Ahhh, Blue Chip and S&H Green Stamps, my tongue remembers these well. 
Kinda makes my tongue feel all gooey just thinking about them. Bleck!!! Ok, I used a wet sponge too, but you gotta love that your tongue is always at-the-ready for that quick, lick & stick emergency.
This post will refer mainly to the Blue Chip Stamps, because I remember more about these than the S&H Green Stamps, although they were based on the same idea. For those of you that have never heard of Blue Chip or S&H Green Stamps, they were trading stamps from the mid to late ’60s, that you received whenever you bought groceries at the market or pumped gas at the gas station and I’m sure there were other places that gave them out too.
The amount of stamps you received, was directly related to the amount of money you spent at the store. As you collected more and more sheets of stamps, it was time to stick them into the Blue Chip Stamp booklet. Once you filled multiple books, it was off to the Blue Chip Redemption store to trade in your filled books for merchandise. I associate this process with a game arcade, but unlike the arcade, where you turn in 3,000 tickets and you get a plastic ring, you turn in the books for fairly descent merchandise and products that were definitely more practical.
An interesting fact about Blue Chip Stamps: Back in 1972, Blue Chip Stamps purchased See’s Candies, Inc. and since Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. had controlling interest in Blue Chip Stamps, this was another great purchase for Warren Buffet.
For my viewers that have never heard of See’s Candies, they are a California based company that started making chocolates and confections long ago in 1921 in Los Angeles, California. You gotta try them! The 1lb box of Nuts & Chews or the Bridge Mix or the…
See Wikipedia’s description of Blue Chip Stamps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Chip_Stamps
For a detailed history of See’s Candy and it’s relationship to Blue Chip Stamps, click the link below:
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Sees-Candies-Inc-Company-History.html
i live in hallandale,fla and i ran across 7 books of the blue chip savings book filled by my 89 yr old mother that had collected them i would like to know where i can redeem them for what they are worth my cell phone # is (number removed for privacy)
Hello Jeremiah, I’m not aware of any place that will redeem the Blue Chip Stamps book today. I was under the impression that the redemption centers closed many years ago, but after checking online I found a fairly recent (within the last few years) entry such as the one below below:
FYI, I did not research the address or phone numbers contained in this site, so I don’t know if they are legitimate or not.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_Blue_Chip_Stamps_redeemable_today
Good luck!
PS: Let me know if you are able to redeem your books, I’m sure there are others that may be interested in knowing this.
Aren’t there just some great things about growing up during the ’50 and 60′s that just makes you feel happy to be a baby boomer? I was just going down memory lane and thought about stamp trading Blue Chip and S & H Green Stamps. Stamp licking and pasting was like a Friday or Saturday night bonding ritual for the family. Make some popcorn, get some soda pop and break out the stamps from the drawer and get busy. The best part was looking thru the tcatalog of items to figure out how many stamps you needed for what you wanted- and there was some pretty good stuff. One of my Christmas presents was form Blue Chip. For those of you who don’t have this memory in the “vault”, it was a fun one to remember and smile about. Go 50′s and 60′s baby boos.