POD 8/2/12 S&H Green Stamps catalog with WH appliances

[retromania]

I remember my mother redeeming S&H Green Stamps. She redeemed her for Cannon sheet sets. That's all she ever got with her Green Stamps. I remember going with her to the redemption center and looking at all the neat stuff while she completed her transaction. The facility was small and the merchandise was neatly displayed like a retail store. So different from the box warehouses now. The old S&H Green Stamps location is now our hospice thrift store and it does the business which is great because our local hospice has helped so many people.

 

[norgeway]

We Had!

S and H Green Stamps, and Family Stamps, my set of Avocado Club Cookware came from the Green Stamp Store in 75.

 

[retromania]

Norgeway,

My mother had a couple of pieces. One in harvest gold and one in a sort of red color and I can't remember what the name of that color was. When I was a kid in the 1960's, our neighbor had the complete set in turquois. She has a big 40 inch electric stove and when not in use, she displayed the pots on top of the stove. It was like The Lucy Show where Lucy had crammed on her stove just about every piece of Farberware stainless cookware. I thought it was aluminum for the longest time, but then decided the Lucy Show crew must have given it a satin finish so it would not reflect images and glare. Near the end of life of our local S&H store we would get catalogs form them. I remember seeing a Moped offered and I couldn't comprehend the number of books needed to acquire it. I often wondered who would be the customer that would have enough stamps for big items like that. I guess it would be if you got stamps at sll the places you did business like grocery store, gas station, etc. I remember one bank in town offering S&H stamps if you opened an account or bought a CD. Wow. How times have changed!!

 

[danemodsandy]

Lucy Show Satin Finish

That satin finish on Lucy's Farberware probably wasn't permanent.

In the old days of movies and TV, light reflections from shiny objects could cause glare. Prop people solved the problem by spraying such objects with a liquefied wax, or by rubbing them with bar soap and buffing a little bit with a cloth. Both methods created a matte finish that wouldn't cause glare.

In the early days of TV, the glare problem was so bad that even an actress's jewelry had to be treated. And in the days when movies were largely shot on soundstages, entire cars had to be done so that the overhead lighting wouldn't reflect in their paint jobs.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Fascinating information Sandy! Thanks. I have seen glare from jewelry in old clips.

 

[maytag63]

Did someone say Raleigh? See all the happy people smoking Raleighs and its cousin BelAir.

 

[tolivac]

Glare in older TV shows

The problem two fold-The large amount of lighting required for early TV camera pickup tubes to work properly-they weren't as sensitive as later devices.and the tubes had the Glare-or "Comet tailing" from moving bright objects.And actors had to be wiped frequently of sweat from the heat of the lights.In between takes the wax glare reduction had to be reapplied-the heat from lighting would melt it off.Some of those lights had 10Kw bulbs!and the early dimmers had thyratron tubes,autotransformers-or worse-large resistence dimmers-MORE heat added!Air conditioning bills were high then,too!

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have seen comet-tailing. Thank you for explaining it as part of the glare situation.

 

[passatdoc]

Everything that was too bright/white had to be treated on the I Love Lucy set. Even the newspapers had to be tinted gray.

 

[beekeyknee]

That's funny. Belair cigarettes. A long time ago I was living with this girl and we went to get cigarettes. I said, "Let's try these Belair's". She said O.K. We got home and lit up. She took a drag and had a fit. Oh, damn it. You knew all along that those were menthol. I told her I didn't. She had to go back to the store and get her regulars.

When she got home I was watching TV and she sat down and started to open her pack. I said, "Are you sure you don't want a Belair"? They sure are good. She said "No!", and looked away and stared to giggle. I'd waited awhile and then I'd say, "Are you sure you don't want to try one of these again? They sure are smooth." She'd say "Oh, shut up", and we'd start to giggle and then laugh. I told her it was too bad she had to make a trip all the way back to the store. It went on most of the afternoon with variations on the theme.

What fun days. Norge washer and dryer, Eureka vacuum with the square gold bag and cord real, everything was analog and hardly anything broke. No cell phones or computers to bother you. We weren't as crowded and we were happy. What a wonderful simple time. Of course being young didn't hurt anything.