Guest Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 for the youngsters..... We're older than dirt!! Someone asked the other day,, 'What was your favourite 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! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, & 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. 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. My parents never drove me to school. 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 16. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people... I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line and attached to the wall. 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 homes... But milk was & so was bread. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers six days a week. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive. 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: 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.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. Candy cigarettes2. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles4. Party lines on the telephones5. Newsreels before the movie6. 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])7. Peashooters8. Howdy Doody9. 45 RPM records 10. 78 rpm records11.Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm 12. Metal ice trays with lever13. Blue flashbulb14. Cork popguns15. Studebakers16. Wash tub wringers<> If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, & If you remembered 11-16 = You're older than dirt !!! ******** We might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of our lives…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDR Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 All 16 without breaking a sweat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Hudson Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 All 16 too, Greg. And who remembers "bluing" in the laundry room, saddle shoes, Brylcreem-a-little-dab'll-doya, Burma-Shave and the highway signs, Life With Riley, Abbott & Costello, the Edsel, foolscap, eberhard faber pencils, inkwells, kneesocks, coonskin hats, Dinky Toys, the iceman and the kitchen icebox, sawdust trucks for hog fuel, I Love Lucy, Perry Como, Toby jugs, rocking chairs, the family bible (with family history), the Kodak Brownie, the Edison machine, Vancouver's Inter-urban tram along Kingsway, spinning tops, kaleidoscopes, the family piano, picket fences, inner tubes for summer swimming, television aerials, bakelite switches, department store sidewalk elevators for receiving, zoot suits & seersuckers, The Shadow, Pan American Clippers, War Bonds, tie clips, beanies, white gloves, store clerks who actually knew everything about what they sold, the gold watch & pensions, fedoras (and who wore them), silk stockings that ran and that were repaired with nail polish, licorice cigars with red candy beads on the end, two-for-one-cent candy, (jawbreakers), five-and-dime stores, bamboo fishing rods, monocles, black hats with veils, pen nibs, Bogart, riding a bike to school, strap-on steel roller skates, Raleigh, with 3-speed Sturmey-Archer gears, teacher's red pencil, the MacLean Method of Writing, Dick and Jane, dirt roads oiled in summer, Keds running shoes, mustard plasters, iron lungs, Lucky Strikes, Joseph McCarthy, Eisenhower, Suez, Viewmaster, Dukane, Los Angeles without freeways, the idea of "foreign lands", radio tubes, clocks in cars that never worked, whitewalls, gas @ 18¢/Imp.gal, cigar store Indians, hot water bottles, the jacknife every kid had, whittling something, Lux soap, the mechanical turn signals on '49 Austins, 2-room all-grade schools, corduroys, Steve Reeves, living room ashtrays on stands with aluminum airplanes, bankers hours, quiet Sundays... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 One single brand of Coca Cola. Stripe toothpaste with chlorine bleach to whiten teeth. "Wouldn't a Dow go good now?"Sky King. The Strap. Push button transmissions. Transistor radios. Rotary dial phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 No one has mentioned the soda machines that charged 5¢ for a 6 oz bottle.http://www.antiquevend.com/images/chesttypes/PepsiIdeal55/PepsiIdeal55~OpenTop.jpgAnd what about walking 6 miles uphill to get to (and from) school in a blinding snowstorm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Pop machines that looked like a chest freezer. The pop bottles were held in by their neck between rails and you slid the one you liked to a mechanism that when you inserted a dime would allow you to pull the pop straight up and out.No dime? no problem....just carry a bottle opener and a straw....open the lid, snap off a top, insert the straw and drink fast !!!!((Those machines lasted about 6 months, outside stores, before they were all removed)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEFCON Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 "And what about walking 6 miles uphill to get to (and from) school in a blinding snowstorm?" That comment makes it sound like you were a kid in Kenora Ontario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Hudson Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Kip, I had forgotten about those pop machines, thanks- travelling through the U.S. on holidays we'd stop at a gas station (where one couldn't pump one's own gas and the attendant was in uniform), I can still remember the coke machine, having to slide the bottle along, pay the dime and work the flipper that kept the bottle...I can smell the machine, the hot day, hot radiators and sage brush. We had an air conditioner in, or rather, attached to the '51 Buick Roadmaster - filled it with water, hung it outside on one of the windows and gave the cord a pull - it supplied enough cool air by evaporation from the rolled cloth for comfort, (the windshield wipers were pneumatically-driven and whenever the accelerator pedal was pushed down, they quit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Ah the pneumatically-driven wipers, worked really good except on the west coast when climbing a hill during the infrequent ( ) downpours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IFG Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 .... "bluing" in the laundry room, saddle shoes, Brylcreem and the highway signs, Life With Riley, Abbott & Costello, the Edsel, foolscap, eberhard faber pencils, inkwells, kneesocks, coonskin hats ....OK, Don, right backatya (courtesy of Billy Joel)Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie RaySouth Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggioJoe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, TelevisionNorth Korea, South Korea, Marilyn MonroeRosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, PanmunjomBrando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The RyeEisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queenMarciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye(Chorus)We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight itJoseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and ProkofievRockefeller, Campanella, Communist BlocRoy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, DacronDien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the ClockEinstein,James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning teamDavy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, DisneylandBardot, Budapest, Alabama, KhrushchevPrincess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez(Chorus)Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, KerouacSputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River KwaiLebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseballStarkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, MafiaHula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-goU-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and KennedyChubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo(Chorus)Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange LandDylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasionLawrence of Arabia, British BeatlemaniaOle Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats PattersonPope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician SexJ.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say(Chorus)Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back againMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rockBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlineAyatollah's in Iran, Russians in AfghanistanWheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicideForeign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie GoetzHypodermics on the shores, China's under martial lawRock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore... We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireBut when we are goneIt will still burn on and on and on and onAnd on and on and on and on...Cheers IFG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDR Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 How about collecting pictures of movie stars from the inside of the lid to "Dixie Cups"?http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/dixiecup.htmWhen I was a small kid we would get our milk delivery and the horse would stop in front of our house. As kids we could sit on the step at the back of the wagon while the horse on his own walked up a couple of houses to where the milk man would replace the empty bottle he had picked up with full ones to deliver. The horse knew the route as well as he did.My initial goal in life was top be a garbage collector as he had two horses whereas the milk man, the bread man and the ice man, (blocks of ice for the ice box as refrigerators were just starting to become the norm), only had one. As always, the more horses the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeman Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Those little red Rose tea figurines. My Mom had so many of them. I wonder what she did with them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inchman Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Hockey Coins. These ones have stats to 1962. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Hudson Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 IFG...wonderful ! Some just capture the times, don't they, and Joel is one, "Cat Stevens" another and of course Dylan but for looking forward, way past "congressmen and senators"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvWatcher Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Hockey coins - too funny. I think they came in boxes of Shirriff Pudding ... our family ate more Shirriff pudding than you can imagine so I could finish my hockey coin collection. And what about the "Weekend Magazine" that came in most newspapers - which had full page pictures of, in our case, the Maple Leaf players each week. That's why my favourite Leaf in those days was Billy Harris - and I always wondered how Al Arbour could play hockey behind those glasses ... Did anyone else listen to hockey games on Chrystal radios? And you talk about the milk man, bread man, ice man, we had an egg man ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAS Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Hockey on 1430. CKFH with Foster Hewitt doing play by play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 How many remember what this was used for with respect to medical issues????Many times I was subjected to the "old-mustard-plaster" if inflicted with a bad cold or chest congestion.My mother made a paste with this stuff and God knows what else, sandwiched it between two pieces of Kraft paper and placed on my chest...Yikes, could it get hot !!!! Made you sweat, broke up the congestion and was probably the precursor to Vicks Vapor-rub.You young n's have it so easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conehead Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Kip, I have a tin of that in my cupboard right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Hockey on 1430. CKFH with Foster Hewitt doing play by play.I'm pretty sure that Foster started that station. Hence the "FH" in the station's call sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Kip, I was treated with a few mustard plasters in my day too. You're right, man was it hot but also quite effective.You'd probably be accused of child abuse for using it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAS Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I'm pretty sure that Foster started that station. Hence the "FH" in the station's call sign.You're right. You have to be old to know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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