Memories

[gssizzler]

Who is old enough to remember these!? Green stamps, they were given away
by gas stations when making purchases and when you got a pile of them you could redeem them for goods I guess!? These were not put in a book? and never redeemed!? Nos with ware!? Lol

[cwmcobra]

(Raises hand...) Me!

Yep, I'm old! 

Chuck

[2x4 gransport]

I think I remember 

[option B9]

 I sure do remember those green stamps, that's how i earned my first baseball glove. Mom would give me green stamps for doing chores around the house and doing good in school. I can still remember the day that she drove me to the Green Stamp store in Flushing Queens, NY and I handed in all of those stamps and the woman came out with the baseball glove, I had a big smile and could not wait to get home to play catch with my friends in the street....When I got older and that glove just would not fit. I passed it down to a little boy from a big family around the block from us. And every time he saw me he thanked me for that green stamp glove.. 

                                                   Tony

[marxjunk]

i remember something similar..but not specific green stamps....my mom collected then and always bought kitchen ware with them..my favorite was an all metal torture looking device called a fry cutter....she let me cut them, and they where absolutely the best fries on the planet to me...good memories

she also bought a meat slicer that was electric...was the coolest contraption i saw as a kid...dangerous as heck,,but cool..lots of chrome etc,,

[Jimbo]

My job was to separate the stamps and lick em and fill the pages of the books. I have a blank book around here somewhere. 

[Loren At 65GS]

Certainly do remember S&H Green stamps.  My aunt would send me to the grocery store to pick something for her and every time she would say
 " don't forget the green stamps" .  Also remember licking those stamps and sticking them on the pages of the books. ICK !
 When Roxy and I were first going together, I recall her father redeeming S&H stamps for an aluminum fishing boat.
 The promotions stores used to run to attract and or keep customers were kind of crazy. I remember my mother collecting china from a grocery store promotion. As I recall, every week had a different piece. Kept people coming back.

  Loren

[Jimbo]

Loren, My Mom did the same thing with the dishes at the grocery store. She did encyclopedia's and little plastic presidents that I would knock down with rubber bands. How about the gas stations and free glassware. I remember a towel inside of a box of Biz laundry detergent. Dolly Parton used to do the tv commercial for it.

[elagache]

Dear Jon, Chuck, 2x4 gransport, Tony, marxjunk, Jim, Loren, and mid-60s Buick caregivers who occasionally stroll down memory lane.

Who is old enough to remember these!? Green stamps, they were given away
by gas stations when making purchases and when you got a pile of them you could redeem them for goods I guess!?

I barely remember such things, but I was a kid when they were given out and I didn't handle the money end of things obviously.  I've told the story before about our local Shell gas station giving out Hot Wheel cars.  I remember sadly being in the back of Biquette while waiting in line for gas during the 1973 OPEC oil embargo and feeling sad that the station wasn't giving out Hot Wheels anymore.

Does anyone else remember the NFL glasses that Shell was also giving out for a while?  Believe it or not, you can buy one on eBay right now:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-San-Francisco-49ers-1970s-Smoked-Glass-NFL-Rocks-Cocktail-Tumbler/124175173533

Being a thrifty family, we used these glasses as our regular table setting for many years.  Believe it or not, two survived:



Obviously well used, but even so, we liked them enough that we hung on to the last glasses that survived after all these years.

Anyone else have some memories of the stuff we used to get for free from gas stations?

Cheers, Edouard 

[campfamily]

Remember when filling stations would give out free maps? I've got a few of those laying around.

Keith

[GS66]

I handed out a lot of Holiday stamps in the 70?s. Jon, there would have been one in Janesville back then. Also Oshkosh, Neenah, Oconomowoc, etc.

[vinnie]

I remember the S&H green stamps. As a mater of fact when we were cleaning out my fathers house after he passed away I found  a box of green stamp books that were full. I worked at a gas station in the 60's that gave away a punch bowl with 12 glasses. Every fill up you got a glass and the final piece was the bowl. Also worked at a Mobil station that gave away a set of NFL drawings of different players. Bing in Wisconsin they were Packer players. Still have that set.

[Rollaround]

Vinnie, I also pumped gas. I remember giving stamps to costumers in rain storms, what a mess that could be. 

[gssizzler]

Does anybody want these for a collection ?