Are you older than dirt???
10-31-2011, 07:45 PM
#193
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wa
Posts: 937
I remember all but the soldering irons. Do you remember the Helm's Bakery truck ??? Good humor ice cream truck??? Bazooka Bubblegum from the Good Humor truck with baseball cards??? Oh dear. I'm old as dirt and twice as dusty. Thank you very much. ;-)
10-31-2011, 08:42 PM
#195
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central VA
Posts: 413
Originally Posted by mythreesuns
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!!!!
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 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!!!!
10-31-2011, 08:56 PM
#196
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northern New Hampshire
Posts: 1,936
I knew I was older than dirt and you just confirmed it for me... :thumbup: Being older than dirt is better than the option and being older than dirt isn't such a bad thing, I've got a ton of memories to mix with the dirt... :lol: :lol: :lol:
10-31-2011, 09:14 PM
#198
Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Central FL
Posts: 17
My favorite memory is the console radio that was taller than me as a child (that was before TV). It had a big dial that I always got in trouble for playing with it moving the needle around the dial screen by turning the knob round and round. Also remember playing outside in the dark..no parents worried about that. Summers were so hot, no air conditioners..just shade of the trees and if you were lucky a breeze. Lots of Kool-aid made with sugar and orange push-ups.
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