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#578
#578
I use to help my mom paste them into the books then we would redeem them over on Magnolia iirc
 
#584
#584
A lot of different stores gave you green stamps at the checkout line. Ours came mostly from White Stores (groceries) and a few service stations. You'd collect them in a book and redeem them for gifts at the redemption center.
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#586
#586
My Grandma could get channel 6 and the grandkids would have to go out and turn the antenna for 10 to come in
 
#589
#589
wildnkrazykat said:
In the wintertime was the worst
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No doubt. We didn't get cable forever either. My family owned a lot of land pretty far out of the city, so it took forever for it to get to us. I do miss living there, my whole family on my dads side lived there miles from anyone. It was so peaceful.
 
#590
#590
We were out at our real house using the pool yesterday. All you could here were birds chirping and wind rustling the leaves.
 
#591
#591
We had a big pond, heard frogs and crickets all night. Lightning Bugs all over at night and could actually see the stars. Living in the highlands you see and hear none of that. Just cars, street lights and drunk people it sucks sometimes.
 
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BadJerry20 said:
We had a big pond, heard frogs and crickets all night. Lightning Bugs all over at night and could actually see the stars. Living in the highlands you see and hear none of that. Just cars, street lights and drunk people it sucks sometimes.
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Those places are getting fewer and fewer. Soon, will exist only in our minds. I grew up on a hill with open sky. At night, there wasn't a light to be found within 5 miles. You could see forever into the sky. Lightning bugs everywhere. And, a few bats.
 
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#593
BadJerry20 said:
We had a big pond, heard frogs and crickets all night. Lightning Bugs all over at night and could actually see the stars. Living in the highlands you see and hear none of that. Just cars, street lights and drunk people it sucks sometimes.
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We have cousins about a half the mile up the road from our country house who have a pond. My brother n dad n I went fishing last week and it was like that. Just serene.
 
#594
#594
back before the city lights drowned them out you could see a lot more stars in the sky...I use to love to look up at night and count them...... never finished
 
#595
#595
We used to do that. Just a bunch of us neighborhood kids laying on our backs in the grass looking up at the night sky. And, talking about whatever.
 
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Slydell said:
Those places are getting fewer and fewer. Soon, will exist only in our minds. I grew up on a hill with open sky. At night, there wasn't a light to be found within 5 miles. You could see forever into the sky. Lightning bugs everywhere. And, a few bats.
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It sucks cause sometimes I sit outside at night wishing I was back there. My grandpa owned a holler, a few hundred acres probably. When he passed it got divided between his 15 kids. All but 2 of them sold their part. It went from a beautiful quiet place to a suburb in a decade. It still depresses me a little when I visit my uncles.
 
#597
#597
I remember there was a huge steep hill we had to drive up out of the holler, it was gravel. During the winter you had to park at the top of it and walk about a mile home. If you drove down it and it snowed or iced, you were not getting up the hill till it melted. Which took forever because of heavy trees on both sides of the road.
 
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BadJerry20 said:
I remember there was a huge steep hill we had to drive up out of the holler, it was gravel. During the winter you had to park at the top of it and walk about a mile home. If you drove down it and it snowed or iced, you were not getting up the hill till it melted. Which took forever because of heavy trees on both sides of the road.
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Who knew that under all that was a country boy. Color me surprised.
 
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