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I LOVED Winkie Dink! Carole H. --- Sherilyn Sherry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Boy did that list trigger memories. Remember Ipana > toothpaste? Winkie Dink (they sent you a sheet of > plastic to put on your TV screen so you could draw > on it and connect the dots to solve the mystery) > -----Original Message----- > From: will johnston > <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:34 PM > Subject: Re: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer > > > How old is dirt? +++see notes in text+++ > > ---------- > From: Hawkins, Darwin > <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer > Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:52 AM > > > 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 +++remember chewing > gum tree sap? The stuff we > called "retread" back during WWII? > > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar > water. > > 3. Candy cigarettes +++smoked grape vines, > > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles. > ++for 5cents++Pepsi Cola > hits the spot. Twelve full ounces; that's a lot. > Twice as much for a nickel > too, Pepsi Cola is the drink for you. > > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes. > ++Put another nickel in, in > the nickelodeon, all I want is loving and music, > music, music.....Theresa > Brewer > > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with > cardboard stoppers++How about > the dipper to take cream off the top in the days > before homogenization? > > 7. Party lines...++Remember the old phones > with no dial...Just a crank to > signal central > > 8. Newsreels before the movie. +++Saturday > matinees with 3 serials? > > 9. P.F. Flyers..++The old Keds with no tread > to pick up mud etc. > > 10. Butch wax++Vaseline hair tonic? > Anamacassers to protect the > furniture? > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix > (Olive -6933) +++What about long > distance where the operator had to ring through > connecting cities to route > a call? > > 12. Peashooters..++What about rubber guns? [a > short piece of wood (abt 10 > inches) with a spring clothes in on one end. > The projectile was a round > slice of inner-tube [before tubeless tires] > stretched from one end to the > clothes pin. Open the pin and the rubber flies! > > 13. Howdy Doody.+++Remember the Muntz TV. > Don't sit there watching your > radio! Buy a Muntz TV! > > 14. 45 RPM records++Remember when the 78's > changed from shellac to vinyl? > I still have a few 78's recorded on only one > side! > > 15. S&H Green Stamps. +++Remember the song by > the Brothers Four to the > tune of Greensleeves? The tune is before the > stamps. > > 16. Hi-fi's.. Remember when hi fi was only a > portion of a drunken giant's > eating song? Remember Cook Records. The sounds > of our times on monaural > or on binaural which had a separate track and > tone arm for left and right? > > 17. Metal ice trays with levers. Remember the > pasteboard sign with the > numbers 10, 20, 25, 50 ? The sign was to be > placed in the window. Which > number was at the top told the iceman how much > ice to leave? > > 18. Mimeograph paper. Hectograph? The pan of > waxy gelatin on which you > would place the master and then lift it out > carefully and put in blank > paper a sheet at a time? > > 19. Blue flashbulbs. ++Flash powder? > > 20. Beanie and Cecil..++ Tom Mix's horse > "Tony"? > > 21. Roller skate keys. +++Skiing on barrel > staves? > > 22. Cork popguns. +++A .22 short rifle to put > squirrel meat on the table > in the depression or WW II. > > 23. Drive-ins...The first drive in was > Fortune's Jungle Garden in > Memphis, TN. [back then they would spell out the > states all the way] > > 24. Studebakers+++Commanders? Champion? The > Lark and the Avanti came > late. Steadybreaker made the first production > car where you could not tell > whether it was coming or going. Terraplanes, > Essexes, Willys, Graham-Paige, > LaSalle's.... Like Archie and Edith Bunker said, > "Those were the days." > > 25. Wash tub wringers. +++Remember when any > owner of a washing machine > would be proud to have it sitting on the front > porch? > > > > > > > > > > > > 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! > >+++ > Those of us who remember the really old ones are > pre-cambrians of the > Oolitic period. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com