AGE BAROMETER....

[SPEEDO]

DO YOU REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING?

1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. P. F. Flyers

10. Butch wax

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)

12. Pea shooters

13. Howdy Doody

14. 45 RPM records

15. S&H Green Stamps

16. Hi-fi's

17. Metal ice trays with levers

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue flashbulbs

20. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-ins

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers

[crystaldragon]

You trying to make me feel old or yourself feel younger? I remember all of that stuff (Black Jack was pretty good if it was fresh)!

JD

[RedFury]

For 32, I am familiar with a little over half of that stuff.

22. Cork popguns

Had me a double barrel shotgun version of that puppy...buddy of mine shot me....right in the eye! Damn that hurt! Of course, we cut the strings on the corks.....

[Uncle Bob]

Mail was delivered twice a day. No zip codes, Zone numbers instead.

[Bill in SD, CA]

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)

I still remember mine from 1957 when I was 5.

Twead 1-2698

Don't have a clue why that stuck with me all these years.

Bill

[M_Six]

Hotdogs at McDonald's.

Houses that cost less than low-end cars today.

Making a Jacob's Ladder from the Lionel train set controller.

Having enough kids in the neighborhood to field two teams in any sport. We played street hockey, football, and baseball. We were always playing some sport, even in the snow. We wouldn't dream of staying indoors if it wasn't raining.

EDIT: Bill, ours was Edgewater 7-1913.

[Bovon]

Yeah...unfortunately, I remember them all..plus a few more!! like the old party line telephone in the wood box that hung on the wall and had a crank handle, when cranked..you got an operator..whom you gave a number to (and many times..just who you wanted by name..if it was local). This was out on the farm deal..we had a regular phone at home with 3 or 4 digits to dial..this was before "Twead 1-2698" ha ha ha...

There was no indoor plumbing when I was real young..out at the farm, an 'outhouse' served all friends and family as needed...a two-holer actually which could serve for two in an emergency. There was a hand water pump on the back porch..and all water for the house came from there...baths were in a large wash tub until I was maybe 12 when they found a real bath tub somewhere (I don't think it was new) and set it up inside the house in a corner of the kitchen/dining room...this was where the fire was..and the warmest room in the house..also the best smelling room.

I have some trouble remembering last week..or what I ate the day before yesterday sometimes, but I remember Gpa's farm!

"Old times dar ain't ner forgotten...look away..look away..look away, Dixie land"!

[wju425]

I remember them all. So I'm older than two hills huh?

\o/ Billy

EDIT: My old number was WA(lnut) 4-1681. Had it since '62 to '98

[Martoch]

Originally posted by SPEEDO
25. Wash tub wringers

Haha, my grandma still uses hers!!!


I'm 29 and I remember about 16 or 17 of the items...oh I hated those metal ice trays! Pea shooters were great though, although I never could get mine to bust through glass!

Wax coke bottles were yummy!

I didn't remember Blackjack chewing gum until I saw this picture: http://www.wtv-zone.com/SilverWolf/nost/blackjack.gif

[draboo]

sounds like me and bill were born around the same year(1952)

i remember every one. i also remember having one of those telephones with the seperate earpiece and microphone. and we didnt have dial phones at first. it was a party line. i remember at least 6 different families on ours. you had your own special ring,like 2 shorts and 3 longs,etc.(i was around 5 yrs old)

our very first number was 241R11 and our neighbors was 241R12,etc,on down the road.

you d pick up the receiver and someone would say"operator,number please" and you would tell her the number and she d ring it.(always a woman) maybe lily tomlins mother??

when we got our dial phone,we thought we were in heaven.

graduated to a semi-private line,another heavenly gift.

slimline phone,WOWZA!!!!!! and then came PUSHBUTTONS!! YEEEHAAAA