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]

So I see your mind was thinking in the same direction that mine was eh??? ROTFLMAO...

So you gonna send an address to mail that walker I was gonna get you for your birthday then?????

[Cagey]

And for the girls....

[Cagey]

I already have a walker, but you could send a motor for it.

[ValerieUSA]

Oh! I remember the boys with their butch haircuts. So Butch Wax was for one kind of guy, and a dab of Brylcream was for another type.

[Cagey]

Yes...I was "another type". LOL

[ValerieUSA]

Yeah, Grandpa was a ladies' man - very popular on his milk delivery route.

[Charles Henrickson]

Yeah, I remember all those things. I'm 49 and grew up in the city of Chicago.

I grew up in a house (a Chicago bungalow, built by my grandfather in 1925) that had a real ice box. I think when I was little we had a refrigerator, but I do remember getting ice delivered to a summer cabin on vacation at Lake Geneva. BTW, I still call the refrigerator "the ice box."

Telephone prefix? Ours was AMbassador 2-. . . . (Our postal zone was "Chicago 45, Ill.")

My mom was born in 1915. Her mother, who lived with us, was born in 1883. My dad died when I was one year old, but his parents, who lived next door, were born in 1883 and 1884. So the people who raised me, and from whom I got my values and learned their ways, were real old!

[.38sw]

I'm only a little older than you but there are many things on that list I don't remember, like cork pop-guns. Maybe i'm so old I have dementia, which is why I don't remember those things!

[ValerieUSA]

I think you can still buy cork popguns...

[kinsman redeemer]

I saw "pants leg clips" and was reminded of "pants strechers" that my mom used when she washed pants. They are a pair of rectangular metal frames that were inserted into the pants legs and expanded to stretch and re-establish the seam while the pants dried (leaning up against the wall). WOW!

Thanks for the memory.

[kinsman redeemer]

cork guns... yeah, you can buy them, but the places that sell them are few and far between. PC has removed guns from most department and toy stores.

I have indulged my children with purchases over the net. There are a couple of nice places in the western states.

Russ

[kinsman redeemer]

24 - I do not personally remember the Packard. I remember Packard-Bell 'puters and I had an HP. Does that make me a perfect 25? "Perfect"??

ARGHhhhh!

[ValerieUSA]

I'm hoping the blue flashbulb in #19 is referring to the little blue dot flashcube that was used with Kodak Instamatics shooting 126 or 110 film cartridges.

[kinsman redeemer]

No. It was a spherical glass bulb that looked blue because the filament in it was a mass of blue strands.

The bulb you described was MUCH later. It had 4 flashes and the camera rotated it with each shot so that the next side was aimed at the subject.

Russ

[ValerieUSA]

Hey! Maybe I'm younger than dirt after all!

[kinsman redeemer]

...and the blue dot changed to black when that particular side was used. 4 black dots = insert another cube.

Another thing about the blue flash bulbs I just remembered is how the glass would wrinkle up after you use it. And the bulb would be too hot to remove immediately without getting 2nd degree burns. LOL

Russ

[farmfriend]

I'm not "old" by any stretch but I remember our washing machine. Had no holes in the tub and agitated up and down. It's main feature was that it would shut off when it was out of balance. Of course this never worked and it would "walk" across the floor if you didn't catch it.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Well, I'm a car guy, so I know about Packards even though I never knew anybody who owned one. You still see Studes around, here in Southern California.

Please God, I'm only 41! :)

(I have seen ads for Butch Wax in an old car magazine collection I picked up.)

[palo verde]

thanks for ping neets
I got the wax mixed up with wax lips
(also from penny candy store)
we didn't have party line, we had phone number with name in it
my parents bought summer cottage soon after I was born, it had ice box
Ernie came on horse and wagon and delivered ice
but in Queens we had electric refrigerator
lol kinsman, I remember the little blue bulb which shriveled, and how it was too hot to touch right afterwards
Love, Palo

[Tony in Hawaii]

We needed a new washing machine for our little summer cabin in Northern California back around 1973 or so. The hardware store still had a brand-new (or at least, never sold) wringer washer. It didn't even have water hose connections, we had to run two rubber hoses over the upper edge of the tub.