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[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Dan Goncharoff  wrote:
> How long have the employees that bring carts back to the corral been
> called wranglers?

Here is an instance of a "cart wrangler" in 1966.

Date: March 17, 1966
Newspaper: Orlando Sentinel
Newspaper Location: Orlando, Florida
Article: Cart Wrangler
Author: Associated Press
Quote Page 13E, Rightmost Column
Database: Newspapers.com

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-cartwrangler/195099200/

[Begin excerpt]
CART WRANGLER

TORONTO (AP) William Bilow's home is near a supermarket and Bilow got
"madder and madder" when people kept leaving shopping carts on his
lawn. He began returning them to the store for a fee of 25 cents each.
Business was so good he quit his job and formed his own company. It
now rounds up some 3,000 carts throughout the area weekly.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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