Bag was a prize won by children in the in-studio audience or at stage performances. They were paper grocery bags filled with candy, potato chips, assorted coupons and so on.
To Wallace and Ladmo fans and collectors, an authentic Ladmo Bag from the original show can be worth a considerable amount of money. However, very few of these bags still exist intact, as most children that won the prizes consumed the content inside and discarded the bag. Some natives of the Phoenix area use the expression "I never got a Ladmo Bag when I was a kid" as a metaphor for "I had a deprived childhood."
Kwiatkowski died in 1994. However, during special events in Arizona, particularly the Arizona State Fair, Ladmo bags are still won by select people attending. The last Ladmo bag, on the final telecast, was given to Wallace in a symbolic gesture by Ladmo.
Residents of Tent City, AZ, the Maricopa County jail run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, are served morning meals in see through plastic bags, which are referred to on the inside as "Ladmos." A “Ladmo”, with the word “bag” now superfluous, is the lunch bag of expired and donated food. A highly coveted item central to gambling, extortion and the currency of inmate commerce.
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Famous quotes containing the word bags:
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)