How many of these do you remember?

[droopydrawers]

I can remember all of these - they say I am ancient, what about you?



Bring back any memories?
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 'home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and 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 lad 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.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

Most parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled 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 11 .
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; 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...

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.


MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Lemonade 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?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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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. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. 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 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
9 a . 78 RPM records and wind-up gramophones
10. Hi-Fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. 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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

[grasscarp]

Add to the list Dansette record player, which held the records in a stack and dropped them down one by one.
My mum used to send us out to find bottles, which nearly all had a deposit on them, to take back to the shops for cash. It was a recycling that worked in the 50s.

[wardlaw]

You must be my sister!!!!!!!! We certainly seem to have had the same parents.

[maggiebee]

Positively ancient! Can't remember metal ice trays with levers, probably because we never had a fridge. Didn't have a TV either til I was married and in my 20s.
Still have a wind up gramaphone and some 78 RPM records in the loft - Elvis, Duane Eddy and the Big Bopper to name a few.

[dotty.]

growing up in the early 60s we had a milkman 6 days a week, a breadvan delivery 3 days a week, a newspaper 7 days a week and an insurance man every friday evening. mum shopped on a thursday and a saturday, other than that we didn't shop or go anywhere but school or sunday school or church.

[NOX]

I can remember 13 of them- again I don't recall the metal ice trays with levers- but maybe this is an American quiz and we didn't have them over here?

[grasscarp]

well talking of people delivering, there was the Kleeneze man and a coal lorry with sacks of coal and coke on the flat back.

[jno]

I had the metal ice trays; they worked. What was a hi-fi, exactly?

Movies were rated well before I was born. In the USA it was only begun in the 1960s, I think: regualtor pressure stopped unduly explicit films being made so there was no need for rating.

[pastafreak]

You may be right nox-as I remember metal icetrays with levers.....I'd forgotten them until now.

[sandyRoe]

There was a rag and bone man who stabled his horse in our street. On Fridays a man pushing a handcart would go round the area selling fish.

[grasscarp]

worse than that Pasta. I think I may still have one!

[dundurn]

We used to buy milk tokens at the Co-op and leave them out in the empty bottles overnight. The milkman picked up the empties and left as many bottles as you had left out tokens. Brilliant system - 1950s online ordering!

[grasscarp]

How selfish Sandy.

[pastafreak]

In the States,we had the Fuller Brush Man....he carries a huge bad just packed with all sorts of cleaning...brushes!
And there was the Good Humour truck...icecream sold by a very neat and tidy man in a spotless white uniform.
And I remeber my brother taking me to the local sweet shop...sitting on a high stool for a rootbeer float was paradise.

[pastafreak]

he carries a huge bad

"he carried a huge bag"

[paddywak]

Definitely ancient, I can,t remember the ice cube thing because like a lot off people we didn't have a fridge just a large stone slab in the pantry with one of those mesh fly safes on, and I used to dread it when I came home from school and saw the coal man had been because that was my job, to barrow it all to the coal shed at the back of the house.

[whiskeryron]

Before every house had a bathroom the metal bath would be carried in from the yard & placed in front of the fire & filled with hot water ( saucepans on gas cooker) one day a neighbour's daughter was in the bath & there was a knock on the front door, it was the Insurance man calling for the weekly subscription. The girl's mother let him in, the girl squealed & tried to cover herself, the mother said ''don't panic it's only Ted the insurance man''. When we were told about this incident we all fell about.

WR.

[albaqwerty]

I've decided that since I scored 12 I'm not ancient, I was raised by Cleopatra and Rameses, it's their fault.

[marval]

I remember 11, so I am positively ancient

[humbersloop]

And who else can remember the Dead Sea putting in its first sick note??