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Waaaaah! Does it make any difference if I actually remember each item on the list or if I just happen to know what each item is? I knew what everything was from reading about ancient history (Yeah! That's it... I read a lotta history books) <giggle> Whew .... I'm glad THAT'S settled I'm still young. (but getting older mighty fast) Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Hawkins, Darwin <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:58 AM Subject: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer >> Are you still young??? >> >This sure did bring back some wonderful (and not so wonderful) memories for >me. I think I know what number 9 was (a brand of tennis shoe?). Number 20 >was probably cartoon characters on TV, an appliance we didn't have in the >hills of Arkansas. All the rest are just as if it were yesterday! > >> Count how many you can remember... and then check 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 levers >> 18. Mimeograph paper >> 19. Blue flashbulbs >> 20. Beanie and Cecil >> 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! >>