Tksoard | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 - 06:32 am   I want to bump this up so we can hear from the Aussie's and about some of their lives growing up in another country. Go for it!! |
Tksoard | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 - 04:16 pm   bump |
Whit4you | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 - 04:33 pm   I don't think most the new Aussie posters have found thise whole area yet - lol - but I'll draw them a map in the "Welcome Aussie's" thread in the US BB area - |
Jadarville | Tuesday, July 03, 2001 - 04:55 pm   oh man, what a great thread. I read the first archive, but am not going to read all the others, there are just too many. I remember 3 of my cousins getting suspended in high school for getting their ear pierced. one hole, one ear. I think they'd stand out now as being too conservative lol My grandmother used to make me sugar and butter sandwiches, I loved them. |
Powwow | Saturday, July 07, 2001 - 09:09 pm   Remember when??? Does anyone remember going to the store with their mother and she had to open every box of biz soap powder, hoping to get a different color hand towel than she got the last time? LOL, I just gave away my age!!! |
Misslibra | Saturday, July 07, 2001 - 10:31 pm   Ummm... no Powwow I don't remember that. LOL What year was that again? And do they still sell Biz soap still with the towels? |
Moondance | Saturday, July 07, 2001 - 10:34 pm   Gawd, I hate to admitt it but I remember the towels in Biz soap... I remember Grandma-ma gettting drinking glasses also in them! |
Powwow | Sunday, July 08, 2001 - 06:03 am   Yep, they gave away glasses too... It was back in the early to middle 60s. |
Powwow | Sunday, July 08, 2001 - 06:09 am   Actually, the more I think about it, it was Breeze soap powder, not biz... Biz was that baby diaper soap powder... Speakin of early 60's, heck, I bet Whit was in diapers back then giving out her first dare!!! LOL!!! |
Lovinbabi | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 05:34 am   LOL just read your post Powwow, and had to laugh, I remember those days.....hey do you remember green and plaid stamps, they used to give those away at the supermarkets, then you could paste them in those little books and go and redeem them for all kinds of things....when I was a kid those were "coveted items". LOL gawd now you've made me show my age too...;-) |
Whit4you | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 09:32 am   I vaguely remember the green stamps but can NOT remember what the heck they were redeemed for - anyone remember? |
Lancecrossfire | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 10:27 am   There was an entire catalogue of items you could purchase. Patio furniture, clothes, dishes, appliances--most anything. Cost was based on number of full books of stamps. My mom collected the stamps all the time. |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 12:57 pm   I may even still have some green stamps somewhere around here. They may show up in unpacking from the move. Yep, Lance, just like going shopping at a regualr department store, except it was from a catalog, although I also remember showrooms. I remember the merchandise as being lesser quality than most department stores, however. |
Tess | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 01:43 pm   Green stamps---we had them by the millions. We got them at the gas station and grocery store. Guess who's job it was to paste all those pesky little things in the books. We had yellow or gold or orange colored stamps as well. My memory is bit foggy---probably from licking so much glue as a child. |
Whit4you | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 05:15 pm   So was there like ONE thing you really wanted to earn with all those stamps? |
Wcv63 | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 05:21 pm   Tess I was also in charge of putting the S&H green stamps (I remember yellow but not orange) into the books. I guess I could also use this as an excuse for poor memory. Good show!! |
Nagster | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 06:52 pm   Chances are I'm the only - repeat only - person here who remembers going to the movies on dish night. Each week it was a different dish (or cup, or saucer) and many families were able to get a complete service for eight after enough weeks went by! At five cents for kids and ten cents for adults (two main features, newsreel, cartoon and coming events) it was a real bargain. I was particularly partial to the downtown theater that also had a stage show included, and nobody kicked you out if you wanted to sit through the whole deal more than once. Just try that today! |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 10:08 pm   I think you may have bested us all on dish night, Nagster. BUT, does anybody remember Producers points? You tore off a little bit of the opening spout on milk cartons (I think this was a gimmick to get you to buy milk in cardboard cartons rather than glass bottles), and then you used the points to go to the movies. It took 25 points to get into the movies. Then there was an auction before the movie, and you could use the points to bid on the auction. With three kids and Mom to go to the movies, we never had enough points to bid on anything, but we did participate in the bell ringer. Somebody stood on stage with their back to the audience while another person on the stage counted kids in the audience. It you were being counted when the bell rang, you got a real nice prize for only 25 points (so we always had to make sure we brought an extra 25 points with us just in case). I think a half gallon of milk yielded two points. I KNOW I still have the producers points around somewhere in one of these boxes, because my brother and I used to fight over who the leftover points belonged to. And to answer Tess, the other kind of stamps were yellow, and I think you got them at gas stations. Green stamps were mostly grocery stores.
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Whit4you | Monday, July 09, 2001 - 11:05 pm   Wondering if you could buy a green card with a green stamp |
Gail | Friday, August 03, 2001 - 09:18 pm   I remember Cat Stevens and I remember the Archies singing Sugar, Sugar. I remember when you could not turn right on a red light. I remember my younger brother's first car was a used Corvair and I thought it was cool. |
Azriel | Friday, August 03, 2001 - 09:42 pm   Trading stamps...I remember S&H trading stamps. Also the yellow ones I think they were called Gold Value stamps or something like that. I also remember pink ones. My mom and I would drool over the stamp book catalogs dreaming of what we would buy when we collected enough stamps. Cat Stephens, James Taylor, Carole King and the Eagles were my favorites. My best friend had a 45 of Sugar Sugar. Ewww 45 records and 8 track tapes. I am ooooold. My oldest brother's first car was a 56 Chevy that he payed $150 for and had to push it the rest of the way home when it broke down halfway home. ~giggle~ I've noticed that although bell bottoms and clogs made their way back into fashion the leisure suit has remained history...may it ever be so. Nothing quite like the smell of sweaty polyester after a wild night of disco dancing. |
Gail | Friday, August 03, 2001 - 10:20 pm   I never had a leisure suit but I did remember getting on the plane to go to Korea (while in the AF) and I was wearing cordoroy jeans and a matching cordoroy jeans jacket. Remember those really cool leather fringe jackets that sometimes had the beads? And where I lived, all the cool kids had "harness boots" or Dingo boots. |
Gail | Saturday, August 18, 2001 - 08:11 am   Marcus Welby! This weekend on TVLD network, they are showing back to back Marcus Welby shows. It is so funny to watch shows like this. |
Whit4you | Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 01:37 am   Was feeling down this week - read this thread before I hit the sack the last few nights and it gave me really fun/funny dreams |
Awareinva | Friday, September 21, 2001 - 08:30 pm   remember when... watching a movie involved going to the theater mail involved stamps chatting involved vocalization phones required cords bread required kneading melting butter/chocolate/milk/cheese required a double boiler math required a pencil and paper dishwashing required a sink Was in a discussion with my kids the other day about their great-grandparents and the things they didn't have as children; then I realized my kids had a bunch of technology that I didn't have as a kid. Wow, reality check...I am old!! |