OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ

by bikerchic 5 Replies latest social humour

  • bikerchic
    bikerchic

    Count the ones you remember, not the one's you were told about!

    1. Blackjack chewing gum

    2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

    3. Candy cigarettes

    4. Soda pop machines that dispensed a bottle

    5. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

    6. Home milk delivery in a glass bottle with cardboard stoppers

    7. Party lines

    8. Newsreels before the movie

    9. P.F. Flyers

    10. Butch wax

    11. Telepone numbers with a word prefix (Olive 2247)

    12. Peashooters

    13. Howdy Doody

    14. 45 RPM records

    15. S&H Green Stamps

    16. Hi-Fi

    17. Metal ice trays with a lever

    18. Mimeograph paper

    19. Blue flashbulb

    20. Beanie and Cecil

    21. Roller skate keys

    22. Cork popguns

    23. Drive-In movies

    24. Studebakers

    25. Wash tub ringers

    If you remembered........

    0-5~~~Your're still young

    6-10~~Your are getting older

    11-15~ Don't tell your age

    16-25 YOURE OLDER THAN DIRT!

    Katie (of the older than dirt class)

  • Warrigal
    Warrigal

    How about Roy Rogers lunch boxes and Sen Sen? Do you remember Tinker Toys in the cylindrical box? Bobby sox, saddle shoes, poodle skirts?

    Warrigal (of the gosh-I-feel-old-class)

  • songmistress
    songmistress

    Thank you Katie. And I love you too. Just the encouragement I needed. LOL

    Cheryl

    Edited by - songmistress on 22 January 2003 3:24:13

  • mike047
    mike047

    HI; I am older than DIRT!!

    The only one I didn't have first hand recognition was #20 Beanie& Cecil. Never heard of them.

    I still have a box of the candy cigarettes in my curio case.

    Mike

  • Utopian_Raindrops
    Utopian_Raindrops

    1) When I was in school everyone in my class chewed Black Jack Gum to soften it and put it over our 2 front teeth for the Christmas Program. For what you might ask? We were performing our rendition of All I Want For Christmas (is my 2 front teeth)

    2) I loved the wax Coke Bottles and wax lips and teeth!! When I was little they used to call me Candy Gurl because every time I found loose change Id run to the candy store and buy a bag full!

    3) Yep loved candy cigz 2! Of course! I was The Candy Gurl!

    4) Your talking glass bottles, right? Dont like my Coke out of any other container other then glass and yes I remember The Machines!

    5) Nope.....didnt see those till I was older and went to one of those Nostalgia Restaurants.

    6) Yep, we got our milk delivered for years! Also, orange juice and chocolate milk!

    7) Never experienced a party line.....not even the modern ones you have to pay for now.

    8) Would have been cool but, no.....not that old.

    9) Nope. What is a P.F. Flyer anyway? Someone want to tell me?

    10) Another nope.I dont know what Butch Wax is ether. So maybe someone can fill me in.

    11) No again. Why did they have telephone numbers with words in the prefix?

    12) No I never saw one. Did hear about one in a Disney move though.

    13) Yes.....they were reruns early morning before school.

    14) LOL..YES ....I owned quite a few 45s!! I had a gurlfriend known as the Queen Of 45s she owned so many!

    15) Yes....my mom saved those as well as the Brady Bunch did! Lol

    16) Yep....my father had a Hi-Fi.

    17) Yes. We had a few of these gadgets. My brother and I dented them up playing with them. We pretended they were spaceships and such.

    18) Nope.....never saw any. Would have been cool though!

    19) Yes my father had them for his cameras!! He was one of those dads that took a lot of pictures!!

    20) Yes....but they too were reruns on early morning TV.

    21) Nope never had a skate key.

    22) No cork guns ether.

    23) YES!!! My parents used to dress us in our PJs and take us to the drive-in in their station wagon. I saw Planet Of The Apes there!!!

    24) Nope....thats way before me.

    25) Nope....never saw one.

    So that is 13......makes me of the Dont Tell Your Age Class. lol

    Guess I was older then I thought!!

    Ty for the test sugar!!

    It was nice going down memory lane!

    Gotta Luvz Ya,

    Utopian_Raindrops

    Edited by - Utopian_raindrops on 6 February 2003 5:44:53

    Edited by - Utopian_raindrops on 6 February 2003 5:46:29

  • RAYZORBLADE
    RAYZORBLADE

    Oh man, do I ever need a bath!

    There were a few I was aware of, but because I grew up in Canada, we just didn't have them.

    I think I'll create a Canuck version, but anyone can answer.

    We'll just say: You're Older Than Rayzorblade Quiz

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