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  • TC
    Banned
    • Nov 2007
    • 11805

    #1

    Blast From the Past, Do You Remember??.......

    This is going to date a few people here, I guess including myself, so how many of you guys licked one of these??......

  • Scott Liggett
    No Life Outside BangShift.com
    • Oct 2007
    • 21561

    #2
    My Dad gave them to me to lick and stick in the book. I can't remember what they did.
    BS'er formally known as Rebeldryver

    Resident Instigator

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    • Deaf Bob
      No Life Outside BangShift.com
      • Feb 2012
      • 19255

      #3
      Hundred thousands.... Dad was a long haul trucker... Took stamps with his fill ups
      Got toasters ,waffle irons, end table lamps and a whole lotta crap for them...

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      • skullbucket
        Banned
        • Dec 2011
        • 556

        #4
        We got ours at Kroeger stores!

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        • 70chevyC-10
          Lord God King BangShifter
          • Jan 2009
          • 14388

          #5
          Mom saved those religiously and I can almost taste them again.
          Phil / Omaha

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          • JOES66FURY
            Deputy Director Procrastination & Incompetence Dept.
            • Jun 2009
            • 12184

            #6
            I can remember mom collecting them from our local supermarket...A place called C&L. Those things were good for anything from kids toys to home furnishings...crazy.

            Can also remember everything had a price tag and not a bar code. Cashier had to enter everything manually...clickity, clickety,clickety...man were they fast...
            If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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            • DanStokes
              Ancient LSR Guy
              • Oct 2007
              • 28427

              #7
              Sailin' down Memory River.

              The Hutcheson house is in Ypsilanti, MI and is a WAY cool old mansion. It's now the home of a non-profit. I got to tour it a while back - ol' Mr. H must have made a PILE with those little stickers. No idea where Mr. Sperry lived.

              Dan

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              • Thumpin455
                Legendary BangShifter
                • Jan 2010
                • 4753

                #8
                I remember them everywhere, mom and both grandmas collected them and got all kinds of things with them. I remember cashiers knowing how to make change and count on their own.

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                • John Brewer
                  BangShifter
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 182

                  #9
                  I used to work at a Blue Chip Stamp redemption store in CA. in 1965 in between high school and going into the Air Force!

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                  • Brian Lohnes
                    Administrator
                    • Jan 2008
                    • 18784

                    #10
                    You guys are all elderly. HA!
                    That which you manifest is before you.

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                    • Thumpin455
                      Legendary BangShifter
                      • Jan 2010
                      • 4753

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Brian Lohnes View Post
                      You guys are all elderly. HA!
                      Punk kids with their newfangled technology and whizamathingits and whatchamadoits. They dont know what its like to watch black and white TV, not have the internet, and how amazing the first VCR was...

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                      • Deaf Bob
                        No Life Outside BangShift.com
                        • Feb 2012
                        • 19255

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Thumpin455 View Post
                        Punk kids with their newfangled technology and whizamathingits and whatchamadoits. They dont know what its like to watch black and white TV, not have the internet, and how amazing the first VCR was...
                        No shit...
                        Homes for unwed mothers...
                        TB hospitals. Where a "stay" was 3-7 YEARS
                        Rabbit ears
                        Kool aid you had to mix with sugar and water from the, gasp, tap

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                        • Barry Donovan
                          No Life Outside BangShift.com
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 16928

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Thumpin455 View Post
                          Punk kids with their newfangled technology and whizamathingits and whatchamadoits. They dont know what its like to watch black and white TV, not have the internet, and how amazing the first VCR was...
                          haha.
                          I am just old enough to remember.
                          CRT, black and white..19 inch was huge, the remote never worked, the dial stuff was stronger.

                          My Air conditioner to this day is intentionally a dial setup...with thermal switch.

                          S&H is something my mom did for short time, nothing was ever stable enough to stay penny pinching for long.

                          I just used "ebay bucks" to buy electrical tape..same idea.
                          Last edited by Barry Donovan; July 3, 2012, 10:01 AM.
                          Previously boxer3main
                          the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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                          • John Brewer
                            BangShifter
                            • Mar 2010
                            • 182

                            #14
                            Hey Brian, at least we are all still here to enjoy your site and other good things in life.!!!!!

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                            • DanStokes
                              Ancient LSR Guy
                              • Oct 2007
                              • 28427

                              #15
                              Hell, Son - when I was yer age.........

                              Dan

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