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[Bacpacker]

I got close the that about 10 years ago. I spent 49 days in the mountains of N
Georgia panning and dredging for gold. No tv, No telephone. On Saturday night I could pick up one radio station and they had a bluegrass show starting at 9pm... That was the most enjoyable vacation I've had in 30 years. You can tell from the photo how much actual work I did.

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Wow. I sure could use some of that sitting by the creek time right about now

 

[SheepDog]

I'd have to have my fly rod with me...

 

[Mr.Meer]

Whatever Happened to S&H Green Stamps?

 

[Amish Heart]

I have a ton of those in a paper sack. Some in the books, too.

 

[Bacpacker]

My mom used to get all kinds of stuff with those

 

[Mr.Meer]

I have a ton of those in a paper sack. Some in the books, too.

My Mama even use those.
Collector item now , huh?
I put them in those little books before, for her.

 

[backlash]

Whatever Happened to S&H Green Stamps?


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The same thing that happened with free glasses and dishes at the gas stations or the free dishtowels in boxes of laundry detergent.
How many of you remember that?

 

[Mr.Meer]

The same thing that happened with free glasses and dishes at the gas stations or the free dishtowels in boxes of laundry detergent.
How many of you remember that?

I do.

 

[Bacpacker]

All of those. Mom and Mamaw always got the little glasses out of the oatmeal containers.

 

[Amish Heart]

I got a set of dishes when we were first married with grocery store stamps. The green stamps are collectables now. Found them at moms, and she didn't want them.

 

[Amish Heart]

Anyone remember the Flintstones drinking glasses that were sold filled with jelly?

 

[Bacpacker]

Yep,

 

[Mr.Meer]

Yep.

 

[Mr.Meer]

 

[Bacpacker]

Still got a couple of them.

 

[Peanut]

I still have a $2 somewhere, stuck away in a box I think.

 

[Amish Heart]

Just found a few that I unpacked. Had some Sacagawea coin dollars in the baggie, too. Levi, the cussing 7 yr old neighbor boy's birthday is coming up and he collects coins, so I'll give them to him.

 

[Bacpacker]

Those coins, Sacagawea are pretty coins. Not really worth much as metal goes. But it is a good looking coin.

 

[Patchouli]

me, I remember. Got my first set of dishes before marriage at the grocery store, with each purchase another dish. Cutlery too.
Tupperware.
I bought stuff with green stamps. Most states had stopped. $2 bills, yes.
Flintstones jelly glasses.
Pop tarts had these wooden doll things you could order through the mail with a certain number of box tops. I had a few. Can't find a photo tho

 

[Peanut]

Ha! I found it, first place I looked! I got this in change sometime in the 90's. I remember the girl at the cash register thought it was fake and called her manager over. I insisted she give it to me in change like she had started to do.

 

[Bacpacker]

Anybody got any silver certificates? Those ones with the red lettering.

1953 Red Seal Five Dollar Bills - Values and Pricing | Sell Old Currency

 

[Patchouli]

 

[backlash]

I have a couple of $2 bills, a bunch of dollar coins, and I have a dollar bill that is huge that my Grandpa always carried in his wallet. It's badly worn and almost unreadable so there is no value to it but I wouldn't part with it for anything.
Should look like this. It's about 7 1/2" X 3 1/8"

 

[Mr.Meer]

 

[phideaux]

Jim

 

[backlash]

Ashtray, maybe for cigars it's hard to know how big it is. We had one but it had a horse head on the handle.
I still have an ashtray someplace that has a GE logo on it. GE gave them to hospitals as advertising.
Times have changed and not encouraging people to smoke is one of the better changes. You would be arrested if you sat at the console of a CT scanner and smoked like we used to do.

 

[Amish Heart]

Mom was a smoker, so we had some really gaudy ones that went on the end tables. Wonder what happened to them all? Smokers have been shunned.

 

[Cnsper]

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I worked with a gal that was a fanatical Elvis fan. One day she says you know, Elvis wasn't fat when he died, he had lost a lot of weight.

I said I know, drugs do that to people.

I thought her head was going to explode. The look on her face was priceless.

 

[Mr.Meer]

I worked with a gal that was a fanatical Elvis fan. One day she says you know, Elvis wasn't fat when he died, he had lost a lot of weight.

I said I know, drugs do that to people.

I thought her head was going to explode. The look on her face was priceless.

I seen him about a few concerts before he died in Atlanta at Omni.

 

[Meerkat]

When America had talented entertainers who also loved America.




James Cagney played George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy,Fantasitv movie if you haven't seen it.