Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Originally Posted by valsma
Originally Posted by Numa
I still have a milk glass fruit bowl, footed pitcher, and 8 matching glasses that my Mom got with green stamps. I also remember the Jewel Tea man and his magical truck full of things, and the aluminum kitchen stuff in boxes of oatmeal, 45's, and towels in the detergent boxes. Those towels were my Mom's guest towels and we better not even think of touching them! Thanks for the blast from te past!!
That's so funny. I remember the towels and little ceramic dogs that you could collect out of, I think it was Red Rose tea bags and a real prize in Cracker Jacks. Oh, if our kids even had a clue. So funny.
Way way back in the mid thirties some of the nickle Cracker Jack boxes had little cameras in them as prizes!
They really worked. You just took pictures with them, and sent the whole thing back to the Kodak company in - I think Rochester NY. and they would send you back a printed black and white set of the photos you took. My uncle loved to do that, and would look for the heavier -fatter Cracker Jack boxes that had the cameras inside them in the displays in the stores. I liked that because, I usually got to eat the cracker jacks! Jeannie
Jeannie
Jewel Tea items are now such valued collectible that I treasure my two Alladin teapots and the few other things I have left. I need a lid for one of the teapots if anyone has one to sell.
If you remember all this, you might also remember the days when most people had ice boxes that required buying ice to keep in the cold compartment. How much fun when the ice man came by and we could pick up slivers of ice that chipped off the main chunk. It wasn't until after WWII that we could find an electric rerigerator. Seems to me it was a Kelvinator. froggyintexas
P.S. I sure do like 2011 better than I liked 1951 even with its S & H Green Stamps!