Do you remember...........
 

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 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

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 6 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 lemonade 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.

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 you’re really OLD friends....I just did!

Borrowed from another forum.

Remember them all :o

With number 1, I got reported to my mum for smoking. It. was a cold day and my breath could be seen in the air as I was mimicking smoking.

With number 13 it was unlucky for me as I put my pop gun, minus the cork of course up to my dads ear and fired. My father who was wheelchair bound got a fright and my mother took the plastic gun from me and threw it into the fire. I remember my father saying to my mum “you shouldn’t have thrown the boys gun in the fire”

I remember them all also, what about indicators that came out of the door upright.

Rev

I remember all of them . Plus helping my grandma do her washing in a large galvanized metal Dolly tub and then turn the handle on her cast iron mangle.

So I am positively ancient!..... And yes they were good old days playing out on the street and climbing trees for apples and pears without getting caught

The future is not what it used to be.....

Was sorting through some of the company’s museum items the other week and found an iron that plugged into a light socket.

Some of the younger ones in the office just did not believe it ! :D

Now you are talking. I have ironed my shirt and trousers a few times with one of those.

Also not listed but were common were the following..........
Gramma-phones (clockwork record players) for playing shellac records @ 78 rpm.
Films (Movies) classified ratings as "U" to viewed by children under 16 yr of age. "A" to be viewed by children accompanied by an adult.
and "X" to be viewed by persons aged 16 and over.
:smilie_re:
Pizzas were not marketed in the UK until perhaps the mid 1960's. :}

Kev.

Semaphore ones rev 👍

From the quiz 6 or 7 not sure which but I also 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.

I wonder if my children have ever used a phone box :)


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