Memories

[GHD]

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite '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 '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 lad 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'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled 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 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; 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, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost 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?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with 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 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. 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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)

[Garry Russell]

This is similar.....but different to one a month or so back

I remember all but #2 & 3 because we never had coffe shops and have never had milk bottles of any description

[DaveB]

Unsurprisingly, I fall into the 'Ancient' bracket and like you, I don't remember juke boxes in coffee shops. We didn't have a coffee shop in my village anyway I guess the closest thing was (and still is) a cafe which was 4 miles away in Walsall though to be honest, I couldn't tell you if Walsall still had any cafes

ATB

DaveB

[Bridon Bear]

Yep...Positively Ancient for me too....

Almost to the point of us all going to the next village to watch the shopkeeper work the Bacon Slicer!

My Dad always told me that 'Courtesy costs nothing' as well......as I grew up, I quickly worked out that he did not tell enough people the same thing!

Bridon Bear

[FlyTexas]

Scored a 10. Never even heard of a "sweet cigarette"; no coffee shops near where I grew up either; no party lines...but they sound like something I would have enjoyed ; and the only thing that came on before the movie was just the cartoons. I guess I have a few more miles left in me.

Brian

[GHD]

Never even heard of a "sweet cigarette";

They were very small "cigarette-like" candies. They even had "sweet" cigarette cards

http://www.fab1.net/ufo/ufo-bc.htm

[FlyTexas]

Never even heard of a "sweet cigarette";

They were very small "cigarette-like" candies. They even had "sweet" cigarette cards

http://www.fab1.net/ufo/ufo-bc.htm

Oh yeah...I remember those. Thanks for the info George.

Brian

[airboatr]

you could pick up a soda pop bottle off the street and use it to buy a pack of those when I was a kid..... I guess that was a good thing.

hey remember when they didn't have to put "Do Not Swallow" on a bottle of shampoo ?

[DarrenL]

I remember all but 2, 4, 5 & 11.

Although I do remember Saturday morning short films before the main features. Seem to recall them being old B&W Flash Gordon serials starring Buster Crabbe

[Garry Russell]

You used to get chocolate cigarettes in know brand packs like Camel with paper around them

The sweet cigarettes were semi soft candy strip with a red end

When the PC brigade knocked up a fuss they lost the red end and continued as candy sticks or something

There was also a very hard to get and rare sweet that was a great favourite of mine...Spanish Gold sweet tobacco which was sugar coated strips of I think coconut.