Old Timer Quiz...Do you remember?

Heres a few things that some of us are sure to remember...I do.

1. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.


2. Ignition switches on the dashboard.


3. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.


4. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.


5. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.


6. Blackjack or Cloves chewing gum.


7. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.


8. Candy cigarettes.


9. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.


10. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes,


11. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.


12. Party lines telephones.


13. Newsreels before the movie.


14. Butch hair wax.


15. Telephone numbers with a word prefix like (Plaza-6933).


16. Peashooters.


17. Howdy Doody.


18. 45 RPM records.


19. S&H Green Stamps.


20. Hi-fi's.


21. Metal ice trays with levers to pop out the cubes.


22. the Packard or Studebaker automobile.


23. Roller skate keys.


24. Drive-In Movies.


25 Real Ice Boxes.





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!

I might be older than dirt, but those memories have enriched my life.

 

I'm 34 and older than dirt...

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I also remembered it was tech week...

 

I must be one of the older than dirts! I can mostly remember ALL of them.

How about a newsreel and a cartoon before the feature movie?

The "GoodHumor" ice cream truck?


jerry

 

You fergot garter belts..................Not me!.......OLDBEET

 

1,2 and 5 are still on 5 of my cars!
And unfortunately I remember all of them.

 

Ice trays don't have levers anymore???? Well, I'll be damned!

 

Remember, hell I own most of them!

 

The hell...Im only 27 and I ended up in the dont tell your age...
Btw those metal ice trays with the lever where kinda creepy like a medival torture tool.
Btw the candy cigarettes I remember where actually bubble gum with powder so you could puff em for the full effect

 

Call me Dr Dirt.

How about getting a dollars' worth of gas for the weekend? This of course came with a courtesy check of all four tires, the oil, the coolant, and you got your windshield cleaned.

How about waiting for the filaments in the vacuum tubes in the car radio to heat up?

 

I predate Hi-Fi. what's that make me?

 

Proud to remember most of the above and I,m 4 and 0 next semester.

Kids, ya missed out!

 

Me too!

 

A few years back the State of Mass (confusion) came out with new emissions/inspection requirements that necessitated the use of a dyno set-up. A lot of garages stopped doing inspections so I had to stop getting my 52 inspected at a "real" garage that knows what they're doing and go a Service (yeah right) Station. Their policy was that the attendant had to drive the vehicle into the bay even for safety-only inspections. My 1/2 ton still has the stock stomp-starter on the 235 so I just tossed them the keys and walked over to Dunkin' Donuts for a coffee. My uncle and the usual crowd of old timers were there and we all had a grand time watching a string of kids try to figure out how to start it.

 

I guess I qualify as remembering when dirt was invented. Sad part is I still have alot of this stuff and some of these items are still for sale around here. I can't quite recall when it was that the sky was painted blue. Hmmmm, I must not be as old as I thought.

 

I'm older than dirt but I'm a richer person for have known all 25 of those plus many more. Too bad we live in such a world.. Here's to the old days

 

I'm so old I remember when things were still Black and White!!!........OLDBEET

 

I remember them all. Also remember going to the movies Saturday morning and seeing cartoons, a serial, and a movie . That really must make me older than dirt.

 

i heard that in poland a lot of people were getting in accidents when they changed the high beam switch to the turn signal,they were getting their feet caught up in the steering wheel.

 

How about:

1) Church keys

2) Carbon paper

3) Typewriters, manual

4) 25 cent ice cold mug o' beer, $2.00 pitchers

5) 10 cent phone calls

6) 25 cents for a pack of cigerettes

7) 35 cent/gallon gas, ETHYL

8) "See the USA, in your Chevrolet" ad song

9) Hertz rental car commercials that had a guy on wires coming down into the seat of a new convertible rent car
10) Black and white TV with two channels

11) Grand ol' Opery, on the radio.

12) The original "rag" once a month

13) reuseable cloth diapers (best polishing rags on the planet)
OK, somebody else pickup the ball and run with it

 

Ernie Kovacs

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Drive-in movies. And sneaking people in the trunk.

 

Dirt on all accounts!!

 

I'm only 31 and I guess I am older than dirt. I absolutely loved my Nannie's lever action ice cube trays...I guess it was the mechanics of the whole operation. Rob, I guess I guess if you were just a little bit(4 years) older you would also remember the sugar stick cigs.

 

How about going to the Saturday creature feature at the local theater and getting in for a couple of Bon Ton bread wrappers , and even having a guy play the big pipe organ during intermission, picking up gramma's phone and having a real person say "number please" cause the phone had no dail

 

9. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.

remember the chest style cooler that you slid the bottle through the rack too get it out?


10. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes,


We didn't call them coffee shops though

 

How about the drive in always showing the first half of the first show again at the end of the second feature for those who got in late?along with 1/2 dozen cartoons before running the coming attractions then the first feature.50 kids in their jammies playing on such outragiously dangerous things as monkey bars,merry-gorounds and seesaws!all considered child endangerment today !

 

Ahhh hell, I must be really, really, really old then...I can remember when Ethyl gasoline was 19.9 cents a gallon!!!!! AND we could cruise around the whole weekend on 50 cents worth of Regular.

R-

 

...I think Rog just won the Kewpie Doll (remember those?) for oldest fucker here...

 

i'm either very familier or well aware of everything so far except the S&H foodstamps.

what about pall mall cigarettes? you could save up the coupons on the pack to get some patio furnature or a toro mower.

 

It must hurt to be that old!