Anyone else remember Green Stamps?

[boscorama]

We got Green Stamps, Top Value, and those blue ones. Anyone remember Gunn Brothers Stamps?

[MWCGuy]

There was many an afternoon as a kid I helped my mom fill up her S&H green stamp book, and after a while we'd go to one of the stores that I think was off I-35 around SE 29th, on the west side of a building that housed the old Medco catalog showroom. Think there was at least another one perhaps over in Grant Square, but that's a fleeting memory at best. Was always fascinated by the big machines on top of the old cash registers that looked like big telephone dials they'd use to spit out the stamps. Fun memories.

Never got into the Top Value stamps.

I think you mean 44th and I-35 where the bingo hall is now. My parents always went to that one after we visited the grandparents who lived off 36th and High. We would usually hit the Dairy Queen (closed and later burned down) or the A&W (Now Pizza 44) before the Green Stamp store. My siblings and I and would hang out in the car listen to the radio and eat are lunch/ice cream while Mom and Dad shopped. These days doing that would earn a one way trip to the county hotel.

[Prunepicker]

I remember the S&H Green Stamp redemption center in the Redding
Shopping Center on the N.W. corner of S.W. 44th and S. Western.

We didn't do a lot of business there because Mom was more interested in
saving money at the moment instead of getting gifts in the future. Kids
didn't understand that. I learned a lot about economics from Mom.

[Prunepicker]

Curious...

Does anyone remember Gunn Brother's Stamps? Gold Bond?

[boscorama]

Hark! I remember Gunn Bros!

Do you remember post 26 in this thread? Huh?

Curious...

Does anyone remember Gunn Brother's Stamps? Gold Bond?

[Prunepicker]

Hark! I remember Gunn Bros!

Do you remember post 26 in this thread? Huh?

Dude, I didn't see your post. Kudos!

[Dennis Heaton]

Lord, if I had a nickle for each Green Stamp I moistened and placed in those friggin S & H Books!!!

[ctchandler]

Dennis,
Ah but the treasures! Somewhere in the past, probably early 50's, our mother told us that we could redeem any stamp book(s) that we filled. Almost made the glue taste good in anticipation. We did S&H Green stamps, TV stamps which I believe were from Humpty Dumpty grocery stores, and Gold Bond, not sure where we got those, probably at the service (gas) station. It was almost like the "Tetris" game, tearing off the correct stamps to fit the open space.
C. T.

Lord, if I had a nickle for each Green Stamp I moistened and placed in those friggin S & H Books!!!

[Prunepicker]

... and Gold Bond, not sure where we got those, probably at the service (gas)
station.

I believe Gold Bond came from Red Bud or IGA. Safeway had Gunn
Bros.

[zookeeper]

Dennis,
Ah but the treasures! Somewhere in the past, probably early 50's, our mother told us that we could redeem any stamp book(s) that we filled. Almost made the glue taste good in anticipation. We did S&H Green stamps, TV stamps which I believe were from Humpty Dumpty grocery stores, and Gold Bond, not sure where we got those, probably at the service (gas) station. It was almost like the "Tetris" game, tearing off the correct stamps to fit the open space.
C. T.

Humpty Dumpty was definitely Top Value (TV). I still have some inside an old Humpty paper bag full of old birthday cards we found in mom's attic when she passed.

[zookeeper]

The things we learn! I was looking up Gold Bond stamps because I remember those as well. It turns out the Carlson Hotel chain started as Gold Bond Stamps!

"Carlson was founded in 1938 as the Gold Bond Stamp Company by Curt Carlson, who used a $55 loan to start his venture. Founded during the Great Depression, Mr. Carlson used "Gold Bond Stamps", a consumer loyalty program based on trading stamps, to provide consumer incentive for grocery stores."
Carlson Companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[RadicalModerate]

The things we learn! I was looking up Gold Bond stamps because I remember those as well. It turns out the Carlson Hotel chain started as Gold Bond Stamps!

"Carlson was founded in 1938 as the Gold Bond Stamp Company by Curt Carlson, who used a $55 loan to start his venture. Founded during the Great Depression, Mr. Carlson used "Gold Bond Stamps", a consumer loyalty program based on trading stamps, to provide consumer incentive for grocery stores."
Carlson Companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From the Article:
By the early 1980s, Curt Carlson had acquired over 50 diverse businesses, most of them small and some not running profitably. Under the administration of president Edwin C. "Skip" Gage, husband of Curt's younger daughter, the majority of those small enterprises were sold. The company then purchased the MacDonald Plaid Stamp business (a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and merged it with the Gold Bond Stamp business to become the largest trading stamp company in the world.

As all of this took place from the center of the web--in Minnesota--doesn't this sound like a great theme for the next Coen Bros. Movie?
Instead of Fargo II or Son of Fargo, they could call it, simply, "Minnetonka".
(heck . . . maybe they could persuade The Artists Formerly Known as Prince--and then known as Prince again--to come out of retirement to compose the soundtrack.)

[RadicalModerate]

I believe Gold Bond came from Red Bud or IGA. Safeway had Gunn
Bros.

Why do I have the feeling that "Gunn Bros." stamps would, in today's world, run into intense objectionism?