How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. Older Than Dirt Quiz:Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with jukeboxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lineson the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test cards that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])7.. 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records9. 45 rpm records10. Hi-fis 11. Metal ice t ray s with levers 12. Blue flashbulb. 13. Cork popguns 14. 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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I laughed so hard at # 11. Metal Ice trays with the handle. Haven't thought of those in years. I'd run them under the faucet upside down, then set it on the counter, pull the handle and ice flew everywhere. rake it into a 'jelly' glass, and in goes the koolaid! Nothing could kill us
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I remember all but the sweet cigarettes. I still have and sometimes play both 45 and 33 rpm records. I even remember 78 rpm records.
I do remember when the doctor made house calls. The Fuller Brush man came to your door. Drive in theaters were the In thing. A loaf of Mrs Baird's bread was 15 cents. Coke was a nickel. As kids we played outside all day. You had to say yes mam and no mam, yes sir and no sir, to elders. Mr and Mrs to older than you people. A lady was expecting..if discussed at all, but never pregnant. Bomb shelters. Wearing white after Labor Day, was distasteful if you were female. Oh and gloves, had to wear those gloves to church. Members of the opposite sex were not allowed in your bedroom. Oh Lordy, the list goes on
WE had a brick Bomb shelter in our back garden.... it was more than 15 years after the war had finished and we used to play in it... I remember having to call anyone who was a friend of my parents or grandparents..''aunt or uncle'' I remember neighbours calling us if we were playing in the street and asking us kids if we'd go and run an errand for them..maybe to the shop for a loaf of bread or post a letter for them, and we'd do it happily ..sometimes we'd get a penny for going but we never expected it..usually we just did it out of respect for our elders..
@Holly Saunders - we used to play on bomb sites ! Not good, looking back Ah, and the key on a string that we pulled through the letterbox to let ourselves in - no need to lock yer doors then