Remember when _-----

[clutch]

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.
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 glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
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 greenstamps
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!

[Bill-N-Donna]

I didn’t actually count up all that I could remember but I’m probably older than dirt. Most of them really sounded familiar to me.

[Glenn and Lorraine]

#11-My brother had just come back from WWII he bought our first TV. On our TV there was only one channel and it only broadcast in the evening. At 5 years of age I was king of the neighborhood. We met neighbors we never met prior to the TV. Funny thing was my Dad, he felt it was just one of them passing fads and it would disappear as quick as it appeared.

25 out of 25 BUT never tell my wife I am older than dirt. You see she has a birthday next month and she is 9 months older than me. Kiddingly I often ask how was life way back when she was born.

[Emmel]

25 out of 25, and I even know thw building where the Packards were sold at!
How about that baseball card we put in the spokes to make the motor sound!

[NCFischers]

25 out of 25. I don't care what anyone says, those are good memories.

[BB_TX]

Yep. 25 of 25. Guess that says it all.

[GregN]

I am not the old, but fall into the dirt category. How about Helms Bakery Home delivery truck and the Good Humor ice cream man.

[ehmcfarl]

Yea, I'm afraid I'm 25 for 25 also. Gosh, those were really good times. I miss them. Does anyone remember Fizzies?

[Art-n-Marge]

You oldsters need a new list. I refuse to believe I am THAT old but I was 24 for 25 (I won't accept the Packard because I only saw older, used ones, not brand new.)

As a kid I remember when the metal ice tray with the lever would stick to my hand (skin sticks to ice cold metal) and my Mom would have to rescue me as the warmth would get sucked out of my fingers and that's after I had to chisel out the ice tray from the glacier that was called our freezer - remember defrosting those metal freezers and there was NO Plastic in a Refrigerator and they lasted forever?

How about lines on women's nylons? The gas pumps with the fuel sloshing around the top and the dinging as they were pumped? Full service gas stations - NO self serve? No lights at Wrigley field (no night baseball for that matter)? Only two bars on the football helmet facemasks (I won't say NO facemasks because I am not THAT old). And on and on and on...

[sgtpp214]

25 for 25. I can remember us kids standing on the street outside a house watching TV. No sound, but the picture was our life for about 15 minutes. Didn't do it much as we were usually playing ball in the vacant lot or hide and seek. Our grandkids will never know life as we know it and I am afraid will be the worse for it. But then again generations in the past said the same thing.

[clutch]

I also posted this list on a truck forum and an atv forum. There are far more experts residing here.

[CasaDelSol]

OK...older than dirt. But, "remember" 45 rpm records? I have a collection of about 1500 that I am getting ready to sell on eBay. I need my seed money for my RV adventures and no room in the Casa for the collection!!