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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:18:29 AM
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 & Teaberry also (my favs)
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 on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
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!
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
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| 5 acre Farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 3:09:15 PM
I had 23,,,WOW!!!! I am older than dirt.....
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| kountreegerl |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 2:53:46 PM
I remember 7, but don't feel that old. Those were the good ole days.
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 2:14:03 PM
Someone mentioned bread delivery. I remembered the bread man but just now remembered his name. He was the Manor Man. He had little tiny loaves of bread that he gave to the little kids while our Moms looked through his tray of goodies. |
| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 1:46:12 PM
I remembered them all! I'd like to add # 26....PENNY CANDY!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 12:12:18 PM
Okay, so I'm older than dirt. Doesn't hurt my feelings! In fact, two of my favorite chairs came from S & H Green stamps -- I still have them, they're still in good shape, and fit like a glove!!!!
from the hearts of paradise... |
| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 11:08:43 AM
OMG! I remember 13!!! Can I blame my grandma for that?? lol
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"What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger"
Farmgirl #152
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| chessie |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 10:23:44 AM
Melissa, I loved, loved, loved my Pinto. I drove it for 9 years and i can't recall how many years my Pop drove it before me. When It was traded in on my new, used car in 1988 at the local ford dealership, & they drove it away from me- I cried. The salesman thought he was smart (not!) and told me that my car wasn't going to be put on the used lot -no, it was being driven straight through the dealership lot and 50 miles down the road to Tijuana, Mexico. OOOh that made me mad. I got really offended.
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| peachy |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 09:22:03 AM
Oh my! I've started a Pinto epedemic!!! lol! Elaine, what a sweet story on how your parents met! I remember going to "town" every Saturday with my friends too - those were the days:)
Melissa
Farmgirl Sister #360
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| Buffalomary |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 09:14:34 AM
OMG, my first car was a Pinto, too! It was a 5-speed on the floor and I learned how to truly drive with it. My folks didn't let me drive much, except for the tractor when I was growing up. I bought it a couple weeks before I moved from Ft. Bragg, NC to Ft. Knox, KY. I went home for a couple weeks in Nebraska. Wow, what a learning experience that was!
Buffalomary
Farmgirl Sister #293
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| Lainey |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 08:16:47 AM
I remembered and/or experienced 20 of these. Yep, older than dirt and I suspected it. :-) I especially liked the diners that had the tableside juke boxes. There was one in our town called 'The Sweet Shop'. My mom worked there when she was young and she met my dad there. She waited on his table and that's how they met.
When I was a teenager we would go there on Saturdays when we 'went to town'. I always would play the Led Zeppelin songs on there. That place surely had the best hamburgers in town and was always packed.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| abbysshadow |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 07:28:50 AM
and I remember PF flyers as being shoes.....
...I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do... |
| abbysshadow |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 07:26:22 AM
<<<<older than dirt :) I remember/experienced all but about 3... lol
...I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do... |
| Suzan |
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 06:14:16 AM
Oh, roller skates that strapped over your shoes - it was such a status thing to wear the key around your neck on a string...and the older girls that had real skates had cases with fluffy pompoms on them...I was so envious... |
| chessie |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 8:30:15 PM
my first car was a pinto too! Mine was a handmedown model from my Pop. A brown pinto station wagon with fake woody sides - honestly!
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| peachy |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 7:35:46 PM
Here we are tellin' our age now! hee, hee! I'm 40 going on 41 young in August! I remember alot of the things on the list as well as cardboard box houses, records getting stuck, BIG pom poms on roller skates and my first car was a Pinto! lol - my grams old car - red with plaid seats! I just loved that car! And we always went to the "soda fountain"/diner for chocolate malts! YUM!
Melissa
Farmgirl Sister #360
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 6:08:43 PM
18 for me!
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 6:05:26 PM
I remember pixie sticks and records getting stuck, too.
Linda, that's funny you mention the cardboard boxes. I remember I somehow got a hold of a BIG box (fridge or stove or something) and I cut out windows and doors. I think I was about 6 or 7. I got into my moms fabric stash and pinned pieces of fabric over my window openings. I couldn't find any paint so I used these berries that grew on some bushes (I don't think they were edible) and they made the prettiest reddish purple walls (and arms, legs, face and clothes!). We all didn't need those pre-made toys. We could make our own!
Farmgirl Sister #35
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| queenofdreamsz4u |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 2:13:59 PM
YES, to records getting stuck. 
Queen of Dreamsz ~ keeper of dream kingdom
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| homesteaderbelle |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 12:58:42 PM
I have only seen four on the list, I am still young.
Here are the ones I remember -
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
23. Drive-ins
Wax Coke-Shaped bottles with colored sugar water and candy cigaretts are still made. I don't think that they put the red tips on the candy cigaretts now and I don't think they call them cany cigarettes anymore.
I have been to a Drive-in many times, there is one that is still open a few towns away from me.
I remember seeing the tableside Juke boxes at a local resturant, but this resturant is now closed down.
Belle
http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/
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| a rose |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 12:55:35 PM
On Saturday my granddaughter came over for a visit and decided to look at some old photos. She is 28 and she commented on all the toys that were in pictures of her and her sister. A refrigerator, stove, sink (all plastic) and there were more.She asked me if I had them when I was young. I told her yes but we made our own out of cardboard boxes and pretended they were the real thing. We'd find a vacant space in a cellar or storage area and we would use that as our house.
Remember me as a rose. |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 11:55:02 AM
Sharon..my plymouth was a Belvedere. I loved that old car. It was off white and looked like it needed surfboard racks on top.
When I was a kid we for sure had a black and white tv for some time..and 3 channels were what we all had (NBC CBS and ABC) and my dad always said he didn't need a tv with a remote (even after they were common) since he had 3 channel changers ..his kids.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 11:46:43 AM
Yeah, they're Pixie Sticks. They still have those, and the wax coke bottle candy too, but none of that "Nostalgiac" candy tastes like I remember it. It's rather ICKY!!!! Just not the same at all.
And hey, give yourselves CREDIT ladies!!! Age is a STATE OF MIND! Not a NUMBER!!! You're all still young yet, no matter WHAT those numbers say!!! ~~~~ Hugs! Tracy
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
| chessie |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 09:53:03 AM
Pixie Sticks?
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| kpaints |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 09:33:06 AM
I'm 62 and I remember stuck records. I just remembed a candy that came in a straw and tasted like coolaid... Anyone remember it or what it was called? Maybe it is not that old. And PEZ how fun was that? Dispensing goodness one at a time.
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 09:31:28 AM
OK I am only(??) 48 & per this quiz, I am older than dirt..I got 17..Man, I figured I had at least 10 or 15 years before I could call myself that. |
