Things to think about....

[shag766]

the party line :headbang:

we still have them up here in certain areas. i remember when our telephone # was 2 long and 1 short. now listen boy, that was a hand crank call.

jeez i am old. who the hell brought this up anyway. :sideways tongue:

 

[shorty64]

Newspapers

Boy did that list bring back memories. (turned 66 this past Feb)

Delivered newspapers too - morning Detroit Free Press - up at 4am, back home by 6am. Winters were tough trying to get thru the snow on a bicycle and not dump it on an icy driveway or street. Thick Sunday papers took me 2 trips on a 2-spd Schwinn with rear metal side baskets, a front basket, and a shoulder bag over each side of me.

Worst part was the aromas wafting out of the vents and milk chutes of coffee, bacon, eggs, toast, for those early risers.

Ah yes, the good old days!!!!

 

[snakeyes]

how`s it feel to be old ! haha:headbang:

 

[Ron 73]

Bring back any memories?
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite '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:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, 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 10.
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.

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
9a. 78 RPM records and wind-up gramophones
10. Hi-if'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.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)

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Balsa wood airplanes, you hoped to have 60 cents so you can get the one with a prop and rubber band, not just the glider.. I always liked the candy smokes, look real with red on the end.. Sundays you had to have your own fun, no stores open, gas stations, yep i can remember a lot of these. Used to get fireballs sometimes 2 for a nickle..feel older this Am

 

[Meep-Meep]

Of course I have heard about all of them, except maybe sweet cigarets, but 2, 4, 6, 11, 12 are familiar to me. Great times.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Well I'm not tell my age.

You got dressed up in a suit to go to church and funerals.

I still do. And I even know how to tie a tie!

 

[shag766]

I still do. And I even know how to tie a tie!

you are up on me, meep. now i have a bunch hanging already tied. lol

 

[jess]

well i am 32 and i got 6
but we lived out in the sticks and still do
we didnt have electric for a part of my life
we had got our water outside from the well
that was run by a old gas motor that you spun the flywheel to start it
and made darn shure the handle didnt hit ya

 

[snakeyes]

I remember we made all our own candies ,I also remember tapping the trees for syrup , wood for the kitchen stove wiping the snow off the out seat in the winter and dumping the old honey bucket out ,its something how many things we had to do back then ,before you could have some free time .:grin:

 

[roadrunnerman]

I lived on a farm and we still used an outhouse up until the mid 70's.

 

[Dennis H]

11 through 14 here. 312 N 12th Street. 3rd floor. Allentown, Pa. Remember how the glass milk bottles would sweat? I still remember my Mom staniding me in the tub to rinse the blood off of my big toe after dropping the sweaty bottle onto my foot. My job was to go out and pick up the milk. Still have the scar.

I remember the redhead at the bus stop too.

 

[Ron 73]

I lived on a farm and we still used an outhouse up until the mid 70's.

X 2 Oh yea, remember them ok! :eusa_think: Lots of things from those days..

 

[Red63440]

Bring back any memories?
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite '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:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, 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 10.
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.

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
9a. 78 RPM records and wind-up gramophones
10. Hi-if'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.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)

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I remembered all of them and a few others and you failed to mention the newest flash cube!....Our milk man also brought eggs if you left him a note the day before you wanted them. Our milk company was called "Menzies Dairy" and had the only matching twin to the Budwiser wagon and team of horses. My mother had a "Mangle" (look it up) and I can remember collecting pop bottles to buy those sweet cigarettes on the weekends. I remember making carbide cannons out of paint cans and sitting in front of the fan on hot summer evenings, no one had A/C back then. I remember watching Mighty Mouse, The Cisco Kid, Tom Terrific and the Micky Mouse Club. I remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and Elvis on the Phil Silvers Show...All good memories and I would hope that when our time comes we are able to return to the time in our lives that found us the happiest. Thanks for sharing ...