Age test

[chickadee]

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?'

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.

'All the food was slow.'

 

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !

'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

 

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.

It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.

 

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

  

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week.  He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

 

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend :

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

 

Older Than Dirt Quiz :

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 table side 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!

I can only remember 3 ;D

[Guest peter.j]

JESUS i got 9

[chickadee]

JESUS i got 9

 

I am surprised you never got more knowing Jesus ;D ;D ;D

[michelle]

i got 3 but am not young just dumb hahaha

[Guest grizzler]

oh no, i got 8   : :

[Guest peter.j]

 

I am surprised you never got more knowing Jesus ;D ;D ;D

 

i did but he said hed forgive me if i lied ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[greenlands]

Just about got the lot,infact still have some of them LOL.

Lindsay

ps .We were the first to go all digital,another step backwards if it rains hard enough you loose the picture on SKY tv.

 

[Guest BRYANBROCK]

GOD I MUST BE GETTING ON I REMEMBER THEM ALL  (what)(what)(what)(what)(what)

[BLACK W F]

carol your a wasted talent i never got any pmsl

[Guest JPH]

Wish id never done it now with the score i got  :-/

you didnt get 18 rose did you , remembered a few that werent on list>>>>>lol ;D ;D ;D ;D :X :X

 

 

[Guest phillip]

What about valve radios & wind up grammephones with his masters voice records , was it 76speed ?

[Guest JPH]

What about valve radios & wind up grammephones with his masters voice records , was it 76speed ?

you must be a voice from the grave 8) 8) 8) :X

 

 

[Guest WINGS 04]

9 FOR ME

[Guest bakes]

5 for me  ;D oright for a 23 year old  

[REDCHEQHEN]

What about valve radios & wind up grammephones with his masters voice records , was it 76speed ?

 

It was 78's  - my mum told me (evil)

LPS's were 33 and  1/3rd(evil)

[Guest]

I got 2  

[cemetary]

I got 2  

 

Dont you mean 12  

[FoxesFan4Ever]

I got 8..which is strange cuz they are the first things I have remembered in years !!.. Things that make you go hmmmmmm

[Guest]

 

Thats probably because of how old you were when they were around  ;D ;D ;D

 

correct rose i was'nt born at that time

[cheeseman]

and who remembers woodbines,three castles,black cat cigs when they came in 5s in paper packets. oh and pashers. :)

[Guest]

i am not answering for fear i might get taken off to the auld folks home.         or the graveyard ?                             andy.

[chickadee]

I got 2  

 

Only because you cannot read  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest grizzler]

remember 13----but I'm only 73 y/o

 

73 and still enjoying your birds...well done don :)

[carlsberg]

i remember 8

[Guest spin cycle]

5 for me  ;D oright for a 23 year old  

 

i only got 5...and i'm 45 on friday. i was quite pleased with my score . i thought a 'party line' was something off 'smile tv'