Things to think about....

[cr8crshr]

Bring back any memories?
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 '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 lad 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.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, 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 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; 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...

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, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

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


MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Lemonade 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?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with 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 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
9a. 78 RPM records and wind-up gramophones
10. Hi-if's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. 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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' 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 just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)

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[RustyRatRod]

Dang. I remembered 7.

 

[iraqivet01]

Well I'm not tell my age.

And yes, one of my first jobs was delivering newspaper, and no my parents didn't follow me around or help me fold and rubber band them.

My day job was cutting grass for $1 to $2 per yard. A weed eater was your two hands and a shovel or hoe.

Still have some 45 & 33 records, then started buying 8 track tapes. Got one for Christmas for my car one year. No fast forward or reverse on those things.

I should blind from those Kodak flash bulbs.
I remember they played the nation anthem before the test pattern and before the programing started in the morning.

You got dressed up in a suit to go to church, the bank to get a loan, and funerals.

 

[snakeyes]

dam I remember all of and them and some you could of been my brother ,I grew up in alot of foster homes and farms for boys ,thanks for the memories :headbang:

 

[snakeyes]

oh yah and I remember the razor strap too !

 

[70redbee]

I must be really old, because I remember all 14. There are most likely 14 more, but I will not list them here because everyone would just laugh at me and say that I traveled by horse and buggy.

How about no AC or cell phones or actually working as a kid to earn a little money to buy that 2nd hand bike. OK I'll quit now.

 

[snakeyes]

and boiling water to take a bath ,shoveling coal for heat and alot more :grin:

 

[Budnicks]

I must feel older than dirt, I remember all of them, some form or other... I'm only 53 y/o, remember when you wanted to change a channel on the TV or Radio you had to actually get up off your *** & physically turn the dial ??, or make a phone call with a slow *** rotary phone & actually have to dial the number ??, remember party phone lines ??, remember when you actually had to go into the bank to do any financial transactions ??, remember when cars didn't have a bunch of cup holders & even a cigarette lighter was considered an option ??, remember when you didn't have to be an electronics engineer to work on a car ??, you damn near could build a car with a 7/16", 1/2", 9/16" wrench &/or socket, a flat blade & Phillips screwdriver, remember glass tube type fuses ??, remember Tubes in your radios & TV's instead of chips or mother boards ??, remember when a computer would take up a "2 bedroom house", not fit in a cell phone or let alone, on a desk top ??, remember cap guns ??, remember Jolly Burgers ?? remember A&W & Mel's car hops on skates ??, Remember "drive in" Movies ?? hell remember VHS & BETA VCR's ??, remember 2 track or even 8 track tapes ??, remember transistor radios ??, remember CB radios ??, remember $0.05 soda pop ??, remember soda fountains ??, remember $0.29 gas ??, remember when we had a President & Politicians that actually cared about God, the Flag & the Country ??, remember the pledge of allegiance or "In God We Trust" ??, remember women burning their bras ??, remember Viet-Nam ??, remember people burning their draft cards ??, remember the draft ??, remember draft dodgers going to Canada & Mexico ??, remember segregation in schools & the military ??, remember Apollo, Mercury, Saturn Five, the shuttle or even NASA ??, remember stinken Hippies skum ??, remember constant war protesters ??, remember ELVIS ??, remember Hula Hoops ??, remember Slinkies ??, remember Hot Wheels ??, remember Lionel Trains ??, remember Slot Cars ??, remember STP ??, remember Motown ??, remember RainX ??, remember Cheater Slicks ??, remember flat head engines ??, remember old flat head "3/4 & full race" camshafts ??, remember GMC blowers ??, hell remember carburetors...LOL...??, remember prop engine planes for most commerical traveling ??, It's all to funny, when you start thinking about some of the stuff, since I was born in 1959...LOL....

 

[snakeyes]

how about before tv if we where lucky we would listen to the radio to programs that later went on to tv like gun smoke and alot more:grin:

 

[super-bee_ski]

I'm ancient!
PS: I was told to "look up" one night and I saw it!
Sputnik!

 

[Moparsmitty]

When I was a little kid our home telephone didn't have a dial on it. you picked it up and waited for the operator to come on the line and you just told her(always a woman) who you wanted to talk to. After I got out of the Air Force in '69, I went to work for Ma Bell. We still had rotary dials and party lines.

 

[bigredbird]

13! But I am NOT "ancient." I just was around when all the cool stuff was. :headbang:

 

[djais1801]

i am 42..but according to this (remembering)11 i am ancient

 

[roadrunnerman]

I remember all the ones above except for the milk bottles being delivered.We didn't have that luxury service,if we wanted milk we just went out to the barn and got it out of the vat.Best milk you could get hands down. I remember most of the stuff budnicks mentoined also. I always tell everybody i didn't invent dirt, but i went to school with his kids.

 

[shag766]

and boiling water to take a bath ,shoveling coal for heat and alot more :grin:

boiling water to take a bath, really. i can remember mom bringing in snow and putting it in a pot on the Wood stove to melt it and then putting it in a tub in the middle of the kitchen floor.
the only good part was i got to go first because i was the oldest of 6.

thanks for the memory.

 

[snakeyes]

:headbang:

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Old...Yes I am....I Just dropped off 2 of my children at college....1 to go....Now you use this application skype to talk & see each other....

 

[67440chrg]

We did not have milk Service in the sticks. Every summer wile staying at my grand parents we had to fill the wash tub in the morning out in the sun and let it warm up for evening baths. We would sneek on the phone late to listen to the drunks down the street argueing. By we I mean Me and my cousins. I guess 12 makes me old.

 

[snakeyes]

the party line :headbang:

 

[Pops1967GTX]

the party line :headbang:

Wait did you say there's a party....not too old for that!!!!! but I have to be home before 12am.......