Remember when...

[Pawpaw]

Popping a roll of caps with a hammer on the back porch, then getting into trouble for all the black marks.



Using firecrackers to blast ant hills.



Always having firecrackers and bottle rockets to play with because you could buy them at the five-and-dime.



Five-and-dime stores.



Six-ounce Coke in bottles for 5 cents.



Using playing cards & clothespins to make your bike sound "cool".



Riding your bike to the grocery store for momma.

 

[azpete]

Roller skate rinks on Saturday nites.

 

[DCreed]

metal skates on your shoes
LAWN JARTS !!!

 

[bighammer]

Wood sleds with steel runners and the suicidal aluminum saucers.

 

[DCreed]

rem the clip of Chevy Chase on one of those!! LOL!

 

[BBlyman]

Coming in when the street lights came on... . and asking to stay out for 30 mins more



Mom and Dad yelling as I ran threw the house "watch out for the cable box cord"



Waiting in traffic to get to the beach (delaware thing)



Riding bikes forever, going to the candy store where it was a $0. 25 for 6 pieces of candy and the store guy giving you a few for free



mom and pop stores.



Bob

 

[fest3er]

Wood sleds with steel runners and the suicidal aluminum saucers.

I still have my sled!

 

[AMink]

Flexible Flyers! Dang, those things were fast. I guess I got too big for mine. I made a sharp left turn one time and the runners folded under the sled. :{

 

[DWeiler]

road hockey(Canadian thing)Saturday morning,-25 below zero-----"CAR",---played hockey with a few on my street that made it to the NHL.

 

[AMink]

When comedy was funny because of the content and timing, not dropping 15 f-bombs a minute.

 

[bmoeller]

I remember when Michael Jackson was black. :-laf

 

[SHobbs]

I miss the old bottle rockets, we used to shoot them at each other.
We rode our bikes to school everyday, about 2miles one way.
The weekends the folks never saw me during the day until the sun was going down.
My biggest memory is me and my dad removing the back seat of his 64 4 door chevy, loading up the motorcycle to go riding all day.

 

[FOXY005]

Old Age Barometer

How many do you remember ?



1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Hamburg joints with tableside jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. Slingshots

10. Flattop Wax

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

12. Peashooters

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. Amos and Andy

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-in Movies

24. Studebakers

25. Washers with 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 anyone your age



If you remembered 16-25 = YOU'RE OLDER THAN DIRT!









ps: I'm in the Older Than Dirt League

 

[Texas Diesel]

I remember when Michael Jackson was black. :-laf

. . :-laf good one!

 

[Texas Diesel]

Old Age Barometer

How many do you remember ? League

Yikes, I remember 13

 

[Blu-meanie]

You mean I can't get Blackjack gum?

#10 Like Dixie Peach Palmade?

#14 78rpm records and jukeboxes

Black & White TV

The Hit Parade

Yah, older than dirt

 

[bmoeller]

5. Hamburg joints with tableside jukeboxes

Or table side coin operated black and white TV sets.

When A&W still had drive-in style ordering like Sonic still does. With the frosted Root Beer mugs. I sure miss those.

 

[DennyDay]

What's TV?

Remember 25 cent cigarettes with 2 cents change in the wraper - - not filters either!



Denny

 

[Gene Arnold]

The little seals inside the soda bottle caps? We would dig them out for some reason.

We did this to make a badge to wear. Take the seal out, put the cap on the outside of your T shirt, from the inside of the shirt press the seal against the bottle cap, and you've got yourself a "badge"!



And how about:



Following the Ice Man and hoping he'd give you a sliver of ice after he made a delivery (oh yes, there were a lot of homes that had no electric refrigerators and had to rely on wooden ice boxes for food preservation. Ice was delivered every few days).



New tires that would only last about 15,000 miles (if you were lucky).



Paying extra for a heater in your new car.



New plugs, points (I know, what are points?:-laf), and condenser every 10,000 to 15,000 miles.



The canvas water bags that you hung from the front bumper (the water that seeped through the fabric and evaporated cooled the water inside the bag) so you'd have drinking water on the trip (it is sometimes a long way to drinking water in Wyoming in 1948).



Overhauling your engine when you had gone less than 75,000 miles because there was no oil filter and not very good air filters on the cars



I'm grateful "they don't make 'em like they used to!"



Oh, yes, in case you didn't guess, I'm in "the older than dirt" gang!



Gene

 

[SHobbs]

Old Age Barometer

How many do you remember ?



1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Hamburg joints with tableside jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Party lines

8. Newsreels before the movie

9. Slingshots

10. Flattop Wax

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

12. Peashooters

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. Amos and Andy

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-in Movies

24. Studebakers

25. Washers with 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 anyone your age



If you remembered 16-25 = YOU'RE OLDER THAN DIRT!









ps: I'm in the Older Than Dirt League

Dang, I remember 12 of those and I am only 39.