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".
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?
I sold them and tested them for people at radio shack and at Lafayette Radio.
Most common ones were carried in stock and one offs could be special ordered. I do not recall any tube costing more than $12 or so and most were much less.
I got 22/25, but recently saw a pair of PF Flyers in the shoe store for $79.50. I couldn't believe it! Cost only $3.79 when I got mine, and I could run faster and jump higher than anyone else :) Back then high white Chucks were the Air Jordan's of the day.
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?
The teacher brought a tv into the classroom (grade 3), was crying and told us all what had happened. This was in a small town in Southwestern Ontario in Canada. That day was, and is, far reaching.
In the schoolyard in front of my elementary. A teacher came out and announced JFK had been shot. School was canceled. Everyone went home and watched TV in a sad daze.
I was only 4 years old but clearly remember watching the events unfold that weekend while playing on the floor at home in front of the old B&W TV (remember them?). It was truly a big deal unmatched in magnitude and impact for me until Lennon's death in 1980 and of course 9/11.
Hotmailjbc, Is that the one with the hillbilly in raised glass? I remember seeing one of those in a diner once in Mississippi and getting served a bottle with the same guy on it but in red and white paint. I actually loved the old mountain dew; super-carbonated and a caffeine jolt second to none. My mother also got a bottle (that was all they had cold) and she didn't let me drink any more after that one bottle (too caffeinated she said) but that lasted about as long as the end of that trip. Not long after that I was using lawn-mowing money to play pinball and drink MD once or twice a week after school.
mr dirt to yew. i,m 57 and grew up in so,missouri so draw yer own conklusions. i remember every one of em..i.ll add one. do you remember the origonal mt dew bottles. well..........
Somec59, Are you sure that isn't "Duck, and Cover" (sung with a little lilt)? Foster_9, I think RC was one of the great drinks sold. I remember choosing that every time when I could. Is it still around?
"With the so called "innocence" of those decades there was also some terrible things going on. "
My wife is a 50's nostalgia lover (me too) and I often point out that a lot of the same stuff went on back then, but fewer people knew about it. No internet and limited sources of news and information....
yes I got them --still feel young and thanks Foster_9--still remember my first pair of chucks--could squeek like crazy on the gym floor and stop on a dime :)
I'm pretty old but older than dirt? No not that old. What about chum gum, royal crown cola, chuck taylors, and rotary phones? Don't wax too nostalgic about the 50's or the 60's. With the so called "innocence" of those decades there was also some terrible things going on.
Scored 100%!!!! My sister sends me these types of "remember when" lists ALL the time...:-) Doesn't make me feel old, just sad for those that will never have those days again!
My first car was a well used hand-me-down '52 Studebaker, inherited from my older sister. I remember well all things on the list. Thank God I can still hear.
I'm not older than dirt yet (at least so I would say - my kids might say I am) but I remember just enough to be classified as such. Some of this has to be a factor of where you grew up... In the city, half of those were gone by the late 60s but in the countryside, lots of these things were still around until the late 70s.
Butch wax was like axle grease, only pink and neutral colored. Great stuff for those flattops! I can remember my first stereo demonstration in assembly when I was a sophmore! How's that for being "old as dirt"! But hey, weren't those the "good ol days" everybody talks about now?
I remembered 6 of them (3, 4, 7, 11, 17, and 23). But I only remembered 4 because my grandfather had one in his tractor repair shop and 17 because it was in my grandparent's freezer. Techincally I know 7 as I know about 45 RPM vinyl, but that's because I go into vinyl last year.
I missed Blackjack chewing gum; when I was a boy we had Studebakers and the first car I drove was a 48 Packard. I remember WW2 stamps and red points, does this count?
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