OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ; Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings are at the bottom.

l. Blackjack chewing gum.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Candy cigaretts.
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
5. Coffee shops or diner with tableside juke boxes.
6/ Home milk delivery in glass botles with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P.F.Flyers.
l0. Butch wax,
ll. Telephone numbers with a word prefic (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. Memeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
2l. Roller skate key.
22. Cork popguns.
23. Drive-ins.
24. Studebakers.
25. Wash tub wringers.

If you rembered 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.

AARRGH!!

I'm one short of "don't tell your age"

MAN! I'm 43 and got 12!! (I know I wasn't supposed to tell.) You guys over 60 must remember dinosaurs

depends on what kind of dinosaurs. They weren't all here at once.

I remember them well. I mean all of them.

Ummmmm, what was the question? Oh ya, I not only remember all, but acually fondly remember most of them.....

25 out of 25. I guess the "old" in my login name is appropriate. Born the day Howard Hugh's Spruce
Goose airplane flew for the one and only time, and only about a mile away.

Remember the article in the LA Times about the phenomenum of smoke and fog mixing forming something
new called "smog". Flew in a TWA Constellation, a DC3, and a PBY right after the war. First computer
I used ran on vacuum tubes. There weren't any transistors yet. Worked on mainframe computers long before
Bill Gates founded Microcrap and began screwing the world.

Remember when there was no minimum wage and unions were a good thing. First job I made $1.00 and hour and
thought that was great. Gas was 17 cents a gallon and a Corvette was around $4000. First car was a 1957 Chevy
Impala, 4 door hardtop. Paid $100 for it.

If you wanted a home you bought the materials and built it. Mortgage, what mortgage? Building permits - what
building permits? Toilets were 5 gallons a flush and they worked! A lot of people still had outhouses, even
in town.

Deer tags were a buck ($1.00), elk tags were expensive - $7.00. Hunt anywhere in the state during the long
hunting season, no tags to draw, no hunting units. Schools and businesses were closed the first week of dear season.

You wrote letters instead of making long distance phone calls. A nickel for a stamp was less expensive.
Party lines were a nuisance.

They were just called Model 70's then, not pre-64's. Cost $125. Everyone had a 30-06, some nuts bought
270's. 180 grain Power Points, or if you wanted good stuff you'd load up 180 Nosler Partitions that John
Nosler turned on a lathe. Still got a few of those.

Kids who screwed off in public were made to toe the line by the nearest adult. The only drug kids used
was beer unless you knew where a still was.

First television was in 1954. Heard my first Stereo in 1958. Practically wore out the demo record just to
hear the jets go from left to right or listen to a ping-pong ball match.

After high school you went into the service - the step into manhood. If you went to college you were a
sissy.

You could carry a gun just about anywhere and the most anyone would say is "What-cha-hunting?.

What's sad is I thought about half of these were still around.

I got them all!! Must be older than dirt. Ter

OEH,

You brought back a memory from long ago...In 1968 (I think) I caught a Super Connie flown by the NJ Air Guard on the way to Madrid and by the time we got to Lajes Field, Azores, we had lost 2 engines, so we landed. They worked all night until noon the next day and we left and got to Madrid mid-afternoon....great time was had by all. BTW...I was 25/25 too.

Eighteen of 'em . . . but I'll have you know, I'm very immature for my age.

I was born back when dirt was new.
I actually talked my older sister into licking the frost offa an aluminum ice tray.
The down side was Mom wore me out with a wire-screen flyswatter.
I still have/seen/use most everything on the list.

Go down to the gas station buy an RC cola and put a fist full of peanuts in the bottle.

Almost lost my arm in one of those %@#$@% washtub ringers when I was three years old. Wanted to be like Mom and feed the clothes to it.

Squeezed my arm like a tube of toothpaste! Took 68 stitches and a skin graft to close the wound at my elbow. Arm was almost useless until my best friend's Dad signed me up for hockey and baseball (Thanks, Mr. Edmonds!!!! ). I played goal in hockey and got to use my glove hand a lot! Went from basically throwing my arm up to block the puck or ball, to catching as good as anyone in about 18 months. Full use of the hand, now.

Nowadays, you pay all kinds of money for that sort of stuff. It's called "physiotherapy".

Migod! I remembered 23! Is there no end to the cruelty of the young in reminding us, ahem!, slightly older types, how much time has passed?

I got 25 for 25. I'm not THAT old, so it must have something to do with growing up in North Alabama. I believe we were about 10 years behind everyone else.

Nashcat

I remember them all. Hell! We got our milk delivered in a 5 gallon can straight from the cow, that that was in San Francisco. You didn't dial a phone number, a cold faceless female voice said, "Number please." I remember the martin mars taking off from San Francisco Bay right on schedule at 9PM every night en route to I think Hawaii. I remember the air raid sirens at 3 in the morning and dark blackout shades. The first plane I ever flew on was a Constellation. I flew for over 48 hours with fuel stops from California to Korea in a limbering C-54. Flew from Korea to japan in a, HOLY COW, C-46 that must have flown the Hump in WW-2. To this day, I still feel prop driven aircraft are cool and jets, flying flamethrowers that they are, bore me to tears.
Yeah, I guess I'm older than dirt.
Paul B.

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Almost lost my arm in one of those %@#$@% washtub ringers when I was three years old. Wanted to be like Mom and feed the clothes to it.

Interesting.
I`ve a Uncle two years older then I that has what looks like a badly burned arm from the elbow up from doing the same thing when he was around 5. I wonder how many kids were maimed by those things....

14!!! I just tell the wipper-snappers that I've been around since rocks were soft.

Batted 1000, am older than dirt, and on the right side of it! Kudude

Kudude,
I'm sorry, too few choices to decide if I'm young or less, too much American items

Old Elk Hunter, I got 25 right too! I started thinking of the items you mentioned and I remember 5 cent cokes dispensed from a machine with a duck bill lever, when kerosene was called "coal oil", when my grandma did her ironing with a solid steel iron which was warmed on the top of a wood burning stove. When my grandpa would take his hogs and cows to the slaughter house and smoke his own ground sausage, parch peanuts in the fireplace and we would spend the evenings playing "Rook" as there was no TV in his house. Still remember for getting a good threating for talking to my friends during the preacher's sermon. Remember when shotgun shells were all paper hulled. Heck, I am not that ancient as I was born seven years to the date after Pearl Harbor was bombed by those Nips!

Jeez! I remember eleven, and I am thirty something......

EA

I'm older than dirt but younger than Studebakers, skate keys, Packards, Howdy Doody, and newsreels.

H. C.

What is a Roller Skate Key?

I remember 10 cent movies that were double feature with Victory at Sea,news reel,cartoon and a drawing for somthing from the local hardware store before the main attraction. Also the shock of turning 12 and the movie price going to 25 cents. 50cents got movie ticket(25 cents),1 quart of White Rock Cream Soda and a Three Musketeer candy bar with the knowledge 5 cents was coming back when the pop bottle went back.

25 for 25 and a
trip back to the "good old days"

Thanks

What the heck is all of this stuff!?!?

-Butch wax
-P.F. flyers
-roller skate key
-packards blue flashbulb

Oh my gosh! All these are so foreign to me


At least I remember the wax coke-shaped bottles filled with coloere sugar water!
Wait! They're filled with sugar water!

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Originally posted by kickbuttgirl222:
What the heck is all of this stuff!?!?

-Butch wax
-P.F. flyers
-roller skate key
-packards blue flashbulb

Oh my gosh! All these are so foreign to me


At least I remember the wax coke-shaped bottles filled with coloere sugar water!
Wait! They're filled with sugar water!

Butch wax; used to make flat top haircuts stand up straight.

P.F. Flyers; A tennis show like Keds.

Roller skate key; Roller skates meant to be used on the street with steel wheels. They had a strap that fit over the front of the ankle and a clamp affair that clamped on the front of your shoe. The key was used to tighten the clamp.

Packard; An expensive luxury car that competed with Cadillac. Frankly, I always thought they were butt ugly but were fast.

Blue flashbulb; used in photography to balance the color in daylight color film when shot indoors. Incandesant light from a normal light bulb is quite red and the blue flash buld compensated for the red effect. There was a film balanced to shoot indoors that would compensate for the red effect, but pictures would be very blue if used outdoors in sunlight. It's a bit complicated to explain, but basically you used daylight film outside and indoor film inside. If you had to use outdoor film inside, you used a blue flashbulb.
Paul B.

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Originally posted by Paul B:

quote:

Originally posted by kickbuttgirl222:
What the heck is all of this stuff!?!?

-Butch wax
-P.F. flyers
-roller skate key
-packards blue flashbulb

Oh my gosh! All these are so foreign to me


At least I remember the wax coke-shaped bottles filled with coloere sugar water!
Wait! They're filled with sugar water!

Butch wax; used to make flat top haircuts stand up straight.

P.F. Flyers; A tennis show like Keds.

Roller skate key; Roller skates meant to be used on the street with steel wheels. They had a strap that fit over the front of the ankle and a clamp affair that clamped on the front of your shoe. The key was used to tighten the clamp.

Packard; An expensive luxury car that competed with Cadillac. Frankly, I always thought they were butt ugly but were fast.

Blue flashbulb; used in photography to balance the color in daylight color film when shot indoors. Incandesant light from a normal light bulb is quite red and the blue flash buld compensated for the red effect. There was a film balanced to shoot indoors that would compensate for the red effect, but pictures would be very blue if used outdoors in sunlight. It's a bit complicated to explain, but basically you used daylight film outside and indoor film inside. If you had to use outdoor film inside, you used a blue flashbulb.
Paul B.

Paul, do you remember the haircuts we had back then with the brushcut on top and the sides slicked back? After that I graduated to a full blown ducktail.

I got all 25, my first car was a '49 Merc with a flathead V8. Wish I still had that one.

I got 12 1/2 out of 25, I gave myself the 1/2 for remembering the cardboard stoppers on the top of the milk, but the milk came in 1 gallon plastic jugs.

Congrats on the 25/25 Cobie ! You izzzzzzzzz OOOOLLLDDDDD I mean, uhhhhhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, your only as old as you FEEL!

So would you uhhhhhh like some help with that Geritol/Metimusel shake your making over there

Lynn

You're old when you spend a hour in an antique store with your wife and then ask "and just where
are the antiques?". It is worse when the antique dealer asks you what something was used for originally.

You're no OLD untill you have to sit down to put on your underware!

quote:

Originally posted by Lynn D:
I got 12 1/2 out of 25, I gave myself the 1/2 for remembering the cardboard stoppers on the top of the milk, but the milk came in 1 gallon plastic jugs.

Congrats on the 25/25 Cobie ! You izzzzzzzzz OOOOLLLDDDDD I mean, uhhhhhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, your only as old as you FEEL!

So would you uhhhhhh like some help with that Geritol/Metimusel shake your making over there

Lynn

You is fibbin' dear girl, I KNOW that you know more of them than yer fessin' up to. As for the shake, well you start with two parts Irish Whiskey...............................

Dirt is good!!!!

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Originally posted by cobra:

quote:

Originally posted by Lynn D:
I got 12 1/2 out of 25, I gave myself the 1/2 for remembering the cardboard stoppers on the top of the milk, but the milk came in 1 gallon plastic jugs.

Congrats on the 25/25 Cobie ! You izzzzzzzzz OOOOLLLDDDDD I mean, uhhhhhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, your only as old as you FEEL!

So would you uhhhhhh like some help with that Geritol/Metimusel shake your making over there

Lynn

You is fibbin' dear girl, I KNOW that you know more of them than yer fessin' up to. As for the shake, well you start with two parts Irish Whiskey...............................

Not true, I can't remember not one other thing on that list. After all I am just a young thing, barely a day over 19

Lynn

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Originally posted by Lynn D:

quote:

Originally posted by cobra:

quote:

Originally posted by Lynn D:
I got 12 1/2 out of 25, I gave myself the 1/2 for remembering the cardboard stoppers on the top of the milk, but the milk came in 1 gallon plastic jugs.

Congrats on the 25/25 Cobie ! You izzzzzzzzz OOOOLLLDDDDD I mean, uhhhhhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, your only as old as you FEEL!

So would you uhhhhhh like some help with that Geritol/Metimusel shake your making over there

Lynn

You is fibbin' dear girl, I KNOW that you know more of them than yer fessin' up to. As for the shake, well you start with two parts Irish Whiskey...............................

Not true, I can't remember not one other thing on that list. After all I am just a young thing, barely a day over 19

Lynn

Times what 2.......3?