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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | My gram, mom, sister and I faithfully booked up volumes of plaid stamps to get-----are you ready for this (drum rolls and bated breath, please)----quilted bed comforters in the most up-to-date colors: Harvest gold, autumn brown, avocado green and tangerine orange. (Trumpets sound, "Ta-Dah!"; cymbals crash.) With matching braided rugs and gold insulated curtains to go with our cream-of-avocado walls. So trendy; so mod; so dated!! (And at a distance of 30+ years, so completely awful.)
--Karen and the teeming masses
Gertrude, Jewel, Blanca, "Nonnie," Ivory, Gilda, Sugar, Plink, Twang, and Shriek |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Harvest Gold? Wasn't that a Neil Young album? No, wait-- he hasn't cut that one yet! Give him a couple of weeks. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Couldn't you get a Kay guitar with a couple books of S&H? |
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| I actually had a Kay guitar when I was kid...horrible action, but great calouses as a result.. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Jack and Jill stores were somehow related to Piggly Wigglies. Who picked those names? |
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Location: Illinois | I remember them. My folks were all in a dither to get them used up before they closed the S&H redemption center in Bloomington, IL. One of the things they got were two lawn chairs with vinyl tubing for the seat and back. They got some other stuff too, but i can't remember. I think my mom may have gotten some pots and pans prior to that, but nothing big.
The stamps came in different denominations. It took like 50 ones to fill a page or one fifty to fill a page. I thought it was so cool that they ran the books through a sewing machine after we redeemed them to indicate that they'd been redeemed and couldn't be reused. Not a traditional sewing machine by one like they'd use to sew dog food bags closed. I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. |
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Location: Illinois | Fresca! I rememer the green bottles with dimples inthe bottle like a golf ball to simiulate bubbles. I thought that was way cool!
Remember "Yahoo, It's Mountain Dew, It's goo-ood!" and the Hillbilly on the bottle with the cork shooting through the brim of his cap. I think it also said, "It'll tickle your innards!" I find it mildly amuzing that today's kids live and breathe for Hillbilly Pop! I have one of those bottles! I dig it out once in a while to show my kids' friends. What a hoot!
Coke IS better out of a bottle... a glass bottle. Every once in a while you can find the 8 ozers in a store as a promo item. Mmmm Good!
I remember the coke machines with the aluminum handle. Do you remember the one built like a chest freezer. The bottles hung by their necks and you snaked them through a maze to get them to a removal point. Puting the nickles in (2 I think) allowed a flipper to open up as you lifted the bottle free.
When I was in college my room mate and I drank Coke by the 8 pack. We'd stack the empties, in the cardboard case they came in, in the corner of the kitchen of our apartment. (We usually forgot to take them back when grocery shopping) I think we got a dime a piece for them. We'd have them stacked waist high and twice as wide and deep. Then, we'd usually run out of money and cash them in to buy groceries. Ahhhh! those were the days! |
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Location: Chicago | You won't believe this, but I got my first (actually quite decent) acoustic GUITAR by pasting a load of Blue Chip Stamps. My dad was a hard-core immigrant and refused to help me in any way. Guitar=rock=drugs=bum. So I started on this Stella-Like guitar and played it for five years. The next guitar was my 1974 Legend. Still play it every day and at every gig!!! |
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Location: Illinois | If you ever want to confuse a kid, tell them to go to the kitchen gadget drawer and get you a church key! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Kay... Stella ... all the same! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | In case any of you are interested, S&H Green Stamps and now S&H Green Points.
S&H Green Points |
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DO YOU REMEMBER * S & H * GREEN STAMPS???
