MiamiLooker Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 S&H Green Stamps + augustus, KK913, Rod Hagen and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 hour ago, MiamiLooker said: S&H Green Stamps My best friend's mother worked for S&H Green Stamps. She liked to give TV-tray-tables as gifts. + robear and MiamiLooker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 hours ago, MiamiLooker said: S&H Green Stamps Oh, the horror, the horror! The countless times my mother dragged me with her to the local redemption center, where they hardly ever had the items she wanted. 😝 + Charlie, + robear, MikeBiDude and 2 others 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 34 minutes ago, sync said: Oh, the horror, the horror! The countless times my mother dragged me with her to the local redemption center, where they hardly ever had the items she wanted. 😝 Similar here in SoCal, but Blue Chip stamps were the coin of the realm. I too remember the redemption stores! KK913, + WilliamM, + sync and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiLooker Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 hours ago, sync said: Oh, the horror, the horror! The countless times my mother dragged me with her to the local redemption center, where they hardly ever had the items she wanted. 😝 What made me recall the S&H stamps was that I still have an ugly lamp that I'm pretty sure I got with stamps. I was thinking about spray painting it until I found it on ebay for $250...https://www.ebay.com/itm/253793674781?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=253793674781&targetid=1263094003386&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9011970&poi=&campaignid=11612432082&mkgroupid=120142629297&rlsatarget=pla-1263094003386&abcId=9300456&merchantid=115332802&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5PGFBhC2ARIsAIFIMNfl7H6yW8-OvJo_9j_e1uf1nflk6qEf9XhQYPmuWLh0wywQp8kkeyMaAjruEALw_wcB jeezifonly, + sync, Luv2play and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Some of the older kids in my neighborhood still had the Free to Be You and Me cassettes. The nail polish discussion in the deli reminded me of this one: + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnie Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Marching up and down the school yard arms linked chanting "I like Ike" Being in the mass Salk polio vaccine trial. They chose my entire elementary school for the study. I was so happy that I got the vaccine, not the placebo because I did not have to get the initial 3 shots over, just needed the booster. The dinosaurs!!!!!! + robear, + Charlie and Luv2play 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I'm not old enough to remember it, but for some reason I realized a few days ago I was alive during Ike's presidency. JFK took office just before my first birthday. + Pensant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Pensant Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I remember shopping for stamps and coins at the main Wanamaker’s store in Center City Philadelphia and having lunch at the Crystal Tea Room with my grandmother. pubic_assistance, + robear, + RJD and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) Along the same lines, I remember my sister's godmother taking all four of us kids in the family to the T Eaton's Department Store in Montreal for lunch. They had a nice dining room on the top floor with white tablecloths and real cutlery. What I remember most is the dessert, an icecream cone turned upside down on the plate with a clowns face on the ball of icecream made with candies. This was around 1955. Edited June 7, 2021 by Luv2play + Pensant, MikeBiDude and + Charlie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Pensant said: I remember shopping for stamps and coins at the main Wanamaker’s store in Center City Philadelphia and having lunch at the Crystal Tea Room with my grandmother. When I worked in Center City, I liked to stop by Wanamaker's at lunchtime to listen to the organ concerts. + robear and + Pensant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Luv2play said: Along the same lines, I remember my sister's godmother taking all four of us kids in the family to the T Eaton's Department Store in Montreal for lunch. They had a nice dining room on the top floor with white tablecloths and real cutlery. What I remember most is the dessert, an icecream cone turned upside down on the plate with a clowns face on the ball of icecream made with candies. This was around 1955. We had a similar ritual, shopping at Hudson's in Westland Mall in Michigan. We'd eat at the store restaurant, usually open-faced chicken sandwiches with this amazingly bright yellow gravy, then finish up with a Mickey Mouse sundae; a scoop of ice cream with chocolate wafer cookies for mouse ears. it sat on a disc of meringue which was the best part. + bashful, + Pensant and + Charlie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I think ?? the very first thing I remember in my life - at all - was at age 3 or 4 (is that possible?) being called over from across the room in nursery school?? to make an imprint of my hand in plaster of paris......nothing else remembered until about three years later...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 When actors like John Wayne and Jerry Lewis walked around cities like Boston alone and people were fine with it (1950s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDean Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 + sync, MikeBiDude, + Charlie and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDean Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 (edited) As a kid, I was always fascinated by the glassware in the detergent thing... Edited June 8, 2021 by RyanDean + bashful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Autumnal Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 2 hours ago, RyanDean said: Yes to both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlmuscle Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Milk delivery by horse and wagon. Trash pickup by horse and wagon. Both in Philadelphia, PA + robear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightdagger Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 (edited) I remember when video games could only be played on channel 3. Edited June 8, 2021 by lightdagger + azdr0710, + Vegas_Millennial and rvwnsd 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 (edited) The Education Edition: The pre-recentering SAT. A perfect score was so rare that local media covered kids who aced it TI-86 computer Metal jungle gym equipment and slides Lax underage drinking laws The first time someone came out to me (and a group of others) was pre-orientation week in college. It felt like a big deal. Edited June 9, 2021 by FreshFluff rvwnsd, + robear and + Charlie 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Are underage drinking laws less lax these days? I started going to bars back in the days when the laws were not uniform, i.e., I could not legally drink in NJ, where the age to drink in a bar was 21, but I could cross the state line into NY, where the drinking age was 18. Has the uniform age of 21 in the US caused the laws to be more rigorously enforced nowadays? pubic_assistance, + FreshFluff and + WilliamM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Charlie said: Are underage drinking laws less lax these days? I started going to bars back in the days when the laws were not uniform, i.e., I could not legally drink in NJ, where the age to drink in a bar was 21, but I could cross the state line into NY, where the drinking age was 18. Has the uniform age of 21 in the US caused the laws to be more rigorously enforced nowadays? The enforcement was lax in some states, I should say. Bars let women smile their way in and fake IDs were waved through. Some MA universities turned a blind eye unless the cops responded to a noise complaint. At the time, I heard mixed things about enforcement in NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+ WilliamM Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 I remember double session in first grade. Got home around 12:30. My mom would be listening to Kate Smith, or occasionally Fannie Brice on the radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 They used to have big stores to go to that had movies to rent and watch at home! 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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