Who Remembers, "Older Than Dirt"?

[Crazy Horse]

> > >Older than dirt... ... ... .

> > >

> > >My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 [Ask your Mom about that]

> > >

> > >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 bottle

> > >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. 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 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!

> > >

> > >Don't forget to pass this along!!

> > >Especially to all your really OLD friends.

 

[Ramboy]

I remember all those and more. To have soldering irons close to our work, though, we heated them in a small wood fire outdoors and as the fire burned down , the coals would keep the iron hot for some time.

Phil

 

[RustyJC]

Yep, that confirms it - I'm older than dirt (but I knew that already). I remembered all of 'em and more.



Rusty

 

[me4osu]

I scored 17

But I'm only 36.

 

[Bob Wagner]

older than

thanks, now I know why my back is always hurting

 

[rmrc]

Like others said, I also remember ALL of them and could definitely add more to the list. The scary part is, it doesn't seem like it was that long ago!!!

 

[lgibson]

How about starter buttons on the floor next to the gas pedal?

 

[rmrc]

Most of those starter buttons were located directly under the clutch. This way, you had to depress the clutch all the way to the floor to start the car.

 

[sdalton]

Come on now. I know I got 17 on the old memory counter, but I am only 37 years old, and I dont consider myself old. Just old fashioned. Or I wouldnt be driving this clanking dinosaur truck. If you wanted a better judge of who is older than dirt, then you might include the Model T Ford. Or maybe ask those that remember using inkwells in school.

 

[fest3er]

Originally posted by sdalton
Come on now. I know I got 17 on the old memory counter, but I am only 37 years old, and I dont consider myself old. Just old fashioned. Or I wouldnt be driving this clanking dinosaur truck. If you wanted a better judge of who is older than dirt, then you might include the Model T Ford. Or maybe ask those that remember using inkwells in school.

Come now. Inkwells in school is from the Paleolithic Age. Most of today's dirt was magma then. Granted, it's older than dirt, but don't we want to consider how many orders of magnitude older it is?

BTW, I remembered 17. So I am, yes, older than dirt. But DriveBy Bob certainly must remember inkwells in school, so he must be at *least* an order of magnitude older than I.

N

 

[illflem]

I got em all but perfer to think of myself as older than Methuselah. If you can remember Methuselah, you're really old.

 

[Crazy Horse]

lgibson, I used to work on those cars and trucks with the starter button on the floor.

 

[Rob Thomas]

Hey, all you OLD guys, can you hear me!:-laf :-laf



Isn't it past yer bedtime?





Later, Young Rob

 

[chuck3]

COLD Rob, real cold.

 

[Crazy Horse]

RAMTHIS1





Huh, did you say somthing?

 

[QRTRHRS]

Geez, older than dirt? How come I can remember all this stuff now when usually I can't remember ****.

 

[lgibson]

How about that one truck, Chevy I believe, that the whole distributer moved when you gave it gas, for the advance. I had one come into the shop once and it also had the floor starter button. I had so much fun with the "young guys" and the manager was about to sell the owner a new distributer, He could not even figure out how to start it. But this is the same manger that closed the hood on a F-250 with a 460 telling the guy "sorry we don't work on diesels"



The bad thing is I was only 21 at the time and I was the "young guy"

 

[ZEEEW]

My daily driver has the dimmer switch on the floor, 73 Dart. Just got the brakes and steering fixed on the dash keyed 61 pickup.

Lever ice trays were cool

 

[Speedo]

Older than dirt.

I can remember steam engines and hand cars on the railroad

behind my grandma's house. Starter button on the floor... my

aunt and uncle had an old Ford with a hand crank for hauling

water. You wouldn't have joy riding if you still had to hand crank

'em.

 

[illflem]

I've heard it suggested that the electric starter was the downfall of the American roadway, it allowed women to drive. Then came the automatic transmission and made it even worse.