Such as....
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This top section of a Register Balance Form that I found taped to a Pendaflex folder when I worked in Cash Control. It has the Marriott logo on it, but I was more surprised by the checkboxes for Chicago, San Francisco and... Washington?
Also from Cash Control, one day a cashier brought in a change request using a Marriott request form from 1983. I saved it, but noticed that it, too, had a checkbox for "Washington" on it.
As I did cash pickups in many of the various merchandise shops, I noticed a bunch of old Marriott price tags stuck to the shelves. They weren't there for any purpose really, so I stuck them to a card in my wallet. Here's a few of them:
Now here comes the part that makes me cry just a little. When I started at Great America I worked at the Front Gate. In my first season, they had an audit office in an old merchandise shop that used to have a window in the front plaza. In my second season I was promoted to Lead in Group Sales, and the audit office was used as a lead office. There was a huge corkboard in this office, and all across the corkboard were tickets from as far back as the first few Marriott seasons up until 1988.
One day we were asked to clean out the old Audit stuff from the office. And we THREW ALL OF THOSE OLD TICKETS AWAY!
I could kill to have them now. But... I do at least have these:
They looked the same as the other old tickets at least. Because in 1991 they changed to this:
So that's my little scavenger trip through memory lane... hope you enjoyed it!
