Goodwill bins and Willy

Remember the old Goodwill donation bins that used to be all over So Cal? These and the ones from the DAVs that were bell-shaped were so commonplace when I was a kid, but by the 1980s, there were too many people just taking things out of the bins and many were even vandalized, so I guess they figured it would just be better to have items dropped off or picked up.

Good Willy was the mascot of Goodwill when I was young and his happy face always made me smile whenever I saw him.

Originally created by illustrator Milton Caniff in the 1950s, Good Willy spent much of the mid-20th century promoting Goodwill Industries’ missions throughout the US.