Are you ancient? Do you remember some of these?

[Old Cruser]

  This brings back so many memories for me - I guess I must be ancient!

      Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
        'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I  informed him.
        'All the food was slow.' 
        'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 
        'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained.  !
        'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, And if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

        By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

        But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

        Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans,  set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

        My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed  (slow).

        We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
        It was, of course, black and white,  and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it  came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

        Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.

        All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week.  He had to get up at 6 every morning.

        Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

        If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.  Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

        Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

        MEMORIES from a friend:
        My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade 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? 
        Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
        Ignition switches on the dashboard.
        Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. 
        Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
        Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

        Older Than Dirt Quiz:
        Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

        1.  Sweet cigarettes
        2..  Coffee shops with juke boxes
        3..  Home milk delivery in glass bottles 
        4..  Party lines on the telephone
        5.  Newsreels before the movie 
        6.  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 2  channels  [if you were fortunate])
        7..  Peashooters
        8.  33 rpm records
        9.  45 RPM records
        10.  Hi-fi's
        11.  Metal ice trays with levers
        12.  Blue flashbulb
        13.  Cork popguns
        14.  Wash tub wringers

        If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
        If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
        If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
        If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient! 

        I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

       

  (P.S. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) 

[Fuppet]

Remember quite a few, but not all.

[Fly]

Let's just say I'm not telling my age 

[Old Cruser]

Let's just say I'm not telling my age 

You old women - 

I got 13 - and I'm 66 ( well nearly ) 

[Scimitar]

I have no idea what your talking about.
I'm all X-box,Playstation,I-Phone..........and a fibber

[~Aitch~]

Even I can remember a couple of them  

[Pastitman]

Had  to  think   about  it      but  got  all  14

[Old Cruser]

Had  to  think   about  it      but  got  all  14

The ice trays baffled me

[Pastitman]

Metal  ice  trays  before  plastic  but  not  much  use  without  a  fridge.  Can,t  remember  anyone  around  us  that  had  got  one,  had  to make  do  with  cellars.
Bringing  topic  down  a  bit  but  what  was  worse  than  the  shiny  toilet  paper  we  had, (squares  of  newspaper  was  much  better). These  as  some  will  say,  were  the  good  old  days,  never  get  that  one  with  what  we  have  today.

[therealjr]

Bringing  topic  down  a  bit  but  what  was  worse  than  the  shiny  toilet  paper  we  had,

As a colleague of mine and Slacker's used to say you need 3 lots. One for rough work, one for smooth and one for polishing!

[handy]

Remember them all except the ice trays,an old lady that lived in our block of terraced houses had the wringer and used a dolly tub and still had gas lighting no eletricity in the house , my mum had the twin tub weekly rental proberly from Wigfalls i can remember that she shops at Swales in Chesterfield and Mr Swales son used to come every Friday night to collect money .

[Old Cruser]

Metal  ice  trays  before  plastic  but  not  much  use  without  a  fridge.  Can,t  remember  anyone  around  us  that  had  got  one,  had  to make  do  with  cellars.
Bringing  topic  down  a  bit  but  what  was  worse  than  the  shiny  toilet  paper  we  had, (squares  of  newspaper  was  much  better). These  as  some  will  say,  were  the  good  old  days,  never  get  that  one  with  what  we  have  today.

We didn't have a fridge either Pastitman everything went into the pantry as we didn't have a cellar.

I was also my job to scrub the kitchen floor on Saturday's before I could go the the Saturday cinema.
We used to have a large plastic rug in the kitchen which I had to take out, brush and then chuck hot soapy water over it before mopping it.

Oh yes I remember the shiny toilet paper and the squares of newspaper ( it was my job to cut up the squares ).
It was threaded onto a piece and hung on a hook on the toilet door.

[Old Cruser]

Remember them all except the ice trays,an old lady that lived in our block of terraced houses had the wringer and used a dolly tub and still had gas lighting no eletricity in the house , my mum had the twin tub weekly rental proberly from Wigfalls i can remember that she shops at Swales in Chesterfield and Mr Swales son used to come every Friday night to collect money .

We had the Dolly Tub and Wringer handy if I remember correctly it was a big green coloured wringer.

When mum had her first  washing machine it had an electric wringer on top - a right finger nipper for me as well.

As for the old records, I can remember melting some down and making fruit dishes out of them - it used to stink the kitchen out.

Speaking of the kitchen did anyone else have the huge grey stove with oven and a large chimney which went from the stove and up through the ceiling.

[Pastitman]

Tin  baths  in  front  of  the  range?   Last  used  ours  in  1959

[Old Cruser]

Tin  baths  in  front  of  the  range?   Last  used  ours  in  1959

We had a new council house by the time I was born and it had a bathroom so didn't need the tin baths.
However, we still had the potty under our beds to use during the night for some reason?
Old habits die hard maybe on my parents side?

Frost on the insides of windows and Army coats on top of our bed quilt to keep us warm.