posted 05-25-2004 04:22 PM         

Head 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.

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz

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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels 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, Darlene....
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

posted 05-25-2004 05:28 PM         

Mav

posted 05-25-2004 05:37 PM         

*Blackjack....was still available a couple of years ago....may still be....Clove Gum was the sister product....
*wax bottles still for sale in most C stores today...along with candy cigs...
*still find the glass bottle machines occasionally, but mostly gone....I still have a 1955 Coke machine that vends 6oz bottles for 10 cents....
*coffee shops with jukeboxes....still a few around the area....
*buddy of mine was a milkman...avoided the draft in 1969 beacuse he slipped on the ice and ran his hand thru a case of glass milk bottles, severing some nerves(his lottery number was 364, mine was 28).....
*party lines were familiar when I was a kid in Kentucky, early fifties.......
*news reels have turned into previews....
*PF Flyers and Red Ball Jets...my two brands....always peeled off the "red ball" and carried it in my pocket for some reason....
*butch wax.....needed that pink stuff to keep my "ducktail" in place....Beatles landing put the Butch Wax company out of business...
*my phone # was "Jackson(Ja) 9-3724"
*pea shooters.....everybody had them....went to the supermarket and tore holes in bags of navy beans and filled our pockets...didn't have to buy them that way....
*Howdy Doody....thought he was gay.....
*45 rpm......still have EVERY 45 rpm record I bought as a kid....I even have a few old 78rpms of my moms......
*stamps.....we got our first set of end tables at the S&H Green Stamp store in San Antonio, Tx....1974
HiFi(High Fidelity)....still a couple in our family...
*ice trays....cut my fingers on them several times....sometimes the levers would break off completely....they sucked...
*Mimmio paper....grade school.....would get that blue crap all over your hands...
*Flashbulbs....I think the blue was the modern advanced version.....used many of them.....
*Packards....my buddy has a 58 Packard Hawk.....saw a Packard on the street yeaterday coming in from a car show....
*roller skate keys.....on a dirty string tied around your neck
*cork popguns were okay till I discovered BBs and then pellet guns....today a "Tek 9" is my choice...
*drive ins(still a few around the area)....worked at a drive in rest.....started as a dishwasher for .25 cents per hour....was PROMOTED to a carhop.....drive in theaters(still have one in town)......where you learned about girls.....
*Studebakers(not uncommon).....buddy has one, a '53 street rod....
*wash tub ringers.....wife ran her arm completely thru one when she was a kid....used to help my mom pull stuff thru them ....remember my family using wash tubs with the bumpy things down the sides...

posted 05-25-2004 06:50 PM         

Black jack gum S*CKS

Loved the little wax coke bottles.

candy cigs & bubble gum cigars

friend had a 7up machine with small glass bottles

I seen some metal ice cube trays somewhere in the last few weeks with lever that if your hands are wet would want to stick to them

S&H had store at Irvington shopping center

White castles had the table side jute boxes for years

Have a 74 Coupe deVille & `67 Dodge Dart with dimmer on floor, had an `83 elCamino with one too, (the one on the turn signal switch broke so I put on on the floor)

glass bottles yes, My brother delivered milk in the early 70's. I believe Roberts Dairy used paper tops in the early `60's but how about the metal milk containers they used to put the milk in after milking the cow

had to have butch wax for a good flat top too

got 2 MayTag washing machines with wringers in the barn

buddy had Studebaker

Friend has Packard

How about these
walking 1/4 mile going to the hand dug well to get water (grandma shared well with neighbor)

a 2 holer outhouse complete with 1/2 moon in the door

know what it means when they say "didn't have a pot to p*ss in"

a real wash tub

some phone prefix I remember, ours Twinbrook TW, uncles ST6
granny only had to dial 4 numbers if it was in Franklin, KY

grandpa left the front door unlocked in case someone needed a place to sleep

posted 05-25-2004 07:28 PM         

Ignition switches on the dashboard : My 28, 51, 66, and Pacifica have this feature.

Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall; Just the 51 on this one

Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that] My Grandmother still had one in the 1950's

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Remember em, but I always had a chain guard.

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Used one of these in High School shop class

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. I still have to use them with my 28 Plymouth.

Older than dirt (at 54) cause I remember all 25 of them.

posted 05-26-2004 09:25 AM         

Growing up in a NC mill town and spending a lot of time on both Grandfathers' tobacco farms many of these things were still in vogue to those of us born in the fifties and growing up in the sixties. I'm 50, born in 1954.

But I feel 18 again when I throw the top back on my Prowler and go cruiz'in!