Audiophiles are older than dirt


Someone sent this to me recently. If you remember number 16..... then you are older than dirt.

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 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 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 wonder what it means if you read posts on Audiogon that are titled;

"What is Hi-Fi", "How is mid-fi defined", "Hearing tests, where and how", "I need help with a Dual 1291 that rumbles", "New stereo trend", "Tubes and moisture", "TT sounds so bad, I cringe", "Real audiophiles dont like remotes", "Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC", "What did you own in the 60s?", "Vacuum tube chess set", "Aging technology verse inevitably aging ears", and this lollapaloozer "An audiophile goal" and finally "Farewell my friends".

Yeah, we are all older than dirt!

Bob
PHP143
If the first 100db suck, why continue?





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Showing 10 responses by puerto

Butch wax was sticky stuff that you used to keep your flat-top standing tall!
Foster-9 Yep, I heard it from a fellow Sailor when stationed at Treasure Island, San Francisco. The USO was closed that night.
Does being a 20 year old in SF during the Haight-Ashbury days qualify for older than dirt? Good music at the Fillmore West!
The original Honeymooners, Dave Garroway, Wild Bill Hitchcok, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (bullet and Nellybell-Buttercup (Dale's horse), Hopalong Cassidy. Puff Wheat and Puff Rice shot from a cannon. Gabby Hayes, Cisco and Pancho. Lassie, Sky King . . . . Can you add to this?
Victory at Sea - and what about ""pluck your magic twanger Froggie" Remember the line but not the show. Tarzan, "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, this is my dog ________ he lives there too! What was the dog's name?
Mapman: You win one "attaboy"! Ras422 I totally forgot about the cat. Nice going! Then there was Milton Berle, George and Gracie, Jack Paar and Ajax the foaming cleanser - floats the dirt right down the drain. The Doublemint twins and going to sleep with strains of God Bless America still ringing in your ears - Thanks Kate!
East coast Older than Dirt people: Sealtest Ice cream, Dixie Cups with the movie star on the reverse of the peel away lid, fender skirts, fuzzy dice, donkey dicks, (crome pipe extensions), tee shirts with a cigarette pack rolled up in the sleeve, levis with rolled up cuffs and white socks - don't forget to put your belt buckle to one side (anywhere but the middle), DA haircuts, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pony tails. Carling Black Label beer.
HA! You're right Goldeneraguy - Other than the belt and buckle placement many of us couldn't get out the door with a DA, T-Shirt and pegged pants. At least my folks stood in the way!! There was also the wide black "engineer's belt" and "engineer's boots" - I managed to get the belt.
Glazed doughnuts were a nickle! School lunches were 25 cents with no preservatives.

My "older than dirt" memories originated in Fairport, New York - what about you?

BTW, PHP143 you hit on a great topic - fun!
Woodman: Kind of sad, really.

Our hometown bowling alley used "pin boys" behind the lanes to reset the pins - by hand!