Do you remember?

[cart-mom]

WOW! I got 14 and I'm only 36. I've always been the 'baby' of the group but now I'm afraid I'm getting old. I need my WDW trip to make me young again!!!!

 

[philaround]

how about Saturday afternoon matinee at the movies. 25-50cents and you got a news reel, 2 or 3 cartoons, a serial, and a double feature.
Spent 4 or 5 hours in the air conditioning.
Thank God I can't remember the smell since it had been a week since any of us had a bath. LOL

 

[philaround]

oh and another 50cents got you a big popcorn, a large coke, and at least 2 candy bars. And one of the candies had to be milk duds or snow caps.

 

[Mouseteacher]

Colorful Streamers that you put in the handlebars of your bike
Tiny Tears or Betsy Wetsy doll
Fins on the back of cars - my dad had a Chevy Impala circa 1957 white with a red streak on each side.

 

[Krisu]

Who else decorated their bike for Memorial Day? My favorite movie snacks were Root Beer Barrels, Necco Wafers and Chocolate Babies. We couldn't buy popcorn, my mother made it at home and we brought it!! And speaking of bikes, there were tricycles and full sized. Nothing in between!!

 

[Buz]

I'm just 44 and remembered over 20 of these. Southern Illinois, the land that time forgot. I remember getting indoor plumbing. We had an outhouse, a well with a small pump in the kitchen. You got in trouble if you forgot to refill the priming can with water when you were done.

I remember the less pleasant stuff too. Like chopping ice off the pond at 5:30 in the morning so the animals could drink. Slopping the hogs, feeding the chickens. Two buckets of coal and one of wood on the back porch every night. If you didn't, the whole family was cold in the morning and you were trying to get frozen coal chunks separated from the pile. I remember walking up the hill in the snow to get to the school bus because they didn't go down the dirt road to our house.

It was a hard life, but we grew strong, learned a lot, lived with nature, read books, listened to music, talked. Spent the summer barefoot and no shirt, fished, caught tadpoles, frogs, crayfish. Swam every day in the creek that we dammed ourselves. Camped in a indian lean-to we made out of 4" diameter trees. It is probably still standing.

We enjoyed the good things even more because they were special, not everyday, not taken for granted.

Buz

 

[Piper]

Having just turned 58, I remember all of them! Plus listening to the radio for entertainment, running through the house when I was a teenager to get to the phone before my brother, saving the cardboard tops on milk to turn in for prizes, soft drinks and candy bars being a nickle (and not getting either one very often!),helping Mom bake every Saturday morning---loaves of bread, a cake, cookies and several pies each week, going to the farmer's market and then helping make pickles, can tomatoes, beans, corn, etc.

Not being afraid to play outside in the soft summer dark--catching fireflies and playing hide and seek with my friends.

 

[MarkRG]

Originally posted by ***********
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

You missed the sugar dots on the paper roll!

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

My grandfather's shop had one of those!

14. 45 RPM records

We have about 200 of those, along with easily twice that many 33's, and a whole bunch of those inch-thick one sided 78's!

15. S&H Green Stamps

Ahh Goldblatt's(sp?)

18. Mimeograph paper

Had these in school, could never forget the smell of 'em!

23. Drive-ins

Miss these terribly!

And I'm definitely in the don't tell your age group!