I can remember somthing about green stamps.

That was them

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I just googled “Eagle Stamps” and “Green Stamps”.
They talked a lot about S&H being “green stamps”. In our area there were a FEW merchants that gave S&H stamps, but I remember them as being yellow. We had Eagle Stamps the were green in color and given out by many different merchants and especially gas stations. There was one major down-town department store (May Company [where the department store scene in Christmas Story was filmed] that was the local cash-in center where you could get cash for them at their cashier back or use them on the floor as money.

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We had the S&H Green Stamps and a dish or glass with each fill-up and somebody besides you pumped the gas and wash the windows. Ohh full service filling stations...

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I too remember the S&H Green stamps. Where I grew up they were more popular than the Eagle stamps. I hated licking all those freakin stamps every month but loved taking the books down to the local redemption store every month and being able to "buy" some worthless piece of crap we really didn't need but just had to have it. Life was so much simpler then.

As for the full service stations - did you know that it is law in Oregon that you can NOT pump your own gas? I guess it's a way to make sure there are jobs out there for everyone. Funny thing is - they don't tell you about it until after you start pumping your own gas and then the attendant comes out and yells at you. Forget the fact that the clown took his/her sweet time getting off their butt to begin with!

Full service is the only way in New Jersey as well. Though I've never had to wait - the pumpers stand right near the pumps.

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