Are you older than dirt - an age test?

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:23 am

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to
share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just
don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used
to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper
with a bunch of holes in it.

I knew immediately what it was, but Kati had no idea. She thought they had
tried to make it a salt shaker or something.

I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
"sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.

Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:02 am

25 out of 25, Lets shoot for older than the sun.

LT-73 · Post by **LT-73** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:03 am

Originally posted by Sid
25 out of 25, Lets shoot for older than the sun.

poptom · Post by **poptom** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:15 am

Singing commercials on AC-DC radios with tiny speakers:

[whine] "wouldn't you really rather have a Byuuuuwick?" [whine]

Older than dirt.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:41 am

0

I heard of them but never seen them.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:45 am

23 out of 25...but I think I just forgot about two of them.....

Go figure..Now where did I hide that geritol?

therealcableguy · Post by **therealcableguy** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:36 am

8 out of 25.Man,I'm getting old.

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:27 am

15...i wont tell

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:55 am

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:13 am

25 -

Duz !!

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:11 am

Hi blacklab

It's a Good Thing there wasn't one more question or i'd be playing Red Rover with St. Peter.

This was a Test i really didn't need a perfect score on. Hahaha

How about Coal Chutes

Push Reel Mowers

Horsedrawn Garbage, Milk, Coal, Bread and Ice delivery Wagons, as well as Street Plows. Lots of free fertilizer then eh!

The First Ballpoint Pens. Many a shirt pocket ruined by them

I do miss the Old Steam Engines. God i loved to watch & listen to them.

Thanks for the memories

regards

larry

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:20 am

I would have had 25 out of 25..but ..it said had direct knowledge of....not heard of....

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)

My area was so small that we only had to dial 4 numbers for years.

13. Howdy Doody

Only one channel here, and we didn't get Howdy Doody.....

Other than that, I've had direct hands on or used at one time or another..and...IMHO..Blackjacks chewing gum, tasted like crap. lol

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:38 am

Cool I am still very young

cant remeber any of it

porkchop · Post by **porkchop** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:02 am

lonewolfz28 · Post by **lonewolfz28** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:13 pm

17 of 25, just barely older than dirt. I guess I'm fresh mulch.

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:07 pm

I remember 10 vividly but damn I'm not that old. lol

Qwijib0 · Post by **Qwijib0** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:47 pm

0.

Just a young whippersnapper

juniebabe46 · Post by **juniebabe46** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:32 pm

I am older than dirt! I loved the wax coke bottles, I hated peashooters (I had a big brother), I loved the sound of the cork popguns, never could understand why they made those ice cube trays...metal yet! You could lose a layer of skin! Thanks for the memories anyway.

The next generation will say "Anyone remember smilies?"

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:59 pm

Originally posted by juniebabe46
never could understand why they made those ice cube trays...metal yet! You could lose a layer of skin! Thanks for the memories anyway.

The next generation will say "Anyone remember smilies?"

Hi juniebabe46

I don't think flexable plastic that would handle the cold was invented then.

Some other things I remember is carrying water from a pond so my mother could wash clothes in a tub with a washboard. Of course this was after she heated the water in a copper double boiler that was heated on a wood stove. Then when she was done drying the clothes on the clothes-line she would iron some of them with the steel irons that were heated on top of the stove.

I hope there will always be smilies.

poptom · Post by **poptom** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:12 pm

Originally posted by blacklab
Some other things I remember is carrying water from a pond so my mother could wash clothes in a tub with a washboard. Of course this was after she heated the water in a copper double boiler that was heated on a wood stove. Then when she was done drying the clothes on the clothes-line she would iron some of them with the steel irons that were heated on top of the stove.

Now you're spoofing.

How about 13 cent gasoline? My dad would never buy that cheapo stuff. He paid the full 15.

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:56 pm

Originally posted by poptom
Now you're spoofing.

How about 13 cent gasoline? My dad would never buy that cheapo stuff. He paid the full 15.

I remember paying 17 cents for a gallon, most of the time it was 19 cents. I would be driving my dad's 54 Buick that would go through $2 worth of gas in less time it took to get your wallet out. It did have a back seat big enough to party in though.

poptom · Post by **poptom** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:53 pm

Originally posted by blacklab
I remember paying 17 cents for a gallon, most of the time it was 19 cents. though.

Ah, but then the Canadian buck was worth more than the Yankee dolla.

I'm thinking back further. You didn't "fill 'er up", you told the guy how many gallons you wanted. With the gravity feed pump, he would pull on a long lever to pump the gas into a graduated glass cylinder on top, then stick the nozzle in your tank and let it drain down.

He also cleaned the windshield and checked the oil and water. Sometimes even the tire pressure.