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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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 Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:18:29 AM
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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!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
Edited by - yarnmamma on Jan 11 2009 08:37:20 AM |
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Alee
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catscharm74
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:23:44 AM
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I remember 9---sheesh!!! : )
Heather
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Sitnalta
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:29:27 AM
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hehe Im a 4:)
Jessie
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lisamarie508
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:35:08 AM
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The funny thing is I don't remember delivered milk. There was a time when my mother had a case of bottled soda delivered for her. I moved to Bermuda in 1959 and lived there for 2 years, that was all British so when I came back to the States it was the 60s. I actually remembered all but 3 of the things on the list.
You will not hear me say that things were "better" then, we have it much better nowdays.
This is a fun quiz...Alee, I knew you were kinda "young" LOL
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 08:51:26 AM
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Hey , I must be as old as the fossils in the dirt!! Every single one I remember fondly. My grandmother had a Packard with a pushbutton transmission. Teaberry gum is yummy!!!! |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:01:34 AM
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I remember my family having a Dodge with pushbutton transmission on the dash..my daddy hated it and traded it very quickly.
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:06:40 AM
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My parents told me the first tv they bought was because I came home from first grade talking about Captain Kangaroo that the kids watched. It was black and white of course...that was about 1956.
Then when color tv was invented and made affordable for homes they bought their first color after I moved out at age 19. Mom got her first dishwasher then too because she wouldn't make my younger sister do all the dishwashing since I moved out. My mother never washed a dish as soon as I turned 5 years old because she said that's what daughters were for.
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:07:31 AM
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I remember 14. But one was the milk bottle delivery that my mom told me about. I don't actually remember seeing them ,I was too young then. So what is a PF Flyer? And I really miss the table juke boxes. They were so cool. And the drive ins. Such good memories there. Mom and dad would take us once a month to the drive-in. We'd have our pj's on because we'd always be asleep by the time we got home. There was a playground at the front by the screen. We'd play til the movie came on.
Oh what fun memories!
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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graciegreeneyes
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:15:02 AM
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I got 14 too, that I actually remember seeing. Others that I am familiar with but was told about - I'm 38, maybe "civilization" came late to our corner of the world:)
Amy Grace
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yarnmamma
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Linda
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:15:13 AM
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A PF Flyer is a red wagon. It is all metal with the words painted in white. They were for toys and big enough for a couple kids to sit in and ride while another kid pulled. Isn't the PF Flyer a part of one of the old classic Christmas movies?
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:18:37 AM
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Well, yes. A Christmas Story. I didn't recall the PF part. I thought it was Radio Flyer. Probably the same thing. Thanks for reminding me!
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:21:12 AM
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I think it's the same thing...but maybe I'm wrong? Anyone else know??
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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electricdunce
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:21:32 AM
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Hate to say it, I remember every single one of them. When I was a kid, the milkman would leave the bottles in a wooden box in a ditch by our horse chestnut tree. I can remember watching Howdy Doody on someone's television before we had one. i hated it, but I watched it It was television! I must be older than dirt squared! And I guess I am...
Karin
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yarnmamma
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:34:51 AM
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I was wrong!!!
this is what I found... !!!
canvas shoes...did we call them sneakers then?
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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LindaEllen
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whispering pines
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:48:03 AM
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Pf flyers were tennis shoes. Yes, I am older than dirt...but getting better everyday.
"Greetings from the Gateway to the North Cascades." |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:49:59 AM
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tennis shoes! Does it make me "younger" because I didn't actually remember them....or "older" because my memory is fading....LOL
oh...the dilemas!!!!
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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whispering pines
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 09:51:48 AM
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I must have replied at the same time, I remembered my dad had 2 Studabakers, one after another.
"Greetings from the Gateway to the North Cascades." |
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owwlady
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 10:38:08 AM
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| Oh boy, I remember 22 of them. I don't remember the butch wax or the newsreels. I once asked the milkman if his name was "Lee" because that's what it said on the back of his striped coveralls! Do you remember the x-ray machines in the shoe stores!!? |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 10:45:33 AM
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don't remember x rays in shoe stores...tell us about them!
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 10:46:54 AM
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remember Brill Cream....hair oil for men? Is that how it's spelled?
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
Edited by - yarnmamma on Jan 11 2009 10:47:49 AM |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Clarks Summit
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Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 10:48:22 AM
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Karin, I didn't like Howdy Doody either...
Linda in Scranton, PA
farmgirl #71
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!
Have a wonderful Farmgirl New Year!! |
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