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Age Quiz - Do You Remember?
Give yourself a point for each one you remember. Make sure you remember actually seeing/using it, not just someone telling you about it. Then see where you rate on the bottom!
1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 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 lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19 Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 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! |
I got an 8 sounds about right for 32, though I think what part of the country you live in might make a difference. Sometimes when I go back home to OK and go to my grandmother's small town its like walking through a time warp, it's still like 1967 there or something.
Those green stamps I was just on the end of that. But I remember my mom and having all those books and going shopping with them from a catologue I think. We got delivery in glass milk bottles when we lived in Europe but I don't remember cardboard stoppers so I didn't count that one. Blackjack Chewing gum. I still see it from time to time. Taste like Black licorice, nasty. Also was in the movie "Pump up the Volume". (If you ever want to laugh your butt off Vin Diesel is in this movie, I am not sure how old he is but he is definitely not ripped) Thanks for some memories Tiki. Chris |
OMG I had 18!!! I'm oder than DIRT??!! :crazy: So THAT'S what my problem is!..
I not only remember the glass milk bottles with the cardboard stoppers, but ours when I was very very small was deliverd by a horse drawn truck!! I also remember bags of margarine with a red dot in it you had to mix in to change the colour to a darker yellow because if margarine was sold in it's pale colour it looked too much like butter, or something like that... That was fun Tiki...:D |
I remember:
1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 10. Butch wax 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 19 Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers :fr: :fr: :fr: :fr: :fr: |
hey i got sixteen and i'm 36, i don't think that is so old! what the.....????? olser than dirt indeed!!! I'M 36, I'M 36, I'M 36!!!! that wasn't so bad. i never pluck my gray hairs, never!!!! (but of course i dye my hair :lol: ) my sister teaches at a college (i guess what would be considered a kind of junior college in the states) and every year they get a sheet saying "the students in your class have never known a world without...." some of the things make you say aaaack! i'll see if i can get a copy of some recent ones. 1. Blackjack chewing gum (sounds familiar but i'm not sure so not counting) 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (and the wax lips!) 3. Candy cigarettes (of course) 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles (uh no) 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes (i love those if when the songs suck) 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers (definitely) 7. Party lines (not mine in the city but in the country sure) 8. Newsreels before the movie (no!) 9. P.F. Flyers (i don't what this is, but there were some red wagons called somethindg flyers and we had those) 10. Butch wax (for floors i think) 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) (uh no!) 12. Peashooters (oh yeah) 13. Howdy Doody (we didn't have a tv, i only heard about this when i watched happy days, ahhh happy days) 14. 45 RPM records (i loved those, you could stack them up on that stick thing) 15. S&H Green Stamps (we don't have green stamps in canada, what is that? doesn't count then) 16. Hi-fi's (ooh ahhh fancy stuff) 17. Metal ice trays with lever (we had one of those and they worked great, wish i had one now) 18. Mimeograph paper (oh if you were good you got to help the teacher turn that machine) 19 Blue flashbulb (yes) 20. Packards (no) 21. Roller skate keys (roller skating at Ceasars Palace checking out the guys with combs in their back pockets!) 22. Cork popguns (yup) 23. Drive-ins (pyjamas when i was young, no pyjamas when i was older, last time i went when i was about 25, not that long ago) 24. Studebakers (no) 25. Wash tub wringers (i thought my friends family was sooooo modern but it was an electric washing machine with a wringer on top is that it?) gen |
I remembered 6 guess I'm still young but getting older :)
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Yikes! 14! :) How can that be, Mauvais? I'm not THAT much older than you! :lol:
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I think it depends on where and how you grew up :shrug: a lot of the things mentioned may not have been available in my neck of the woods or were not something my parents had around the house or that anyone we knew owned.
Does anyone remember going to A&W Drive in restaurant when it was still a drive up and the servers came out to your car and the tray hooked onto the window and it wasn't a weird thing to eat in your car in the parking lot? Good times, good times...:D Sigh, no more drive-in, their chubby chicken has changed, their fries have changed but at least their rootbeer is still good... |
Yes! I remember that! I even had my picture taken with the Root Bear! :lol3:
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Oh -- I was thinking about times past as I was listening at random to some of my 300 45's last weekend (span the late '50s to early '70s). I remember everything on the list. (Yes, I am older than dirt.) they still have A&Ws? I remember both drive-in diners and drive-in movies. I remember dimestores where all the merchandise was on counters separated by little glass partitions and you could try the lipsticks (long before ugly shrinkwrapped racks). And at Woolworths 52 cents would buy a burger and a milkshake. Department stores sold everything from notions to pets and clerks actually wanted to wait on you. And cars had fins and you could tell them apart. Whew! I need that rant. :D
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Gee, Rosetta, how old ARE you!?!? :lol:
I wish I still had my 45's. I DO remember when bread was three loaves for a dollar! :) |
Hi, Ellis. I'm 58. I remember when Hostess cupcakes were a dime.
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Heck, that's not old at all, Rosetta! :hat: You're just coming into your prime! :D
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I used to love going to Woolworths when I was a little kid - it just seemed so huge and had the coolest things in it and we always went to the lunch counter for a grilled cheese sandwich :D
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Remember Caplan's? (was it Caplan's on the corner of Rideau and Sussex?) We used to get Hoagies in the restaurant. :)
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