old as the hills

[mikeysaling]

told you my cassese has given me more time !!

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 'at 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 kid 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 figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled 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 22. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
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, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most 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 in December) 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.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
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 the hills Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. 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 11-15 =You're older than the hills !

I might be older than the hills but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.



got the 15

[TabbyAnn]

Arrgghhhhh I got 5

[Tim]

What's a Howdy Doody? I'd hazard a guess at an early Merkin TV show title, but haven't really got a clue.

Otherwise, 14 here.....

[mikeysaling]

it was an american kids tv program !

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us equiv of andy pandy really

[prospero]

Can't you imagine actually having to walk over to the TV to change channels? And getting the TV repair man to come to put a new valve in?
An old set (it was new then) we used to have developed a fault when changing channels (all 2 of them). Np solid state electronics in them days... The channel changer was a huge piece of switch gear that your need to be quite strong to flip over. Anyhow, on this one you needed to just twist the switch slightly to make contact. Let go and you lost the channel. Rather than stand there holding it, the child genius made a gizmo with his Meccano set that hooked onto the side of the set and held the channel knob. Only problem was you had to move a little bolt to another hole every time you changed channels. In the end I made two gizmos. One for BBC and one for ITV. Worked fine except it occaisionally fell off. If I was a good boy I was allowed to stay up late to watch "The Army Game".

Phones? We never got a phone until well after I left school. If you had a phone you were definitely middle-class. Making a phone call was a major event as you had to find a neighbour who had one. Didn't have a car either. A car ride was a big treat.

More Bygones...

Pink Shrimps
Lucky Bags
Spangles
Sherbert Dips
Beechnut gum out of a vending machine. Every 5th packet you got a free one.

In the Summer when the "Fish Man" used to come round in his van, all the kids would line up at the back and he would give you a bit of fishy ice to suck.

[prospero]

My Granny had a 'washouse'. In the corner was a big copper boiler set in brickwork. You had to light a fire underneath. She also had a 'Dolly Tub' and a huge ornate cast-iron wringer. The fireplace had an oven at the side and a hob to boil a kettle.

[prospero]

Wind up gramophones? OK, it was old even when I was a kid. Great fun though. Only had a few records and most of them were opera and the like. Had some good ones though.... "#The flies crawled up the window.......#". Used to drive the neighbours mad with that.


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[mikeysaling]

that reminded me of

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