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.

[seadogg]

I had to wait till passing 11+ before getting a bike but one of the the joys of childhhood was scrounging gum and other goodies from American servicemen during the war .

[Sam1960]

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but the "Red Byke" Telegram guy !! In the days before we all had phones !! Think they ran till early 70's ? Your heart skipped a beat whenever you saw one. The message they delivered came on a long tape, and was stuck to a piece of paper.

[julia-mag]

I have fallen into the 'ancient trap' very gracefully (*) and well remember the ice on the inside of bedroom windows (no heating upstairs) Gas mantles that broke if you touched them! no lights in back bedroom, toilet at the end of the garden , chamber pots under the bed, chilblains on your feet, and they were painful, blackleading the fireplace every saturday morning, and every shop only selling one type of produce. No tv and getting the battery charged for 2d once a week for the radio.Playing marbles in the gutter (Ughh) but only one car in our street! Memories remain,, aaahhhhh. They were my good old days.

[horseshoes]

I remember taking the vinegar bottle to the corner shop to be filled from a big barrel. ...... Getting on the NEW double decker bus which had the door and the stairs at the front........ The knife grinder on his push bike ...... vanity cases.... Gondola baskets used on cookery days at school...... The nit nurse. On the OP's list, I remember all of them.