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Posted: 27 Aug 2022

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High School Prom With Lamp

High School Prom With Lamp
Uploaded (sorry to be late and out of order) for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, CANDLESTICKS, AND OTHER TYPES OF LIGHTING
A High School Prom photo taken at my friend's house with a pole lamp with globe shades behind us - looking very like an S&H Green Stamp "reward". Remember them?
These stamps, given out with groceries, were very popular in our working class neighborhood. People (usually mothers) saved up - and the more you saved the pricier thing you could redeem them for. Once you had enough for whatever you wanted, you drove to an S&H "store" where you handed in the stamp books and came home with your "prize".
We got quite a few things that way - I clearly remember a lamp with a small round table attached - but couldn't find a photo of that one.

Fred Fouarge, Smiley Derleth, Nouchetdu38, Ronald Losure and 3 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 RicksPics
RicksPics club
Nice photo of you and your date! I don't remember ever seeing a pole lamp with globe lights. I do remember having a kitchen drawer full of loose green stamps and many, many, small, partially filled collection books. Every few months, my mom would summon my sister and me to the kitchen table and have us paste the stray stamps into the books. I can't recall what we redeemed them for. Never the fishing gear I desired. Our family never mastered the art of achieving a pole lamp that was exactly vertical either. :)
19 months ago. Edited 19 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to RicksPics club
I have similar memories of the loose stamps and my mother gluing in sheets of them every few months. I remember asking her why she couldn't just lick them instead of using a silly sponge. (Hundreds of stamps - ew!)
And pole lamps were clearly designed to tilt, I think. : )
19 months ago.
 Penny Richards
Penny Richards club
I remember the stamps, and seeing the stamp books in our house, but I don't remember if my mom ever redeemed them for anything! I"ll ask her next time we talk. She'll probably laugh. ;)
19 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Penny Richards club
I know we got quite a lot of stuff, but I only remember the lamp with the table attached and (I think) an AM/FM plastic table top radio.
I also remember my mom explaining to me that things really weren't free - the stores jacked up the price of goods to pay the S&H stamp fee - leading to the beginning of my shopper cynicism.
; )
19 months ago.
 Alan Mays
Alan Mays club
Great photo! I hope the pole for that lamp was firmly anchored -- it looks like it's about to tip over! I like the art on the walls as well. (I, too, remember S&H Green Stamps, though I don't recall what merchandise you could exchange them for.)
19 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Alan Mays club
My friend's father painted them. Sadly, he had recently passed away of a heart attack - he was only in his forties.
The S&H merchandise ran the gamut from very small things, like crystal candy dishes, to things like hair driers and toasters, all the way up to lawn mowers and other things that must have needed truckloads of stamp books!
19 months ago. Edited 19 months ago.
 Ronald Losure
Ronald Losure club
Very nice photo of the happy couple. I doubt you got your clothes at S&H. I know my mother saved the stamps, but I don't remember what she bought with them.
19 months ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Thanks, Ronald. I don't think you could get clothes with the stamps - but I do remember that I got that dress at Lerner's in downtown New Haven, CT. As far as I know it was only a local family store and it was in business for many years.
I also remember that I paid $28 dollars for that dress - which seemed like a small fortune at the time!
19 months ago.

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