Are You Older Than Dirt ?

A friend of mine passed this along to me. My score 23 -- guess my kids are right, I am older than dirt

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 bottles
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. 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!

Well, I'm older than dirt also.

I suspect that a large percentage of the members of the forums would fall into that category also.

Dennis

Older than dirt!

Brought back memories also. My first job was as stockboy for S&H Green stamps. If I can find it I still have the envelope my pay came in.

Bert

I'm in "don't tell your age"

Take my word for it, it was hard to find a place to stand before dirt was invented.

I guess I'm well qualified for the older than dirt title also! I scored 21.
Terry

100% HERE THE ONLY ONE I HAD TO STRETCH FOR WAS THE RINGER WASHER BUT AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF SIX I REMEMBER ONE OF THOSE ON THE SCREENED IN PORCH OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN WINDOW.

TIME FLIES WHEN YOUR HAVING FUN.

IT SEEMS TO FLY FASTER THE OLDER YOU GET.

IT JUST DON'T SEEM THAT IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE THAT YOUNG BOBBIE KENNEDY WAS SHOT.

AOL HAD TO REMIND ME YESTERDAY.

Well, I scored a 30, as I'm sure if you think about it, many of us do. My father's brother still lived back in the woods with a hand pump on the back porch, a cast iron stove and pot-bellied stoves. They had put in indoor plumbing, thank God. Their older brother still lived in the house they were all born in. Same type of stove, no plumbing, one bare light bulb and an outhouse I surely hated to use, especially in the summer. Playing in the corn crib (cats kept out the rats), riding the mule, visiting the fishing pond, pulling peanuts right out of the ground for snacks and walking on country dirt roads made up for it. It was the darkest place at night I've ever been. Bears and turkeys passed through the yard during the night. My kids need to visit.

In March I was the Outer Banks, NC and the diner across the street from our motel had jukebox selector boxes in the boothes. Unfortunately they didn't work.

There's a place near me that has a nickel-operated jukebox-once again, does not work.

Rosie's Diner up the road in Monument has the table juke-box, they do work.

That's 35 years B.R.!
lol

16

That makes me YOUNG old dirt!!!!

I fell into the category "Don't tell your age."

Yep. 25 for me! But for those approaching that we could always add a few questions that make you FEEL young (if you don't actually remember these, that is.)

26. Sleeping in the built-in bed in a post-war Nash or Hudson
27. Radio program being interupted with the news of Pearl Harbor bombing
28. Dancing the Charleston with a flapper (or being the flapper)
29. The Wright Brothers first flight
30. The burial of King Tut

Our home phone number used to be 5-7818. Then they went DDD and it became YUkon 5-7818. Boy the rumors then were it was one of those conspiracies changing everyone's phone number.

You mean they don't make Blackjack gum anymore?
Obviously I remember most all of these items being one of the senior members here.

Wringer washers? Heck I remember washboards! Way, way back when I was a kid we spent summers at camp, same location where I live now but very primitive. In the early days we had no electricity and water was pumped by hand. Monday was always wash day. It started by my Mom building a fire in one of the three wood stoves we had, this one standing outside. Then she strung the clotheslines while I started pumping water. We heated the water in a copper boiler on the stove then put it into one of the wash tubs. Mom washed using the washboard, I rinsed and wrung. Then we hung the clothes up. She had a routine with the sheets. Because it was such a chore we only got one clean sheet a week. The top sheet got turned around and upside down and put on the bottom and the clean sheet went on top.

While those stoves are long gone, I've still got that copper boiler, the washboard and the washtubs! The boiler holds kindling wood and newspapers. When my daughter got married we chilled wine and soda in the tubs.

Then of course Tuesday was ironing day. I didn't get into that seeing those flatirons were pretty dangerous! Yup, I've still got them too. They make good doorstops!

WOW 17 out of 25 and older than dirt.

24 out of 25 for me.
My grandmother used a wringer washer right up to the late 1980's.
My first job paid $.25 an hour.
We had home delivery of milk, bread, and eggs.
Freihoffer Bakery had horse drawn wagons.
We even had a neighborhood "junk yard"
And believe it or not I used to work for S&H Green Stamps.