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This will tell you, how old you are...(copied)

Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Double Dog Dare You

If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.
This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!



Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

How many do you remember?
1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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, (Drexel-5505).
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy.
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. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.

AND A TIME WHEN .....................
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
A foot of snow was a dream come true.
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!

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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    Don't laugh, you young whipper-snappers.....

    I was born in 1943, so I can remember these....BUMMER

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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    35 cents a gallon? Heck when I worked in a gas station it was only a quarter and I was paid 50 cents an hour to pump the stuff.

    PC=BS

    Edited by - badboybob on 05/13/2002 16:48:02
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,353 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That brought back some great memories......Thanks
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    You left off a few good ones

    Hand crank phonographs,

    Cylinder records

    Sears Catalog (After Reading, hung in the Outhouse

    10 cent loaves of bread

    one cigarette in a little glass bottle

    Cream topped milk in the Glass bottle with the cardboard lid

    JEEZ, I better stop before ya figure out how old I am


    LR
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    Shoot, I'm doing good if I can remember where I put my car keys
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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    badboybob, I can remember gas for 16 cents per gallon and when a gas war would be on, the gas would go down to either 12 or 14 cents per gallon...

    Also school dances (hops)...OK, time for the meds....LOL

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yumpin Yiminy, BJ, you sure know how to hurt a guy - I remember all that stuff (Teaberry gum is still available, or at least I bought some not too long ago and Fuller Brush is still in operation, although maybe not door-to-door). I didn't think I was old until you started this thread. And I remember buying gas for $0.11 a gallon (once) in the middle of a gas war in Petersburg, VA, circa 1969. Recognizing the term 'gas war' alone would date someone to being at least 40!

    You left out coonskin caps and nickel candy bars big enough to satisfy most anyone's sweet tooth.
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kleins 3 cent Lunchbar(candy bars)Henry J's(cars)
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  • jujujuju Member Posts: 6,321 ✭
    edited November -1
    Jeez, catching fireflies - man I'd forgotten how much fun that was. Putting them in a bottle or pinching off the light part on the tail and placing them on various parts of your face and arms then running around like an idiot. Man o man, thanks for putting that in your post. What a great time that was.
    I remember almost all of those, born in 1951. Damn, have times changed or what!
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Remember the Fluid Drive Tranny in cars??

    Air conditioning in our car was all windows down and push the little lever under the dash to lift the little vent door in front of the windshield..

    I remember my dad using cloth electric tape on the innertubes of the tires, cause we couldnt buy new ones, YEP I remember innertubes, used to be in all tires.

    JEEZ I remember when the ROCK was a secret weapon.
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Titaic

    Thomas Edison's first light bulb

    The Wright brothers

    The Pony Express

    The golden spike

    Man, what a bunch of old codgers

    40 days and 40 nights..........
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They still make Butch Wax. I used it on my flat-top from 7th through 11th grade until my dad figured out why the bathroom drains ran so slowly. He spent all day cleaning out a pinkish waxy substance that clogged them like cholesterol clogs arteries. No more Butch Wax for me.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • CameroonCameroon Member Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remembered all that plus the names of gas stations like Sinclair,
    and Clark. Thanks for the memories.
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  • REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    G&PH
    mam, that was great, I'm still wiping tears!-Ralph

    Nothing very, very good or very, very bad lasts for very, very long.
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  • REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    G&PH
    man, that was great, I'm still wiping tears!-Ralph

    Nothing very, very good or very, very bad lasts for very, very long.


    Nothing very, very good or very, very bad lasts for very, very long.
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  • REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looks like I need a little more practise on that edit thingy-Ralph

    Nothing very, very good or very, very bad lasts for very, very long.
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    im only 31 and i remember most of that stuff and i still use butch-wax in my flat-top

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    remember picking teams using "dukes"?put your dukes in?using the always random ,sometimes not so random eeny meeny miney mo?do youy remember the difference between big dukes and little dukes?

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not only do they still make butch wax, I still have a jar and a half and still use it once in a while. I get it from my barber.
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  • sealyonsealyon Member Posts: 313 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bubba---I'm now going for the Ben-Gay and Geritol..But it was a great trip down memory lane.......Thanks
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