{"id":1324,"date":"2007-11-09T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2012-05-07T23:51:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:51:20","slug":"clints-crazy-bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Clint’s CRAZY Bargains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>I found this in my souvenir box the other day. It’s a pretty sizeable box, since I tend to be sentimental about nearly everything. This bag was a gift from a friend and came from a chain of stores that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1990s, when Jerry Bartz was still doing weather at KFYR-TV, he took a vacation to Australia. When he came back to work he brought me this souvenir. Apparently there was a big chain of discount stores called “Clint’s CRAZY Deals” down under. I don’t know why they left the apostrophe off the bags, though. I tried to find them online, but only found an article about the chain being purchased by a similar bargain retail chain. So I guess I have a collector’s item, a piece of Aussie retail history!<\/p>\n

I know Jerry was working for some shop-at-home channels such as Gems TV, but he moved on from there and I’m not sure what happened to him after that.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve spoken to my former coworker since he left KFYR-TV, and as a Minnesota native I doubt he makes it back to Bismarck often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this in my souvenir box the other day. It’s a pretty sizeable box, since I tend to be sentimental about nearly everything. This bag was a gift from a friend and came from a chain of stores that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}