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)
How old is dirt? +++see notes
in text+++
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From: Hawkins, Darwin <[log in to unmask]>
To:
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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.
