Weird Harold's Sandwich Factory [solved]

Hello all,

In addition to coins, I recently began collecting private and public U.S. tokens. Last week I found this one and am completely perplexed. Despite my best googling efforts with a variety of word combinations I can find no information about this company or token. In addition to general searches and the Exonumia portion of this site, I've checked Token Catalog and arcadetoken.net.

Is anyone here familiar with this company? Any idea where they were located? Any information would be very appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Looks like it was a sandwich shop in Salinas, CA in the late-70s.

Hi @seltsamesammler ,

I am very impresssed! Thank you for digging this up!

All the best,
RJ

Weird Harold was a character in Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, a 1970s cartoon which was hosted by Bill Cosby (#1 Hypocrite supreme, supposed to be all righteous and edu- macated, but just another sleazoid abusing his power as a role model).

The cartoon itself revolved around a group of Black children based in a junkyard(!!) and was supposedly very moralistic and had a goody two shoes style lesson each episode.



However the cartoon played on stereotypes, Rudy was a standard ghetto hustler/pimp type portrayed in racist Blaxploitation movies. Mush mouth had a woolen hat over his space and mumbled, Albert himself was very obese and had extremely big lips (They all had huge lips) and unrealistic exacerbated racist and ugly caricatures of Black people that date back to the Jim Crow days.

This mess lasted 12 years (1972 - 1984) and spawned a really bad movie in 2004.

say what you want in retrospect , Cosby and the Cosby kids were beloved by all in their time.

Weird Harold’s was the best sub shop in Monterey Ca in the late seventies.