Just talked to my 98-year-old grandpa about Trump's trade war with China. He said he remembers when a local hot dog vender would go down to the Port of Newark and buy up cheap Chinese-made plastic toys, then bring them back to the Arena my grandpa ran and sell them at big profit
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The guy, Phil, was able to buy a large house in Glen Ridge, NJ (wealthy area) based on earning a living from selling hot dogs and cheap plastic toys he managed to wrangle in bulk from shippers at the Port. Hard to imagine how that could be possible today
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Picture of your grandfather??
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you should start recording him, maybe do a podcast with him about old NJ, I'll listen
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The Chinese weren't really making anything in the 1970s.
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