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TV Game Shows / Bingo and Racing Shows of the 1960s
Win Money Watching TV!

Race to Riches 1960s TV show / grocery store promotion
Race to Riches!
- pick up a game card at the grocery store then watch the
race on television that weekend to determine if you are a winner. In full color!

It's Racing Time!
It's Racing Time! - Televised horse races where viewers
at home could win cold hard cash!

Greyhound Derby TV shows
Greyhound Derby - that's right they even televised previously
run dog races from Florida.

Dialing For dllars Local TV ShowGrocery store sponsored Horse Racing and Bingo games were just some of the miriad ways a person could rake in some moolah watching TV shows in the 1960s.

In these first 3 examples, the viewer hoped to match the winners to the scorecards they got for buying groceries that week.

With these automoblie, horse, and dog racing TV broadcasts, you tuned into a Saturday evening program on a local station to see if the results matched what it said on your card.

These were races that, in many cases, had been run months or years before.

It's Racing Time!
Deck O Money - not a TV promotion but another way (without really gambling)
grocery stores lured in customers with the promise of big money prizes.

This was likely a scratch off with a row of cards that made up your 'hand.' Adults only!

You can read MORE about this 1960s phenomenon:
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