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rudy4653

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S&H Green Stamps
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Ahhhh..! S&H Greenstamps! Now that's a memory! I remember "bonding" with my Mother around the kitchen table with books and stamps! I took all the 50s and 25s and filled up the pages leaving my mother with all the 1s! I licked them and she used a sponge.Got my first transistor radio for like a zillion books! :)
 

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I remember picking out fabric at Hancock's fabric stores for handmade, smocked sundresses. And learning to sew with equipment that was meant to last a few generations...
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I have had this little bad boy since I was like 6. The only toy remaining from my childhood. It's metal and was put thru hell. Check out the prop - yep, it's bent backwards (but not broken) from the many sorties it flew between my hand and whatever it hit. Only one piece of landing gear remains. They don't make toys like that anymore.
 

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This was my first transistor radio that i got when i was 12 years old. I would lay under the blankets at night listening to kmox out of st louis when the nba had a team called the billikens there. I broke that radio many years ago and have been trying to find a good one on ebay for a few years now.
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Cracker Jack - when I was about 5 years old, I got a little brass trumpet as the prize in the box. Shortly thereafter, it slipped out of my hands and flew into my mother's grand piano and disappeared. I always knew it was in there, but could never find it, which always nagged at me. 32 years later, I moved that old piano to my basement as she no longer had room for it. One night I was working on it, and my work light caught a little glimmer of something down in the sound board. There it was! I fished it out and it now has a place in my little box of treasures.
 

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I have had this little bad boy since I was like 6. The only toy remaining from my childhood. It's metal and was put thru hell. Check out the prop - yep, it's bent backwards (but not broken) from the many sorties it flew between my hand and whatever it hit. Only one piece of landing gear remains. They don't make toys like that anymore.

Aah, my parents tried to avoid giving me metal toys. They knew I'd end up sharpening one end and throwing them for target practice. Cause I did a few times. Still do, but now I get my own toys, HA!
 

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I remember a toaster from long ago. Must have only been 3-4. It had a set of coils in the middle and two sides that had black knobs. You pulled the sides down and the put the slice of bread in and closed it. You had to open it after a few minutes and turn the bread over and close it to toast the other side.

I found a pic!

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I remember a toaster from long ago. Must have only been 3-4. It had a set of coils in the middle and two sides that had black knobs. You pulled the sides down and the put the slice of bread in and closed it. You had to open it after a few minutes and turn the bread over and close it to toast the other side.

I found a pic!


That looks like a terrifying torture device!
 
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