I was born in 1980, for the generational reference… I just barely remember when shopping malls used to have kiosks that specialized in stickers.
The very best sheet of stickers, available in drugstores I think, was silver-backed. The stickers on it were on the small side, and looked like various kinds of ice cream cones, old fashioned soda glasses, scoops of ice cream, and red and white striped soda straws. The idea was that you could build your own ice cream cones and ice cream sodas. They were very pretty, as well as the shortest path to popularity during indoor recess. Somehow, it didn’t make sense to use them all yourself. The joy had to be spread around.
Anyone else remember these? I’m smitted with a wild desire to buy some, if I could.
only really much smaller, right? You would get various cones, dishes, and parfait glasses, and stack the different scoops of ice cream on top of them. It also seems to me that they were metallic stickers and had that shiny look to them.
The concept was the same, but they didn’t look anything alike. As you remember, the real ones were really quite pretty. The striped straws made a border around the sheet of stickers, and inside of that was a border of ice cream scoops–two or three dozen of them. They were different flavors, and some had sauce and nuts and cherries on them. I think there may have been separate cherry stickers, actually.
Yes, I remember scratch-n-sniff stickers. I got one from my dentist, once, that looked and smelled like a stick of spearmint gum.
I remember google eyes, also. And those little puffballs with googly eyes, antennae, and big flocked sticker feet. Those were awfully cute…
I still have a scratch-and-sniff sticker from when I was about 8 that’s shaped like a hot dog. It still smells a bit, but not as much as it used to. Ecch, that scent was vile. I actually still have my sticker book from 20+ years ago. It’s got some really cool vintage stuff in there that might be worth something if it still had its backing. Stuff from cereal boxes like image-shifting Transformers, Garfield stick-on glittery bike reflectors, Chester Cheetah glow-in-the-dark stickers, scenes from movies like Funny Farm and shots of bands like Twisted Sister, and lots of google eyes. One of my favorites is a metallic-backed Jaga from the Thundercats.
I was also born in 1980 and I remember them, and the sticker kiosks. My mother loved (still does actually) stickers. Her favorites were always the silvery backed ones. I also remember scratch’n sniff, puffy ones, googly eyes, and Garbage Pail Kids. I hated Garbage Pail Kids. Even as a wee lass, I thought they were idiotic. I never was a big fan of stickers but I loved looking at all the pretty colors on the kiosks. I also loved the craft store which had rolls and rolls of gimp. It was so pretty.
Back in the mid to late 70’s there were all kinds of stickers that came with bubblegum just like baseball/trading cards, or in combination with the trading cards. My favorites were a line of classic horror stickers depicting screen shots of all of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s horror movie monsters with funny, non-sequitor, dialogue bubbles featuring the Wolfman, Mummy, or Dracula saying something off the wall and totally nonsensical. They were early versions of the “caption this picture threads” we sometimes have.
Born 1958. Let’s see…in my single-digit years I remember the following about stickers:
We had small oblong stickers, about 2x3 inches, called “Uglies”. They had a picture hideous, slimy monster, and below that an ordinary name such as Jim, Emily, or Mary. Clearly they were intended so you could taunt a real person who had that name…“This is a perfect picture of you!”
For some reason the red, oval STP stickers were the coolest thing going. Everybody wanted them, but they were damned hard to come by. You couldn’t just go into a store someplace and buy them off the shelf. It didn’t matter if you cared about cars or not; if you were a boy, you wanted them.
Small phosporescent glowing stickers from a cereal box still adorn the garage of my parents’ former house.
Sattua, I looked all over eBay (which I’m way too proficient at :eek: ) and then used my meager Google-fu to only come up empty-handed for the specific ones you’re interested in. However, I found a site that might be able to help you, as the owner is apparently an avid collector as well. Contact through email is listed, so hope is not unfounded.
If that doesn’t net any good results, another pretty extensive place could possibly direct you to at least the name of manufacture and/or year to search for.
Good luck!
P.S. I remember them too, and undoubtedly owned something similar.
