Remember these?

Melrymax

Subject: 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:
  
Some 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 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...
 
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
   
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.
 
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. 
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
 
MEMORIES from a friend:
 My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola 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
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.
 
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) 

joanlawson

I'm positively ancient because I remember all of those. :shock:

Times have changed so much though. I was whizzing through the air on a roller-coaster last week with my grandchildren, and it would have been unthinkable for my grandparents to do anything like that. They seemed really old when they were only in their sixties, but these days life begins at 60.

skezier

Hi Melrymax,

Hey I still got some of those...

the old dip switch on the floor and you remember the windscreen wipers on the floor well?!

Split screen cars too... mind I earned to drive in a series 2 land rover and she was old..... Brilliant car but old...

I am not supposed to say my age but then I don't Cris x

valval

did not get the metal ice cube tray but we did have soda syphon for fizzy water (not the fizzy pop maker)

julie47

my score was 8 in the quiz so i am happy to say i am not quite ancient .....phew

juliepf x

tkachev

well I scored 8 so I won't be teling you my age.
We did however have a TV and a car before I was out of the pram.

Elizabeth

joanlawson

I think we got our first fridge when I was about 12. I was so proud of it because not many of my friends had one. I used to invite friends round to impress them by giving them cold drinks and home-made ice lollipops. You'd have thought it was one of the wonders of the world ( it was in a way :!: )

tonesp

Fords windscreen wipers that worked on a vacuum system The faster you drove the slower they wiped :roll: :roll: :roll:

Ankyspond

Absolutely loved it, I am 43 and scored 12! Things were better then. Xx

Melrymax

This was something my dad sent me. I scored 5 :oops: but do remember having to sit at the table until I liked what my mum served lol


Glad I gave you all a chuckle

skezier

rehab44 wrote:

Wellingtons with the tops rolled down

..... I'm saying nothing...........

frogmorton

Classic Merlymax

I am pretty old according to that

good news is my kids have their tea cooked evey night and put on the table, they ask to leave the table and there is no TV in our dining room.

the milk is still delivered (the most environmental way l think), but only comes three times a week :sad:

I enjoyed that very much thanks

toni xx

mig

Just scraped in with 11,still got records cant bear to get rid of them.Mig

bubbles

oh dear, I can remember them all, very clearly :roll:

Turbogran

Same here bubbles so I must be ancient

lindalegs

Yep, I'm ancient too and I still have my milk delivered in glass bottles by the milkman.

Don't they say that it was the dairy that started recycling with washing out your glass bottles and returning them to be used again .........and these youngsters thought it was a modern idea? :shock:

My friend's grandson was amazed because his granddad had a fantastic watch which didn't need batteries because you wound it up!!! :shock:

jillyb1

Remember all of those , but then I truly am very , very old ! Anyone else remember the weekly delivery of corona ? Limeade , orangeade and raspberryade ; they all tasted much the same but were different garish colours ! My parents had a tandem with a small motor and a sidecar for my brother and I to travel in before they got the first family car . Definitely a simpler time ! Jillyb

prefabkid47

joanlawson wrote:

I think we got our first fridge when I was about 12. I was so proud of it because not many of my friends had one. I used to invite friends round to impress them by giving them cold drinks and home-made ice lollipops. You'd have thought it was one of the wonders of the world ( it was in a way :!: )

My parents home already had a built in fridge when I was born in 1947 a rarity in those days,but it was a prefab.They were years ahead of their time,anyone else born or lived in a prefab............... :?: