OT Do you remember these? I sure do.........................

[Guest guest]

Hi Emma, I am officially older than dirt! LOL Hugs, Marilyn

Just thinking about it, I wonder if our friends in foreign lands remember any

of these?

does this take you back?

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:40:51 -0500

" Hey Dad, " one of my kids asked the other day, " What was your

favorite fast food when you were growing up? "

" We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, " I informed

him. " All the food was slow. "

" C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat? "

" It was a place called 'at home,' " I explained. " Grandma cooked

every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together

at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my

plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it. "

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going

to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part

about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are

some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I

figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a

golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In

their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.

The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND

Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly

because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed

probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a

television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one

before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a

piece of coloured plastic to cover the screen. The top third was

blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The

middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of

fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people

had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look

larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called " pizza pie. "

When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese

slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned

that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in

our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a " machine. "

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was

in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could

dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know

weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered

newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7

cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4

AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my

customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents

and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the

ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the

movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French

kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they

did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't

allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may

want to share some of these memories with your children or

grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December)

and he brought me 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 they 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.

How many do you remember?

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 coloured 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. 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!

[Guest guest]

I never heard of any of those things. Is this real?

Les (telling fibbies)

Don't tell anyone, but I do remember 1... 2.... ALL of them.

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[alldiabeticinternational] OT Do you remember these? I sure

do.........................

Hi Emma, I am officially older than dirt! LOL Hugs, Marilyn

Just thinking about it, I wonder if our friends in foreign lands remember any

of these?

does this take you back?

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:40:51 -0500

" Hey Dad, " one of my kids asked the other day, " What was your

favorite fast food when you were growing up? "

" We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, " I informed

him. " All the food was slow. "

" C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat? "

" It was a place called 'at home,' " I explained. " Grandma cooked

every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together

at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my

plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it. "

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going

to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part

about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are

some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I

figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a

golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In

their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.

The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND

Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly

because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed

probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a

television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one

before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a

piece of coloured plastic to cover the screen. The top third was

blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The

middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of

fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people

had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look

larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called " pizza pie. "

When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese

slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned

that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in

our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a " machine. "

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was

in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could

dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know

weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered

newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7

cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4

AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my

customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents

and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the

ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the

movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French

kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they

did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't

allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may

want to share some of these memories with your children or

grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December)

and he brought me 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 they 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.

How many do you remember?

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 coloured 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. 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!