Re: "older than dirt"

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From: Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 06:29:45 PST

19... I grew up in a small town in Ohio (11,000 people) in a mainly farming
area. I think they still have a drive-in.
Definitely age-shifted: I'm almost 36. We had party lines pretty late also.

Here are some others:

26. Foot pedal sewing machines.

27. Victrolas (windup with the big horn).

28. Cat's eye radios.

29. B&W televisions (only).

30. Seeing Neil Armstrong step on the moon and remembering it.

31. Using a slide rule and remembering how.

32. 78 records.

33. Mechanical apple peelers.

34. Steam-engine tractors with solid steel wheels.

35. Shows with giant single-piston farm engines with a giant flywheel.

36. Automatic washers with wringers.

37. Remember when cable TV was first installed, using the giant solid aluminum
around foam around solid copper primitive cable.

sdw

Strata Rose Chalup wrote:

> This was just passing around our family emails, and I'm wondering how folks
> here would score. Anybody else out there get around a 19 or so? This is
> "direct experience", not "oh yeah, I've heard of that".
>
> My score is probably age-shifted due to growing up in a very rural area.
> We had party lines up into 1980, for instance. I'm still under 40. Maybe
> not that far under, but still under! :-)
>
> _SRC
>
> > How many do you remember? Start counting:
> >
> > > > > > 01. Candy cigarettes
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > > > > > inside.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 05. Blackjack chewing gum
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> > > > > > Cardboard stoppers.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 07. Party lines.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 08. Newsreels before the movie.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 09. P. F. Flyers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 10. Butcher's wax
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix or letter
> > > > > > ... (Drexel-5505/WH- 9965)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 12. Peashooters.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 14. 45 RPM Records
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 19. Blue flash Bulbs
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 20. Beanie and Cecil
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 21. roller skate keys
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 22. Cork pop guns
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 23. Drive ins
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 24. Studebakers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you remembered 0 to 5, you're still young
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you remembered 6 to 15, you are getting older.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you remembered 16 to 25, you are older than dirt
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
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sdw 

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