How many do you remember?
Choke knob on the steel dashboard
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
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 : 25 for 25
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4.. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
.....two kinds- the big zinc(?) lever and the slider chest type with ice for the coldest Coca-cola
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
....drug store and Five and Dime store lunch counters had them as well
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
....individual little glass creamers with the cardboard lids at lunch counters etc.
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
...Saturday movie house matinees for the kids, double feature plus four or five cartoons
....on stage popcorn eating contests with free movie passes as prizes
9.. P..F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
.......Brylcream, a little dab’ll do yah, Vitalis, and metal taps on your shoes
11. 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])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14.. 45 RPM records
15. S & H greenstamps- family sitting at the kitchen table with damp sponges gluing the .......stamps into books and looking through the redemption catalogues
16. Hi-fi’s
.... tube amplifier kits from Eico, Heathkit, etc.
17.. Metal ice trays with lever
...... still the best
18. Mimeograph paper
..... The smell of the mimeograph test papers in school
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
...... Henry J’s, DeSotos, Nash Ramblers and Metropolitans, woodie station wagons w/real wood
21. Roller skate keys
.......roller skate scooters, soapbox derby
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You’re still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don’t tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You’re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
>>>slider chest type with ice for the coldest Coca-cola<<<
Oh boy, our local lumber yard had one of those - 5¢ Cokes... Used to walk all the way across town (about a half mile) for one. So cold that they would form a little ice slush when you opened them.
Rambler Metropolitans - Had one of those when I was in the Army. LOL can you imagine - 5 of us used to ride from Ft. Devens, Massachusetts home to Delaware for weekends when we were off. 3 in front and two on the jumpseat in back with their legs stuck into the trunk - back of rear jumpseat was trunk access. There was a bus that would pass us every Sunday on our way back through New Jersey - he would pull up along side as he passed us and all would look and laugh, then he would fall back till I would pass him, then all on the other side would laugh. 5 BIG GI’s in a tin can like sardines. 32 miles per gallon - gas at 25¢ - split 5 ways was doable even when we made $68 a month military pay!
Welcome to the thread. Hope you continue to post...
Saturday movie house matinees for the kids, double feature plus four or five cartoons
....on stage popcorn eating contests with free movie passes as prizes<<<
We used to have visiting YoYo champions on stage - along with a local competition too. As you said - free tickets were the prizes.
Admission - 25¢
11! Hey - I’m older than I thought as far as remembering the good ol’ days. (47)
How many do you remember?
All that you listed plus: <<<
Welcome to the thread.
I must have missed this one, or I am indeed older than dirt.
“Burma Shave” signs on the roadways.