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.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am not that old, and I remember these:

1. Blackjack chewing gum
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
14. 45 RPM records
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper (is this the blue dittos?)
19. Blue flashbulb
21. Roller skate keys
23. Drive-ins

AND ALSO

~Waiting for the picture tube to warm up when you turned on the TV

[Inge_CAV]

Wow! You are older than I thought. You just don't look it though. ;~)

[dalebert]

Well if I could remember anything at all I would probably remember all of it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh come on! - you need to confess some!

[oldsalt]

Well, I'm a car guy, so I know about Packards even though I never knew anybody who owned one.

My Uncle Frank owned a Packard, got rid of his LaSalle to get it. My Dad was partial to DeSoto's for a while, but there were lots of other choices, Kaiser, Fraser, Hudson,Terraplane and of course the Studebaker. We even had a soon-to-be-opened Tucker dealer down the street....but he never did open.

[Inge_CAV]

Uh, I think I am older than dirt. : )

1. Blackjack chewing gum. No
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water. Yes
3. Candy cigarettes. Yes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed a bottle. Yes
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes. Yes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Yes
7. Telephone Party lines. Yes
ewsreels before the movie. Yes
9. P.F. Flyers. Yes
10. Butch wax. Yes, used it too.
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933) Yes
12. Peashooters. Yes
13. Howdy Doody. Yes
14. 45 RPM records. Yes, bought several.
15. S&H Green Stamps. Yes
16. Hi-fi's Yes
17. Metal ice trays with lever Yes
18. Mimeograph paper Yes
19. Blue flashbulb Yes,
20. Packards Yes
21. Roller skate keys Yes
22. Cork popguns Yes
23. Drive-ins. Oh Yes, : )
24. Studebakers. Yes
25. Wash tub wringers. Yes, and the joke about the Aunt that got her boob caught in the wringer. ;~)

[andysandmikesmom]

Waiting for the picture to warm up on the TV? Ah, yes, I remember that well

Also when your TV did not work correctly, your dad took the back off of the TV, and of course then, in the good old days, there were nothing but tubes back there....you looked to see which tubes were burned out and not lighting up anymore...then you could just unscrew the burned out bulb and go to a store, tho I am not sure if it was the drug store, or appliance store, and show them the tube, and then they got the new tube for you, you brought it home, and voila, the TV worked again

Nowdays, trying to get a TV fixed is not worth the trouble, with all the computer chips, and whatnot...just easier and probably the same cost, to chuck the whole set, and go out and buy a new one...

[Sam Cree]

I thought most of that stuff was still around.

[Tony in Hawaii]

As late as the 1970s, I remember a "tube tester" in the local Safeway. You took your tubes in, plugged them into the machine, and it would tell you if they were good or not.

[HairOfTheDog]

Remembering when anything electronic was actually repaired when it quit makes us older than dirt!