Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Have they ever met the grandparents?
Other than texting and Snapchat or Facebook, possibly not.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Ours are close. Many are not.
And with the sanitizing of history lots wisdom is about to be lost.

hygrometer3

snaggletooth

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Yes :). So many memories.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

"Exit, Stage Right!"

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Silly wabbit

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

"Trix are for kids"

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

I remember 19 of your 25 itemized items.

I don't remember Blackjack chewing gum, Butch wax, Peashooters, or Cork popguns.

What do you mean by Hi-fis?

I remember my family walking an eighth mile up the gravel road to my grandmother's house to hear the end of WW II announced on her battery operated wooden radio.

I was six when electricity was installed, before that we had kerosene lamps, with wicks that turned the degree of light up or down.

I remember the ice box being replaced with a refrigerator.

Six years later, when I was twelve, telephone lines were installed, and there was a telephone in the house - in time for my high school years.

When I told my children that while they were at a young age, they envisioned the era of covered wagons.

Within a year or two after the telephone, my father brought a 12" black and white TV home.

I remember Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Red Skelton, and Milton Berle.

I remember the cream separator standing on the enclosed back porch where Dad poured buckets of fresh milk morning and evening after milking. The thick cream would rise to the top and be skimmed off, before refrigerating the milk.

With the fresh cream, my mother would make fresh butter, pour off the buttermilk, to be saved (for baking biscuits, etc.) add a little salt, and refrigerate it.

I remember the team of work horses to pull the plow, disc or rake, preparing fields for planting soy beans, corn or sugarcane, before Dad bought his first tractor. Old-time farm discs had trays holding concrete blocks for weight.

In the 1950's, I remember .27 cent a gallon gasoline. A 1959 Ford Galaxie 300 cost $3,000.

In high school, the best snacks were breaded tenderloin sandwiches and strawberry pie from Frisch's Big Boy Drive-Ins.

I remember five of my older male cousins being drafted to fight the North Koreans. All came home, praise God.

[quote=dtucker300]I am older than dirt

When we were young!!!!!: Slow Food & MORE STUFF TO REMEMBER

Remember Slow Food?

'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 :

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never 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 mostly 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 11.

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 19 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 6 AM 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 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?

Headlight dimmer switches on the floor.

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Heaters mounted on the inside of the firewall.

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 are 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 table-side jukeboxes
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 green stamps
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 remember 0-5 = You're still young
If you remember 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remember 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remember 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really good OLD FRIENDS[/quote]

scooter kid

I remember every last one of what you have described ...a great foundation, unlike what people have today... One thing you forgot to mention though: most families dressed up and went to church on Sundays and the Sunday meal ,afterwards, was the best meal of the week... back when God was an integral part of growing up and we were allowed to worship HIM freely, even saying morning prayers in school... What happened?:

Smedley_buzkill

[quote=dtucker300]I am older than dirt



When we were young!!!!!: Slow Food & MORE STUFF TO REMEMBER



Remember Slow Food?



'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 :


Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never 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 mostly 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 11.


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 19 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 6 AM 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 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?


Headlight dimmer switches on the floor.


Ignition switches on the dashboard.


Heaters mounted on the inside of the firewall.


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 are 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 table-side jukeboxes
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 green stamps
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 remember 0-5 = You're still young
If you remember 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remember 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remember 16-25 = You're older than dirt!


I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.


Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really good OLD FRIENDS[/quote]

I was all excited when we got our first TV. I was around maybe ten. We got two whole channels plus a third one sometimes. Our TV came on at 5:30 AM with farm and ranch reports. I was told our TV went off at midnight but I couldn't swear to it because I had better have my ass in bed asleep by then.
I still wonder about the TV reception crap. We were at a higher elevation and got more radio stations than you could count.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Thanks for posting this exercise down memory lane, dtucker,

It was a pleasure remembering a time when common sense was valued and practiced, and Biblical virtues were understood and shared among the general public, rather than ridiculed and caricatured, because belief in God was assumed.
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I remember 19 of your 25 itemized items.

I don't remember Blackjack chewing gum, Butch wax, Peashooters, or Cork popguns.

What do you mean by Hi-fis?

I remember my family walking an eighth mile up the gravel road to my grandmother's house to hear the end of WW II announced on her battery operated wooden radio.

I was six when electricity was installed, before that we had kerosene lamps, with wicks that turned the degree of light up or down.

I remember the ice box being replaced with a refrigerator.

Six years later, when I was twelve, telephone lines were installed, and there was a telephone in the house - in time for my high school years.

When I told my children that while they were at a young age, they envisioned the era of covered wagons.

Within a year or two after the telephone, my father brought a 12" black and white TV home.

I remember Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Red Skelton, and Milton Berle.

I remember the cream separator standing on the enclosed back porch where Dad poured buckets of fresh milk morning and evening after milking. The thick cream would rise to the top and be skimmed off, before refrigerating the milk.

With the fresh cream, my mother would make fresh butter, pour off the buttermilk, to be saved (for baking biscuits, etc.) add a little salt, and refrigerate it.

I remember the team of work horses to pull the plow, disc or rake, preparing fields for planting soy beans, corn or sugarcane, before Dad bought his first tractor. Old-time farm discs had trays holding concrete blocks for weight.

In the 1950's, I remember .27 cent a gallon gasoline. A 1959 Ford Galaxie 300 cost $3,000.

In high school, the best snacks were breaded tenderloin sandwiches and strawberry pie from Frisch's Big Boy Drive-Ins.

I remember five of my older male cousins being drafted to fight the North Koreans. All came home, praise God.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You can still find Blackjack gum at specialty candy stores. It was popular along with Beemans, Clove and Teaberry Gum. Chuck Yeager chewed Beemans before the flew any experimental plane.