Oh wow .. am I really this old...
#113
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: WI
Posts: 706
Recently we were having a discusion about Betty Ford passing:
Husband: Betty Ford Died- 93
Mom: 1993?
Husband: no age 93
8 year old son: 93, isn't that when the Isealites where alive?
Mom: Ya pal, we were there when God sent the plagues on Eygypt and with God's leading Moses parted the Red Sea.
Son: Really?
Husband: Betty Ford Died- 93
Mom: 1993?
Husband: no age 93
8 year old son: 93, isn't that when the Isealites where alive?
Mom: Ya pal, we were there when God sent the plagues on Eygypt and with God's leading Moses parted the Red Sea.
Son: Really?
#114
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Marengo, Iowa
Posts: 802
Originally Posted by mythreesuns
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...
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...
The "good ole days" sound good until the electricity goes off. Then lets see, no micro, no AC, no washer, no dryer, etc. Need I go one? LOL
#119
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Seacoast New Hampshire
Posts: 1,177
Well, I didn't read *all* 8 pages, but I also remember:
penny loafers
plaid skirts with white shirts and knee socks for parochial school
go-go boots
mini skirts
gloves and hat for church and everyone dressed up!
belt had to match shoes
white pants only between Memorial Day and Labor Day
pasta for Sunday dinner at 2:00
sleeping on huge pink hair rollers
bonnet hair dryers
Tang
portable 45 rpm record players
Midge (I still have her!)
ironing practically everything
the mailman walked
your neighbors were allowed to yell at you
people put cow patties on their lawn for fertilizer
parents sitting outside talking with the neighbors
neighborhood cook outs
carpools
one car per household
I love love love those memories, and I'm 53!
penny loafers
plaid skirts with white shirts and knee socks for parochial school
go-go boots
mini skirts
gloves and hat for church and everyone dressed up!
belt had to match shoes
white pants only between Memorial Day and Labor Day
pasta for Sunday dinner at 2:00
sleeping on huge pink hair rollers
bonnet hair dryers
Tang
portable 45 rpm record players
Midge (I still have her!)
ironing practically everything
the mailman walked
your neighbors were allowed to yell at you
people put cow patties on their lawn for fertilizer
parents sitting outside talking with the neighbors
neighborhood cook outs
carpools
one car per household
I love love love those memories, and I'm 53!
#120
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Posts: 170
I got an 8. When I was very young, about 6, I couldn't figure out how to use a bottle opener... so I put nail holes through a whole wooden crate full of Coca-Cola bottles, so my mom wouldn't catch me drinking all that soda. That's what I thought the holes were for!
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