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Older Than Dirt
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Older than dirt..........
My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 my daughter 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.
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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 [Ask your Mom about that]
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
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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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside 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!
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 my daughter 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.
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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 [Ask your Mom about that]
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
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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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside 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!
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the
food was slow."
"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day
and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room
table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit
there until I did like it."
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I
would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have
handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf
course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later
years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good
only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there
is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we
never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds,
and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house
until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course,
black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the
screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was
green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs
that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day.
Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look
larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie." When I
bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung
down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the
best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family
was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the
living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to
listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the
line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home, but milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I
delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I
got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I
had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were
the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least
favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection
day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies.
Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they
didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies.
French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.
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 my daughter
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 glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
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!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best Part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD Friends....
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"Senility Prayer"...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference."
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
- Max Lerner
Our truck still has the dimmer switch on the floor!
I remember when if you had enough of #15 you could have about anything else on the list.
How about playing cards and clothes pins in your bicycle spokes?
Or paying $5.00 for a 20 gallon fill-up, and getting free dishes from the station attendant?
Buying firearms across the counter at the Western Auto store, or almost anywhere else that wanted to sell em?
Yep! I guess I'm older than dirt. Too bad age doesn't equal wisdom.
Ignition switches on the dashboard
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wallRemember them?? I still drive them. You mean they come another way???I did not have enough fingers AND toes to count all the ones I remember, I guess I have to join the older than dirt club.
If I knew then, what I know now.
Guess older than dirt.
down. Heck, I am old.
Balsa wood airplane models $3.00
Dad's 65 Ford p/u $1200 NEW, brought home in it! He still has it and running strong! Heater in cab and ignition switch on dash!!
I even remember when you could trust people!
Of course I can play the piano, as long as it has pedals!
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Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Ignition switche on the dashboard.
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
And my dad had a truck that you had to push the pedal on the floor to engage the starter.
How about the record maker that recorded 78 rpm records on a metal disc?
Way older than dirt.
"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
quote:How about the record maker that recorded 78 rpm records on a metal disc?
I learned to drive in a Chevy truck with the starter button on the floor ... and "three on the tree" ... we had party lines, the operator connected our calls ... we also used an "ice box" ...
... Thanks Nunn ... like I needed to be reminded of my age ...
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? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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VW's with turn signals that popped out behind the either door and pointed the direction of the turn.
The sweet water in wax bottles was called Nik-el-Nip.
I am not older than dirt, I am older than god!
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Bowery Boys
Lash 'n Buchanan 'n Hopalong
Coke Machines with the lid on top, 5 cents
Buckin' hay for 4 dollars a day.
Clouder..
Black two piece phone, no dial. You picked it up and the operator said "Number please".
Ah the good old days? Nope, I'll take today.
Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
Speaking of starter buttons, does anyone remember the mid-50's Buicks with the starter button incorporated into the gas pedal? Turn on the key, push the gas to the floor and away she went.
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I must be older than old dirt, 'cause I remember most of them!
Homes went for 10-15,000,......
Coke in bottles in a cooler full of water.....
poor mans AC in a car was a squirrl cage blower fan that hung from your side window filled with water, faster you drove the more cool moist air was blown in on passengers.....
TV's and radio tubes needed time to warm up before working.....
Every year the new car models had different body style, everyone would go to the auto dealers in the fall to view the new models and admire the chrome....
Guns could be bought "mail order" from ads in the back of magazines & comic books....
Edited by - Rembrandt on 06/08/2002 07:32:17
remember the canvas water bags people kept on their grills on a trip to keep the water cool?
barto
the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
Let's see, spark up, gas down, don't wrap your hand around the crank, pull up on compression, ahh! it started. Back up the hill's, carry your tire irons and your hot patches and your tire pump. Rayon tires and red rubber tubes.
14 cent movies with two features, serial, cartoon and a news reel.
Watching the first T.V. through the hardware store window.
Older than dirt? hehehehe!
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When I grew up my dad had a 57 Buick Special with the starter switch incorperated in the gas pedal like you described.
then some. Even remember the depression in the 30's. And later,
the CCC, NRA (not gun related) and the likes. Luckily, we lived in
a farming village so we always ate. However I do like to remember
when .22 shorts (USA brand) cost .14 per box of 50.
My mothers still got one under the kitchen sink. It's in and old Mr. Cola Bottle. I don't know if you remember those, but they were the first ones to offer cola in a 12oz bottle in the early 50's, and that's why she used it. Higher capacity. Kind of like my 14.45!
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