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How many do you remember? I am at 18. 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 glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone 8 Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S& H greenstamps 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! | ||
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Guess I'm older than dirt. I really remember everthing but using a real ice box, and blackjack gum( never was big on chewing gum anyway) I have seen the cars, Studes mmore than the Packards, never rode in one though. I still know where you can buy an 10 oz Coke in a glass bottle for a nickle out of the machine, the Beidenharn museum in Monroe, La. The Beidenharn's were the first family to bottle Coca Cola and descendants still own the Ouachita bottleing company. JJK | |||
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I, unfortunately, remember them all! Pete "Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live." | |||
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Dang, I thought you meant women. All of them. I have never gone to bed with an ugly woman. Ever. I have woken up with one or two that really fooled me though. Rich DRSS | |||
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+1 with remembering them all. We owned a Packard Patrician and the neighbor down the road owned a Studebaker that I rode in. We later owned a Nash! .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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I remember every one, in fact I saw a studebaker yesterday while talking to my neighbor out on the adjacent lawn area. | |||
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17 of 25 ________ Ray | |||
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I not only remember all 25, I sold some of them. | |||
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All 25. Perhaps more research is required. | |||
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I seem to remember that Beemans also made a "Pepsin"? gum, to aid digestion. The newsreel/movie forgot to mention the cartoon between the double feature, that was what b-movies were made for, the second movie! DRSS(We Band of Bubba's Div.) N.R.A (Life) T.S.R.A (Life) D.S.C. | |||
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The complete list: 01. Candy cigarettes 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 05. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with Cardboard toppers. 07. Party lines. 08. Newsreels before the movie. 09. P. F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ... (Drexel-5505) 12. Peashooters. 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM Records 15. Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flash Bulbs 20. Beanie and Cecil 21. roller skate keys 22. Cork pop guns 23. Drive ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers 26. The Fuller Brush man 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders 28. Tinkertoys 29. The Erector Set 30. The Fort Apache Playset 31. Lincoln Logs 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum 34. Penny candy 35. 29 cents-a-gallon gasoline I remember all of them except for Black Jack gum. I'm old enough, but just can't remember. (not a good sign) | |||
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chit - i remember 36 of them, but whats my name | |||
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Looking at the complete list, I can remember. Still have a few, including my reel to reel, I know there is a box in the attic at my parents old house with some Lincoln logs remaining. I can remember gas far less expensive than 29 cents, how about 7 for regular and ten for premium, 1969 in Orlando, Fla. I was a new 2nd Lt in the USAF and did not have to worry about big gas bills, so drove all over the central part of the state. My parents came down for Thanksgiving and Dad filled his and my car both for less than $5.00 JJK | |||
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I fall into the older than dirt catagory....... AND I still own a car with some of the features mentioned. | |||
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I guess that makes me older than dirt as well although some of those were not here in NZ. I think those of us who were kids in the fifties had it better than most kid before or since. The war was done and there was a sence of excitement in the world, people still had respect for themselves and others, kids could and did roam (safely) to our hearts content and had to be called to come in and eat, there was an understandable language used by all, (with grammer and corrections when we got it wrong). I like these rose tinted spectacles (hell, I need them)and feel for the young ones today. Von Gruff. | |||
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Sounds like NZ wasn't much different than Iowa. I just went to a history talk yesterday at our community center on country schools. Though I qualify as "older than dirt" by the criteria above, I never attended country school. But my parents did. There are still quite a few of the buildings around, being used for other purposes. BTW, 404 and 7X57 + 12ga Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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Not only do I remember all of that, including Gene Autry cap guns, I remember that the big vehicle starter switch was on the floor near the smaller light dimmer switch. I remember the ice truck coming by twice a week to deliver ice 10-15 lb. chunks for the ice box. I remember a rural route "rolling store" deliver truck that stopped along the dusty dirt roads at each farm house weekly so the ladies who couldn't get to town could buy stuff. The truck had sugar, salt, biscuit flour and corn meal, black pepper, coffee, tea, sewing thread and needles, kerosene and wicks and glass chimneys for oil lamps, large boxes of wooden "strike anywhere" matches, fat white candles, castor oil, "Carter's Little Liver Pills", "BC" headache powders, topical Iodine and the newly invented "Band-Aids", "Prince Albert" riff cut tobacco in back-pocket sized flat red cans, "Mule" cigarette papers, "Blue Horse" notebook paper and spiral pads, #2 pencils, "Case" pocket knives, the most recent local newspaper, fish hooks and cork bobbers, etc. We could place orders for deliver next week if a needed item wasn't normally carried. One of the rolling store truck drives had a small set of tooth pliers. For a small fee he would pull one for us, if we could stand it; no one knew what novacaine was. All we had to do was wait until he got there, hopefully in less than a week. Both white and black kids would pass each other on their way safely and without fear, even at night, and I mean in the deep south, before the liberals made everything all better. Not now tho. We've lost a lot since then. But ... life is sure easier today, healthier too. | |||
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I agree most of it is old stuff. The Blackjack gum is still a favorite along with Teaberry. Smith Bros cough drops is one I haven't seen in a while. | |||
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alright - now who remember paper buster guns??the pistols that sort of punched a little divot out of a roll of paper. If you can answer this one yes - you forgot your name too | |||
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Just call me bed rock! | |||
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How about "spud guns", the little zinc alloy pistol that you stabbed into a potato then squeezed the grip to shoot a small pellet of potato...usually directly into someone's eye? Karl Evans | |||
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Well I remember 21 out of 35. But I had a deprived childhood, as both sets of grandparents raised their familes during the Great Depression. FYI I just turn 50 last fall. James Wisner | |||
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Only 23 but remember a good 9 or 10 of them because of growing up in the too slow to progress Old South. People still have and use most of the items, cause they were built well back then and lasted. Not to mention most of us in this community ain't got enough money to replace something that works. A school teacher with champagne tastes, and a beer pocket book. | |||
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At nearly 75 years old I could care less, now if I could remember where I put my glasses last night. But I do remember all that old stuff. | |||
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