Okay, showing my age...


>  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
      No. Don't remember that.

>  2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
      Yes!  I was a teenager the last time I saw them.

>  3. Candy cigarettes
      Yes!  What about the chocolate candy cigarettes?

>  4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
      Yes!  And I think it was in the early 80's I last saw/used one.

>  5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
      Yes!

>  6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
      Yes!  The milk man brought milk and eggs until the
      mid-to-late 70's.  Question:  was it high gasoline prices
      that ended the days of the milk man?

>  7. Party lines
      Yes!  But that was back in the 60's.

>  8. Newsreels before the movie
      Yes!  However, the theatres were military, and the news reels
      part military news and part the military's view on current events,
      with base safety and "duck and cover" at the end.

>  9. P.F. Flyers
      No, I vaguely remember hearing of them, but all I really remember
      were "Keds".

>  10. Butch wax
       No.

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

>  12. Peashooters
       Yes!

>  13. Howdy Doody
       Yes!  Although my most "vivid" memory of Howdy Doody was from
       the day I decided to "color" the characters on the TV screen.
       (of course the TV was black and white in those days).  I think
       I was 4 or 5 at the time.

>  14. 45 RPM records
       Yes!  As a matter of fact, I still have dozens of them and
       my eldest daughter just made .WAV files out of some of them.
       Many of the CDs these days are copy protected, so they can't
       put them on the home server's hard drive and listen to them in
       their room (over the LAN) or burn them on MP3-CDs and listen
       to them on their MP3-CD players, so they don't buy many CDs
       any more (well, they do buy some Japanese CDs from groups like
       "Two-Mix", they just don't buy US/copy protected CDs).  In
       their search for new music they are rediscovering my old LP's
       and 45's and I'm hearing Steppenwolf, Bread, the Doors, and
       much more 50's, 60's, and 70's music coming from their rooms.
       I'm glad I kept the old records!

>  15. S&H Green Stamps
       Yes!  My first clock radio was a tube model clock radio
       "purchased" with books of Green Stamps (somehow two and a
       half books sticks in my mind).

>  16. Hi-fi's
       Yes!  Built by Admiral, weighed a ton (large power transformer),
       and could heat a room (two large "final" tubes and a half dozen
       smaller tubes).

>  17. Metal ice trays with lever
       Yes!  My mother still has an old refrigerator in her basement
       with last metal ice cube trays.

>  18. Mimeograph paper
       Yes!  Spirit masters!  They made us sick, but today I guess
       the druggies would probably deliberately use them and inhale
       the fumes.

>  19. Blue flashbulb
       Yes!  But only for use if you were using daylight film indoors
       and without a bluish (can't remember the filter number) filter
       on the lens.  If you were using indoor film you used clear bulbs.

>  20. Beanie and Cecil
       No.

>  21. Roller skate keys
       Yes!

>  22. Cork popguns
       Yes!

>  23. Drive-ins
       Yes!  We went to drive-ins many times as children, but they
       were off-limits when we became teenagers.

>  24. Studebakers
       Yes and no.  I had (passed away) a relative who had one.

>  25. Wash tub wringers
       Yes, my grandmother had an electric wringer on her washing
       machine.  It was up high to keep little fingers away from it.

>  If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
   I guess that's me.

John

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