How many of you older folks remember these?

[Gunanddoglover]

I remember mom would make useful things out of them.

 

[Klif]

Capitola flour has tokens inside that I could get into the Roswell theater with back in the 60's

My Grandmother always used Capitola Flour. She always gave me the tokens, they came in a white paper envelope with advertising printed on it. There were two types, one to get in the movies and the other was for 5 cents in trade at the store. Two tokens would get me in to the movies and get a box of popcorn. I'd borrow a couple of coke bottles off the back porch and get 3 cents back for each one at Rakestraws store at the end of Center Hill Avenue (the feed store would only give you 2 cents cash for each). Trade in a few bottles and go to the movies and get a hot dog and a coke. I still have a few hundred of the tokens I've accumulated over the years.

 

[Horsehat]

I have the dress my mom wore as an infant that was made from one of these. She was born in 1933 in the heart of the depression.

 

[Nonliberal]

My mom still has a flour sack dress her mother made. Said thats how you bought flour, which pattern did you want this week.
Apparently this went on well into the 50s, because my mom was born in 56.

 

[RiverBend]

I still have a few hundred of the tokens I've accumulated over the years.

Wow another like minded old guy, glad to know more than me still walking that used em at the movies.
they are getting up to $20 each nowadays on Ebay.

 

[fattboyzz]

Momma made some of our clothes from flour sacks .
We still had an old general store a couple miles in each direction. We got our clothes an shoes there when we got bigger.
My dad was old school. He woulda been 80 this year. He died in January 2020 right before all this crap ;(

 

[Klif]

Wow another like minded old guy, glad to know more than me still walking that used em at the movies.
they are getting up to $20 each nowadays on Ebay.

Yep, I have some still in the envelope and I have some that are made out of fiber stuff from the 40's. I was born in 1950 and was eating a biscuit my Grandmother made before I was a year old. I used to help her sift the flour and then make and roll out the dough and she cut the biscuits with a vienna sausage can she poked some holes in the bottom of (my mom used the same can to cut her biscuits after Grandmother died and she she used it up until about 2008 when she quit cooking due to Alzheimers. Nothing makes biscuits like Capitola Flour (although White Lily wasn't too far behind).

 

[GeauxLSU]

This is the first thread where I feel young.

 

[Nonliberal]

This is the first thread where I feel young.

Fudd.
Better?

 

[GeauxLSU]

Fudd.
Better?

I bet you wouldn't say that to the business end of my WII vintage 1911 whippersnapper.