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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.
all i remembered was 2...the wax shaped bottles and candy cigeratees
I remember the meta ice trays, but thats because my grandparents still had theirs from years ago, I remember S&H green stamps,45 RPM records with the little disc to put in the middle to play on the 33 RPM player,
Looks like were on the same page lol im 28 i only remember 2 as well the candy cigs and the party lines! LOL!
Good grief! I must be ancient! I remember just about all of them except the Americ type ones (Howdy Doody was never shown here in Aus!)
my Nanna used to have an old 'copper' with the clothes wringer on the top! Milk used to be delivered by a man walking along a horse and cart which would stop as the guy grabbed bottles out the back to put on your front door step!
Mail used to come 6 days a week! and twice a day at that!
There were never any late night shopping. The only fast food was fish and chips!
If we wanted to make a phone call we had to walk to the next street and use the public phone box (which had a door you could close!)
Memories!
my Nanna used to have an old 'copper' with the clothes wringer on the top! Milk used to be delivered by a man walking along a horse and cart which would stop as the guy grabbed bottles out the back to put on your front door step!
Mail used to come 6 days a week! and twice a day at that!
There were never any late night shopping. The only fast food was fish and chips!
If we wanted to make a phone call we had to walk to the next street and use the public phone box (which had a door you could close!)
Memories!
I remember the non motorized lawn mowers and the maytag wringer washer that didnt have a "matching" dryer!! The dryer was called the clothesline.
My mom used to put the sign in the window for the milk man on how many bottles of milk she wanted and he would walk in the house and put them away in the refrig.
My mom used to put the sign in the window for the milk man on how many bottles of milk she wanted and he would walk in the house and put them away in the refrig.
I remember 13....OMG!!!!! Didn't realize I was that old...and I am not allowed to tell!
Peggy....you are a little older than me, so you should be remembering more! LOL!!!!
Peggy....you are a little older than me, so you should be remembering more! LOL!!!!
I'm older than dirt; but, I've always known that!
Remember wax paper bags and paper straws?
And, talking about S&H Green stamps... remember Blue Chip stamps?
A couple of years ago, I gave my parents a set of cordless phones... to
replace their rotary dial phones... guess what, they're still using their rotary
phones and the cordless phone set still sits in its box.
Remember wax paper bags and paper straws?
And, talking about S&H Green stamps... remember Blue Chip stamps?
A couple of years ago, I gave my parents a set of cordless phones... to
replace their rotary dial phones... guess what, they're still using their rotary
phones and the cordless phone set still sits in its box.
I remember the dimmer switch in the floor. and cokes in glass bottles. Blue flashbulbs...
what is a P.F. flyer?
what is a P.F. flyer?
I remember a good amount on that list...yikes!
My mom remodled my room in all pink when I was about 10. We paid for a cute little pink lamp with the blue chip stamps...and I think my pink bedspread too...
My mom remodled my room in all pink when I was about 10. We paid for a cute little pink lamp with the blue chip stamps...and I think my pink bedspread too...
I remember farther back than that ice boxes when we could afford ice we got 25 pounds no ice trays no electricity water outside toilets outside washing on the ole rub board and of course we sprinled our clothes before ironing with the irons you heated on the stove and the ole handles that attached you heated one while you used the other no school buses cook with wood yes i am older than dirt but i do remember when i got a nickle and that was about once every 4 mo and i ran all 6 blocks to the store and bought the biggest bottle of pop which was rc cola and drank it right down, and then i slowly walked home i remember the first wringer washing machine i got there was no free time around our house and no we did not know about tv and many days i made the ole lye soap and the hardest whippings i ever got, boy they hurt then but after we grew up we laughes and said well it must have helped we turned out ok jo
PF Flyers was a brand of sneakers.
Does anyone remember how many mills we used for a 1$ way back when? i was thinking 10 mills per penny not sure i worked at kress 5 and 10 store when i was a teen and i cant remember how many mills- it took for sales tax? i have tried the computer, but guess i am not putting the question the right way also during the depression we had ration stamps but we never used ours we never had the money to buy anything i really do not think i would like to do all of that all over jo
I remember Kresses. we had one here. And a woolworth, and a bellis hess.
Thanks iam1butterfly.
Thanks iam1butterfly.
What is a mill?
a mill was the tax you paid at kress and all of the 5 and 10 stores like woolworth, but i cant remember just how many mills it took for the dollar, and i cant seem to phrase it right to get an ans on the computer i thought you got 10 mills for 1 cent but it has been so long ago the memory is just not what it used to be we never had a car until i was 12 and then dad had to get out and crank it to start it it did not have a starter inside, also it had a rumble seat that was a seat in back uf car not in car but it pulled out and 2 or 3 could ride in it, but if ir rained you got wet cant remember whetther they had mills at grocers or not guess they did tho jo
Okay the ones I remember out of this:
1. Blackjack chewing gum - Talking about the black liquorice flavored gum? It was our favorite gum and the only gum I could stand to chew for more than a few minutes.
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water - I think they still make them. Last time I saw some was last year. Before then I used to enjoy them as a kid along with other wax type candies. Remember wax gum shaped like lips, anyone?
3. Candy cigarettes - vaguely. They had a Surgeon General warning not to use the real thing. Some time later there was a push to not sell that candy any longer. After that they were sold as candy "stix" or something, but still in the same general shape.
I've seen ice cube trays with a lever. I think my grandma had one, and I may have seen one in some 2nd hand thrift store. Not sure if that really counts for this type of question.
1. Blackjack chewing gum - Talking about the black liquorice flavored gum? It was our favorite gum and the only gum I could stand to chew for more than a few minutes.
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water - I think they still make them. Last time I saw some was last year. Before then I used to enjoy them as a kid along with other wax type candies. Remember wax gum shaped like lips, anyone?
3. Candy cigarettes - vaguely. They had a Surgeon General warning not to use the real thing. Some time later there was a push to not sell that candy any longer. After that they were sold as candy "stix" or something, but still in the same general shape.
I've seen ice cube trays with a lever. I think my grandma had one, and I may have seen one in some 2nd hand thrift store. Not sure if that really counts for this type of question.
Swampy remembers a good number of those things.
Some trivia:
* In Swampy's town, there was a milk company that would deliver milk in horse drawn carts. Delivery lasted until 1968!
* Swampy's brother used to do his clothes on a wringer washer when he was in college (and he is only 5 years older than Swampy!)
Some trivia:
* In Swampy's town, there was a milk company that would deliver milk in horse drawn carts. Delivery lasted until 1968!
* Swampy's brother used to do his clothes on a wringer washer when he was in college (and he is only 5 years older than Swampy!)
I remember the ice cube trays with the lever, but that is because the people that had them had had them forever, and you know how we just hang onto things, especially if they aren't broke. Speaking of which, I was fixing my coffee this morning and was looking and the container I use to add water, and thought hey I've had this for over 10 years now. It ain't broke so I guess I will keep it another 10 years. No need to through it away, just because its old. ( that goes extra for people) okay, I got off subject but it just reminded me....
keep it as long as you can, nothing lasts forever not even your memory, if it is like mine jo
this is awesome!!.... i was born in the fast food days but my grandma just passed away last december and we found some really cool old stuff like an oil can, and the thing that you jammed in there, it was an opener and the spout all at the same time!... i also have a realllllly old iron that you had to put on a fire to make it get hot (it weighs like 10 lbs!)... and a super old sewing machine......its awesome stuff!...i love readin about these things or when my mom tells me how a pack of cigs was only a nickle!!....wow!!!.....the good ol days huh??.....
i still go to the drive in movies!!! and just saw some cangy cigs the other day !!.......
what about the clapper??
what about the clapper??
thanks for your comments and yes, now that you mention, I have seen those irons. Those old items are a great reminder of days that were less materialistic and more on just simple living.
I love simple living.
BTW, what is the clapper?
I love simple living.
BTW, what is the clapper?
A clapper is that thing that you hook up to your light switch and when you clap your hands the light goes off...or on. I had one loooong time ago and forget exactly how it worked lol...
My parents have their very first microwave from 1984, I think it is. It's huge and still works so like you said Peggy, if it ain't broke...
They have a new one...still in the box...on the living room floor...for 3yrs now...
My parents have their very first microwave from 1984, I think it is. It's huge and still works so like you said Peggy, if it ain't broke...
They have a new one...still in the box...on the living room floor...for 3yrs now...
When my microwave broke my dad brought me a very old one and my mom said it reminded her of her first one when her and my dad first got together. It is huge and you have to turn the dial to the time you want and then press a button that says power and one that says cook. It works great so as long as it continues to work why shoudl I get rid of it?
I remember the candy cigs.. and my grandpa gave me his old cork pop gun. I still have it hanging on my wall.
I remember the candy cigs.. and my grandpa gave me his old cork pop gun. I still have it hanging on my wall.
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