Older Than Dirt Quiz : (In larger font for those older people

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. 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 11-15 =You're older than dirt!

 

LOL! I got an "11" so I am:

Very good post!

 

I'm still young! Wohoo! :-D

 

I never remembered any of them so i'm really young NOT !
DAMN remembered nearly all, HOW OLD am i then ! :-D

 

Well, I'm in the same boat as TeeCee:cry I'll tell ya what TeeCee, since I have a feeling that you and I are the only ones being honest here:-D Let's go down to the coffee shop and listen to Benny Goodman on the 45 RPM type jukebox and don't forget to bring along that bottle of milk, Okay? After that, I'll drive you home in my new Studebakerroflmaoroflmao Halo, you can come along too, if you want too!! Us 'old' people need to stick together!!

@Obnoxious...Thanks a lot for the post! Now maybe you can tell us where YOU fit in, huh?:-D

 

12 here but probably get all15 if I remembered. So middle aged folk are older than dirt eh? Who wrote that up, a 15 year old? Screw you kid(not the OP )

 

Good thing I'm in the dirt moving business.rolleyes
(Well, at least for this question.)

 

11 just made it inLOL

 

Hate to have to admit it, but I remembered ALL 15. But then, I AM OLDER THAN DIRT! I MAY be the OLDEST old fart on this board. But that's OK too.

 

All but 5 and maybe 13. Now my back hurts, and suddenly I can't hear so good, and I smell funny...

 

pay telephones..................nickel in my day
now they're gone, I think, except at airports, hospitals. and jails.

 

roflmao

 

15 out of 15 and darn proud to have made it this far. Planning to go even farther.
Also, didn't see cigarettes for $.25 from the pull knob machines.

 

The Epilogue followed by the National Anthem. :zzz

 

Come on , Stubby, we'll pick up JOTS and hrlow on the way! Nah, I'm not bringing any milk, I'll grab a 6-pack of coke, and you can grab a pack of smokes from the $.25 pull knob machines! then, we can go to the drive in!!! :-D
Yeah, there has been a LOT of changes over the years, eh?

 

Definitely sounds like a plan,as the younguns would say.
Whats playing?

 

Just so noone feels bad about your count,I remembered all 15 and then some so I am older than old dirt. I even helped deliver milk in glass bottles from the steps of a milk truck. Do you remember the little push in top on those milk bottles? They were not safetly sealed either.

Ipana
New era potato chips
Faygo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqyDj7RX6Y
cars with doors that opened in the front
people that actually did work
food nobody got sick from eating
These are some of the things that made for a life long adventure

boy am I rambeling now

 

Not ashamed to say 15, those were good times. Wait except for the wringer washers, actually I used a wash board too. Those were knuckle scrapers.
Got a picture of the Ole 49 Studebaker. Had to put in a center piece in order to play the 45 records. Those metal ice trays would stick to your skin.
Good times? What was I thinking? rolleyes

 

Well, you have your choice Hrlow2, it's either 'Night of the Living Dead,' which is better known as 'Stubby's Love Life,' or 'Grumpy Old Men' which pretty much explains the morning afterroflmao

 

Very good, obnoxious!! I actually was the "Faygo Girl" at the local "Wrigleys Super Market"!!! Yeah, those were the days alright, heck, they even PAID me to give out samples! roflmao! roflmao! roflmao!

Hey Stubby, we just might need a few bottles of Faygo too

 

14 out of 15 They didn't have the coffee shops with Jukebox out side where I lived. Wouldn't be there very long. Grow legs and walk off, if you get my drift.
Loved that bottled milk ,Studebaker had "Room" to actually stretch your legs and enough room for 2 kids to curl up on those long rides with out laying on top of each other.Yeah so I'm Older then really old dirt. Guess that's why I sit back and watch as well as laugh at those making the same errors as I did back in the days.Couldn't understand why adults would laugh when you feel out of a tree when I was little. I do now. 45's didn't have the plastic center piece to hold the record in place, set it on the turn table straight and put a penny or two on it worked like a charm.
Yeah they were good and some weren't so good.

@ TeeCee I remember Wriggly store. Can I come if I bring the Jiffy Pop Popcorn?:-D

 

Hi Bigtrucks, oh, heck yeah! Make sure you pop it first tho! LOL roflmao

 

14 dam

 

I remember 9 and I'm only 29,is that a bad age to be now?I can't keep up,I don't mind telling people my age.

30 is the tipping point,in the UK army once you get over 30 you are allowed to do three press ups less than the younger guys and still pass not a good sign for things to come :-D

Are blue flash bulbs those you got in a strip of like 20 disposable flashes that plugged into your camera? If not I remember 8.

 

Yup! That's before your time unless you're living in the land that time forgot.:-D

 

Hey TeeCee as the saying goes " The older the fiddle the finer the tune " so just grow old gracefully, as i am sure you are, graceful that is ( not old ) :-D !

 

Thanks,I google'd blue flashbulbs,first result in google.

http://www.flashbulbs.com/BlueBulbs.htm

I'm not sure what they do or how they work but the girls in bikinis shows me I need about ten boxes of them so they are in the post.

Wait till the music kicks in on that site,it drips with liquid cheese.:-D

 

Thanks for that link Rikky as I wrongly assumed that these things were obsolete. Yes, very cheesy American cheese product.:-D

 

Very col rusty! Yeah, I actually did that stuff too! I do play a fine tune! Doing a fairly good job of being graceful too! LOL LOL LOL

 

I have heard someone the other day saying "He is two days older than fire." I laughed.

 

Yep, remember all 15.:-o Hey, whaddaya expect from a guy that's rumoured to be over 200 years old? (The Phantom)

I remember having to balance sixpence along to top slot of public telephones, (many people didn't have any telephone at home). When someone answered, you rolled the sixpence down the slot and into the phone. Then there was the 'push button A' then 'push button B' when party answers type.

 

What about the old party=line phone system?
5-6 families having the phone ring at the same time and all answering at once in case it was for them?
Having to tell everybody else to get off the line when it was yours(and hoping they would).

 

We used to do back dialling, start at the zero push all the way to the start, then quickly, very quickly dial to the letters (YES LETTERS) in front of the right one, then the numbers. That way you could get through for nothing, we’d ring the zoo and ask for Mr C Lion, at Christmas we’d ring Oxford University and as for Jesus, then sing happy birthday to whoever answered. (Jesus College)

 

I RECALL (PHONE BOOTHS) actual booths with a seat, a glass folding door. It was like a molded surface, brown bumpy textured I used to rub my hand across which about gave my grandmother a heart attack thinking of all the people (San Francisco) who had touched it previously.

 

I also remember in the late 1940's going to the Saturday Matinee movies. All morning and afternoon - mostly serials and westerns. Cost all of 9 cents to get in and 5 cents for popcorn and 5 cents for a drink. My mom would give my twin brother and me a quarter each and we loaded up on junk all day.

Wild times. Hoppy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, Johnny Mack Brown, The Green Hornet, Flash Gordon, Charlie Chan, etc., etc., etc.

 

My ex got in for bottle caps. They were the grapes of wrath people, that was in California too, around picking camps I imagine.