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Re: What's In Your Camera?
Reply #951 –
Anyone remember green stamps? Roughly the same era. All our neighbors collected green stamps for me to get a set of sterling silver for when I got married. Still have it. A very different style of living. Cheers.
2015 MB
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Reply #952 –
"Well before TV... "

Okay, while we're at it... how about the Sunday Paper Comic Strip "Bringing Up Father", the main characters of which were Jiggs & Maggie.
You can only wonder where the name 'Jiggs' came from, the name of my late and lamented Boston Terrier.    :'(
Steve S.
Lazy Bones & Cedar
2004 30'IB (Island Bed)
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery
Live for the day!
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Reply #953 –
My...On Golden Pond Oasis in my backyard. Until summer rolls around and it turns green. 🤢
Juanita's Thoughts
2005 30' TB
 
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Reply #955 –
Yes. I remember S&H stamps.

Back in the day, we had two choices, locally, for grocery store reward stamps. Blue Chip and S&H.

Blue Chip stamps disappeared from the scene before S&H. Both were exciting for us as kids. My mom would let us lick the stamps and place them in the books.

As the books swelled with stamps, the excitement grew. The gift catalogs were almost as exciting to thumb through as the Sears Christmas catalog. https://youtu.be/5ntz-JxkoFY

https://youtu.be/Ei1YgIJSLkk


With four kids in the family, the stamps were shared between us. It wasn’t too long before one of us kids would have several books of stamps to redeem.

I still remember the S&H stamp signs in the grocery stores. https://youtu.be/ji02LNNNoeQ

My last set of S&H stamp books were used to purchase a child’s gambling set. Complete with cards, poker chips and a roulette wheel.

Ah, those were the days.

Kent







2015 27' RB "MissB.Haven"
Re: What's In Your Camera?
Reply #957 –
"Anyone remember green stamps?"

Seems like there were S&H Green Stamps, and some other kind of yellow stamps.  I saved them up all year for Christmas time.  Back in those days there were no Big Box stores or any discounters of any kind, but some items would be on sale in department stores from time to time.

But there were two very important brands that NEVER went on sale, so at Christmas time, the stamps were all turned in for Tonka Toys for my son's sandbox, and Corningware for me!

We would peruse the catalogue and then make the trek to the store in Coral Gables that was ten or so miles from our house.  What an array of items!

At some point two chains of pseudo "big box"-type stores opened - L. Luria and Service Merchandise.  To effect purchases, one wandered about in a showroom to choose among products on display.  Upon deciding, your order was placed, and the products were somehow transported from the warehouse portion of the edifice to the waiting area via a belt conveyance of some sort.

No shopping cart needed!  ;->

Virtual hugs,

Judie
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Reply #958 –
"Anyone remember green stamps?"

I remember visiting my Grandmother in San Clemente and she collected S&H Green Stamps from gas stations.  I liked the way they looked - kind of like money I think.  I also remember being able to get Hotwheels cars from gas stations, and little Orange "76" balls for your radio antennae. 

I think that I bought my first pocket calculator from Service Merchandise.  I was so pleased with the Red LED display.  Having a calculator saved me lots of time balancing my paper route check book. 

Ah yes, it's been a good life...

Warren
Warren
2019 MB “Dream Catcher”
Jeep Wrangler JL
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Reply #959 –
"Seems like there were S&H Green Stamps, and some other kind of yellow stamps."

Judie,

This thread had me trying to remember another kind when I was a kid.  Your mention of "yellow stamps" helped me remember 'Gold Bond' were the other trading stamps.  In S. Minneapolis, I recall one grocery gave out S&H, and another in our town gave out the Gold Bond. 

Bill
Bill
2003 -- 23' FL
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Reply #960 –
Gold Bond stamps:

Carlson - Wikipedia(company)
2003 TK has a new home
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Reply #961 –
We used to sit at the table, mom and us four kids, and glue blue chip stamps into the book with bowls containing a sponge and a little water to wet the stamp backs.  It was a real treat to get a full page of stamps so you didn't have to glue a bunch of pieces together on a page.

Mom would redeem the books for camping gear.  She eventually got a cooler, some folding chairs, a cot, and a few cheap sleeping bags. 

Mom and Dad took us camping at Yosemite.  We stayed in the tent cabins and we used the gear she got with blue chip stamp books. In the middle of the night, a bear entered our camp and started working on opening the cooler.  Mom jumped out of her cot in her PJ's, grabbed a folding chair, and beat the whimpering bejeebers out of the bear, with the chair, while screaming bloody murder.  The bear decided that retreat would be the best option, Mom was yelling and hollering, Dad was yelling at Mom about how stupid it was to take on a bear with a chair, and we kids all stood there, wide eyed.

That story got repeated at Thanksgiving dinners for years.  Mom loved a good fight.  All of us gave Mom a wide berth when she was angry, even Dad.

2014 27 MB
Towd: Either the Jeep Wrangler or trailer containing the BMW R1200GS and 2 E-bicycles
Happy wife=Happy life
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Reply #962 –
Anyone remember the "tiger in your tank" ad campaign from Exxon, Standard Oil then. My father worked for them for 32 years and brought home one of the first plush tiger tails. We, of course, put it in the little door to the gas tank and it lived there for quite a while. It was great fun to look for the posters of the local Tony The Tiger at gas stations when we traveled. Actually saw one last year while we were out with our LD. Maybe they will be coming back. The tail, alas, is long gone. Probably was unkind to animals anyway.
2015 MB
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Reply #963 –
Quote from: SilverFox  - 
Anyone remember the "tiger in your tank" ad campaign from Exxon..
The tail, alas, is long gone. Probably was unkind to animals anyway.

When I started driving,  I collected Union 76 balls, Green and Blue Chips stamps and a Exxon tiger tail.
Didn't realize the tiger tails were real....sorry Tony.

Larry
Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
Tow vehicles  2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, 2001 Jeep Cherokee
Photo Collection: Lazy Daze
Re: What's In Your Camera?
Reply #964 –
Sorry to interrupt the S&H green stamp discussion (yes, I remember them too) but had a few photos that needed to get out of my camera!

It was such a beautiful morning today that we decided to hike one of our many community horse trails.
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
Re: What's In Your Camera?
Reply #965 –
I remember checking out my toes in the box and thinking they looked just like the ones in my dad's old Gray's Anatomy from his Army days.
Growing up with an assortment of books was great.
joel
Joel & Terry Wiley
dog Zeke
2013  31 IB   Orwan   / 2011 CRV Tow'd LWEROVE
Re: What's In Your Camera?
Reply #966 –
What passes for a landscape in shutdown.
Currently: 2008 36' Tiffin Open Road
Previously: 2007 Mid Bath
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Reply #967 –
When I was just a little kid there was a local radio station that had a contest where they would ask a question and the first caller with the correct answer won a thousand green stamps. This particular day the question was which was our fiftieth state? I had just learned that in school and called in with the answer. I was a proud little boy when dad took me to the radio station to get my stamps.
Funny part is right now I can't remember. Was it Alaska or Hawaii? Apparently I was smarter at seven than I am pushing 70. :( 
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Reply #969 –
Lion in full pursuit of a Zebra                                      Kenya 2019 © Bill Benson
2005 MB
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Reply #971 –
Happy Pickup Anniversary to us. 18 years ago today Pat and I picked up our Lazy Daze at the Mothership. First night was in Lake Havasu City; 2nd at the Grand Canyon; 3rd just east of Durango. What great memories we have.

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
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Reply #972 –
Congrats Chris and Pat!
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
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Reply #973 –
Hey Chris,
I remember well meeting you on your 3rd night! We were towing our travel trailer to Las Vegas where we planned on staying for a few days so we could make a mad dash to Montclair for a visit to the Lazy Daze factory. We pulled into a RV park, saw your LD and Iit was like a "sign from above" that a Lazy Daze was in our future. So were we the first to tour that big red machine?

Steve K
Steve K

2003 Mid-bath
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Reply #974 –
Nice to hear that story Chris. A great moment in time and a wonderful memory for you, I’m sure.

Warren
Warren
2019 MB “Dream Catcher”
Jeep Wrangler JL