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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Novel about the 1950s in the USA | | English term or phrase: carload-sales | | They have one of those tract houses; ordinary furniture inside, the usual TV set and drapes, coffee table, couch and rug. The furniture you see in those carload-sales places, those complete living room outfits for $30 down and the rest at a dollar a week… Where you have those loudspeakers and Okie music. |
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| | English translation:truckload sales | Explanation:
When I grew up in the 1950s, a truckload sale was when the local small-town store would bring in a truckload of furniture or appliances (more than their usual inventory) to sell at special prices. Sometimes the sale items would actually be displayed in the store parking lot, next to the truck that brought them. The web link is to a similar practice still in use. |
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 William Howden
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| Grading comment Thank you, William! Thanks to Stephanie, too.
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1 hr confidence:   rent-to-own
Explanation:
This is the first time I hear the term "carload sales places," but the description sounds a lot like the "rent-to-own" shops that are popular in the United States. A really famous one is called Rent-A-Center:
http://www6.rentacenter.com/Rent-A-Center-Home.html
More about rent-to-own:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-to-own
I would not say that "rent-to-own" is necessarily the equivalent to "carload sales," but the concepts seem to be related: small down payments on home furnishings and protracted monthly payments that result in the customer paying much more than the real value of the goods over time. These shops mostly appear in poor neighborhoods and (to borrow Stephanie's terminology) have a "cheap/chintzy" feel to them.
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6 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 truckload sales
Explanation:
When I grew up in the 1950s, a truckload sale was when the local small-town store would bring in a truckload of furniture or appliances (more than their usual inventory) to sell at special prices. Sometimes the sale items would actually be displayed in the store parking lot, next to the truck that brought them. The web link is to a similar practice still in use.
Reference: http://cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2008-12-27/truckload-...
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