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Across the Fence:  Older than dirt quiz !  |
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owwlady
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Jan
Tomahawk
WI
USA
899 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 10:58:21 AM
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| Ok, here's the scoop on the x-ray machines. This is quoted from "Reminisce" magazine March/April 2006..."Fluoroscopes 1940's-1950's. The fluoroscope used x-rays that showed how your foot fit within the shoe. Shoe store fluoroscopes were outlawed in most states in the late '50s due to health risks. Both customer and salesperson had to lean over the cabinet of the fluoroscope to look through the view ports. The machine would cast a light green glow." I never got to use one, but I would always go over and stand on it and look down the viewers hoping I'd see my bones in my feet. It wasn't turned on!! |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 11:38:18 AM
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I remembered ALL of them!! We did not have milk delivery, we had to get it from the cow. My grandpa had a dairy and milked about 50 cows. Not sure what he did with the milk but I have a tube of cardboard stoppers left over from somewhere. I remembered that P.F. Flyers were tennis shoes. A neighbor took in washings and had at least 5 ringer washers in her wash house. I remember that she got caught in the wringer by leaning over it. I know you have all heard of getting your tit caught in the wringer. It really happened! Probably more than you think. If you remember the TV test pattern, then you remember they always played The Star Spangled Banner and a prayer.
We had a party line, our ring was 2 longs and 1 short. I also remember having to call the operator and tell her what number you wanted to call. Before they were called the operator, it was called "central". I could go on and on. And another list would be things that we "didn't" have. But we always played outside and didn't have to see an ad on tv that said, go outside and play an hour a day. Only an hour? How about all hours. Our favorite was taking the town kids over to the cemetary and play hide and seek. OK, now I'm done. And getting older by the minute. |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:04:20 PM
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Belle! how cool!
Everyone--thanks for sharing....tell us more! What did you enjoy the most? What do ya miss the most?
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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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:13:24 PM
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So general thought is over 50 the age range.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:15:12 PM
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I remember each and every one of them fondly! I loved the metal boxes that they left the milk bottles in, I used the old one to keep my pollywogs in! Another thing we had delivered to the house was bakery items. It was Hall's Bakery out of Buffalo, they ahd the most delicious cream puffs and eclairs ever. Not to mention bread. Those quiz's are fun.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:38:07 PM
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You gals are so funny. Compost! rofl!
I remember thinking when I heard the national anthem (that was on the rare occasion I was allowed up that late) and I knew my Friday night was over. Mom would tell me to go to bed and I'd make her wait until the test pattern came on (it was good for another 5 minutes!).
My mom had gotten into an argument once with one of the other parties on our phone line. My brother had just split his scalp open and she was trying to call for help and this woman wouldn't get off the line. Boy, was mom mad!
I miss the drive-ins the most. Mom would take us every now and then, we'd all be in pj's, too and we played on the swings and merry-go-round until the cartoons came on before the movie. Once I hit 12, mom would make me slouch in the back seat so that I didn't look 12 because she didn't want to have to pay adult price. WNY kept their drive-ins for a long time as I had taken my older kids to the same ones I had been taken to. I don't know if any of them are left now, though. Salt Lake still has a mega-drive-in with 7 or more screens. It was ok, but not the same as the lone drive-in the middle of nowhere and you could see the stars.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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soapmommy60543
True Blue Farmgirl
2197 Posts
Ann
Oswego
IL
USA
2197 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:52:09 PM
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Oh, Lord I remembered 12! My grandmother had a party line at her farm until 1979! We also had the metal ice cube trays, milk delivery (foil caps, though). A restaurant near my high school had the table side jukeboxes until it burned down in the mid 90's. It's a carwash and Subway now. We still have my radio flyer wagon - my dad fixed it up and gave it a spiffy new red paint job when my nephew was born (he'll be 13 in February). They are great for little ones helping in the garden - someone under the age of 10 can actually help haul small amounts of compost or soil in them. TV used to end around midnight sometime, and then came the test pattern. I was in jr high before there was a really late night movie at 2 am, then the test pattern was on from about 4 til about 6. I can also recall a project in grade school where we had to write a short paragraph about our field trip, then trace the back of the paper onto mimeograph paper so the copies would come out correctly. It was a bluish purple if I remember correctly. Our local drive-in closed only a few years ago, and I can remember us 3 girls and a friend each, plus my parents, piling into my mom's giant station wagon (no seat belts, of course) with a grocery sack of home popped popcorn and a jug of Kool Aid for a movie. Ahh the good old days... My grandparents had a hi-fi in a big cabinet with their TV and radio. It could hold up to 7 records on the spindle! My grandmother (different grandma) also was a dilligent green stamps saver. I don't know if she ever actually turned them in, but I know she'd save sheets and sheets of them. Ok, sorry, I'm rambling...
Thanks! This was a lot of fun!
Ann in Oswego
http://suburbanprairiehouse.wordpress.com
Times may be tough, but farmgirls are tougher!
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Edited by - soapmommy60543 on Jan 12 2009 04:46:14 AM |
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Buffalomary
True Blue Farmgirl
199 Posts
Mary
Caldwell
ID
USA
199 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 12:55:32 PM
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Well, I remember 17 of them personally and the rest because of books or TV as I was growing up. We didn't have the milk delivered mainly because we had our own cows and lived too far out in the country for delivery anyway. In fact some of our milk probably ended up in some of those bottles! We were on a party line up until I was in the 2nd grade, I think, but we didn't use the phone unless we absolutely had to, so I don't remember it too much. It seems like I was in the 1st grade when I went to my first drive-in movie. It was a big deal too. Money was tight, so for Mom and Dad to take us to the movie was a special treat. They took us to see Snow White, but they also took us in our PJs and I don't think any of us kids saw the end! My grandma used a wringer washer, never did get a "modern" machine. It was quite the process to set everything up. I can remember my own mom using a wringer washer when I was a senior in high school. We were having tough times and there wasn't money to replace the old machine when it broke down. I had the most fun running the pillowcases through the wringers with the opening first. They would puff up like balloons and splatter water everywhere. Mom wasn't too crazy about it but I figured a girl could have some fun. Almost had my own setup but lost it in the divorce. Oh well, maybe one of these days...
Buffalomary
Farmgirl Sister #293
You can take the farmer's daughter off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the farmer's daughter!!
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Suzan
True Blue Farmgirl
659 Posts
suzanne
duncannon
pa
USA
659 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 1:45:59 PM
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| OMG, I remember them all! Still have the metal box our milk was delivered when we were first married around here somewhere. You all had me worried for a minute there, cuz I thought the PF Flyers were sneakers! I remember my mom using a wringer washer when I was little, anyone remember (or still do) the pop bottle with the cork sprinkler in to dampen the clothes and put in the plastic bag in the fridge before ironing? |
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chessie
True Blue Farmgirl
403 Posts
Karen
Vista
CA
USA
403 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 2:39:47 PM
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Well, as i approach my fiftieth, i was hoping against hope to not be "older than dirt", but alas, I scored none other than, ta-da, older than dirt! OH my! what will I be when I approach my sixtieth or seventieth? Older than granite? I seriously have nowhere to go but down.
love, Karen
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind"
blog http://edgehillherbfarmer.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
happy farmgirl #89 |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 2:44:37 PM
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Howdy Doody is back. My 5 year old granddaughter has a DVD. She loves it and watches it a lot. She's always singing the song or talking about him. It's so cute! People don't know who she's talking about, though. My favorite was Captain Kangaroo. We even got to see him in person once!
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
Edited by - kristin sherrill on Jan 11 2009 2:45:46 PM |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 2:50:17 PM
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Karen, have no fear, 69 ain't bad. It's all those old people that comes to your class reunion that you need to worry about.
The Hort instructor at the college where Ole Ron and I attend class, keeps telling us that it is not dirt, it's soil. |
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a rose
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Linda
Waterford
NY
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 2:51:10 PM
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I guess I am older than dirt. We had the ice man deliver ice for our ice box and then there was there was the coal man who delivered our coal for heat.
Remember me as a rose. |
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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
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peachy
True Blue Farmgirl
593 Posts
Melissa
Fennville
MI
USA
593 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 4:09:43 PM
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I remembered 15 - whew! And I do remember the dentist chair and spit bowl! LOL I hated going to the dentist too!
Melissa
Farmgirl Sister #360
Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain! |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 4:14:19 PM
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I'm not really sure HOW MANY I remember-- at least that were not hold-overs from the previous generation!! I thought it was 16, but with the clarification of the PF Flyer's, that was one down, then the party line-- well, that was another! When I moved to the area that I live in now twenty+ yrs ago they STILL had party lines out here! (rural country-- middle of NOWHERE-- population less than 6,000!!!) I guess that doesn't count? But I DO vaguely remember (when I was VERY young) the grown ups picking up the phone and SAYING the number they were trying to reach (which was only about 4 or 5 digits and I think the persons last name...???) But again, I grew up in a VERY small town, so the technology might just have been a bit slower coming our way!
I DO remember wax coke bottle shaped candy, candy cigarettes, drive in restaraunts (A&W and a local diner called "Big Al's") and Juke Boxes on the tables. I don't think PEA SHOOTERS have EVER gone out of style, so that one may not count either! Yes, I recall watching Howdy Doodie, and I'm pretty certain it was BEFORE the age of re-runs, and I remember a few others as well. But I still not certain if what I remember qualifies here!
Heck, I'm not afraid to say how old I am so I'll just "SAY" it!!! You ladies can all do the figuring FOR ME!! (he..he.. he..!) I was born the first week of August 1971, so whatever came about in that decade-- and since -- I REMEMBER it!!!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 4:36:44 PM
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Speaking of George Carlin....I first got to know him as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman...LOL that was the 70s
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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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 4:48:25 PM
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You know, George Carlin may have been FOUL MOUTHED and VERY controversial in his day, but he had a very deep, poignant nature. I read a letter, e-mailed to me by a friend, that he had written shortly after his wife's passing -- sort of a "contemplation of life" -- and it was VERY touching and made so much sense. If I still have it in my e-mail files I will post it here for all you ladies to read. His heartfelt missive certainly gave new meaning to the words -- "Never judge a book by it's cover!"
And Cheryl, I thank you for your kind words. If I have MY way-- I will FOREVER be 16!!!! (LOL!!!)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
Edited by - shepherdgirl on Jan 11 2009 4:51:59 PM |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 6:07:20 PM
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| OK, so how old are we?? I am 69. Anyone here older? |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 6:55:06 PM
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Oh, I loved the Hippy Dippy Weatherman! And Geraldine! I'm sure you all remember her(him), too. My mom actually named a ficus tree after her (she named all her plants).
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog:
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jan 11 2009 : 7:06:12 PM
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I thought PF flyers were a type of sneakers..could be wrong though. I got 14 not counting that one..so if I am right...15. But I admit to being 50 so I guess I should remember most of them. My first car was a '63 plymouth with push button transmission. You know what though? That was in 1975 and it was an 8 year old car. I drive a 10 year old car right now. hmmmm something wrong with that!
Cute quiz!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Across the Fence: Older than dirt quiz ! |
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