Time to go shopping, gurls!

S&H

But, but, OP, what if we don’t have a beau?

*pouts*

Be sure to wear a jacket & tie

Get me some bleach.....and a wire hanger!

The 1950s were so formal. Everyone trying to be dignified after 2 decades of depression and war.

Even the cashier is elegance personified!

We were a Blue Chip Stamps family.

thats one fat chipmunk

the old CH CHING registers!

shopping in heels

I see the frozen “fish” there, r10, but where’s the “meat”?

Get me a Weirdo!

The men's department . . .

Now we’re talkin!

Cashier inspection, Piggly Wiggly, 1962.

The reality.

Serving nautical realness AND Dr. Pepper!

Doesn't anyone remember TOP VALUE stamps??!?!?

I was in awe of those cashiers....still am.

were they like Green Stamps R19?

Yes, R20. In my town, Top Value Stamps were given at Kroger. Plaid Stamps were given at A&P.

I remember being at the grocery store with my mom and the cashier pulling the stamps out of some sort device that looked like one of those ‘take-a-number’ things. I think the amount of stamps was based on how much we spent.

I also remember licking them and sticking them into books, the size of of pamphlets. After that though, I don’t know what became of the stamps and all the hard work my tongue put into those books. I’ve got no idea what we bought with them or if we went to a store to use them as currency.

One of my favorite inherited items is a vintage fold-up kitchen stool. Very stylish & from the 60s. Black textured rubber on the lower step, upper seat is an off- white vinyl. My grandmother bought it with Green Stamps.

r22 You took the filled-in stamp goods to a local redemption center and traded them in for items like kitchen appliances, toys, gifts, etc. Didn't you see "The Brady Bunch" episode where the boys and girls fought over what to buy with their stamps?

stamp BOOKS, not goods.

Stores do that a lot less now.

I seem to remember some store when I lived in Chicago (Jewel?) that did stamps or labels for a few months. Not their Monopoly game, but something similar and you could earn free cookware. I donated my stamps to someone using them to collect for homeless people to get new cookware when they moved into a home.

I still have some cups and saucers acquired via the stamps, very nice, not chic but very nice. This was about 1972.

For R22. I too remember learning how to affix the stamps into books, a certain number on each page dependent on the value of the stamp. Hell to pay if my mom misplaced the stamps before they made it into the books. I remember redeeming them at a redemption center, but for what I can’t remember.

And the enormous amounts of stamps which used to spew out at the exit until they got those big stamps.

r28 I wonder if you can dial any of those with a pencil.

I think I have a thing called a green shield album from the UK. Is that a thing? I believe my great-grand aunt inherited them from the old country (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)

Geshundheit!

[quote]I think I have a thing called a green shield album from the UK. Is that a thing?

Yes, it WAS

Thank you r28, those are the devices or gadgets I was remembering.

R24, I wasn’t clear in my comment. I know that’s how the booklets were redeemed, I just don’t remember ever going or remember knowing what my mother got with them. I also don’t remember that Brady Bunch episode.

Although, I do know where the S&H Green Stamp redemption store was in my neighborhood. It is still there, although since repurposed as offices...I think architects. But the building is still there and very green.

Top Value stamps were the rival to green stamps. My grandma had some in a desk drawer well into the 80s. Where she lived I think Kroger gave away one kind and Winn-Dixie the other. I do remember there being a redemption center in the strip mall which featured both supermarkets at either end. Having never been in one, was the merchandise available in store or did you order it like a catalog showroom?

[quote]all the hard work my tongue put into those books.

I lament the same thing about my Playgirls.

R23, I think I know exactly what you’re talking about.

We had one in White that was my transition chair from high chair to normal chair as I grew up.

Very similar to this.

And overstock sells them as vintage today.