Do you remember these? A walk down memory lane?

[peggy64]

I guess I'm older than dirt! After you read the text,you can read MY comments at the bottom of the page. Carol Horning


'Someone 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. !
'Mom 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 :

S ome parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died..

My parents never drove me to soccer practice.. This was mostl y 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 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 was 21 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.

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 --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper,         of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM  every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers... His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His 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. 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.
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 might be older than dirt but tho se memories are some of the best parts of my life.

[RadioAstronomyObserver]

I remember 15 and there were a few I never heard of and a couple that were still sold and used but were considered old at the time.

[swampcritter]

When Swampy was a tiny critter, McDs had golden arches on the side of the building, and their hot apple pies were deep fried.

[RockRose]

ChitChat,  when I first went to McDonalds,   they didn't have big macs.  They just had what are now called Hamburgers, and sell for less than a buck.    And the fries were 1/2 size the current regular fries,  and the soda was maybe 8 oz.    The increase in portions is staggering,  compared to what used to be a full meal.    I guess you can certainly look around and see evidence of that!

[ChitChatNine]

The knife sharpener came like the ice cream man .. down the street ringing his bell on a summer's eve ..

Also -- McDonalds -- you could buy a Big Mac, Fries and Soda and get change back from your dollar ?!

I worked as a teen at McDonald's in the 70's .. Catfish Hunter and other NY Yankees would come in to buy food; we never checked their $100 dollar bills .. yeah, those were the days alright.  A hundred dollars THEN was a lot more than it is NOW!!!

C~

[peggy64]

I am loving all your memories....

I have something I did that was not very nice.....When I was around 11 or 12 we had these snooty neighbors.. Well my dad had access to some farm land and so he planted and grew some peanuts. After we had picked them, I got the nuts out of the hull, put the hull back together, and took them over to the neighbors house, knocked on the door, and said my mom said to bring these to you.  I don't think she ever told my parents because they never said anything about it. But looking back on that episode, sure does give me chuckle.

What is so funny about this to me, is I was the one that was too scared to do anything wrong, but these folks really irritated me.

[Jade59]

I also remember the boys once standing on each side of the street pretending to be pulling a rope...you know, leaning back like they are pulling on a rope which would also frighten a driver and make then slam on their brakes.  Ooh...such Bad Children.  

Also... a bunch of us kids all climbed out our windows and met at like 2 in the morning.  The boys had spray paint and went around spray painting garage doors with BLACK spray paint.  We were drinking also and by 4am, had attracted enough attention that the police were called and we were all hauled off the the police station with our parents to get a "talkin' to."  The oldest kids were my age, eleven, and the youngest was eight.  I was grounded for a month and so were my friends.  My sister (8 y.o.) was grounded as well since she had PLANNED on going, but I couldn't wake her up.  

Normally, there would be all us kids out playing softball or some such thing on a Sunday, but that Sunday after our "outing," you never saw such a deserted street!!