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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.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
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. 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 are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!

I am 25 for 25.

me to

Those of you raised way back in the country:

Can you remember the rolling stores that used to come by once or twice a week.
The ice truck that came by a couple days a week in summer.
Washing the kerosene lamp chimneys..
When the REA finally built a power line by your house
Grandma churning butter..
Tin kerosene lanterns you took fishing or hunting or anything else at night.
When monofilament fishing line started showing up..before that all you had was black braided nylon.
Whirlaway rod and reels.
Hawaiian wigglers...
Creek chub dingbats..
Johnson Sea Bee motors.
A 6 1/2 oz coke bottle of oil to five gallons of gas.
TV antenna at the corner of the porch that you turned with a pipe wrench.

This wouldn't start it....Let's keep this going.

All the above except the TV antennae.
We reached out the open window screen and turned our antennae by hand.
I really like the peashooter. We made ours out of an elder berry branch. Hollowed it out and used China berries propelled by a whittled down broom stick to shoot them.
Then there were the BB gun wars.
Slingshots made with perfectly shaped "Y" tree branches with rubber from and inner tube and pockets made from shoe tongues.
Bows made from hickory branches,strung with string from the laundry and arrows made from dog fennel.
We also invented frisbees from hubcaps and tin tops from lard tubs,and 78rpm records although we didn't know it at the time.

I remember tipping dog fennel arrows with a bottle cap..take a pair of pliers and crimp it over the end.
Make your fishing lead from straps off an old battery..flatten it on the anvil and cut the sinkers with a cold chisel.. square sinkers.

Sundown McGyver.

Their first divorce and last support check!

I'm havin' trouble with remembering yesterday.

HOW ABOUT GETTING UP AT 4 A.M. EVERYDAY TO MILK THE 20-25 COWS, MIX THE FEED, MILK THE COWS,BOTTLE THE MILK AND PUT IN ICE. TURN THE COWS OUT TO PASTURE, LOAD THE LITTLE HOME MADE TRAILER WITH MILK AND HITCH IT TO THE BIKE AND DELIVER TO ALL MY CUSTOMERS, THEN HIGH TAIL IT TO SCHOOL WHERE I COOULD CATCH UP ON MY SLEEP. WHEN SCHOOL WAS OUT HEAD TO THE FEED STORE AND LOAD DAIRY FEED ON MY LITTLE TRAILER AND GET HOME JUST IN TIME TO MILK THE COWS AGAIN, BOTTLE THE MILK , PUT ON ICE, MAKE BUTTER-MILK AND BUTTER, COLLECT THE EGGS FROM THE CHICKENS, PICK CORN, PEAS, BEANS, AND SQUASH. HITCH THE CULTIVATOR UP TO THE MULE AND WORK OUT THE GARDEN PATCH. PUT ALL THE VEGE'S IN A TRAY AND LOWER DOWN IN THE WELL TO KEEP COOL. CRANK THE T-MODEL FORD AND GO GET DAD FROM OUR GROCERY STORE, COME BACK HOME TAKE A SPIT BATH AND GO TO BED SO I COULD START ALL OVER AGAIN THE NEXT MORNIN AT 4. THIS WAS WHEN I WAS 9-10 YRS. OLD. WE DIDN'T HAVE DRIVER LICENSE OR INSURANCE BACK THEN, IF YA HAD AN ACCIDENT YA JUST MAN'D UP AND PAID IF IT WAS YOUR FAULT. SOME PEOPLE SAY THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAY, I DO NOT WANT TO EVER SEE IT LIKE THAT AGAIN.
I GUESS THIS IS ENOUGH FOR NOW.
PA
SEMPER FI

3 strand manila rope and wooden boats (thank god for fiberglass, nylon and dacron!)

I remember P. F. Flyers. Bummed me out when I realized that they didn't really make me run faster and jump higher.

I remember cassette tapes.

Terrier wrote:3 strand manila rope and wooden boats (thank god for fiberglass, nylon and dacron!)

i built wood boats to hunt duck in

I remember all of those and 8 track!

Looks like we've come a long ways... and yet lost a lot as exampled in PA's work ethics.