REMEMBERING THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember - not the ones you were told about! 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles, not cans and they cost 5¢ each. 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6. Home-delivery milk in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie (There was no TV news, we went to the theater for the news reel) 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax and flat top hair cuts for the guys 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) You only had to dial the OL6933. 12. Pea shooters 13. Howdy Doody and Clarabell 14. 45 and 78 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps (or even Gold Bond Stamps) 16. Hi-fi' stereos half the size of a room 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper and oh that awful purple ink 19. Blue flashbulbs that usually didn't work 20. Packards and Nash Ramblers 21. Roller skate keys and no in line wheels 22. Cork popguns and air rifles 23. Drive-in Movies with the playground up at the front. 24. Studebakers and Olds with fins 25. Wash tub wringers and no dryers so you had to hang the wet clothes out on a line. 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!
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