HOW OLD ARE YOU?

My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house
and he brought me an old
Royal Crown Cola 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.

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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 [Ask your Mom about that]
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain
guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn
signals.
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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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive
- 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered

0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Don't forget to pass this along -- especially to
all your really OLD
friends.


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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

My mom did alot of ironning, she even used a bottle when she had the steam iron going.

I remember all of them and also have a restored three caompartment wooden Ice Box in the living room we use to store videos and DVDs.

Not only am I dirt I'm down right mud! I have some of that stuff! lol



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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

Thanks Emil, for making me feel older than dirt. The only one I didn't have/remember was the ice box. How about hula hoops, tv's with almost round screens and channel selector knobs that clicked for each channel, UHF converter boxes for the top of your tv, the Omar bread man delivering bread to your house, along with the milk man with the divco trucks? I could go on and on.
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phil


It's not a NOMAD, it's a Yeoman!
Not an engineer, but I DO drive a train.

You're not older than dirt, Phil. You are simply a very knowledgeable individual, like many of the rest of us on this board.
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Lynn
'32 3W

If you drive it, it's a car; if you trailer it, its a toy.

Scored a solid 25, Do you remember Red Ball Jets?... Before PF Flyers. And I still ain`t old yet....
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member, WPoC member and general pain in the neck to the needy. Possible daddy of Mr.Willys, and still Al Liebmann`s good friend.

Ran the list by my old man....remembered most...guess he is what he's said he has been for the last 10 years...older than dirt but younger than rock, dont know if he's smack in the middle or he's leaning more toward the rock side or dirt..but hey! lol
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D.S.R.A- Lower Susquehanna Chapter N.S.R.A Member
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EdCroozers new found Nephew, Delivery35's long lost son & MrWillys Younger brother from another mother..Amateur Rod & Custom Illustrator/Designer

How about the READING PLAYMOBILE DASHBOARD? I am 46 and remember it well. I also have a pic of me playing with it. I was about 5 years old I guess.
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1937 Chevrolet 2 door master deluxe sedan

1940 Chevrolet 4 door Special Deluxe

I scored a perfect 25!LOL Does anyone remember the little acorn shaped tea leaf strainer! My mom used to make us hot tea and honey (with a little whiskey)for colds!I still have that thing! Or 33 1/3 and 78 records!
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Mike,Charter DRSA Member

I remember mom rolling up my white shirts after they were sprinkled and putting them in the 'icebox' overnight, then ironing them. Actually, it was the frig....the icebox was in the basement.
Anyone remember test patterns on TV that came on before programing started for the day?
mike
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chopper

Missed a couple, folks got rid of the icebox when they got electricity on the farm just before I came along,didn't go to the movies untill the late sixties and didn't have home delivery for the milk but drank milk and orange drink from bottles with the cardboard stoppers at the county fair when I was seven.and the crank phones before the rotary dial ones, our ring was two short and three long, and for the farm boys , remember the hand crank cream seperator. Had a lot of neighbor get togethers in the winter and made homemade icecream with the hand crank freezers. Bill
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Bill Hicks DSRA Member

Got a perfect score too. how about a Duncan yo-yo, being a crossing guard at grammar school wearing that nifty white belt. Penny candy, ice cream trucks, Full service gas stations.
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Ken

crossing guard? I was voted by the students to be hall monitor, same white belt btw, but when the principle heard that he said, that's like letting the fox rule the hen house. Needless to say I only had the belt one day :/
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

I remember all 32 of them. Did you ever see a gasoline fired heater in side a car? Back then the cream was on top of the milk bottle.You also got a cartoon with the newsreals and TWO feature movies for 10 to 15 cents and you could sit through the same movies 7 times if you wanted and we did on a few of them. Life was good, Life was simple.
I was here before water...........
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Built Ford Tuff with Chevy Stuff---Eddie

don't remember seeing a gasoline fired heater but remember seeing long haul semis( Navaho,ICX,PIE )that had Freightliner cabovers and didn't have very good heaters would carry five gallon buckets filled with sand and would stop at the truckstop in town to buy bottles of pure achohol and pour it in the sand and light it for heat, hand to keep the window down a little for fresh air though. Bill
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Bill Hicks DSRA Member

There was no Microwaves, TV dinners, no instant nothing, no TV's, most cars had three on the tree, pop came in a bottle only, bread was a nickle a loaf, Sky King and Penney were going on the radio, Cecil the sea sick sea serpent and Bennie were on later when we did get our big 10 inch TV by Muntz or Dumont. BTW you can still download all those great radio programs off the webb. Try WINMX. It's all coming back just give me a few days.........
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Built Ford Tuff with Chevy Stuff---Eddie

I passed , or failed depending on how you look at it, so lable me older than dirt. But, do you remember...
1. playing cards in your bikes spokes
2. $.02 bottle deposits
3. candy cigarettes
4. jawbreakers to hot to eat
5. root beer barrel candy
6. J.C. Higgins bicycles
7. Spin and Marty
8. Buffalo Bill decoder rings
9. Jingles
10.Jasabell the jeep
11.Hall monitor patrol
12.dixie cups

"Doctor told me to take daily mud baths, cuz I ain't got long and it will help me get use to the dirt."

blksheep..... not faster, but smarter in Charlotte

I scored a 21, but of the 4 I don't remember blackjack gum is the only one I've never even heard about. Guess I am older than dirt, too!

Batting 1000 ! ... I'd better have someone check , I might be dead.
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I'll admit , she can't wrestle , but you should see her box.

How about:
Watching the barnstormers when they came to town?
The organ player at the silent movies?
SpeakEasys, flappers, and red hot jazz sung by Ethel Waters during the prohibition?
Driving trucks with hand clutches?
Three hole outhouses?
Company goons bustin’ heads on union picket lines?
Honest politicians like Warren G Harding?
Crank telephones?
When women couldn’t vote?
Sally with the big....oops....you knew her too, eh Digger?
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.There, Richard, bat 1000 on that one :-)

And blksheep, that was Nellybelle the jeep.
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George

Man, I'm only 30, and I got most of them. I guess I'm old fashioned! My grandparents still had alot of these items when I grew up.
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Street is Neat, so are Feet.

Lower Susquehanna Valley Chapter of DSRA
DSRA, NSRA, NSMA, KKOA, GAA, FOM, BDA, NRA, WHC, OBX, USAC, IMSA NASCAR, WOO, ICUP

Hell George , I'm only 29 ...
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Celsius !
"When women couldn’t vote?"
Rumor has it , they STILL can't.
( ducks )
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I'll admit , she can't wrestle , but you should see her box.

Boy 46 did you open a can of worms
how about "Serials at the movies"
"can openers" that poked a V shaped hole in the can
Beemans gum, Hor hound candy (that stuff was nasty)
oil can spouts,vacums wiper...lol skate boards that where made from skates...lol dreby cars made from old creats.
deposit on bottles, news paper routes on bikes.or when a candy bar was a nickel...most of all when sex was safe and hot rods where dangerious...lol
you realy know how to hurt us old guys..lol.Fun imes huh
thanks Bobby

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Keep the shinie side up

I thought that was back when the air was clean and sex was dirty. Nobody stumped me yet, Is that a good thing ?. This aint that old but remember Coors cans with the 2 holes in the top you had to press to open the beer, 1 big hole to drink out of and 1 small hole for a vent. It was the lead up to the nowaday pop top cans.
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If you want it yesterday, then call me tommorow and I will have it ready today.

Converse All Stars (older than all the others)
Green river soda Grapette
Nehi
Kaisers
Fraziers
Hudsons
Nashes
Muntz Jets
King midgets
Sano Cigaretts
Outhouses in the winter
McDonalds where you had to go to the window outside (no inside seating)
Sally with the huge--oops thats a personal memory-lol
All you had to do to to race at the drag strip was take your hubcaps off
Club plaques (still got mine)
Wood or coal cook stoves (w/copper water tank)
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Digger
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DSRA Member

I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

How about the P.D.R.A. (Professional Drag Racing Association)? Their first meet was at Lions Drag Strip and there was an unbelievable SIXTY-FOUR cars qualified in the first round!

Howard Cam Rattler
Warren, Coburn, and Miller "Rain for Rent"
Pure Hell
Pure Heaven
Mondello and Matsubara
Swamp Rats
Hawaiian
Gasser Wars
Stone, Woods, and Cooke
K.S. Pittman
Ohio George Montgomery
Big John Mazmanian
Jack Coonrod
Hills Bros.
Altered wheelbase "stockers"
"Floppers"

Dang! Where did the time go?
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Art Tabata

I must be old!! Got all of them
How about
5 cents for a pay phone call
Wringer washing machines
Cold water flats (no bathtubs)
Mothers who didn't work
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Sunoco 260 gasoline
Gas station attendents that checked your oil, washed the windshield and inflated your tires
Sundays was a family day, no malls or Wally world
You knew you neighbors
Plastic?????? didn't exsist!!!
IBM manufactured cash registers

Joe Szafran
1940Ford Tudor

I got em all too, what about.

real penny candy
Floating VWs
3 speed bicycles
Tote Goats

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The Land Yacht specialist

I think I am a member of DSRA

Art, your list of old drag race stuff made me think of this poster I saved. It was pretty bad shape so I scanned it and fixed it up a bit but it's an original.
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George

GREAT POSTER, George!!! I was only ten in 1960, but still have GREAT memories of going to the drags with my brother and just get TOTALLY wrapped up with all the sounds, smells, and all of the sights at the drags. Thank goodness for the Vintage Racing Association. I am going to the 44th Annual March Meet in Bakersfield put on by the GoodGuys. It is like going back in time, walking around the pits.
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Art Tabata

hey how about Jungel Jim , and the lady racer called the "Dragon Lady", Dick Landy, they where called AFX. then.
remebr Compatition Coupes...Dragsters with sedan bodys
there where Comp. Roadsters also the same way...lol...
AHRA American Hot Rod Ass.???? good times you did not have to bring a gun to school....
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Keep the shinie side up

You can't mention Jungle Jim without thinking of Jungle Pam...
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*******
George

Definately Yummy !!!!
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Second cousin and friend of Edcroozer, 3rd. member of WPoC, Founding member and V.P. of Burl. Co. Mopars, DSRA member, D.A.M.M., and politically incorrect.

GEORGE!!!! You promised not to share my pic!!! :(

Oh, that wasn't me, that was the girl that got in line in front of me!! LOL She took almost all, and left me not much :( ha ha
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Watch those speedbumps!! Debb

I remember her You Bet...
what about Flash Gorden , Green Lantern , Green Arrow, Red Rider and lil Beaver, The Phantom,
there was a lot of little pages too..
Rodding and restyling, Custon Car , Hop up, Car Craft was small,& hot rod, (I can't remember all the little pages) there where many more, cost 15 cents to.
poodle skirts and women put flowers in the hair..Lol :)
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Keep the shinie side up

This stuff is getting kind of depressing, LOL
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Watch those speedbumps!! Debb

Don't tell me you forgot Jon Peter's "Freight Train" and the top fuel ban?
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I know the pix supposed to be of me, but I didn't wanna scare anyone!
http://www.canats2003.com/
http://groups.msn.com/MikesHotRodpicturepages

I remember quite a few of the list.
In regards to drag race stuff...can anyone name this truck?

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Boyd who?
1948 Chevy 1/2 ton (driver)
Some people march to a different drummer. I like to polka.

"Back Up Pickup"
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Digger
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DSRA Member

I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

And lets not forget a legend from the past that is still doing it (since the 50s) Chris (The Greek) Karamesines. The guy is in his seventies and still finished about in the middle of the pack in points this year. And he is doing it with no big bux sponsors. I saw him pull into RT 66 Dragway about a year ago with his dually pulling a car trailer with the the race car in it and that was pretty much hi whole operation. yyyyessss! lets here it for geezers--lol
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Digger
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DSRA Member

I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

That should be "lets hear it for geezers" Duh!
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Digger
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DSRA Member

I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
Just when you think you have won the Rat Race along come faster rats

Do you remember a time when you could joke around and NO ONE took offence? Not today....You get sued or you get nasty emails with wonderful foul-mouth language. Sound familiar? This site used to enjoy that luxury of "just funnin" Not now, If you don`t think like the one person who thinks they run the joint,...(and you know who you are, the one with the huge ego and NO credibilty) That person will do what ever they feel is nessasary to have you silenced. Next time I will post those wonderful emails right here so your true personality can be seen by all instead of that phony front you put on right now for all to see.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member, WPoC member and general pain in the neck to the needy. Possible daddy of Mr.Willys, and still Al Liebmann`s good friend.

Ed, going back a few weeks ago i felt that I was being ignored, I wondered why, since then it seems somethings have changed but i guess not all things. I haven't recieved nor sent any foul-mouth e-mails. if someone has a problem with me I invite them to step up and speak to me like a man or women, whatever the case might be. If I am not welcome here please speak up. i'd rather leave then bust up the luxury of a "just funnin" site. If I have offended ANYONE for ANY reason, I sincerely apologize. If you just don't care for me you can kiss my...... But tell ME, not everyone else. My dear departed mother used to always say, if they are talking about someone else behind their back, what makes you think they are NOT talking about YOU behind your back? You have a gripe with me? contact me. Leave the others out of it.
If the concenses of the group is that they would rather I leave, let me know, i'll go without slinging any mud.
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

No Emil...It`s definitly NOT you. Relax...The real idiot will step up to the plate shortly.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member, WPoC member and general pain in the neck to the needy. Possible daddy of Mr.Willys, and still Al Liebmann`s good friend.

Thanks Ed, I really like this group, would hate to find out I'm not welcome.
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

Wow, you guys covered alot of ground, but here's a couple more:
'slip-n-slides'
flexible flyer sleds
water wells with only a hand pump to get your family's water

I never saw it, but I remember my grampa telling me of when they would cut ice in blocks and pack it in icehouses in straw to use during the summer months on their homestead in northern Wisconsin.

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Wear your seatbelt.

(ice from the lakes)
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Wear your seatbelt.

In the immortal words of my gardener, "Can't we just all get a lawn?" (Just joking around!)

But seriously, remember the time before the multi semi-truck and trailer rigs painted with the race car on the sides, one truck and trailer to haul the cars, one to haul the bodies and frames, one to haul the engines and machine shop, one to haul the collectables, blah, blah, blah... where a pick up truck, or a station wagon, loaded up with all your tools and parts, towing your pride and joy was how you got to the races?
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Art Tabata

Ed. And I thought I was the only one who got nasty Emails. I guess we just pee'd someone off. Get a grip if that person can't take a joke. It's all in fun, mostly (LOL) !!
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Second cousin and friend of Edcroozer, 3rd. member of WPoC, Founding member and V.P. of Burl. Co. Mopars, DSRA member, D.A.M.M., and politically incorrect.

Did I miss something here?? Or are my medications working too good? ....It's medication time Mr.Murphy (name that movie!!!)
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Home to Lugnut!
NSRA,GG,Doughnut Derilects,CRS, Trophy Whores,etc,etc...
Charter Member: Dipstick Street Rod Association

" ...you get nasty emails with wonderful foul-mouth language." - by edcroozer

ED ,
Could you please forward those to me? My Russian Teen Web Cam account expired and I can't afford to re-new.
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I'll admit , she can't wrestle , but you should see her box.

No need for me to foward them, Just wait for the right time of the month...and they show up.
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The "New" and Unimproved edcroozer... Charter D.S.R.A. member, WPoC member and general pain in the neck to the needy. Possible daddy of Mr.Willys, and still Al Liebmann`s good friend.

I can remember: if you didn't drive it to the track you flat towed it with a tow-bar, the meat market owner wrapped your meat purchase in white paper and tied it with string. There wasn't a cash register it every department at moms favorite "dry goods store" so your purchase was totaled by hand and along with the money was put in a canaster and sent to the cashier by way of the vaccum tube and then returned with your change and receipt. The in store X-Ray machine to check the proper fit of your new shoes.
Last but not least, hitting my head on the dash of dad's 40 Chev and being told by mom "if you had been sitting in the seat like I told you, you wouldn't have hit your damn head when I had to stop fast."
31"A" Man
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Rick

Hey, youngster!

I was there for 'em all and I really am Olderndirt! (75 and counting).
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RM40

WTG Pop! You must be one of those guys I look up to! Ya d*mned straight I respect my elders, LOL
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

How about the "tin man" usually called the "s.......e" have to leave that out so it doesn't offend.
baseballs taped up with white or black tape after you hit the cover off of it.
football helmets without facemasks
wooden stocked Red Ryder B-B guns for shooting anything
pump style B-B guns for shooting larger anythings
red M-80 firecrackers bought at the farm store for killing gophers.
Maytag washing machines with opposed 2 cyl gas engine.
brand new 46 Chev coupe
8 foot round nosed tobaggan (ultimate sled for those who don't rememer when there was lots of snow.)
snorkle parkas ( winter jackets)
rubber overshoes with slotted buckles
single speed bikes.
Schwinn bikes with the tapered coil spring on the front fork
black beauty bowling balls
trains pulled by steam engines
sinking of the Edmond Fitzgearld
the ultimate luxury flight was in a DC-3

I'm older than dirt and starting to petrify.

Emil, that was fun. I got a 20...unfortunally that is still older than dirt!! LOL
Rob, I can't belive you don't remember Black Jack gum, that and teaberry were my favorites!!!!
Every once in a while I find a place that still sells them.
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Watch those speedbumps!! Debb

I sure don't remember blackjack gum. I comforted myself with the idea that it was something only the old people remember, then you come along and remember it too! lol

I thought this appropriate for this thread since it has to do with age references. Pretty interesting.

30 Years difference

1972: Long hair
2002: Longing for hair

1972: The perfect high
2002: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1972: KEG
2002: EKG

1972: Acid rock
2002: Acid reflux

1972: Moving to California because it's cool
2002: Moving to California because it's warm

1972: Growing pot
2002: Growing pot belly

1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz
Taylor

1972: Seeds and stems
2002: Roughage

1972: Killer weed
2002: Weed killer

1972: Hoping for a BMW
2002: Hoping for a BM

1972: The Grateful Dead
2002: Dr. Kevorkian

1972: Going to a new, hip joint
2002: Receiving a new hip joint

1972: Rolling Stones
2002: Kidney Stones

1972: Being called into the principal's office
2002: Calling the principal's office

1972: Screw the system
2002: Upgrade the system

1972: Disco
2002: Costco

1972: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1972: Passing the drivers' test
2002: Passing the vision test

1972: Whatever
2002: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this
will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen. Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across
the nation were
born in 1983.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a
mile for a Camel" or "de plane Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who
J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Do you feel old yet?

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Steve Jack
Marketing Technologies Limited,LLC
ConceptOne Brackets and Pulleys

as stated by others in this forum.......older then dirt :( Thanks for putting things in perspective, Steve, thanks alot! Just in time for my annual check up at the V.A! ;-)
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

Emil........me too.....really hits home for me. Cardiologist appointment tomorrow. I have somewhat of an enlarged heart but has not given me problems to date. I am sure I will have to do the biannual treadmill thing! Gotta keep on top of this stuff. I have lost about 20lbs this year just due to better diet and slacking way back on beer etal as well as brought my blood pressure under control. Keeping exercise routine up...can beat up a stairclimber pretty good for 45 minutes!

Anyway.......back to the fun of yesteryear. Didn't mean to throw a blanket on the fun!

And Emil, I don't know what's up with the nastygrams and subject that Ed has brought up, but don't worry about it we all love you and Ed! Well...er...ah...I guess that's a little strong. We really...really...really...really like you guys!
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Steve Jack
Marketing Technologies Limited,LLC
ConceptOne Brackets and Pulleys

I don't know what's going on with the nasty grams either but sure wish it would all stop, I kind of like everyone here and would like to see us all get along, we ARE ALL hot rodders and car lovers at heart. I sorta like the idea of being loved ;) being really, really, really liked ain't bad either, Steve.

V.A. today, now they want a CAT scan of my kidneys and liver, something about a cyst or something. Still waiting to hear on that echogardiogram from last week. can't wait for the season to start so i can cruise all my troubles away LOL.
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Drive it!
46 Ford Sedan
37 Packard Super 8

here we go again..........

this is good - and the one writing this is almost a kid...


When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in the world I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But....

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet -- we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves!

And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter -- with a pen! --and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the begining and messed it all up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!

Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600!
With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics stunk. Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were out of luck.

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... .D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear, You guys wouldn't lasted five minutes back in 1984!




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Fun Read...Made my Sunday Morning!!
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Saturday morning serials chapters 1 through 15
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike green
flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, Pepsi please
Do you remember these?
Cigar bands on your hands, your dad's socks rolled down
sticks, no bugs, aviator caps with flaps that buttoned down
stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees
Ah, do you remember these?
The Hit Parade, Grape Tu-ade, the Sadie Hawkins dance
peddle pushers, ducktail hair and peg in your pants
Howdy Doody, Tutti-Fruity, the seam up the back of her hose
Ah, do you remember those?
James Dean, he was keen, Sunday movies were taboo
the senior prom, Judy's mom, rock and roll was new
Cracker Jack prize, stars in your eyes, ask daddy for the keys
Ah, do you remember these?
The boogie man, lemonade stand and takin' you tonsils out
Indian burn and 'wait your turn' and four foul balls your out
cigarette loads and secret codes and saving lucky stars
Can you remember back that far?
Boat neck shirts and fender skirts and crennilyn petty coats
mums the word and a dirty bird and a double root beer float
moon hub caps and loud heel taps and he's a real gone cat
Ah, do you remember that?
Dancin' close, little moron jokes and cooties in her hair
Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and the Whip at the County Fair
Charles Atlas course, Roy Rogers horse and only the Shadow Knows
Oh, do you remember those?
Gables charm, frog on your arm, loud mufflers, pitchin' woo
Going steady, Veronica and Betty, white buck and blue suede shoes
Knock knock jokes, Dewey.......dewey who?
Do we remember these? Yes we do. DO we remember these!

Lyrics to 'Do You Remember These' by the Statler Brothers

mike

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Scored 25, remember being dissapointed when twinkies went from 5 cents to 7 cents. Get a quarter from mom to go to the movies. Movie was 14 cents and you could get two 5 cent candy bars and have a penny for the weight scale with your fortune. Any body remember nose whistles?
Larry
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