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THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS:
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 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 'at home,'' I explained! 'Mom 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 kid 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 figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. 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 19. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; 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 was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it 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, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most 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 dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering (hair curling rods too) irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.


Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at 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 on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. 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 3 channels[if you werefortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H greenstamps
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're getting older
If you remembered 11-15, Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25, You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

AMEN!

I remember all those.

Among the car items, you left out throttle and choke knobs on the dashboard, 6-volt car batteries, wing windows, canvas water bags, and oil bath air cleaners.

Ink wells cut into every school desk.

Fountain pens.

3-cent stamps for first-class mail, and penny postcards.

6-ounce Cokes.

Cartoons before the main feature movie. Double features.

Carbon paper.

Pump bug sprayers for Flit.

Getting 12 cents change at McDonalds when you bought a burger, fries, and a drink with a dollar bill.

What's wing window?




Travis

I got 22 and I am 54.

I remember all-- jeez, I am old!

I wasn't feeling too old today...till I read that!


You forgot to mention turning on the car radio and waiting for it to " Warm Up".....

My parents never had a car loan. They saved until they could buy a car.

The little side window on pickups.That was my ac all through high school. LoL

Guys, I remember all of that, too.

Helping my Grandma make apple cider with her old grinder.

And push button transmissions on the dash!

All 25 and the ones Rocky mentioned also. Don't forget the old school buses that had the aux. heater under the last seat in the back that smelled like anti-freeze all winter but you sat there anyhow because it was the warmest spot on the bus.

Also tractors with no cabs and canvas skirts that wrapped around the operators seat and used engine heat to keep you warm.

Combines with no cabs cutting barley and oats.

The air vents on the car floor, controlled by pull knobs.
Cars with power steering/brakes optional.
Radio delete (not real old, but not common for a long time)

Or testing the radio tubes on the tube tester in the drug store...

Remember how they use to go bad and HUMMMMM...

My grandma told me when her second husband was still with us they didnt have a telephone. Being they lived on a large farm by themselves she felt they needed a phone. My grandfather told her that if they had a telephone that they would be talking to people all day and wouldnt get any work done. She finally talked him into getting a phone.

Had wing windows on my '90 full size Bronco.

I guess they are a thing of the past nowadays. Pretty much everything comes with AC now.

Just realized I'm older than I though on the 1-25 quiz.....grin. I'm 'only' 55.

"The air vents on the car floor, controlled by pull knobs."


We called those "crotch coolers".