Author Topic: Are you older than dirt?? (Read 2781 times)

powderman · « **on:** July 21, 2011, 09:23:01 AM »

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 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're getting older
If you remembered 11-15, Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25, You' re older than dirt!

HEH, I aint sayin how I scored but I could probably add a few things to the list. POWDERMAN.

Conan The Librarian · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:24:43 AM »

21

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:28:06 AM »

the wagon train going under the TV camera , yellow stamps , milk with 3 inches of butter on top .................................... I got them all wrong

magooch · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:33:08 AM »

I remember em all. What do I win?

Bravo 51...Over · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:33:47 AM »

Powderman,
The only one that kept me from a perfect score was Blackjack gum. Could this have been a regional product and it just wasn't offered in my area? Somewhere around "40" I realized I was NOT 25 anymore !!!

Now I know that I'm not 40 either. Still, I was 54 when I went through the Sheriff's academy and was outrunning alot of the 20 somethings.

jedman · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:47:15 AM »

You dont remember Clove and Blackjack gum ?

AtlLaw · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:48:23 AM »

Quote from: Bravo 51...Over on July 21, 2011, 10:33:47 AM

The only one that kept me from a perfect score was Blackjack gum.

+1

Stillkickin · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2011, 11:01:39 AM »

Ain't ready to say I'm older than dirt (have perfect recollection of all of those things), just don't go sprinkling any water on me.

Conan The Librarian · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2011, 11:06:16 AM »

It's not just remembering them, it's having favorites too. My favorites were Packards and Coca Cola in those little 10 ounce bottles that were hard to remove from the vending machines. My mom had a gargantuan late 40s Packard with a straight 8, a trunk big enough to smuggle in a whole town full of illegal aliens, and a back seat big enough to play a regulation game of football on. There were Packards in my neighborhood well into the 1970s.

(She replaced the Packard with an even more gargantuan 1966 Chrysler station wagon that was about 20 feet long and could hold about 10 people. Big v8 and a whopping 9 miles per gallon.)

As for colas, RC was my favorite, coca cola was second and pepsi third. But what I actually favored for soft drinks was 1) RC, or 2) NEHI orange.

oldandslow · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:40:39 PM »

I remember them all and even drove a Packard for a couple of years while in high school. NICE car and it got 21 mpg.

I'm only three days older than dirt according to my grandkids but what do they know?

Spirithawk · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:41:18 PM »

It figures, the one test I get them all right! Not saying I'm old but I invented dirt!

blind ear · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:50:38 PM »

no blackjack gum
we had a millk cow
Double Cola
Red Rock Cola
The only network was NBC ear

Graybeard · « **Reply #12 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:02:42 PM »

Yup 24 for me too. I remember clove gum but not blackjack. I do remember having to go cut blackjack oak sticks for granny to use to dip her snuff and she chewed on them and eventually would wear them out and I'd have to go get another for her.

Not on the list but I do remember well are these:

Radio before there was a TV.

Out houses no indoor plumbing.

Ice delivery on a regular basis cuz no one had refrigerators only ice boxes.

Clothes washing in a #2 wash tub using a washboard before the wringer washing machine. Water was heated in a big black cast iron pot over an open fire in the back yard in those days.

My first car was a Studebaker.

Lost Farmboy · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:18:32 PM »

What, they don't make Black Jack gum anymore. That was my favorite. It had licorice flavor.

Shu · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:22:58 PM »

18 for me. I m a young very young 47. Just a pup and don't you forget that old man.

jedman · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:40:35 PM »

One thing thats forever in my memory is the smell of Hoppes #9, when I first smelled it as a young kid, it just what dreams are made of. Jedman

powderman · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2011, 02:05:24 PM »

BRAVO 51 OVER. Blackjack gum was popular where I grew up in ILL, I believe it turned your mouth black for a while but it was pretty good. I remember grandma and Mom using a washboard til we went modern. Then Mom got an electric ringer washer. We set it up outside. Draining was easy but it had to be filled by hand to rinse. POWDERMAN.

BUGEYE · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2011, 03:16:21 PM »

off topic, PM, where in Ill. I grew up in johnson and pulaski county. went to what I believe was the last one room school in the state. went there 7 years. it closed after the 52/53 school year.
that was in Forman. the building is still being used.

Sourdough · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2011, 03:41:56 PM »

I too remember the Clove gum but not the Blackjack. I remember the rest. My son and wife both have been telling me I'm older than dirt for a few years now.

spikehorn · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2011, 04:34:29 PM »

Quote from: Lost Farmboy on July 21, 2011, 01:18:32 PM

What, they don't make Black Jack gum anymore. That was my favorite. It had licorice flavor.

Yes they do, they put it out ever few years. Any time I find some I buy a full box. As a kid I would chew the clove gum to hide the smell of ciggarettes from my parents.

powderman · « **Reply #20 on:** July 21, 2011, 05:10:58 PM »

BUGEYE. Watson ILL was where I spent the 1st 28 yrs of my life, thats South of Effingham about 10 miles. POWDERMAN.

ironglow · « **Reply #21 on:** July 21, 2011, 05:59:12 PM »

I remember them all, plus the ones mentioned by Bill. Had radio long before TV..in fact, no TVs in the neighborhood. First TV I saw was at a fireman's carnival (special attraction, a Joe Louis fight). Sometimes the storekeeps around here will get a special run of thje 3 old time chewing gums.. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry (pink wrapper, mild wintergreen flavor). No milk delivery or ice delivery, I lived on a farm where such stuff was "home produced"..milk left farm in 10 gallon cans. The original Cokes from the red steel dispensers were 7 oz, had them all over Ft Knox & Ft hood in 1955. First car '39 Olds coupe, 2nd '41 Dodge 4dr, 3rd car '50 Studebaker starlight coupe.
First rifle I bought.. a Winchester model 47A (single shot with peep sights. I was about 14 or 15 and bought it at the local hardware. I believe it was $24.95..cost more because it was a "target" model with Peep sights.
Radio shows The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Inner Sanctum and Major Bowes (radio forerunner to Ed Sullivan show)..don't forget... Lum & Abner or Amos & Andy..
The "malt shop" or "soda shop' usually in a local drug store & 7 oz Cokes in the familiar Coke glass. If you were REALLY thirsty..you bought a second. Now when I see folks come out of the fast food joint with 32 oz drinks, I shake my head...
The usual "burger" was just a bit larger than a "White Castle" burger. Gas was 19 cents in a "gas war" but 26 to 31 cents per gallon normally..but regular workers weer gettting 75-85 cents per hour for HARD work. Army in 1955, start at $76 per month.
Paradise ? No, people, usually the young were dying of polio..in 1944 my little brother and I both got hit; he died (the best doctors were serving in the war)..I have no after effects...so far.
Collecting "kapok" from milkweed for Navy pilot's life vests. Saving rubber, aluminum, steel and any metal "for the war effort"; even cooking grease to be used in nitro-glycerin (radio ad offered 4 cents per pound).
Yall have heard enough from me..so I'll let somebody else on...

Doublebass73 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 21, 2011, 06:32:30 PM »

I scored a 13

I'm not in the "older than dirt" category yet but getting close.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles - boy do I miss those things, we called it "tonic" in Mass. I used to love Coke in a glass bottle on hot summer days like today.

tunnug · « **Reply #23 on:** July 21, 2011, 06:54:13 PM »

Geesss....Thanks a lot......Now I feel old....
The only one I didn't remember were Packards, only because my neighborhood was poor and most people walked, I remember going to my grandad's on Sat. afternoons to watch Dr. Scar the host of Chiller TV on this Tall cabinet TV with a little semi-round screen about 10" or so across, it had to warm up before the picture came thru. I was about 7 and it was the first TV I watched.

OldSchoolRanger · « **Reply #24 on:** July 21, 2011, 07:30:32 PM »

Don't think I qualify for "older than dirt", didn't have a clue what Blackjack chewing gum, and Butch wax was. As for the cars, I think I remember Studebakers, but Packards? My family couldn't afford a car until, I got out of the service in 71, so I was lucky to even remember a car my relatives had like the DeSoto.

I do remember the first kid on the block to have a "color" TV, actually, it wasn't really a color TV it was a piece of plastic that had colors on it that you stuck to the screen.

But when the first kid on the block got a real color TV everyone wanted to go over to his house to watch.

Not on the list, but maybe ironglow remembers, since he's also a NYer, Mission soda (a regional brand). It came in various flavors, my favorite Lemon & Lime. First gun I had was a zip gun, made from a broken car antenna, and a piece of wood, fired .22's, powered by a bunch of rubber bands.

Target practice was using it at the dump to shoot rats.

Hooker · « **Reply #25 on:** July 21, 2011, 08:01:36 PM »

This test is messed up there ain't no way I'm that old

Pat

sidewinder319 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 21, 2011, 08:46:01 PM »

Black Jack Chewing gum real bad. How about Beemans Pipsid Chewing gum? Yea there was Teaberry and Beechnut gum also. The Whizzer Moter Bikes and Cushman Scooters, Red Ryder BB Guns and Gene Autry Cap Pistols. Hopalong Cassidy Bread, Red Ryder Candy Bars and aviator caps. Every guy had a crush on Annette Funachello on the Mickey Mouse club.

Hodr · « **Reply #27 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:40:29 PM »

Okay I knew all 25. I have delivered mail out of Studebker. As to the Packard I am old enough to remember loading cavass canteens all over the outside of a Packard to make sure we had water going across the Mojave. I remember coming on a family that didn't and Dad sharing water for the radiators with them so we could all make it out. This was on route 66 I believe.

Hodr

Gun Runner · « **Reply #28 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:49:41 PM »

I remember all of that, plus living in san francisco during the war and the big heavy black out curtains, ration stamps. first tv I saw was a 6 inch screen with a 10 inch blue magnifying lens in front of it.
Iam not old but when the words of let their be light were spoken I was the duty electricion(sp)

Gun Runner

bobg · « **Reply #29 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:30:00 AM »

I can remember 22 of them. Darn spikehorn you did that with the gum too. Remember an old record player my grandmother had that took wooden needles. Think she called it a Victrola.
The first house my parents bought had no bathroom. Saturday night was bath night. Mom would set the big galvanized tub in the kitchen, fill it with water and my brother and i would get in. When we were done my father would drag it to the door and dump the water out. The neighbors had the only tv in the area. Everyone gathered there to watch the Friday night fights. Thanks powderman. You really made me feel old.