MONEY MATTERS

[VAM]

We know the Collins Family was very wealthy. However, never do we see any exchanges of green stuff on the show. Or do we?  Anyone remember big  or small bills being circulated and when?

[CastleBee]

I couldn't swear to this, but maybe at the Blue Whale.  Then again, I could see them running a tab for Roger.  Perhaps Bob the Bartender knows more about this.  

[Raineypark]

A family like the Collins' would have accounts at all the local business establishments and would not exchange money every time they visited.

Things like buying a drink at the tavern would involve the exchange of coins in very small denominations...pennies bought a great deal back then!

Raineypark, who occasionally recalls a thing or two she learned in school.

[Patti Feinberg]

Funny, I kinda think I remember either Liz/Joan or Roger/Louis with a large sum of money...
perhaps in a valise?
Possibly as ransom (or more likely, blackmail/hush money)....?
Anyone?
Patti

[Carol]

Didn't Jason McGuire give Willie money in the foyer of Collinwood to get out of town? Willie refused it, saying he didn't need money anymore, but Jason shoved the money envelope at him anyway.

[Raineypark]

Bless you, Carol, for mentioning Willie in ANY context....the withdrawal symptoms have reached the unendurable stage and the middle of May can't come soon enough.....oops!...was that a spoiler?  My bad.  

Raineypark

[Craig_Slocum]

Is the exchanging of money relating to the Collins family only, or does anybody on the show count? Nicholas Blair gave Harry Johnson a $100 dollar bill in a scene, and in one of today's eps, Nathan Forbes gave Ben Stokes money which he refused, in exchange for information.

[Carol]

Bless you, Carol, for mentioning Willie in ANY context....the withdrawal symptoms have reached the unendurable stage and the middle of May can't come soon enough.....oops!...was that a spoiler?  My bad.  

Raineypark

If I didn't have the MPI tapes, I'd be at a loss  :'(without getting my fix of him.  He was on an old Murder, She Wrote episode yesterday morning.  By chance, did you see it?

I remember another money scene--Willie tried to give Maggie $50 to get out of town before Barnabas paid her a visit.  It was in Maggie's bedroom.

[ROBINV]

Liz was going to give Willie $500 to leave town back in 1967, which was a pretty big chunk 'o' change back then.  Jason gave Willie that money an in an envelope, although we don't actually see the cash.

I guess money is exchanged at the Blue Whale, but drinks cost a lot less back then, so it was probably in the form of coins or a dollar or two.  Sam's bar bill had to be lots bigger, LOL.

Actually, such exchanges are few and far between in my memory.  I just remember being astonished when Joshua offered Angelique $10,000 in gold, and thinking how much that must have been in 1796.

Love, Robin

[Gothick]

Beth and the cash for Mrs. Fillmore in 1897 that Quentin cast greedy eyes and hands upon.

Julia writing an absurdly large check for a Charles Delaware Tate daub in 1969.

1970PT Angelique Collins had to pay salon victim Bruno cold cash to get hold of the Cyrus Longworth diary with the info about her "sister's" death.

Barnabas in 1967 making indigent drunkard Sam Evans an offer he couldn't refuse for the privilege of having his portrait painted.

More examples would doubtless come to mind, if I thought about it longer.

Steve

[Julia99]

Julia writing an absurdly large check for a Charles Delaware Tate daub in 1969.


Steve

Abusurdly large as in too much money or a strangely physicall large checkbook befitting a doctor with lotsa mullah??