Oklahoma City History - Chips Saving Stamps

 “You’re in the Chips!” is the slogan on the front of this booklet.  The phrase means you’re rich, referring to having a lot of betting chips.

According to an article in The Oklahoman, “Britton's history runs along railroad lines. The town was founded six months after the great Land Run of 1889 by people wanting to escape the blights of city life. The original plat of four blocks was recorded in Oklahoma City on Oct. 23, 1890.”

It’s in central-NW OKC area.

And for a while, shopping there paid off!

This is one of my thrift store finds … a book of saving stamps exclusively from the now-absorbed township of Britton, OK.  This kind of promotion is usually called "trading stamps."  Most familiar is S & H Green Stamps, now updated and called “Greenpoints.”

 

A filled page of these stamps looked like this.

The unfilled pages looked like this.

 

And here’s the back of the book, listing the “friendly merchants” who dispensed and redeemed these things.

Going down the list of merchants on the back,  I only found reference to ONE of these concerns in an internet search:

“Irby Rexall Drug” was a sponsor for the John Marshall High School yearbook in the 1960s, taking out a half-page ad in 1961.

I can only guess, then, that the “Chips Saving Stamps” program was a 1960s thing.

Want to share any trading stamps stories of your own?

  

Three Discs a-Compin'

Three more aggregates of funtime music.

MA-09- Harpsichord Variety

 Nineteen tinkly tracks I dubbed from (onetime) KCSC-FM in Edmond, OK, from a few instalments of a radio show that featured harpsichord arrangements.

MA-59- Araya Sunshine Martin -- welcome  

One of my beautiful granddaughters has a name both wonderful and a little corny.  Her middle name is Sunshine; her first name is Araya.  Say those words together, and what do you have?  A pretty accurate description of her character!

 And here’s my compilation for her:.  Don’t get sunburned!

01. Beatles Remixers Group - Sunshine (2:23)

02. Jackie Mitto - Sunshine (3:07)

03. Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine (3:23)

04. Paul McCartney - See Your Sunshine (3:20)

05. The Brady Bunch - It's a Sunshine Day (2:32)

06. GUB - I Love the Sunshine (3:35)

07. Frente! - Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine In (3:31)

08. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (3:58)

09. Spooky Garcia - Little Girl Sunshine (5:48)

10. The Elves - Wakeup Sunshine (3:48)

11. The Corrs - Summer Sunshine (2:58)

12. Gray Sky Girls - You Are My Sunshine (3:00)

13. Cream vs Gerald Wilson - Sunshine of Your Love (5:47)

14. Earth, Wind & Fire - Sunshine (4:16)

15. Paul McCartney - Sunshine Sometime (3:23)

16. Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows (1:37)

17. Osibisa - Sunshine Day (4:57)

18. Chicago - Wake Up Sunshine (2:34)

19. Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life (2:58)

MA-64- Exploring Heavenly Bodies  

Va-va-voom! you’re saying to yourself.  My kind of planet of love!

01. Take Me To Your Leader - Timmie Rogers    1958  (2:06)

02. Jupiter-C - Pat and The Satellites  1959  (2:15)

03. What Was It - Eddie Reynolds    1960  (2:08)

04. Moon Flight (Astronaut Blues) - Peter Scott Peters           1961  (2:17)

05. The Epic Ride of John Glenn - Walter Brennan      1962  (2:45)

06. Mariner II - The Masonics 1964  (2:43)

07. Rocket for Girls - The Girls        1966  (2:27)

08. Going to the Moon - The Shadow Casters    1966  (3:03)

09. Swamp Gas - The Space Walkers        1966  (2:52)

10. Extra Terrestrial Visitations - Art Nouveaux 1967  (2:43)

11. Father Good's Space Flight - The  Amelia Smile       1968  (2:50)

12. Moon Walk, Parts 1 & 2 - Joe Simon     1969  (5:50)

13. Poor Planet Earth - Sonny Hall    1969  (2:00)

14. Telstar '69 - Velvet Fogg      1969  (2:46)

15. Moon Send My Baby - The Challengers        1971  (2:26)

16. UFO (live) - Vavoura Band  1981  (8:43)

17. Saturn Drive - Alan Vega   1983  (5:38)

18. Moon Rocks - Talking Heads         1983  (5:44)

19. Hello Earth - Kate Bush       1985  (6:01)

20. Riding on the Rocket - Shonen Knife  1986  (3:44)

21. You're Not an Astronaut - Pond          1997  (3:25)

22. Marching to Mars - Sammy Hagar 1997       (5:01)

I hope you make it back to Earth in time for work Monday morning!

More Baffling Mysteries Run Through a Baffler

 This paperback came out in 1978.  I figure the UFOs must be pretty incompetent if they've had us under siege for over 35 years and haven't taken us out yet!

These are treasured books from my childhood, because I came across Strangest of All at the age of eight or so and gobbled up its dramatically written vignettes of wild-n-wacky things.

Note that Strangest of All has an attention-grabbing 1960s cover style, while the present edition of Strange World was obviously designed in the Chariots of the Gods? school.

At a later age I learned that Frank Edwards was a radio commentator.  Still later I learned that caveat lector applies to most everything you read.  And ultimately I came to be thankful for things like these breathless tales of "what if?".  They are really valuable to the world when they stimulate a little wonder in somebody whose philosophical horizons are narrower that they should be.  (This statement applies to more and more of the people I meet, the older I get!)

Ol' Brad Steiger is a special case of cranker-outer of mysteries.  He's kind of like the kid on the playground who tells you that if you cut open a gold ball, the stuff in the middle will eat its way through to the center of the earth.  No, he hasn't seen it, he heard it was true from one of the older kids.

And did you hear that if you go all the way around on a swingset, swinging over the top, that you'll turn inside out?  I heard somebody say it so it must be true!

  

Three Spooky Walpurgisnacht Compilations

MA-24 - WalpurgisNight Spooks

01. CBS Specials Intro - Morton Stevens (0:05)

02. The Thing - Curtis and The Creepers (2:58)

03. Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off of Me - Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys (2:50)

04. Let Sleeping Monsters Sleep - John Wayne Shot Me (2:41)

05. Voo Doo Juice - The Ghouls (2:13)

06. The Haunted House - Sam the Sham (3:19)

07. Slide Her Under the Door - Moses Longpiece (1:57)

08. The Green Monster - The Alberto Combo (2:37)

09. Haunted Haze - Chris Kevin (2:02)

10. Jole Blon's Ghost - Wayne Raney (2:31)

11. The Rockin' Ghost - The Modernaires (2:22)

12. Mr Ghost Goes to Town - Zeke Manners & His Swing Billies (2:46)

13. Pet Sematary - Ramones (3:26)

14. Sambra Macabre - Harry Breue (1:58)

15. Grave Robber at Large - Creature Feature (2:58)

16. Do the Zombie - The Symbols (2:23)

17. Haunted House - Creed Taylor Orchestra (3:04)

18. Darkness - The Nobles (2:15)

19. Rockin’ Bones - Ronnie Dawson (1:48)

20. Death Angel - Substantial Evidence (2:48)

21. Morgus the Magnificent - Dr John (2:20)

22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Ralph Marterie & His Marlboro Men (2:35)

23. Graveyard Blues - Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra (3:24)

24. Ghost Train - The Corillions (2:14)

25. Ghosts from Boot Hill - Hellbender (4:03)

26. My Girlfriend Is a Witch - October Country (2:07)

27. Skeleton Jangle - Original Dixieland Five (2:37)

28. Scary Skeleton - Sue Schnitzer (1:48)

29. Skull and Cross Bones - Sparkle Moore (2:31)

30. Man Eating Plant - Creepy Clyde (3:30)

31. Bogey Wail - Jack Hylton (3:22)

MA-49-  Walpurga's Dance

1 -   T'ain't No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones)          Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys        (3:30)

2 -   Unmarked and Covered With Sand          Frank Wilson (1:59)

3 -   Night of the Vampire       The Moontrekkers    (2:45)

4 -   Murder in the Graveyard         Screaming Lord Sutch         (3:01)

5 -   The Ghost Walk       Borrah Minevitch       (2:54)

6 -   Hearse With a Curse         Gasser & The Weirdos        (2:28)

7 -   Haunted Heart          Sammy Kershaw       (2:43)

8 -   Witch Girl        The Mystrys   (2:03)

9 -   Dante's Inferno         The Mark IV   (2:02)

10 -  The Ghost Hop The Surfmen (1:54)

11 -  Curse of the Hearse Terry Teene  (2:28)

12 -  Cemetery Stomp      The 'Knurlings           (3:12)

13 -  Lie'n in the Grave    The Studebaker Bro's          (3:14)

14 -  Haunted House         Hap Palmer    (2:47)

15 -  I'm a Jazz Vampire  Marion Harris (3:07)

16 -  Zombie Zoo       Tom Petty      (2:56)

17 -  Jungle Hop       Kip Tyler and The Flips        (2:00)

18 -  Ghost Party     The Black Albinos     (1:53)

19 -  Satan Takes a Holiday     Rosengarden and Kraus     (2:37)

20 -  Wombie Zombie        Billy Tayor and The Tear Drops      (2:16)

21 -  Crazy Bones     Four Freshmen        (2:04)

22 -  Ghost Walk      The Rocking Ghosts            (2:11)

23 -  The Goblin Band      Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra           (3:10)

24 -  Ghost Dance     Truett and George    (2:59)

25 -  The Spook        The Tomko's (2:34)

26 -  Swingin' at the Séance    Glen Miller and Orchestra    (3:11)

27 -  Have You Seen the Ghost of John?  The Undermasks      (1:20)

28 -  Witch Doctor's Wedding Tomm Holmes           (2:24)

29 -  The Wobblin' Goblin         Rosemary Clooney   (3:18)

30 -  Monster Twist Tyrone a'Saurus and His Cro-Magnons    (2:41)

MA-80- Boneyard Bash 

01. Reveille - American Military Bugle Call (0:32)

02. Danse Macabre (Franz Liszt piano transcription) - Camille Saint-Saëns (9:59)

03. Graveyard Dance - Ray Sanders (1:44)

04. March of the Trolls - Edward Grieg (2:56)

05. Zombie Stomp - The Del-Aires (2:07)

06. Dance in the Graveyards - Delta Rae (3:40)

07. Laurie (Strange Things Happen) - Dickey Lee (3:02)

08. The Skeleton Dance (1929) - Carl Stalling (5:09)

09. 'Til the Following Night - Screaming Lord Sutch with The Savages (3:42)

10. Spooky Boogie - Cecil Campbell and His Tennessee Ramblers (2:25)

11. Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back) - Harry Nilsson (2:54)

12. Yodeling Ghost - Patsy Montana (3:06)

13. She Came Out of the Cold (1967 demo) - The Iveys (2:17)

14. The Cat - Rod Willis (2:23)

15. Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost - Terry Preston (Ferlin Husky) (2:26)

16. Cha Cha with the Zombies - The Upperclassmen (2:39)

17. Skeleton Frolic (1937) - Joe DeNat (7:13)

18. The Way Out Mummy - Bob Ridgley (2:00)

19. Rigormortis Rock - The Gazmen (2:17)

20. Pet Sematary - Ramones (3:30)

21. Misty Water Woman - Rick Springfield (4:37)

22. The Ghost Song - Salty Holmes (2:51)

23. Flip Top Box - Dicky Doo and The Don'ts (2:09)

24. Dead Shall Rise - The Dark (3:54)

Hope this holds you little ghouls for a while!