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10-12-2009, 06:39 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St.Maries
Posts: 1,010
M.O.C. #7329
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This is a test.
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!Y
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10-12-2009, 06:44 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Portland
Posts: 1,107
M.O.C. #8045
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me dirt
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10-12-2009, 11:10 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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How come I recognize most of them?
I must be older than dirt!
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10-13-2009, 01:38 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Waterford
Posts: 3,693
M.O.C. #7500
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How about:
1) L.S.M.F.T.
2) Homes without T.V.
3) Service station attendants
4) Gold Bell Stamps
5) Zoot Suits
6) Duck and Cover
7) 45 records
8) Radio w/o FM
9) Kilroy
10) What corn cobs and Sear & Roebuck catalogs had in common
11) Movies in black and white
12) Saturday Matinee
13) Savings Bond Stamps
14) Cars without starters
15) Gas for $.14
16) Penny candy
17) Shave and a hair cut - 2 bits
18) Burma Shave
19) Fuller Brush
20) Fireside Chat
21) Fox / Raccoon Tails
22) Submarine races
23) Free Light bulb exchange at Edison
24) X-ray glasses
25) Shoe fluoroscope machines
Yeah, I'm older than mummy dust.
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10-13-2009, 06:55 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Clearwater
Posts: 10,917
M.O.C. #420
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Me too!
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10-13-2009, 07:25 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brandon
Posts: 3,944
M.O.C. #1034
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We may be older than dirt, but sure do enjoy the memories!!!
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Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada
2011/3500/Silverado/4x4/DRW/Duramax
2017/3721RL/Legacy Pkg./Pressure-Pro
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10-13-2009, 09:25 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: New Bern
Posts: 4,372
M.O.C. #8728
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God, I remember all of them. How about the tube tester in the drug store?
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10-13-2009, 09:45 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Waterford
Posts: 3,693
M.O.C. #7500
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by NCFischers
God, I remember all of them. How about the tube tester in the drug store?
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Yeah, mention "tube tester" to a younger person today and they'll probably think it has something to do with a fertility clinic.
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10-13-2009, 11:20 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Manhattan
Posts: 1,144
M.O.C. #1846
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FYI - Tubes are coming back in style on high end audio equipment -- the tones given out by such are more mellow, less clipped than the digital. The question is going to be, where to get them tested and by whom.....
As for the rest -- some great memories...
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10-13-2009, 01:25 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Rigby
Posts: 199
M.O.C. #8903
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With few exceptions, I remember them all.
Here's a few more:
steel dashboards
milk in gallon jars (had to skim the cream off the top)
buying eggs from the farmer
bias ply tires
3 cent Zero bars
10cent sodas
buying bacon and having the store slice it because it didn't come pre- packaged
Red Skelton
Koolaid straws
commodities (ate more chili and cornbread than I care to admit)
25 cent .22 shells
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10-13-2009, 02:14 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Murrieta
Posts: 5,816
M.O.C. #9257
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LOL Tom S. (#10 & #22 - you got me on the L.S.F.M.T., what's that?). You guys are real old. I only go back as a youngster to remember these additional items:
"3 cent" stamps.
"cent" symbol on the typewriter.
A "typewriter"
"Multi features" (not just double features) in the same theater for the same price of admission!
NO "multiplexes"
"Asbestos siding"
NO "seatbelts".
NO "AIDS".
"Sugar cubes" to prevent "Polio".
Only "books" in the library.
A "choke" to start your car (thank God I missed this one - I remember my Dad and Uncles messing with it).
Great public school classes from K to 12th - music, art, field trips, etc.
An onsite nurse at school.
"78" Records and some records were real thick.
"Stackable" record players (early form of multi disc player?) - I was always amazed how only one record would drop at a time.
"Paper maps" - no GPS, no internet, no Mapquest.
"Shocks" not Struts, "Drums" not discs, "30 weight" not multiple viscosities, round headlights fit all vehicles, auto parts stores that sold every part for every car for every year with no "you need to go to the dealer for that".
Wow, I could go on but I am not as old as you guys. LOL!
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10-13-2009, 04:49 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: New Bern
Posts: 4,372
M.O.C. #8728
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Damn, I remember every one of those. Thanks for the memories.
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10-14-2009, 12:51 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sioux Falls
Posts: 291
M.O.C. #5590
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Me too! I hate it! Why are all you guys with grey hair hanging around?
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10-14-2009, 12:57 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: New Bern
Posts: 4,372
M.O.C. #8728
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Art,
LSMFT Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
Submarine Races- Murray the K., a New York based DJ started it. You would go to the beach at night with your girlfriend and listen to Rock & Roll and watch the submarine races.
Sears catalogs and corn cobs were both used in outhouses.
Good Lord, I'm old!
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10-14-2009, 01:52 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Lakeland
Posts: 261
M.O.C. #7916
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What about "You can take Salems out of the country...But you can't take the country out of Salems"......"Drive your Chevrolet through the USA"...."7UP you like it, it likes you".......and on TV "Hey kids what time is it...
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10-14-2009, 06:24 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St.Maries
Posts: 1,010
M.O.C. #7329
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Lots of good memories came from that post.
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