- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
The "Back in my day" thread.
- Thread starter spaggyroe
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- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Just embrace the grey. Men with grey beards looks distinguished.
Houndoc
Registered User
- Location
- Grantsville
That's what I keep telling myself.Just embrace the grey. Men with grey beards looks distinguished.
It's true! Just look how wise I am now.Just embrace the grey. Men with grey beards looks distinguished.
RustEoldtrux
RustEoldtrux
- Location
- Evanston, WY
Back in my day, there were ads for Thompson submachine guns in many magazines, usually about $50.
rholbrook
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Kaysville, Ut
Put your gun in a gun rack in the back window of your truck, leave your door unlocked and not worry about it while you were in class in high school.
Tonkaman
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- Location
- West Jordan
This reminds me of one of my dads childhood stories.
Back in my Father’s Day, National Geographic magazine has ads in the back to buy spider monkeys. My dad mailed in some cash and several months later he received a package with his name on it that was making funny noises and bouncing around. 😂 Keep in mind my dad grew up in Jackson Hole Wyoming, so spider monkeys were very out of place.
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
My grandpa had a metal Thompson Submachine Gun ad in his office that had a cowboy holding one on the front porch of his house and two guys in poncho's and sombreros running away with the tag line, "Defend your ranch!"
Wish I still had it.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
That was Stimsons. Had the Rexall for candy and baseball cards, and the Sprouse-Reitz for marbles right there too.
I remember when we were older my buddy Tim thought he was going to bust through a plow pile in that parking lot once in his 1/2 ton GMC. It turned into a really short really steep ramp instead and we caught massive air. Kinda effed his truck up.
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I remember when we were older my buddy Tim thought he was going to bust through a plow pile in that parking lot once in his 1/2 ton GMC. It turned into a really short really steep ramp instead and we caught massive air. Kinda effed his truck up.
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- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Bub
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So from what I remember of the wooden nickel. They where issued or more appropriately handed out by the business. They where kind of a smaller scale S&H green stamp before the S&H green stamp really became popular. If I am not mistaken they where first used in bars.
For reference my Grandfather, a collector of many things, had at one time the largest bar chip collection in Utah.
So this is how the bar chips worked. you came into a bar and ordered a 5 cent drink. Handed the bar keep a dollar or more likely two bits or a quarter. You received your change in bar chips. These chips where only worth anything at the bar they where issued from. Thus increasing sales even if you do not use the remaining chips. This is where the saying comes from "Don't accept any wooden Nickels". By the time stores started handing them out the practice of them being used as change was illegal and they where more like a discount coupon. Receive a wooden Nickle for each dollar spent or some other reward. Then the wooden Nickels can only be spent at the issuing store.
- Location
- Richfield, UT.
Back in the day my back didnt hurt everyday. 😥
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Thursty
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- Location
- Green River
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
^^^^ I think I must be older than that. As I've no idea what that is.
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