OT: Older than Dirt

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

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 juke box s 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 ...I remember 78 RPM's too 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!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.

"Senility Prayer"...God grant me... The senility to forget the people I never liked The good fortune to run into the ones that I do And the eyesight to tell the difference" Have a great week!!!!!

Tommy

I started school (K through 4) in a one-room country schoolhouse. Even remember my teacher, Mrs. Merton. We thought we'd hit the big time, we had an automatic oil furnace, no coal to shovel!

Onna other hand, goin' ta the outhouse in Michigan in January left a little to be desired...

The local "restaurant" served coffee cream (real cream) in little glass pitchers that held an ounce or two. We didn't eat there, but did haul the garbage to feed the pigs and found those little pitchers in the soil for years afterwards.

Up until 10 years ago, we still had party lines that we only dialed 3 numbers for.

Still have truck without turn signals, and a Harley with hand shift, foot clutch and left hand throttle, with manual spark advance. Also no turn signals.

Here's a couple more. Anyone remember air starters on Semis? Or vacuum windshield wipers? Car radios that had to warm up?

Only one on the list I don't remember was Howdy Doody. I spent part of my youth in Germany, we had a coal stove and milk was still unpasteurized and unhomogenized, but they had daily beer delivery! They were decades ahead of us in some respects!

1. ironed clothes with an iron that you heated on top of the wood-burning kitchen range.

2. studied in a double (two-person) desk in a one-room country school.

3. ate ice-cream made in a hand-cranked ice-cream "freezer".

4. played hockey on a pond in a hayfield using a frozen horse "turd" after all the pucks were lost.

Ed

Blackjack gum is still around. Bought a few packs the other month at 7-11.

Plenty of old diners still have the table juke boxes. As well some of the cute "retro" diners like the Double TT chain.

Party lines still exist in the rural west.

Drive ins are still around.

But even if we take those out, I still come up as older then dirt.

You survey sure puts things in perspective pretty quickly!! No doubt about it: I'm "older than dirt!"

I just don't remember when!

Ya, I had to count most of them. :)

T_Bone

While it does not count in some parts of the country the first thing I think of when I try to remember the past is picking up glass coke bottles at construction sites for the .05 deposit.

As to the first list, I don't 'remember' iceboxes, pants clips, or hand signals, tho the truck i own had to be converted with after-market blinkers.....

Still use the wringer washer to was the farm clothes tho....

--->Paul

Same backwaters?

Steve