Nice recitation of a history.
My only story in a minorly similar way is that I had a Great Uncle who had a fruit farm.
He let the visiting kids set up a fruit stand just down the road from the farm and let us spend a day selling fruit we had picked from his orchards.
We also got to take additional picked fruit home to sell from our front yard the next day.
100% PROFIT!
It was short lived each year, but GREAT!
In retrospect, the Uncle was a Capitalistic subversive...