OLDER THAN DIRT

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Older than dirt.......

We were cleaning out my mother's house and found 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 she 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.
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Many Do You Remember??

lights dimmer switches on the floor
Ignition switches on the dashboard
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall
Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz>br>

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 a bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Telephone Party lines
ewsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
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!

Especially to all your really OLD friends.

[Neets]

BTT

[grannie9]

Checking in and counting..and the count is getting higher and higher still... That did it.. you ruined my whole day.. Now I do feel older than dirt..and creeping ever closer to my dirt nap... Jeeez, Neets..thanks a whole lot for the bump...;)

I'll be back after I count my wrinkles...and check my MIL's ice box in the kitchen...

[acnielsen guy]

Sorry doesn't apply to me - I don't know what they are talking about. J

[Neets]

LOL me either but poor grannie knows all the dirt...HA!!!!!!!

[grannie9]

Smartasses... ;(

[Neets]

Smarties@ the candy, yes, I remember those...but smartasses???????????? HMMMMMMMMMMM let me think about that one.

[ValerieUSA]

I'm 43 and I remember everything on the list but butch wax.

[grannie9]

You've been hiding in the closet.. I always suspected that you were older than me... Good work tho.. ;)

[lysie]

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

I remember each summer a local dairy owner would rent an airplane and drop the cardboard stoppers from the plane. If the stopper had a red X on it the kid got a free ice cream cone.

AHH!!! The good old days. :-)

Morning, Nita.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Damn.... I got 16....just barely older than dirt....damn!

[Neets]

Good morning Lysie hon!!! My dad was a milk man...so of course I remember those cardboard stoppers...also the little puddle of REAL CREAM that sat at the top of those bottles!!! YUMMMMMMMMMMM

[ValerieUSA]

My Grandpa the milkman in Kansas, 1936 -- he later moved to California and owned a dairy.

[Neets]

The good ole days Val!!!!!!!!! Kids these days have no clue how much fun it was back then......my Dad used to always bring us back lotz of milk man goodies....I remember when the little coffee creamers first came out....my sister and I would have tea parties with them...LOL...now whenever I am out and put 1/2 and 1/2 in my coffee...i am so dearly reminded of Dad....

[ValerieUSA]

I hide in the closet to stay out of the sun so I don't wrinkle.
I never watched newsreels at theaters, so I should make that clear.... I watched cartoons (Woody Woodpecker) at the drive-ins before the double feature (usually westerns) started, and ate popcorn from boxes, not tubs, and had to wear pajamas and sit in the back seat with my sisters because my parents were in the front.

[MozartLover]

Yikes....the only one I don't remember is Butch wax; what the heck is that??

Guess this makes me (as if I didn't already know) older than dirt.

[Neets]

I am clueless on that one too!! Maybe moustache wax??? AND I AM PURELY GUESSING.

[Cagey]

All 25! That's it. I want my Social Security and I want it now! Hahahaha

Valerie....Butch Wax was something barbers would use on boys after we got a crew cut. It looked like a large chapstick and the barber would slam it into the front of the head to keep the hair sticking straight up. It was rather painful and I think I had a few welts on my forehead but my hair looked great.

[Cagey]

see my description of "Butch Wax" above...Hahaha Yes, it would have a different meaning now.

[Aggie Mama]

He looks just like Paul Newman!