Ann Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Be sure to take the quiz at the bottom. My results show that I shouldn't tell my age...lol OLDER THAN DIRT "Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite 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. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa 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. In their later years they had something called a store card. The card was good only at Farmers (now Myers). My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. 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 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger. I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine." I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it 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. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them. 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 tomato sauce 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. Older Than Dirt Quiz: How many do you remember? Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about . Ratings at the bottom. 1. Cho Cho bar 2. Drive ins 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or milk bars with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. Packards 10. Blue flashbulb 11. Telephone numbers with 2 letters and 4 numbers 12. Peashooters 13. Wash tub wringer 14. 78 RPM records 15. Metal ice trays with lever 16. Studebakers 17. Cracker night 18. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals 19. Bread delivered by horse and cart 20. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor 21. Ignition switches on the dashboard 22. Heaters mounted on the inside of the wall 23. Real ice boxes 24. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards 25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner 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 might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muriel Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Our sons always thought we were older than dirt. This proves it. BTW, what were cho cho bars? Muriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 I guess I am way older than dirt because I remember 21. Yea what is cho cho bars and no I didn't see milk delivered by horse and buggy. We did have the same milk man for years and Mama got whip cream and cheese and I think some other dairy products from him too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geri Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 I missed the 'dirt' stage by one......not bad really, had the bread been delivered by a van I would have qualified! However I didn't come to North America until 1970 so I'm probably older than dirt really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C. Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Must be gone a long time. Phones that had to be cranked to wake up the phone girl before telling her WHO you wanted to speak to....no number Silent black and white movies with a piano player for the action. Records like ''Pathe'' that started in the middle instead of the outside (that is for RY, sold them at an auction and made a mint) Records players you had to crank before using. Rag man that used to collect odds and ends in lanes.. Coal man delivering your year heat supply. Knifes sharpener that passed at your back door with their big wheel to do the sharpening and exchange gossip. Fresh food horse and buggies to sell their pruduces. ''Fresh from the Farm'' was their call. Cars that had to be cranked with a handle to start them. Best picture of my mother driving one. and without my ''Alzheimer'' I would remember more. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C. Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 For Ry again I have an antique ash tray with Tel. York 3625 from Foster & Champagne Real Estate. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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