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Circle the ones you can remember seeing in your past. Then look at the bottom of the test to see what you scored.
Can you remember: 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles 5. Hamburg joints with tableside jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. Slingshots 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. Amos and Andy 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 6-8 = Kids are calling your sir/ma'am. If you remembered 9-12 = You probably have gown kids! If you remembered 13-15= You're older than dirt! If you remembered 16-25 = Geezer!!
I just noticed that thread Penny. So once I've digested all the posts....... everybody look out......
The Alpha Doggie is gonna come fix that mess!
And everybody must remember:
You don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, And you don't mess around with Jimmy......
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Me banging out some tunes in the Estonia piano booth at the NAMM show...
Here a few things that I can remember- that now seem as dated as the slide rule-
- Black and white T.V.'s with NO remote control! - Chatty Cathy dolls (I always wanted one!) - Jiffy Pop Popcorn- "As much fun to make as it is to eat!" - Star Trek (TOS)- when the episode weren't re-runs. - Huntley and Brinkley's "Good night, Chet. Good Night, David, and Goodnight from NBC News." - When Armstrong walked on the moon. - Dinner hour- with every one sitting down together at the table. - 8 tracks and beta VCRs - Buying a hamburger, fries and a coke at McDonalds and getting change back from your DOLLAR!
Gee, I'm only 42. I admit that a lot of the ones I remember go back to early childhood (like Grandma's party line), and I admit I grew up in "the land that time forgot," but I remember 17 of them.
16. I can remember getting my tongue stuck on one of those icecube trays, I can still smell the mimeograph paper, and my husband tried to get me to BUY an old Studebaker a couple of years ago. No seat belts, no headrests. I told him he was nuts. Jodi (RKVS1, you crack me up! :D)
omigod. i remember 20 of them! this is really wierd 'cause i could swear i'm only 16 years old. maybe it was from a previous life that i encountered these items? <g>
Great, as if I weren't feeling old enough already, Larry comes along with a nice little diversion that places me squarely in the geezer category. I guess I'd better just face the facts. Now excuse me, I have to go soak my dentures....
OH, OH. I still own two slide rules, a Beta VCR, a Yancy Derringer play derringer, a skate key and some 78 records. Our hamburger joint used to charge $.15 for 1 but you could get a bag of 7 for $1.00.
[ March 04, 2002: Message edited by: DT ]
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as heck...
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I still own two slide rules, a Beta VCR, a Yancy Derringer play derringer, a skate key and some 78 records. Our hamburger joint used to charge $.15 for 1 but you could get a bag of 7 for $1.00.