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White Marsh, MD
I have been looking for this for awhile.
Anybody remember when GM had these model car contests? This was GM's method of identifying future automobile designers to hire.
https://www.motorcities.org/story-of-the-week/2021/remembering-the-fisher-body-craftsman-s-guild
A lot of cars in the 80s-90s looked like some of these stiletto designs with the pointy noses and heavily raked windshields ( the kids grew up and got a job ay GM).
Did you have any favorite beach towels when you were a kid? Mine was one that said “Put a Tiger in your Tank.”
I also had a Popsicle towel that was a mail-in offer from a Popsicle wrapper.
And a Peter Max towel.
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I’m pretty sure I mailed cash to the address about five to ten years later to buy some of them.
My envelope was returned, it was too late…
A 1960s magazine ad selling items with 21st Century prices 
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:1960's Shell gas giveaways! Shame no businesses, other than McDonalds? have a type
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Get 'em while they are hot !
Quoted from mooch:Did you have any favorite beach towels when you were a kid? Mine was one that said “Put a Tiger in your Tank.”
I also had a Popsicle towel that was a mail-in offer from a Popsicle wrapper.
And a Peter Max towel.
I had a Hang Ten beach towel that I thought was pretty cool.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:1960's Shell gas giveaways!
I remember both the coins and the steak knife giveaways. They also gave away Hot Wheels at one point.
Kitchener, ON
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:1960's Shell gas giveaways! Shame no businesses, other than McDonalds? have a type
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1980’s Esso gas giveaways! The track list is surprisingly good. I think it was just a Canadian thing. I can’t remember how many of them were in the set but I can remember having a half dozen different tapes from the gas station.
C46E31A9-221D-4D57-97C6-65CEDEC9D276 (resized).jpegI remember a grocery store promotion back in the early 70’s called “Let’s Go To The Races.” You’d pick up a free game card at the store, then watch a weekly TV show of horse races to try and match the winning numbers on your card. My grandpa actually won $1000 from this game and bragged about it for years!
Some interesting history on Mary Jane.
https://news.yahoo.com/racist-disinformation-campaign-kicked-off-092000240.html
"Wichita’s decision to decriminalize brings the city to nearly full circle on its marijuana policies. The drug was legal in Wichita for 57 years before..."
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Those those were literally our steak knives for my entire childhood growing up. We didn't have a lot of money back then so for real I'm not joking.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:1960's Shell gas giveaways!
I miss those days. From gas stations I picked up a nice metal Mickey Mouse fork, spoon, and knife. I threw them in the glove box. That way if I ran into food anywhere I was all set.
LTG : )
Quoted from cottonm4:Some interesting history on Mary Jane.
https://news.yahoo.com/racist-disinformation-campaign-kicked-off-092000240.html
"Wichita’s decision to decriminalize brings the city to nearly full circle on its marijuana policies. The drug was legal in Wichita for 57 years before..."
Some more interesting on Mary Jane.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/6/biden-pardons-thousands-convicted-of-marijuana-possession
"US President Joe Biden has announced a sweeping pardon for thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal laws,..."
" The announcement on Thursday was seen as a enormous step towards federal decriminalisation of marijuana, a drug that has become legal for recreational use in more than a third of US states over the last decade."
Things are looking up. Maybe someday this state I live in will get rid of the bozos that are running it and make MJ legal.
Quoted from LTG:I miss those days. From gas stations I picked up a nice metal Mickey Mouse fork, spoon, and knife. I threw them in the glove box. That way if I ran into food anywhere I was all set.
LTG : )
That brings back a memory from the 60's. (I was about five years old at the time.) A kid in our neighborhood was in a commercial for a local gas station that had a beach ball giveaway. Apparently, his compensation included getting a free beach ball every time the commercial aired. I still remember being in awe when my brother and I went to his house to play,,,he opened the garage door and there were probably a dozen inflated beach balls together with at least twenty boxes of unfilled ones. (Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer sues the coffee company and takes lifetime expressos as the settlement. They both should have negotiated for the money!)
Quoted from mooch:I found a couple of images of my 4th Grade Spelling textbook that took me way back.
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Was "Look Jane, see Spot run." part of your 1st grade reading?
https://americacomesalive.com/dick-and-jane-story-of-these-early-readers/
Old models. It’s still a thing!
When I was going into first grade in 1974, a teenager neighbor dropped a bag of all of those monster scenes completed and painted into my hands one day.
He said he was too old for toys now. It was cool. Now I’m going to need to replace them.
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I grew up spending summers at a Beach club, on Atlantic Beach, NY
The adults might plat Poker, Mah Jong, Dominos, or bet on the horses in NY
But my favorite, and I still have some, were the paper horse racing sheets!
Put a cigarette up to start, and each horse has a squiggly burn path to the finish!
Who would win? The let the kids get involved, and its just one of those memories, that stuck
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popcorn maker
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mini gumball machine (If your name is Alex make me an offer.)
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Pac-Man cookie jar
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Halloween-themed tin can
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Trader Joe's small tin box
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Quoted from mooch:I liked the look of the old-school bags of Planters Peanuts I bought when I was a kid. The newer blue packaging doesn’t do it for me.
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I agree! the old school art and packaging is so much better. I have an old wooden shipping crate and countertop glass jar.
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I'll share a memory about Bugles. I hesitate to talk it because it almost sounds like I saw UFO.
When Bugles first hit the market they came in a box sort of like a cereal box. Inside the box, the Bugles were kept fresh in a sack lined, on the outside, with shiny aluminum foil. This was somewhere around 1966-67. I was 14 or 15. My good friend from down the street came over and we were listening to my stereo in my bedroom. My parents were at work. We were smoking some grass and blowing the smoke out the window.
I had a box of Bugles. We were camping out on my bed, scarfing down, toking up, and listening to the stereo.
My friend, Pat, reached into the Bugles box and screamed and yanked his hand from the box. I don't recall what I said; Probably something along the lines WTF is up? Pat said, " The heat". And I am like what ????????
Cut to the chase: He felt a burning heat whenever he tried to reach in the box. I said BS. So, we did a test. He closed his eyes and I started moving the Bugles box all around him. I would move the box to his left and he would jerk away. I moved the box toward his right and again he would jerk away. At every direction I could come from him at, he would jerk away can say he could feel "The heat" from that aluminum sack in the box.
You can say it is a UFO story, but I saw what I saw. He was trying to move away like I was chasing him with a hot poker. It was the strangest thing.
Every time I see a package of Bugles my mind rolls back to that afternoon with a couple of buzzed kids experiencing something strange in life.
Quoted from cottonm4:Bugles first came in a box like a cereal box. Inside the box, the Bugles were kept fresh in a sack lined on the outside with shiny aluminum foil.
We used to take the Bugles inner foil bag and make a tinfoil hat out of it to shield our brains from electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading.
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Just don't ever wear it outside during a lightning storm.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I loved this!
I was once addicted to these little brown cans of beef jerky, around the year 1980 or so. They looked a lot like cans of Kayo.
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Just don't ever wear it outside during a lightning storm.
The Truth is Out There! 
Quoted from mooch:I was once addicted to these little brown cans of beef jerky, around the year 1980 or so. They looked a lot like cans of Kayo.
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Used to carry this stuff around while camping/fishing. This and my homemade wooden knife, ready for survival!
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There was a recent episode of The Foods that Changed America that covered a lot on Jiffy Pop and microwave popcorn. Jiffy Pop was a big game changer.
Quoted from cottonm4:I have not seen this style of popcorn since forever, but I guess Jiffy Pop is still around on Amazon.
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Every time that I see one of those I think of Drew Barrymore at the beginning of the movie Scream.
I don't think I ever had Jiffy Pop. This was the Sears popcorn maker I grew up with. It's a little worse for wear, though. I pulled it out of cold storage for a quick pic. Put in some kernels and a little oil and you were set (unless you let it go too long). Then flop it over and the top is your serving bowl. Add a little salt and lots of melted Land O' Lakes!
I remember years ago talking to some older lodge members. There was always a couple who couldn't function without their wife.
They'd make Jiffy Pop popcorn without removing the cardboard cover. Or if the wife was out of town and left instructions to warm up the stove and bake a TV dinner. Yup, the wives neglected to tell them to remove the TV dinner from the box before putting it in the oven.
I am so glad I can cook.
LTG : )
Quoted from zombywoof:I don't think I ever had Jiffy Pop. This was the Sears popcorn maker I grew up with. It's a little worse for wear, though. I pulled it out of cold storage for a quick pic. Put in some kernels and a little oil and you were set (unless you let it go too long). Then flop it over and the top is your serving bowl. Add a little salt and lots of melted Land O' Lakes!
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They still make similar products but with a stirring mech - IMO it's the best way to make popcorn
We had an older one and upgraded to this - throw some kernels in with avocado oil and it makes great popcorn
https://www.target.com/p/dash-6qt-smartstore-stirring-popcorn-maker-aqua/-/A-80177941
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