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Do you remember these? A walk down memory lane?
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.
'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.
Oh Lord...iam OLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD...rofl..praise God i am still here
As an Immigrant from England my memories are a bit differant but still interesting..we got a lot of American feedback so some things are the same ...
I hate to admit this but got you beat in the age dept, also want to ask if you remember the mil it was a tax used in okla at kress and 5 and dime stores maybe all stores cant remember also how much were they i thought they were 10 for a penny, but am niot sure,i am glad to hear i am not the only kid here jo
Think I remember all on list.
I am retired now, and becoming a Luddite. Soon will be reading by candlelight.
Raised 4 children without any of the things women take for granted now.
We would have been considered poor today. As we lived in county, often had to heat water for childrens' baths. Used an old fashioned washing machine..the type with a ringer on top until the late 50s.
Think favorite invention for me has to be the air conditioner. Florida was so hot and sticky and being pregnant in summer was miserable! When my husband bought two units, one for living area and another for bedroom I thought we were rich. Shortly after he bought us a dryer....and I was in heaven! What a difference those machines made in our daily living.
Oh yeah...the percolators...don't recall using drip method. We fixed camp coffee ..you put grounds and water in and boiled.....stronger than Starbucks!
I'm almost 75, so have seem many changes ..most for the best. I am happy to have a comfortable apt now with air. No dishwasher. Or washing machine Use laundramat, or hand wash nice tops. No big deal to me. Guess I close by saying I enjoy the iBook my brother sent when I got sick with cancer. It keeps me connected. Or did I mention? No TV:).....I have a monitor and DVD player my daughter gave me...check out DVDs from library.
I am retired now, and becoming a Luddite. Soon will be reading by candlelight.
Raised 4 children without any of the things women take for granted now.
We would have been considered poor today. As we lived in county, often had to heat water for childrens' baths. Used an old fashioned washing machine..the type with a ringer on top until the late 50s.
Think favorite invention for me has to be the air conditioner. Florida was so hot and sticky and being pregnant in summer was miserable! When my husband bought two units, one for living area and another for bedroom I thought we were rich. Shortly after he bought us a dryer....and I was in heaven! What a difference those machines made in our daily living.
Oh yeah...the percolators...don't recall using drip method. We fixed camp coffee ..you put grounds and water in and boiled.....stronger than Starbucks!
I'm almost 75, so have seem many changes ..most for the best. I am happy to have a comfortable apt now with air. No dishwasher. Or washing machine Use laundramat, or hand wash nice tops. No big deal to me. Guess I close by saying I enjoy the iBook my brother sent when I got sick with cancer. It keeps me connected. Or did I mention? No TV:).....I have a monitor and DVD player my daughter gave me...check out DVDs from library.
We called them turtle shells, and yes...my kids think that is so funny.
hey, how about those aluminum coffee pots boiling coffee on the stove top?
hey, how about those aluminum coffee pots boiling coffee on the stove top?
Movie theatres in England the girl walking down the aisles selling ice cream and chocolate ... Glass milk bottles outside each door every morning with inches of cream on top ...fish and chip vans every Friday evening ...American movies as many nights as I was allowed...
do any of you remember when the cars first came out the trunk was called the turtle hull, and when i was in my 30 my kids would get so embarresed when their teen friends were around and i said go get so and so out of the turtle hull they would say mom it is called a trunk now, also thr rumble seat was called the Mother in law seat by my husband and many other guys also when i was a young child i thought all of the candy they made was hore hound my grandad used t bring us some it was not to good but it was better than nothing, i also hated to iron the clothes because every thing had to be starched,first then sprinkled. permeneant press clothes were not out yet oh what a job ironing the sheets also yes i am older than dirt jo
I remembered 8 of them. Something that wasn't mentioned was when the dishwasher first came out. Do you all remember that? We thought we were just so cool because we had one, lol. It was big and bulky and you had to drag it over to the sink and insert the hoses to the faucet. Remember that?
We certainly didn't have computers, didn't have that until I went to business school at age 19 and it was an Apple computer, no mouse. Still, I thought it was pretty neat!
Had to take a typing class in high school on real typewriters, don't see that anymore!
No cordless phones, no cell phones. My sister got a cell phone after I was married with 2 kids and showed us. It was big and bulky but we thought it was pretty neat! That was when they first came out, I guess, about 16 or so years ago? I know my daughter was a baby then.
As a teenager I loved to watch The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Mash. Still love those shows! I miss a lot of the older shows. There's such garbage out now.
Thanks for the memories! :)
We certainly didn't have computers, didn't have that until I went to business school at age 19 and it was an Apple computer, no mouse. Still, I thought it was pretty neat!
Had to take a typing class in high school on real typewriters, don't see that anymore!
No cordless phones, no cell phones. My sister got a cell phone after I was married with 2 kids and showed us. It was big and bulky but we thought it was pretty neat! That was when they first came out, I guess, about 16 or so years ago? I know my daughter was a baby then.
As a teenager I loved to watch The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Mash. Still love those shows! I miss a lot of the older shows. There's such garbage out now.
Thanks for the memories! :)
I saw an old tv show on youtube....Hazel. I used to watch the reruns of that show. It was great.
those shows with family values, humor, and no embarrassing words or moments.
those shows with family values, humor, and no embarrassing words or moments.
Lol i member 12, what great times:)
those were in the 70's and mickey mouse was like the 50's or 60's i believe.
Laugh-in!!, Donny&Marie, The Captain and Taniel(spelling?), Or where these already past 1980? The Mickey Mouse club was still showing but I can't remember if they are live or reruns by the early-mid seventies.
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.
When Swampy was a tiny critter, McDs had golden arches on the side of the building, and their hot apple pies were deep fried.
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!
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~
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~
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.
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.
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!!
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!!
Yep, those Slims were cool looking at that.
Hey, you think that you guys were bad as kids... pretending to toss that ball into moving traffic. Whenever we heard the music from an approaching ice cream truck, we'd shout out, "STOP!" Then, we would runaway and hide... watch the ice cream man stop and look around in puzzlement... then, drive away in frustration. We would also did much the same thing by ringing doorbells. We'd ring the doorbell... hide... then, watch the occupant looking around for whoever rang the bell.
Ahhh, those naughty childhood "rites of passage"... they've prepared us to be the "mature" adults that we are today... lol!!
Hey, you think that you guys were bad as kids... pretending to toss that ball into moving traffic. Whenever we heard the music from an approaching ice cream truck, we'd shout out, "STOP!" Then, we would runaway and hide... watch the ice cream man stop and look around in puzzlement... then, drive away in frustration. We would also did much the same thing by ringing doorbells. We'd ring the doorbell... hide... then, watch the occupant looking around for whoever rang the bell.
Ahhh, those naughty childhood "rites of passage"... they've prepared us to be the "mature" adults that we are today... lol!!
Do you know I actually bought Virginia Slims because of that commercial? You described it perfectly...long, dainty and feminine. I thought that was so cool...yikes!
Oh Cherie, my mom did the whistle thing too!!! I remember your list and especially dodge ball. We were very naughty in the fact that someone would stand on each side of the street and when a car came, we would PRETEND to throw the ball across in front of it to make them slam on their brakes. Isn't that terrible? Only did that once or twice and got in alot of trouble from moms. I cringe just thinking about that!
Swampy...was it Tom Selleck?
Swampy...was it Tom Selleck?
We still have "newspaper boys" (and girls - and some adults) deliver our hometown newspaper. This is just ONE of the reasons why I hate moving from this awesome little town. It's so "Norman Rockwell"!!! Oh, well. I am excited to get to TN, too!
I remember two "signals" one when streets lights come on you best get home.
doing the whistle thing loud meant hey any kid on the block come here so we can play..yup we played tag, dodge ball, roller skates w no helmet or knee pads. and all of our favorite thongs was our bikes..do they make em anymore LOL all the kids I know have laptps and cell phones so they dont knock on friends door they text or email and we wonder why children of USA are over weight.
doing the whistle thing loud meant hey any kid on the block come here so we can play..yup we played tag, dodge ball, roller skates w no helmet or knee pads. and all of our favorite thongs was our bikes..do they make em anymore LOL all the kids I know have laptps and cell phones so they dont knock on friends door they text or email and we wonder why children of USA are over weight.
Ah yes, the were the Tareyton smokers, who'd rather fight than switch.
There was the rugged, macho Marlboro man... and, there was the cigarette that was designed to appeal to the feminist smokers, the long and dainty Virginia Slims. Can't remember the last TV commercial... but, it had to have been in the early 70's.
There was the rugged, macho Marlboro man... and, there was the cigarette that was designed to appeal to the feminist smokers, the long and dainty Virginia Slims. Can't remember the last TV commercial... but, it had to have been in the early 70's.
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