Green Stamps! (few folks "get" the parody of Greensleeves about Green Stamps anymore)

In Cleveland, you got Green Stamps at May Company store and some gas stations. We saved 'em up till we had enough to fill several "stamp books" - and spent a marathon session with an ice cube set on a papertowel in a saucer. You'd slide the stamps over the ice cube to lick them. One book = a $3 coupon for merchandise at May Company.

Seriously obsolete is the entire concept of gas station give-aways. Maps, posters, & I fondly remember a set of glasses from Shell that had a football logo on them that were smoky glass that were very comfortable in the hand. I still miss 'em.

In this area the mom-and-pop independent pharmacy/drug store has vanished, made obsolete by CVS on every corner that doesn't have a Rite Aid or Walgreen's.


Joanne in Cleveland