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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Take this quiz to see how OLD you are...
How many of these things do do you remember living with??? (not just hearing about...)
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
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 glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
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. Washing machines with wringers; and washtubs for rinsing
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you re membered 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!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends...
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Location: closely held secret | Perfect score. (rats!!!) |
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| It knocks years off if you grew up in a different country and have no idea what most of that stuff is. I'm almost young again.
More like this please. ;) |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | WOW!, I remember 17 of them. Damm!! I look good for my age!! |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | A depressing 7, from someone in a seperate country (Schroeder!!)
Just when I was feeling old, along comes a foreign quiz that tells me I'm "getting older".
Yeah, thanks guys! :D
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Abendicum:
18. Mimeograph paper
OOOHHHH!!! I loved that smell! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I aced it, too. FLagstone 4-6775 was our first phone number that I remember. |
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Location: SoCal | 20 out of 25. And our phone number started with Topez, I can't remember the numbers.... |
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Location: North Texas | Don't rub it in!
How about mechanical cash resisters, sales clerks who could count out change, full service gas stations, springless clothes pins, smoking on airplanes, and single speed bicycles. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Do we get extra credit if we actually used any of these?
1. Blackjack chewing gum (Favorite gum)
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (Drank the water then chewed on the wax)
3. Candy cigarettes (Different packs that looked like Marboro's Lucky Strike's and Camel's)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles (Collecting bottles for the refunds. I think Nehi had the highest deposit. 3 cents)
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes (Have one of these sitting in my room.)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers (If they froze, the cream at the top would push out and make a long popcicle.)
7.. Party lines (Pardon me, but I need to make a call.)
8. Newsreels before the movie (and roadrunner cartoons)
9. P.F. Flyers (High tops were the coolest)
10. Butch wax (Great for flat tops)
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) (No area codes. Had to call the operator (remember those) to make a long distance call.)
12. Peashooters (Great way to ding "Little Susie" in the front row.)
13. Howdy Doody ("It's Howdy Doody time- It's not worth a dime- I'll turn to channel 9 and watch Frankenstein!")
14. 45 RPM records (and yellow adaptors)
15. S&H Green Stamps (ten thousand books got you a numb tongue and an Oster Hair clipper set you hoped to God your mom wouldn't use on you!)
16 Hi-fi's (And Elvis LPs that were transparent red.)
17 Metal ice trays with lever (If your hands were wet, you lost some skin.)
18. Mimeograph paper (I grew up listing to this sound. My mom ran a typing service)
19 Blue flashbulb (Now there was a distinct odor)
20. Packards ( Straight Eights)
21. Roller skate keys ("I've got a brand new pair of roller-" etc.etc
22. Cork popguns (I was a male child.. Nuf said)
23. Drive-ins (Rancher's Daughter or Split T in Oklahoma City)
24. Studebakers (Parents had a 53 with the big foglight eye in the center and a back shelf that they put me on.)
25. Washing machines with wringers; and washtubs for rinsing (Don't try this on your fingers.)
Now I really feel like an old fart!
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | 24 out of 25.....for some reason I don't remember Blackjack chewing gum! (I must have chewed it and didn't care about the name! :eek: )
I'm going to take my mid-day nap now...... |
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Location: boulder | Cc
I second the tip about washtub ringers. Unbelievable amount of pressure between those two rollers. But hey , it seemed like a good idea at the moment. Although, most of the downfalls in my life could start with that phrase :eek:
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I never liked Blackjack, but they had a cinnamon gum that I can't remember the name of. All that comes to mind is Redman, but I think that was chewing tobacco. |
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Location: North Carolina | Is number 23 a drive-in movie or a drive-in burger joint? We still have both here in good 'ol Gaston County, NC.
http://rosbbq.com/whole.htm
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/nctbelm |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Either or, you're still old! |
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Location: Southern California | 17 of 25. Milk bottles with cardboard stoppers & butch wax... man, it's been awhile. Our phone number started with Kellog, but there's still enough cobwebs to obscure the rest.
I remember siting around the neighborhood with those waxed coke-shaped bottles and candy cigarettes, trying to look like our dads... we thought we were so cool! :cool:
I love this thread, but I'm torn between enjoying some really cool memories :) , and facing the reality that I've passed dirt on the carbon dating scale. |
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Location: Idaho | I remember seeing G Campbell playing that funny looking guitar with all the holes in it on his TV show or the Smothers Bros. My first major case of hole fixation and GAS.
Edit: When was the first prototype elite style top seen? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I was in on that Project where we decided to thin out the rocks and make that dirt! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Did you have television in Idaho then, Tim? The first black and white TV I remember was made by Firestone, where my dad worked. It was in a nice mahogany cabinet with a 12 inch speaker down below the tube. I cut the bottom off and made an end table out of the top half for my mom and used the speaker with another one for years.
After we moved to North Dakota in 1966, my friend the banker's kid was the first to get color TV. It was especially frivolous considering we only got the 3 channels and one didn't come in very well. |
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Location: Southern California | Thought of a few more...
Schwinn bikes with bannanna seats :cool:
Scooter Pies
Pixie Sticks
GI Joe ( before the Kung-Fu grip)
Electric Football
Match Box cars
Lincoln Logs
Erector sets
Chemistry sets
Spirograph
Etch-a-sketch
rubber-band powered balsa wood airplanes |
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Location: Idaho | Mark, one acclaimed inventor of the TV, Farnsworth, was from the Rigby area and I believe that helped introduce Idaho early on. Secondly, the feds had the Atomic Energy Commission sight to the west of Idaho Falls. The mid 60's date sounds about right for color as our family inherited a relatives b/w set we kids claimed for our end of the house. It helped introduce me to the world of electronics as the can of tuner spray was often needed. Next came an old tube amplifier for the solid body, triple pickup Harmony. I learned about distortion before it was cool. |
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| I've experienced 3 of the above. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Here's one:
"At the first indication of enemy bombers approaching the United States, all television and FM radio stations will go off the air. All standard (AM) stations will likewise go silent. The CONELRAD stations, 640 and 1240, are your surest and fastest means of getting emergency information and instructions. Mark those numbers on your radio set, now!"
(Civil Defense publication, 1950s)
Duck and Cover Y'all
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Location: NJ | I can remember once getting up in the middle of the night to find the OldMan snoring in the chair to the TV going "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep".
Switched the TV off.
My OldMan wakes up and says "Hey! . . I was watchin' that!"
"Dad, . . . it's CONELRAD".
"Leave it on . . . I like him . . . he's a good detective! . . " |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I can only remember 15 of them which may say more to that damn memory issue of mine than my age... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Mark,
Are you sure your 1st TV wasn't a Philco, which was sold in Firestone stores?
Some of the 1st soft drink machines I remember took a nickel and a penny for a 6 1/2 ounce Coke.
My Grandparents lived 2 blocks from the original Barq's bottling plant in Biloxi, Ms. GrandPa and I would walk to it with a case of empty bottles and get a full case of root beer and cream sodas for 90 cents. Good memories! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | AAAArgh
My wife and I remember them all, and moved to California to escape the bourghous nature of them and find a new life, we found over half of them still existed there in California and learnsd to live off of green stamps. We never did get a Packard but my brother's guitar player in his bluegrass band collects them.
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Location: North Texas | Collecting empty bottles was the main source of income back then. Hooking a wagon to the bike made it all possible. I think Royal Crown Cola came out with the first 16oz. bottle. It was huge.
At school we had drills for civil defense. Getting under the desk was supposed to save us in case an A-bomb went off near the kickball field. After watching the old news reels from the two blasts in Japan, I remember thinking: " I don't believe this desk thing will work".
Packards were nice cars. They are still collected. I knew a man in So.Cal. who had about 100 of them. As far as cars go, I thought the Mark II Continental was, and is, one of the coolest looking buggies ever made.
They played the National Anthem at the end of the broadcast day, and then the test pattern came on. It's hard to imagine, in todays world, not having any TV late at night. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Old is when you type this really witty post about growing up in Wisconsin in the 50's and then you forget to hit the "Add Reply" button (like I did yesterday.)
Cholloway, I think it actually said Firestone on it. I remember the Philco brand, though, we had one of those refrigerators. Always wondered how those desks would protect us from the bomb. Turns out we had more to fear of McCarthyism than the Commies. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | 23 out of 25 and while I remember the other 2 I am not sure if I actually "lived" them or just remember them.
How about "Mr. Machine"? |
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Location: NJ | I had a "Mr. Machine" as a kid.
A few years ago, I was looking to find one to attempt re-creating it in AutoCad (I have NO idea "why") . . .
. . . a former co-worker who bought/sold vintage toys found one on eBay . . . for 400 bucks . . .
. . I "passed". |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Wasn't that a little boxey robot that moved around and pumped his arms? Seems like he also had a catchy jingle. Wanted one, but a $20 toy that used batteries wasn't in Santa's budget. My 3 brothers and I would have wrecked it in 5 minutes anyway. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yeah....catchy theme song that I can partially remember....
dum de dum, dum de dum.....
greatest toy you've ever seen....
and his name is "Mr. Machine"
Toy was clear and you could see all the gears moving around and turning while it walked around. Awesome stuff back in the 60's! |
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Location: NJ | No batteries.
Had a big, self-contained "clockwork" module that fit into the gearing. You wound it up with a big key that stuck out his back. He had a clear plastic body that "clamshelled". You could take him apart, put him back together(maybe), and see how the gearing worked.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, do you remember all the lyrics to the theme song? |
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Location: NJ | No.
. . . I do have SOMEWHAT of a modicum of "a Life" . . |
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Location: SoCal | "Modicum" may be a bit of an exaggeration ...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | "Dream" is open, Cliff...you can probably use that word! ;) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | And here you can get Mr Machine for $150, if the Jones just won't go away... |
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Location: NJ | Anybody remember OddOgg ?? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That's how I developed my amazing hand/eye co-ordination.....rolling that damn ball into the frog's mouth! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Mr Machine and OddOgg both were the inventions/designs of Marvin Glass who also invented/designed "Mousetrap" and "Rock'em Sock'em Robots" among other favorites of our youts! :D |
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| Between this thread and the fond memories thread you guys are going to end up getting a visit from Tim and his band. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jeff, what the hell is that thing? :confused: :D ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It's not old. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Whuuut?
Whut did you say?
Youts?
Whut's a yout? |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | :(
Yikes! Why did I click here? ;)
I had better start learning to play some more tunes. ( before I die, or my kids laugh even harder.)
Do you guys remember the hunt for the winning bottle caps? What brand was it? RC?
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Location: closely held secret | How about when the landscape was littered with aluminum razor blades from the pull tabs of pop and beer cans?
Or (more appropriate for this crowd) earning money by gathering up the cases of empty beer bottles from the drive-in on Saturday and Sunday mornings? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | 26. Erector sets
27. Crystal radios |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Thanks for posting that for me Cliff...
I'll send you 2 more that are embedded in e-mails, that are pretty funny...
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Location: Evansville,IN | I got a perfect score, a first for me. :D I remembered all that stuff. Aluminum ice cube trays, who invented those darn things? :rolleyes: I think other Adams gum someone mentioned that was a cinnamon flavor was Teaberry,if I remember correctly, but hey, I'm old. :D |
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Location: SoCal | Anybody remember Lincoln Logs? And no, that's not an effort at bathroom humor. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I gave away my Lincoln logs about three years ago (seriously)...
I still haven't filled the Saturday morning void... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Hindsight is always 20-20 but maybe you shoulda traded them straight up for the Sit-n-Spin, JW. With a good helmet, you're talking years of fun anytime of the day. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | proper headgear is esensual...
essinshual?...
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Location: Cicero, NY | Uh-oh. Obviously someone wasn't practicing safe spinning again... |
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Location: Tennessee | 100%. But I'm not old. I even owned a truck with it's starter activated by a foot switch not far from the hi-beam footswitch.
How about the red wood skateboards with the metal wheels. Those things could shake the fillings out of your teeth.
In addition to the milkman, we also had the "Helms Bread" man come through the neigborhood every afternoon with his "bakery on wheels".
Of course, no summer afternoon was complete without a Water Wiggle and a Slip 'n Slide in somebody's front yard. |
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Location: Indiana | Unfortunately, I remember almost all of the above. Not to far from me (next town over),they actually still have a drive-in theater. Within the last couple of years they actually built a new screen. They now have 2. Does anyone else remember the refridgerators with the big round ball on top.
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I remember gas at 29.9 a gallon.....we'd all pool our pocket change and burn-up the backroads all night for $1.50 :eek: :D :cool: |
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| This is rapidly becoming The Last Picture Show. It's all turning black and white............ (save Cybill Shepherd for me please). |
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| Unless Linda Carter is about to make an appearance. |
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