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| Author | Topic: Older Than Dirt |
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Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:11 PM
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 If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:36 PM
Sad to report,,,older than dirt. Got all 25. Had to think on the cork popgun, then I remembered I had a rifle that shot out the cork, but my dad tied a string onto the cork and attached to the gun, so we wouldn't lose it. MEMORIES This message has been edited by ALLEY CAT on 08-10-2004 at 07:39 PM |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:37 PM
Reference number 19. Flash bulbs used to be single bulbs you put in the flash, one at a time. They came on a cardboard strip or the bigger ones were in a corrugated container. The small ones were just pushed in, the larger ones were screwed in. Then they came out with flash cubes, which had 4 flashes to them. This was around 1960 to 62. Blue flashbulbs came out about that same time. I am not sure if blue came out before the cubes or after. Things have progressed some since then. |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:40 PM
Ed - Dave Mills and you were around before radio, lol. |
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GRROWL Prowler Junkie Posts: 2404 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:41 PM
Flashcubes were the "new-and-improved" flashbulbs, they were designed for the Instamatic. Blue flashbulbs came out way earlier. If you're REALLY older than dirt, you'll remember the clear flashbulbs - the blue ones were for the "new" color film. -GRROWL |
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Neal & Mary Ann Bardens Prowler Junkie Posts: 587 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:51 PM
If you are really old you will remember flash powder. Neal ------------------ |
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BeWare Prowler Junkie Posts: 18511 |
posted 08-10-2004 07:59 PM
25 so I am Older than Dirt and proud of it. It sure beats the alternative |
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Dave Mills Prowler Junkie Posts: 5419 |
posted 08-10-2004 08:34 PM
All 25. Ed: I have some single bulb blue dot's for my Kodak Brownie that my parents got me around 1956 or 1957. |
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MDProwler Prowler Junkie Posts: 5250 |
posted 08-10-2004 08:42 PM
Over 20. But if I remember correctly the cork popgun did have a string attached so you didn't lose the cork. Bob, drive ins still here. Come to Big M on the 11th of Sept for the car show! (see event discussion) ------------------ |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 08-10-2004 08:48 PM
I worked in a drugstore from 60 to 62 and we still had all the different types. There were several sizes of each kind. I just did not remember which came first. If blue were for color film, that would make sense. |
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Dave Mills Prowler Junkie Posts: 5419 |
posted 08-10-2004 08:56 PM
See....that makes Ed older than me. The only job I could do from 60 to 62 was paperboy, I wasn't old enough yet for anything else. Hey Ed, did the drug store have a soda fountain? Were you a Soda Jerk? |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 08-10-2004 10:24 PM
The only one I didn't know was the first one. But I refuse to be older than dirt..........how old is dirt anyway??? Boy, did that bring back some memories! Our telephone number was PRescott 12231........I can't believe I actually remembered that! This message has been edited by CJ on 08-11-2004 at 12:18 AM |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 08-10-2004 10:29 PM
The one I worked at did not have a soda fountain. The owner's brother owned one about a mile away and it did have a soda fountain. I filled in up there a few times, maybe 5 times, but his business was pathetic. Back then there were a lot more drugstores, but they mostly only sold drugs, not food, etc. like today. I worked behind the counter and also delivered prescriptions. I had just turned 16 so I liked the driving part. |
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GenoTex Prowler Junkie Posts: 8492 |
posted 08-10-2004 10:30 PM
TWinbrook.... then TErminal.. then, I moved OUTTA the big city to a smaller town.. there WERE no prefixes, they all began with the same, so it was 5 numbers only to dial for local. All 25... piece o' cake |
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Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 08-11-2004 08:21 AM
Let's see, in the 1960/61 I was too young to work, but not too young to get into trouble. I used to ride the city bus to school for 10 cents. At the end of the bus line was a large city park with swings, slides, teeter-totters, etc. Sometimes I didn't get off at school, but I'd stay on the bus to the end of line and get off at the park. A short time later we moved to a different part of the city. I was able to walk to and from school each day and there was a corner drug store with a soda fountain and they made great root beer floats and chocolate malts!!! |
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Tytanium-K Prowler Junkie Posts: 3017 |
posted 08-11-2004 08:23 AM
Isn't all that stuff still around?!?!!! ------------------ |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 08-11-2004 09:37 AM
quote: Let me guess....you scored less than 5,right?
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Eddie Powell Prowler Junkie Posts: 528 |
posted 08-11-2004 10:02 AM
Remember all of them. I have a Howdy Doody "hanky" (I used as a kid) framed and hanging on my wall. I also have a Howdy Doody lunch box. It is hard to take remembering the same things Ed and CJ remember!  |
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Bcoffman Gray Ghost Prowler Junkie Posts: 2418 |
posted 08-11-2004 10:55 AM
oops, sorry This message has been edited by Bcoffman Gray Ghost on 08-11-2004 at 11:01 AM |
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Bcoffman Gray Ghost Prowler Junkie Posts: 2418 |
posted 08-11-2004 10:59 AM
quote: I was in Senior High School before our town had phone numbers with a prefix, it was GArden ---. Our phone number before that was 392 and my grandma's was 497. I used to go visit my other grandma and she had the crank phone. They lived on a farm. She would pick up the earpiece to see if the line was open,(They were on a party line) and then crank to get the operator. I remember if she wanted to phone the local people she would just tell the operater who she wanted to call. If she phoned my folks in town(20 miles away), she would give our phone number to the operator. |
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bbcar Prowler Junkie Posts: 328 |
posted 08-11-2004 11:37 AM
Got all but the first one, my phone # was wydown wy1-5611 My mon kept that # till she passed away 2 years ago. Thats 50 years with the same # as I was just a couple years old when we moved in that house, 55 now. That quiz sure brings back memories. Barry |
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Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 08-11-2004 11:52 AM
Yea, our phone number in Kansas City, Mo began with Emerson or EM. |
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Gene Prowler Junkie Posts: 1256 |
posted 08-11-2004 12:23 PM
I went into USAF in 1953,does that tell you something.I'm like another member saying being old does not mean I have to act old.But with wife and I both having cancer doesn't help. |
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