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James Howell

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Was doing a little computer "housekeeping" today and came across this file.

<big>[b:654c4848f0]Older Than Dirt Quiz:

Count all the ones that you remember [i:654c4848f0]not the ones you were told about[/i:654c4848f0].

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 boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. 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 3 channels if you were fortunate)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S & H greenstamps
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![/b:654c4848f0]

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.</big>
 
Metal Ice cube trays with lever was a new fangled idea after the little tool that was separate something like the newer paint can opener with the church key, and I do believe that was their intended purpose for ice cube trays, and still in production.
I came with the wind that blowed the dirt in --- LOL

Howdy Doody was the first show I ever saw. I'd stand real close, and holler at Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring trying to get her to see me in her magic mirror.
 
I remember all but nnalert chewing gum. Have used most of them. What about bleach in glass jug, Wash board, bath in wash tub, Stud cigarette tobacco in cloth bag with rolling papers, milk can beside of road waiting to be picked up by milk man, cap buster guns. Plenty more that are gone along with a differant way of life. DH
 
My daughter in her twenties knew most, don't have to be young or old just exposed to more than a plastic world.
 
Was thinkin' the other day that I was somewhere around 12 years old before they invented the darned ball-point pen. :>(

'Member the white gas, gas lights, lanterns and the engine driven matag washers? Wind chargers and those old battery powered radios?

Anybody still use a milkin' stool and kickers? :>)

Allan
 
I remember 'em all...........in addition to Blackjack, there was Beemans and Clove gum; remember my mother washing on a rub board, with water drawn from the cistern and heated in a washpot in the backyard. We got our 1st TV when I was 14; how about Kaiser, Frazer, Henry J, Crosley automobiles? I remember the neighbors going to town in a mule-drawn wagon; using a cross-cut saw and a buzz saw, going barefoot all Summer. When I was 5, we moved.....across the county.......to the community where I've spent the rest of my life. We had an International pick-up, but my dad and grand-dad moved much of our stuff in 2 mule-drawn wagons. Except for the state highways, most of the roads were gravel, 'though there was one in the community which was still dirt.
 
We strained the milk through something like cheese cloth, which I guess strained all the germs out; sure got the cow hair and tiny pieces of manure out.
 
Uh-oh! I remember numbers 1,3,4,10,14,16,18,19 & 23. Happy to be born at the waning end of disco. AMC & IH were still around, but in poor health. Photomats were all over & I was about 10 or so when they stopped production of soda in glass bottles. 45's? I didn't know they ever stopped producing them. Same with Blackjack gum. Been going to the drive in all of my life. Even went to Mass at one. Candy cig's were available in my favorite pharmacy with the soda fountain in back. They didn't have a specific cigarette brand on them anymore, just similar colors. Speaking of smokes, I have a carton of Chesterfields on order (I wonder how many of y'all just said YUCK? Was that you, Old Roy? LOL!)

I'd love to wander down amnesia alley some more, but I'm burning daylight.

Mike
 
100% for me too. I remember dirt 1.0.

My grandfather kept blackjack chewing gum in the glovebox of his 1947 Ford, and I looked like Howdy Doody as a kid.
 
How bout the old coal oil burner to heat yer hot water, turn the burner up to high and smoke would fill the house, and the smell !!! Jim in N M
 
guess i'm older 'n dirt too
remember

pepsodent powdered tooth paste?
serutan...nature spelled backward (from ed sullivan show)
tv show highway patrol with broderic crawford?
tv show...the whirlybirds?
77 sunset strip?
jarts? the lawn dart game with the steel tip darts?

click-clacks?

charlie chan movies?

johnny weismuller and his tarzan holler !!
tarzan yell
 
I remember all of'um. Our 1st tv was about 10" and we watched rasslin. Hard Boiled Haggerty was the bad guy.We watched it with all the lights out.
 
James you already know I am older than dirt.

How about milking sitting on a one legged stool

cranking a cream seperator and feeding the skim milk to the hogs.

Using water in a tank to cool milk.

gitrib
 
you talkin about one armed bandit that a pipe went into furnace and only had hot water when there was fire ?
 
Thanks for posting. I remember all except Blackjack gum. The Blackjacks I remember were strawberry, vanilla and liquorice flavored. Still one of my favorite tastes. They should have included the Edsel. I remember threshers--I lost a pair of Hop-Along-Casidy spurs in the straw pile. Some of us may be older than dirt, but it was the best time ever to grow up.

Larry
 
Hi James: Thanks for the reminders. I remember scrap iron drives when people would group together to gather up iron to recycle for the WW-2 effort. I remember the MovieTone news reels "News" coverage of WW-2 before the main movie was shown.. That War was my first impression that the world was a lot bigger then America. Some of those old memories are clearer then things that happen today, like where are my glasses or checkbook.. Thanks.. ag
 
Hey Gun Guru S&H green stamps were given out by grocery stores when you bought from them. You had to lick them and stick them in a green stamp book. when you got enough you could redeem them for groceries or money.
Butch wax was a wax hair product that all the guys with a crew cut would put on their hair to make it stand up. DH
 
One Hallween the kids stole the "We give S&H Green Stamps" sign from the local service station and installed it in front of the local funeral home.
 
Grandpa smoked Marvel cigarettes, we saved Top Value trading stamps. I drank 3V Cola (vim, vigor, vitality). Smooth Salin candy bars in the 50's. The Big Story on TV (about a newspaper). Just a few that came readily to mind. Born in '48.
 
I'm only 48 and I remember all but newsreels and Studes. I do recall running water on the underside of those stupid lever ice cube trays to try and release the cubes.
 
Hey! Anybody remember bringing money to school to buy War Bond stamps. When you got thr book full you got a War Bond worth $18.75. When it matured and you cashed it in you got $25.00.
 
My Dad's one legged stool had a belt attached for hands free use.
I remember that I had to tie a not in the strap to make it fit me.
 
When I was first married, Wife shopped at piggly
wiggly. Every Wenesday was double stamp day and
the store was crowded. Us husbands called it
double stomp day.
 
im only 28 i only first hand knew of 4 of these heard of the rest but ive milked with a one legged stool and used kickers just be carefull not to tighten them too far or the cow will fall on you lol
 
I've still got the one legged stool that my Dad built for me so I could take over the milking chores. Back in the tail end of the 50's and start up of the 60's.
 
yes we only wore shoes to school , remember runnin through the creek beds squishin mud between the toes to catch craw dads to chase the girls with. LOL
Those were the days.
 
I was watching a parade one time when a woman in thongs(on her feet) went up close to get a picture...right after the horses went past. She wasn't paying any attention and it wasn't mud squishin' between her toes! Of course her first words were OH SHUT. Then she realized everyone saw her do it and was more than a little embarrassed. It was hilarious! Dave
 
We still use a 1 legged milk stool to strip out our nurse cows. Dads Kickers are hanging in the feed room and Yes I know how to use them. Dads old cow named Witch, not only did ya have to put the kickers on but ya had to also tie her tail to the barn joists. Could that ol cow kick. She also filled the Delaval floor pail milker 1 and 1/2 times. Which equals almost 6 gals a milking. I think those were 4 gal pails, correct?
We used a combination of Surge belted and Delaval floor pail milking machines. I have dads back up milker pump, 2 of his steel stanchions and my father in laws lines and petcocks . I grew up milking 10 then later 15 head of Jersey/Holstein cross. We were always grade B and always got a high test number, 3.8 or higher if I remember correct. Twice a day 365 days a year even if ya didn"t want to
 
I went to a corn feed one day and there were some new folks there,they asked one old guy how long have you lived here,he said I have lived here so long long I was here before there was dirt here,they asked how can that be? he said when I first moved here all you could see was rocks,after the first summer of picking we finally found the dirt. now thats old huh?
 
Both Marilyn and I aced it but we don't feel older than dirt-yet. Speaking of the green stamps, I think I remember mom using Gold Bond stamps too. I barely remember postage stamps going from 3 cents to 4 cents. Post cards went from .02 to .03. My parents complained loudly! Come to think of it, that's a 30 percent jump. Soda pop was 10 cents a bottle but I don't remember nickle pop. Jim
 
now wait a minute i am not old an i got a 21 out of 25. i might have got 22 but i couldnt remember what PF flyer was.
johndeeregene
 
Guess I started young. At 46 I'm considered older than dirt because I scored 20. Sure wish for those days again.

Leonard
 
"bout remembered them all, done a lot of em.
With six of us stair step "stamp lickers" putting the S&H in the books and thumbing thru the catalog seein' what we could get for 2 1/2 books, etc.
Nobody told us we couldn't chew the wax after the pop was gone, outta them little bottles.
We had a coal (or wood) fired water heater in the cellar, on the farm along about 1955, that mom called "bucket-a-day". This was separately fired from the gigantic furnace that heated the house.
 
I always wanted me some redball shoes. You could run faster and jump higher in redballs.

Not older than dirt but can remember when it was still white.
 
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