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.

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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.Candy cigarettes

2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 flashbulb

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.

Oh so true... I would so love to see kids now days (even most adults) live this way for a month..well even just a week!!!!

I am older than dirt!!

oh yeah..I'm old! Although I did not use all of the above I remember them all and used most!

I'm older than dirt too.
How about felt circle poodle skirts?
Butch wax?
A colored screen (blue at the top, green at the bottom, clear in the middle) to put in front of the black and white tv screen?
Tooth powder?
Hard cake mascara that you needed to moisten and make a paste then rub a brush in it?

i'm older than dirt, too. thanks for sharing

What on Earth is butch wax? I hate to tell you the image it conjures up.

I'm older than dirt just by a hair (got 11), though I only remembered one item on your personal list, the one before the quiz.

butch wax was before Brylcream

Butch wax was used to make the front hair of a flat top haircut stand up. It was in a push up tube and one of my brothers used it for years.

Really older than dirt here!

how about a bottle of Wildroot Cream Oil? remember your dad having that in the bathroom?

I remeber lye soap, wringer washer, #3 tub for bathing, outhouse, wood buring stove.
I remember waking up one morning and everyone standing around the wood stove shivering, becasue no one wanted to go out and bring in firewood that they forgot the night before.
Pumping water with a pump and drinking out of a ladel. Picking cotton and jumping of the loft into the cotton trailer for fun.
Those were the days when life was slow pace. But thanks to modern technology those are just precious memories.

where are you in central WI? I am there also--west of Oshkosh.

All but the Studebaker....older than dirts dirt! and I will be 53 next Monday!!!

Yes, I remember all of the above, I'm sure I am older than dirt, I'm 66.

I'm older than dirt and so happy I had those memories that I don't care how old I am.

Older than dirt????? I am so old, I fart dust!

I wouldn't say you are old, but, I would say you are very wise!!

I'm older than dirt ;-(

Yup, older than dirt!! What a treasure to find Grandma's ironing bottle...hope you treasure it.

They still make candy cigarettes!
Can only be found in a novelty store for 18 and over,but they are still around!

used to get them all the time.

I got 9 but my kids think I'm older than dirt!!

Ugh, I guess I'm older than I thought because at age 44, I remembered 8 of the items on the list from personal experience. :-(

You forgot the strange looking Skate Key, that locked roller skates to the sole of your shoe.

Old washing machines with a roller that snapped buttons across the room..and was very bad on human fingers.

Sad irons, you sat one on the wood stove and ran another one over a wet cloth to get the smoke dust off it and ironed as fast as you could till it got too cold to press out the wrinkles. Then it went back on the stove, you took the handle out of it and stuck it into the next iron and repeated this. You ironed EVERYTHING from ankle socks to sheets and pillow cases. Everything.

15 cent movie tickets. 10 cent sodas. "Lite" bread from the store, a real delicacy. Waiting till Grandma used all 3 of your names before running home, that meant one more call for you and you'd be met with a switch at the door!!!

Priming the cow tail pump in the kitchen so it'd save you from having to go out and draw up water from the well.

Lovely cars with a tiny seat behind called "Rumble Seats". All cars could be heard for some distance away because all of them sounded like they used shot guns inside the motors, and the horns all went "OOOOGA OOOOGA" which added to the POP POP POP BANG as they went their merry way.

Gas stations where you drove over a bell hose, a uniformed attendant hurtled through the door and asked what he could do for you. He would put in gas, check your oil and water, give you change and a small gift of a glass or dish or a toy, and wish you a good trip and please come back again. And for good measure he'd even wash your car windows, front, sides and back if you were a regular. And in small towns he'd tell you that his mom said to tell your mom she'd see her at the next church meeting!!

Skate keys! I had several of those.
How about your parents giving you a dime (or a quarter, I really can't remember how much it cost) and you, as a 8 or 9 yr old, walking to the store to buy cigarettes for them? I did that several times a week.

Gas stations where you drove over a bell hose, a uniformed attendant hurtled through the door and asked what he could do for you. He would put in gas, check your oil and water, give you change and a small gift of a glass or dish or a toy, and wish you a good trip and please come back again. And for good measure he'd even wash your car windows, front, sides and back if you were a regular. And in small towns he'd tell you that his mom said to tell your mom she'd see her at the next church meeting!!

Oh yes and is you were stupid like me would tell you mom that you had a spare key made for the car!!

I remember all of the things that mythreesuns and all the others said, too, except the iron on the wood stove. We aleays had an electric iron, but I do remember they did not have steam, hence the sprinkler. Brings back a lot of fond memories. How about movie star pictures on Dixie Cup tops (ice cream cups), penny candy (sometimes, even 2 for a penny), large C-9 lightbulbs and bubble lights on the Christmas tree, reel to reel tape players - oh, my, the list goes on and on. LOL

I remember them all!

All except the Studebaker.

I have dust for friends,lol

I'm really old!!!
Curling irons you heat on a gas burner.

Cotton rags to curl your hair with.

Going the the beauty shop looking up to see these octopus tentacles hanging from the ceiling for curling your hair.

Going to the department store for the once a yr white sale.

Wooden floors in the dept stores

I loved the candy cherries on the wires at christmas time.We would hang them on the tree branches.One yr the dog found the candy and we found our tree on the floor.

Early 50's aluminium christmas tree with rotating lights. Just about started the house on fire.

First time flocked trees were popular. My dad and cousin decided to flock their trees in the garage with a vacuum cleaner attachment. What a mess.

whats scary is I got 3, makes me feel old. My daughter will not know any of these things, just google kids guessing the use of old technologies and you will be amazed at what they come up with so things that are less than 20years old

I'm older than dirt. You might even find a few of those items in my house now! :thumbup: :thumbup: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

I am near Wausau... 35 miles north east..Antigo area..

I,m 82 and I'm REALLY older than old dirt.ha. I remember all of that and much more. 1 gift for Christmas{a pr. of PJ,s.] Candles burning in a holder and clamped on the real tree limb. Can you believe that? Wash hanging in the house in the winter all thru the place. Too cold out. More and more.

Well, I remember them all plus most of the ones that were added. Some were at my grannie's house in the country, the washtub for baths, and well water and icebox. Most were part of daily life in Atlanta, but then I'm a lot older than dirt, pre WWII as a matter of fact. And I do remember Studebakers! My aunt had one. Actually, I'm 74.

I'm WAY OLDER THAN DIRT - & I agree w/what you said

"I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the Best Parts of my Life."

Even without all the conveniences of today, many of the younger generations have no idea how much they've missed :x

OMG I didn't know I was sooo old Maybe I just have a great memory!!

I'm almost as old as dirt, maybe just stones... I remember some of those, but not all...

I'm older than dirt :thumbdown: The only thing I don't remember is heating a soldering iron on the stove.

"Thanks for the memories" Know them all too well. How about the Hudson Hornet, Nash and Rambler, would love one of those cars now. Grandkids don't know the good wholesome movies, nor the actors and actresses. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Duante, Red Skelton, Lucy and those way before them, especially the cowboy stars. Waiting forever to go to the movies and talking about it for weeks. And now I complain because my dial-up is so slow.

I am older than dirt too.... 77 now... and I remembered all of those plus the ones above...