Older than Dirt Quiz.

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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!

for people who remember every single one?

still being here. :D

Pardon the pun.

:toast:

must be getting forgetful.

I remember *all* of these, but my mind's not what it usta be...

:toast:

aren't they wonderful? I remember all of them so call me Dirt! Aww...... my roller skate key, used to wear it around my neck. And you had to have shoes with a good sole to hold the skates on. My saddle shoes worked great! :bounce:

and I'm only 28.

Was my hometown that backward?

There are several reasons I should only have had about nine:

I grew up in a very backward, very small town -- one of the gas stations still had a glass-bottle Coke machine, even though there was only one distributor in the area who even sold the right size bottles (I think it used a 7-ounce bottle, if I'm not mistaken).

White Castle and Waffle House were still putting jukeboxes on the table up through the seventies and early eighties.

There still are drive-ins where I live.

My mother was born during the Depression and has never, to my knowledge, thrown a single consumer item away as long as it still worked -- hence I know about roller skates that use a key, metal ice cube trays with a tab, etc. because even though they weren't in general use, she had them squirreled away somewhere and brought them out or continued to use them long after everybody else had thrown theirs away.

By the way on No. 5 my father lived off that.Plus he loved diners and owned one once and also leased one to a man. He was always doing odd busnesses as I think the music/records business did not keep his interest going.That was his main business. We lived in a house filled with 78's.

I remember them all. But I am not older than dirt, although I do remember when dirt was clean...

I used to go around to the frat houses on the U of IL campus and pick up the Coke bottles they threw out. I'd take them to the store and use the deposit money to buy candy. Remember the wax coke bottles with sugar water quite well.

LOL

I actually vividly remember about 20 of these and was fully aware of the other 5, even though they might outdate me a little (like Packards).
The Professor

I remgember themt alkl. i hav 2 typ withe a walker nou daise. O look, a buterfli.

Can I help it if they had a partyline and wringer well into the 70's??

Yikes...I remember 'em all. (And I don't remember all that much.)

And I even have been in an Edsel!

I remember lots of those.

The jukeboxes at the diner tables. They still have those on Long Island.

:D

And yes, I am young - 25.

yet I do fondly remember all of your items and more.
I lived in Wilmington, Del as a very young child and remember the following:
1. Cobblestone streets
2. Milk delivered in a box outside the side entree.
3. Ice delivery for the "icebox"
4. A rag man and a vegetable wagon that were horse drawn.
5. Electric trolley cars.
6. Steam locomotives.
7. No TV.
8. Lots of disabled veterans panhandling.

and remember the cobblestone streets, the ice delivery for the icebox, vendors with horse-drawn carts, electric trolley cars. And what was a TV?

dammit :7

I remember all of these things from way back. Trouble is, I can't remember where the hell I left my car keys five minutes ago...

B-)

Heck, I was there for the BIG BANG.

The ice man and the pan under the ice box
Coal cook stoves with the warming tray on top
Hoosier pantries
Coal bins
Flannel lined jeans
4 buckle black artic boots
Hectographs - they preceded mimeographs
The first television in the neighborhood
30W - my first phone number

Long underwear under cotton socks and actually wore Playtex rubber girdles. First phone # was Fairmount15 direct voice mail.

28330. Party line. Our ring was 2 short rings. The longer ring was for the other party. Sometimes, if we had an emergency, we would pick up when someone was on the line and ask if they would hang up so we could call the police, or ambulance, or whatever. (Sometimes, we would even listen in.)

at a very, spry, youthful 41. :P

What was the question?

I remember gas wars in my home town where it would go as low as 8.9/gallon sometimes...

Although some of these are from my VERY early childhood. :-)

I remember all but one. I guess I need to sit in the attic and practice my cackling!

Hey, what's this dirt doing on my shoes!

BTW, I have a restored Vendo 81 Coke machine sitting in the family room. Glass bottles - ten cents each. Years ago, an old employer was going to throw it out - we took it, and it stayed in that condition for 30 years until we had it restored two years ago.

cause' I'm an old bat, but I guess you all knew that. My own grown kids call me Granny, old bat, gray skull and other endearing names. I figure they wouldn't do that unless they love me dearly.
It is quite fun being of 'an age' except for the expected aches and pains. Sometimes I wish I was 60 again, tho.
You 40ish people, take heart, you have at least another lifetime ahead of you.

I remember them all. For those who don't remember home delivery of milk in glass bottles, the milk always had cream at the top, and during very cold weather the cream would freeze and push the cardboard cap upward. As for drive-ins, my little town still has a drive-in theater.

LOL

And one of my college housemates had a Kaiser.

I am officially a geezer.
How about post-war (yep, THAT war) oleomargerine that was pure lard-white and came with a little glassine packet of orange die you mixed in to make it look like butter...kind of?

My dad remembers when people would have to smuggle oleo into Wisconsin! (Back then, oleo was illegal in WI.)

fondly too!

great memories here!

At 38 everything's starting to get larger, hairier and closer to the ground.

I was just a kid, and one with really slender fingers that didn't perform well when cold.

My family moved to the burbs in 1974 and we were put on a party line for a few weeks. I think the others on the line requested that we be given the first private line available, my brothers and I were um .. irresponsible.

And I remember everything on the list

My 85 year old uncle's 30 year old refrigerator finally gave out so he bought a new one. With an automatic ice-maker. Through the door. Cool (pun intended)!

Except...except he doesn't like the SHAPE of those ice things. They aren't proper ice CUBES. So he doesn't use it. Had the appliance repair guy come out and disconnect it.

Now he's happy again with his 3 aluminum ice cube trays with the levers to POP! the cubes out. He saved them from the old fridge. And the plastic bin where he builds up a supply of ice cubes if he's expecting guests.

We're all thinking that uncle's kinda set in his ways, but whatthehell, right?
;-)

With hindsight, they were cool looking trays, but no way I'd want to freeze my fingers on them again (reminds of the kid who sticks his tongue to the pole in A Christmas Story.

makes it official

but that's been true for the past 15 years anyway

Well, piss on me and call me MUD!