[Healeys] New photos/videos

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 22:02:50 MDT 2007


Micheal -

In the old days in the 60's and 70's my father was a government "contractor"
flying airplanes all over the world.  He used to fly through Guam all the
time, and they would give him reels of Green Stamps every time he filled up
his planes (trust me a C-130 or a C-46 will hold an insane amount of gas!).

I think we got some stuff out of it like nice pots and pans, and maybe my
memory is hazy but we might have gotten an Amana microwave oven out of it.

Cheers,

Alan


On 7/24/07, Awgertoo at aol.com <Awgertoo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/23/2007 5:05:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> gbrierton at hotmail.com writes:
>
> The rather large grocery chain "Lowes" here in the Southeastern US has a
> Green Stamp program.  It's the same old "S & H" green stamp company that I
> remember from my youth in Illinois (in the '40's!)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> In a previous life I used to be in the cemetery business in Miami, Florida
> and we also sold bronze memorials.  One of our suppliers, Gorham Bronze,
> furnished us with S&H Green Stamps for every marker that we sold and I
> would have my
> employees dutifully lick and paste the stamps into books and save them.  I
> had
> bushels of books.
>
> When in 1987 it was announced that S&H was closing its Miami redemption
> office I gathered all the books into boxes and went to the store to cash
> them in.
> I remember thinking whether I should seek a new Corvette or perhaps a trip
> to
> Hawaii or the like.  I came away with a collander and a set of Tupperwear.
>
> Best--Michael Oritt


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