I'm not there yet! ;)

Remember wax candle of differant colors ,came with little holders that snaped on the christmas tree brances.Mom lite them just for a little while so us kids could watch them.Yes I am older then dirt.

I'm way older than dirt - I remember everything everyone mentioned and the only thing I really miss is the full service gas sation! I detest pumping gas! Fun for nostalgia remembering all that...I can see my Grandma ironing w/the sad irons...they didn't get electricity until they moved to town in the late '40s..but I wouldn't go back for anything. So much work for men & women just to have food on the table every day - made them old before their time.

I am older than dirt too!

I used or saw all of those being used. My Mother used an iron that was put on the stove to curl my hair. It had two prongs.

I am older than Dirt.

I am older than dirt, too!!!!

I am older than dirt, too!!!!

I remembered 9...guess that makes me dirt's elder sister!!!
(56)

Okay I remember a lot of these and I am only 45! And if I own several of the items including the ice trays and Studebaker does that make me older than dirt?

Billy

Not only do I remember the metal ice cube tray with a lever, but I still have two! My mom gave them to me when she got an automatic ice cube maker. Still use them - they are aluminum and never rust.

I'm not older than dirt, apparently.

I'm so old I forgot them all!

Stood on the boat and watched the mud dry! I remember all of those plus: Grandma making homemade cottage cheese, rendering the lard after butchering a hog, Saturday night baths in a large galvanized tub, free movies in the depot lot once a month, drive-in movies, and the best of all---penny candy from "Honk" Mumm's gas station. I even remember 27 cents a gallon for gas.
I even watched Elvis (only from the waist up) in his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.
Anyone remember Gertrude and Heathcliff? Red Skelton?

I am older than rocks (70) and remember
Burma shave road signs,
pushbutton light switches,
getting a block of ice to go in the "ice box"!!
black and white saddle shoes,
steering wheel knobs,
indian trading posts along Route 66,
going to the lady down the street to have the run in my nylons repaired,
nylons with a dark heel and a seam up the back,
picking cotton with my mother in the field,
using small frozen juice cans and gel set to make my hair curly,
Blackjack and Beemans gum,
blue chip stamps,
25 cent movies,
learning to sew in a treadle machine,
making soap in the back yard in the huge pot with my grandmother and using the lard from the pigs and ashes to do so.

I fossilized about a ago.
Syl

I'm older than dirt - the only two I didn't know about are 8 and 14, but since I am UK born, I doubt if I would.

I am 45 and I learned to sew on a treadle machine and I refuse to use anything but!!

I was lucky in growing up when I did and having family that were good old country folks. I remember (and still own) several of the things that you all have been talking about. I am tickled that my kids could experience some of it so that they are well rounded and can appreciate the good old days. My daughter loves my aluminum tumblers that were anodized in all of the neat 50's colors and uses them everyday. I have been working on getting several full sets (different makers) for the last 10 years. Gee wiz I still drive a 1951 Ford for my daily driver for crying out loud LOL!

But you know it is hog boiling season right now and if anyone wants a refresher course on scalding them and rendering the lard feel free to come to my place and we will be doing it in a week or so. And if you want to get any water you have to go to the well to draw it where we do the slaughtering.

Thanks for the memories and I can not wait till my wife gets up tomorrow and reads this thread (1953 model :mrgreen: ) she will love it!!

Billy

I am older than dirt! Thanks for the memories!

haha I'm old. nearly 60 so I remember it all. and it was too funny explaining the "party line" to my 18 yr old.

I'm a young'n (just turned 24), but I work at an old-fashioned soda jerk (authentic phosphates!!) and ice cream parlor (I'd actually know what you were talking about if you said 'dip' instead of 'scoop')

Does that count for anything? lol

I guess I am older than old dirt...remember them all and my father only drove studebakers when we were kids...i opened the door in the back and fell out once..until he could get a 2 door car he made his own "latches/locks" he put on the outside of the back doors to lock us in...would that qualify today as child safety or child endangerment...lol

Lois--
How did she fix the run in your stockings? I'm in my early 60s and never heard of that!

I'm starting to feel older than dirt as well. A little gardening to prepare the garden for winter and I can hardly move. BUT I CAN QUILT!
MK

Dirt taste good. Thanks for sharing. Brought back some good times and lots of laughter.

I don't know about being older than dirt but some friends have been ribbing me about getting old and decrepit - just look at the horse that I drew in the sweep for tomorrow's Melbourne Cup horse race! LOL

I am older than....well, old enough!! I remember rag curlers, typewriter ribbons...and what a hassle they were to put in...when working in my father's factory at the age of 10 during the summer didn't get anyone in trouble!!

I am older then dirt too

Nope. I'm 8 days older than water! Figure that one out..haha

I may be older than dirt, but at least I remembered.

I am older then dirt. My score was 15.

Yep, count me in the older than dirt crowd. Now when I was small we would not only "sprinkle" the clothes with the Coke bottle with stopper; THEN we would roll the clothes up and put them in the refrigerator for a couple of days....now don't know if that really did anything of my Mom just didn't want to iron them right then !

We had a wringer washer in the kitchen that had to be hooked up to the sink every time we'd wash; more than one time the hose would "jump" out of the sink and cover the kitchen with water !

My first car was a 1952 Studebaker Champion. It was gorgeous. Some ding dong rear ended me and that was the end of it!

I have some candy cigarettes on my computer desk.

53 is still a sprout! I was almost married when you were born!!!!!! Whipper-snapper!!!!!! Remember Gabby Hayes?

The idea of sprinkling and then putting the folded/rolled in the refrigerator was to keep it from molding. I would wrap my stuff up in a terry towel and in the winter set it outside the back door. Funny, no one ever took it!!!!!!

I remember the Edsel and the Tucker! Edie

definitely older than dirt. I remember them all, plus a few not mentioned.

I remember helping my mother hang clothes outside in the winter to freeze dry them. When they were brought in the next day, our jeans would stand up on their own. They were so stiff. lol The wringer we had, we had to pour water into it, the only hose on it...was for draining. Then we had two wash tubs for rinsing...liquid fabric softner was in one.

I'm older than dirt. And the milk bottles had cardboard lids.

Yep, I am older than dirt. I remember them all.

Remember when we didn't have washers and did the laundry in washtubs and scrub boards. Boiled the whites in the wash pot

I too am older than dirt. My older children remember a few of these things but the GKs think it is funny when I tell them stories.

I remember all of them my folks even had an old ice box and I can remember the ice house and my dad cutting ice in the winter then in later years he also had a studebaker guess I am really older than dirt

I am older than dirt but I tell everyone I am 40+ and holding! Thanks for the memories.

When I was a little kid we had a big black Hudson Jet, no radio, no heater, straight shift of course......after that we got a NEW 1966 Ford something......plastic seats, no radio, think it had a heater, two door.....we drove it for years and when I turned 16 my foster parents gave it to me, which was awesome !