Old Timer Quiz...Do you remember?

Curb feelers, taking sandwiches to school ,in wax paper. Metal lunch boxes. Watching the balls,or spinners on the gas pump. dialing a telephone,going only as far as the cord would let you. Clothespinning playing cards to flap in your spokes. Listening to Dodger games on the radio,by Vin Scully. Going to Woolworths,and smelling popcorn, and hotdogs. Bottlecaps with cork in them. Paper soda straws. Walking to school. Cooking hot dogs over a gas stove burner. Air raid siren tests 10am friday mornings

 

Drug stores with soda fountains in them'
Toy planes, boats, cars made from real metal
When I was a kid it was a big deal to see a jet plane go over and I actually left Boise for basic training by walking across the tarmac and climbing stairs that were wheeled out to the plane (a prop job of some sort maybe a little bigger than a DC3) No metal detectors, airport security and damnsure no drug dogs

 

Vacume tubes in your Radio & Television, and the tube checker in drug stores.,........Drug stores with a "soda fountain" in them,.........The smell of the magazine racks,... the crappy gum you got with baseball cards,..... Good Humor Trucks with Bells and the driver with the belt changer,....V.J. Day,... Penny Candy ( I liked the Root Beer Barrels),..... Marx Fanner 50's
"Death Valley Days, brought to you by 20 mule team Borax",78 rpm records,
RECORDS !,...... hot summer nights sitting on the porch listening to Tiger baseball on our detrola radio,... Grandpa's storys of the old days.......

This is getting really depressing but I miss that stuff

 

How about auto parts sold to you by a gent who knew what you needed ... they were always the right part the first time, and always fit and worked when installed ...

 

I worked at a gas station in the early 60's,$2.00 would buy you 7.2 gallons of gas and get your oil checked and windshield cleaned.The girls in short skirts always got the cleanest windshield.

 

I work auto parts. What you're talking about pre-dates the Japanese invasion of American Highways. Of course, there were only 6 part #'s to remember then too. Plus, those gents you speak of have something most people today don't have, and that is PRIDE IN THEIR WORK. Sadly, that too, is almost a thing of the past. BTW. I'm older than dirt in that quiz, but I'm only 35

 

How about,..... Kids being respectfut to Adults, refering to someone as Mr. or Mrs., Kids riding bikes, playing baseball,Cowboys and Indians, playing outside till the street light came on, Families all sitting down together for breakfast and dinner, Family discuessions and story telling sessions, "Spare Time !" pride in your work, A sence of community, ( and the ever important " whadd'a you wann'a do ?, I dunn'o whadd'a you wann'a do? discuessions durring summer vacation).
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how over involved and over busy everyone has seem to become in the last 5 to 7 years? (just a thought)

 

Ice chest sodas, no racks, with a cup for the dime you left on your honor. Nickel back for the empty bottles.

Anybody remember the translucent plastic "color" sheet to hang over the front of your B&W screen for "color" tv.

Helms bakery trucks.

Back yard trash incineraters in SoCal, and smudge pots in the orchards.

When he died in '85 my old man (not a slur, we were service) still had two untouched packs of Lucky Strike green he'd kept.

 

You left off the Helms Bakery Truck delivering donuts and bread goods out of the 46 Ford Panel truck. I even remember a few 1940 sedan deliveries sitting in there yard when I was a kid....man I'm getting old!

 

hey im 27 and older than dirt. man do i feel like it!!! what about isalies or is that just a 'burg thing

 

how about "port-a-walls" - and recaps, and Atlas Bucrons, rattail combs, under-the-dash 45rpm record players, making 3spd floorshifts in metal shop, KolorKrome, mudflaps with red jewels, switching the column shift over to the left side of the column, bongo drums in the back window, dandelion wine, Olympia "four-dotters" (a west coast thing)

"those who forget the past are doomed to be called 'senile'...and those that remember it fondly and talk about it incessantly, are doomed to be called 'senile'..."

"the older I get...the faster I was"

dj

dj

 

Yah, I'm 65, SO WHAT???!!!!...................and..............and........what was the question?????

 

Getting kicked out of the $1.50 a car load Lincoln Drive In because the girl's butt accidently hits the horn ring...
Then running into her four years later and she reminds you of the night,
in front of your wife

 

This Is Tech Week, Please Remain On Topic!

 

You know what I remember? Some dude named Joey that got banned from the HAMB for being an asshat. Start your own board if you don't like this one!!

Bryan

 

oh oh! guess i'm older than dirt for sure.
remember when i was a kid in a service station doing all the things we did and pumping 20 cent a Canadian gallon of gas and charging 10 cents extra a dollar for the american dollar oh and we had cigarettes hanging out of our mouth while we were doing it heh .compare that to now we pay 20 cents extra for the american dollar and our gas is no longer a gallon it's these litre things and we pay $1.159 for one of those which in gallons meens $5.22 a gallon now i know why i'm broke all the time LOL!!

Al

 

I am definately older than dirt.

1st job, was as a soda jerk in the drug store at 9th and Brighton in KC, Mo. for 50 cents an hour. Could jerk them 5 cent Cokes with shaved ice in a real glass faster than you could say what you wanted.

Used to have a guy come in and get a Bromo every day after lunch. Capful in a glass with soda water and back and forth in two glasses till it settled down. Costa dime.

Moved up to pumping gas at the Vickers on Independence Ave by the KATZ drug store on the Northeast side. Fillups usually were less than $5 for a full tank. Name brand oil was 55 cents a quart and you had to have a oil spout to put it in. Reclaimed filtered oil was a dime a quart.

Buck sixty an hour. 1st paycheck was $107. Thought I was the richest kid in the world. What was I gonna do with all that money? Bought a 4-8 track tape player, and two speakers outa a Cadillac. Cost me $40 for all of it. Played Cream's Disraeli Gears tape till I wore it out.

Cigarettes were 35 cents a package. Drop the money in the machine and walk away with the smokes. No age check.

Walked to school and high school till I could bum a ride and finally go my own.

Good days for sure. But Best days are when I'm workin with my kids now and they use some of the stuff I taught them when they were little.

Gettin too nostalgic. Must stop now
And I just turned 53 this July 12th.

So ..... See ya at the Drags
VonDad

 

I'll have to remember to use the name "asshat" the next time I get banned. I'm just following your own rules.

 

nickel cokes, candy bars. payphones that the operator told you when to deposit your dime. KTLA was the only T.V. station in Los Angeles and was only on the air 4 hours a night.
gas pumps were glass tubes that gravity fed. regular at .12 cents a gallon had 92 octane. draft beer 15 cents. when cigarette machines charged 25 cents and the packs had three pennies change.
way back when I was member 90 on the HAMB WE DIDN'T WASTE TIME WITH POSTS LIKE THIS!!

 

The joke around here was that you should smoke Old Golds and save up the coupons for an iron lung!

 

I remember the candy cigarettes, but I preferred the bubble gum cigarettes wrapped in real paper that you could blow on and send out some white powder "smoke". Also, remember that the packs had names that were ALMOST like the real thing (like LUCKY STRIPE)?

 

I feel really old now. I remember lots of that stuff.

 

Me too, only I don't feel old , I just remember.

How about a few more ----

When Liberache had a daily TV show

Radio soap operas -- "The Romance of Helen Trent" My mother listened to that Every day , the next line was " The story that asks can a woman over 35 still find love & romance "

Ration stamps --food --gas -- tires --- (WW II)

5 cent coffee

Lil Abner

Pogo Possum

A B36 bomber flying overhead

Orange Nehi

Test patterns on TV about 15 hours a day

Sunday Mystery Theater on radios the size of a refrigerator.

Refrigerators with the compressor on top

 

I remember everything thing mentioned - but the B-36 really caught my eye.
I saw 9 of them in formation while at the NJ shore; headed East out over the ocean. A very distinctive sound

 

how bout when krystals were a dime.

 

and Smokey Stover..........

As we were service I used to watch the 36's out of Bliss on the way home from school. Loved to watch the wings lift so long before the fuselage did.

 

Boy, I was having a good day up until now.
I did't know that I was older that dirt.

 

EPs, the 45 rpm records with 4 (count 'em, 4) songs.
Beany & Cecil, the seasick sea serpent
Bosco, the drink and the cartoon charactor
Getting a warning instead of a ticket…for street racing
Duck & Cover
Motorcycle cops with cloth hats
Baseball as America's past time
Semaphore traffic signals (Ding!)
Waiting, impatiently, for the new cars to debut
Showrooms with window drapes in anticipation of the new cars.
Sodium searchlights at openings.
Getting up and offering ladies your seat
You have been assisted by…Your car club's name, cards
Lover's Lane
Submarine races
Double dates
Burma Shave signs
Chewing tobaco ads on barns
Spin & Marty
Engineer Bill (Red light, Green Light)
Mom ironing clothes and how it smelled so good
Wringer washing machines
Girls having to wear skirts or dresses to school
Buildings that resembled what they sold
Flash Gordon
Kemosabe
Parts in drawers and bins instead of bubble pacs
Swiping your little sisters skates to make a scooter out of a 2x4 and wooden crate, with a tuna can for a headlight.
A Stella for your first guitar
Hudson & Landry
Incandescent light streetlights that made a red car still look red
No beggars on street corners
Fair fist fights
TV wrestling with Gorgeous George, Freddy Blassy (You pencilneck!), Mr Moto, Baron Michelle Maroni, Haystack Calhoun…announced by the late, great Dick Lane
Live TV
Pull my finger
Slingshots
WWII surplus stuff
Race records
Big noisy mechanical cash registers
Learning about the radical ideas of the founding fathers, like Tom Payne and Jefferson (Common Sense, Federalist Papers) in grade school
Standing behind the driver when you were little
Sleeping in the package tray when you were little
When Truck Drivers always knew the best places to eat.
Pulling your arm up & down to get trucks to honk their horn…and they always would.
Push button light switches

Yeah, the old days were better. What about nowadays will we be nostalgic about? Not much, I'd say.

Chili Phil, feeling like a geezer now, more than ever…

 

Shining your spotligh on the screen at the drivein when the film broke...
Sock hops
Mom squeezing the Duz soap box to find the ones with the plates inside.
Watching Dad do the tire dance in the kitchen to fix a flat.
US 66 to California
TeePee hotel rooms
Spun aluminum drinking glasses
Frozen mugs of ice cold root beer delivered to your car at the A&W Drive in
Schwin bikes with baseball cards in the spokes
Screen doors with springs
The Five and dime store.
Dots
Playing baseball 10 hours a day ALL summer long
Or playing TAG or kick the can well into the night.
Neighbors you depended upon and could trust.
Bosco
Snappy Tom
Pin ball machines with no flippers you played for money.
Bonanza
The Wonderful world of Disney
Ashtrays in the shape of all the states you visited
Free maps at the gas station. And free air, and free water. And a mechanic on duty.
Good and plenty
Howdy doody. Zorro. Davy Crocket. Roy Rogers. The Swamp fox. The Rebel. Bat Masterson. Annie Oakly. Rin tin tin.

My Dad.

 

Those last 2 really brought back alot of memories! Thsnk you guys.


jerry