How many of these items do you remember??

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast 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. 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad 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.



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.
My parents never drove me to school. 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 19. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone 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 -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.



Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

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?



MEM O RIES:


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.
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. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. 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.)
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young.
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older.
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age.
If you remembered 11-15 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends....


I wish we could go back to the old times...

I'm older than dirt (11). Oh, dear! (Not - oh s___!)

We still get milk delivered. I was one of 5 kids and we had 6 gallons delivered a week and it wasn't enough!

We had NO air conditioning in our house or truck. AM radio only in the truck.

We also had "rat traps" on the back of our bikes to hold our back packs as we rode to school.

thanks

i know a lot of those. lol but i was only about 6 or 7 lol. haven't thought about a lot of those things for a long time. :lol: but seriously, i remember dinner showing up at breakfast to prove a point. (point for mom) cause it was gross at breakfast. lol yes, def. ate what mom put before me after that.

Yep, another one older than dirt. :roll:

I remembered them all personally except the Studebaker...but someone had one that lived down the street from us...we were either Chevy or Ford people...ALWAYS...lol...thanks for the memories...Naomi
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: PS.The only fast food place when I was young was a White Castle place, but they cooked them fresh...AND, we had a restaurant milk cooler...there were 6 in our family, plus a cousin or two living with us most of the time

Yep, I'm old!

I remember glass milk bottles being delieverd, I have the scar in the center of my left hand to show proof. I remember the metal ice trays because we had to refill them and half the time the leaver didn't work that well, my mom putting her had through a wringer on the washer and so many of the others on the list.

I'm older than dirt to I guess but some I remember not because I actually watched or used, but because they were still around or my parents talked about them.

I remember enough that I can't tell my age.

Don't feel older than dirt, but I remember them all, and fall into that dirt age. Thanks for the laugh!

Older than dirt here!

Older than dirt here too : )

This is one time I may not want to admit I scored 100%. I remember all of them.

I got all 15. I'm really older than dirt! thanks for the memories!

You know what else makes you feel old? When a performer on stage says, "this is a new song on my new CD" and it was originally released 3 years before she was ever born. We all know it, "I Love Rock & Roll" I think she meant it was a song on her new CD.

I'm older than dirt...heck I was the rock the dirt came from lol

goodness!

I know all of these, and in addition since I grew up on a farm I knew a few more. Like separating our own cream, making homemade cottage cheese, home made sour kraut, making our clothes out of feed sacks, etc.

wow, eyes open here!

Uh oh...I scored 15 out of 15!!! But as to being older than dirt? Not really. My DH is a geologist and i happen to know that dirt is considerably older than 54 :lol: :lol:

Older than dirt.

We did all these things and we had an ICE BOX.
:D

guess I am older than dirt but as I was reading it made me think of pant stretchers anyone else remember them? Mom would put the went jeans and mens panta in tthem before hanging on the line to make creases inthe pants and help them dry with less wrinkles.

My grandmother even ironed everyones socks

I was a real sucker for the candy and chocolate cigarettes, but never smoked so much as one real one.

I am also older than dirt and I OWNED a Studebaker. Golden Hawk probably worth a bundle now if I still owned it.. It was salmon colors...it wasn't a mustang, but I appreciated the fact that I got a car for graduation...Hard working parents bought it for me. And we Didn't have money for those kinds of things. Awww memories

Oh wow..this comment made me stop and think. I hated the candy cigs..and I turned out to be a smoker. I guess I can not say ex-smoker yet...as it is only 15 weeks smoke free.

I remember them all and am glad I do. Older than dirt here. Granddaughter can't even imagine lots of what I tell her, she has no idea of what some are. She is 24. She can't fathom the parts about being dirt poor and not having enough food to last a month. Thank God none of my Grandkids have had to do without anything they really need and most take for granted. Growing up in the 50s was not all great and wonderful. I will gladly stay where I am.

I'm older than dirt! (13 out of 15!)

My daughter (19) sent me a picture yesterday. She and her friend had found something, but didn't know what it was. After questioning her, and finally asking where they found it (should have asked that first! - it was in Grandma's sewing basket) I figured out it was a darning egg, the kind with a handle on it.

DD's response? "What's darning?" !! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I had to explain that it's what our parents used to do when their socks got holes in them! No throwing them out and going to WalMart to get new ones! We REPAIRED clothes instead of pitching them!

Oh man, older than dirt here. I remember my grandmother going to BINGO and bringing home boxes of food, not money. I remember when oleo came on the market and the little yellow pill we used to squish in what I now assume was lard to make it yellow. I remember when pork and beans had a HUGE hunk of pork in them, no matter the size of the can. They invented the ball point pen the year I was born.
Life was sure good back then...and it was easier to keep the house clean....didn't have nearly as much STUFF. And to give credit to my folks, I never knew we were poor. That part wouldn't pass muster today.

Old as dirt here!!

Congratulations on being cigarette free for 15 weeks - that is a great start!

I'm 53, not so "young" but would love to spend time with you ladies....

all the info, advice and tricks you've learned over the years....such gems you could teach us.!

Yep, I'm older than Dirt ! Oh well, I like the memories.

Yep, I'm older than Dirt ! Oh well, I like the memories.

Sorry, double message

I remember all 15-how can I be older than dirt at 48???

What about 78 rpm records? does that make me older than rock?`

Older than dirt, too!

I AM older than dirt. And I also remember:

toothpaste in metal tubes

soot from steam engines on the clean wash and laundry frozen on the line

clothesline props

pens by the railroad tracks to water, feed and rest cattle from the cars

rubber girdles

eating in a B&O dining car

sleeping in a berth in a Pullman car

the Davy Crockett craze

the first polio vaccinations

tuberculosis sanitariums

riding on a street car

when Dairy Queen came to our town

lunch counters in every drug store

galoshes with those darn buckles

traffic cops at every intersection

newsboys crying papers on street corners

"Post No Bills" notices on walls

five cent candy bars, dime Cokes and 10 cent comics.

Roy Rogers and Trigger, Jr. live on stage

radio shows--Edgar Bergan, the Shadow, FBI in Peace and War

third run movie houses

how to make starch and how to iron

the WWVA Jamboree live from the Virginia theater

industry thriving, employees proud and hard working

hair nets

deposits on glass bottles--5 bottles collected earned you 10 cents, the cost of a soda

modest swimsuits

corporal punishment at school followed by corporal punishment at home

the sound of a calliope on a showboat

shoe repair shop and cleats to make the shoes last longer

hat blocking and fur remodeling

and, honest, one year, fourth grade I think, the teacher made us bring inkbottles and DIP PENS to practice Palmer Method Penmanship. We could still buy steel nibs at the confectioner's.