Do you remember?

Hey John.....

Ok here are a few more my Dad sent me...... i used to have those guys on both Cassette tape and 8 Track...... (. What the Hell is that..??)

These were before my time but for those of you who are old enough...............

How many do you remember?

1. Head light dimmer switches on the floorboard.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Real ice boxes.
4. Pant-leg clips for bikes without chain guards.
5. Candy cigarettes.
6. Cigarette "loads".
7. Automobile heaters mounted inside the firewall.
8. Coke machines that dispensed glass bottles.
9. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
10. Party lines.
11. Newsreels before the movie. (No, ...how about cartoons before the movie?)
12. P.F. Flyers & Red Ball Jets
13. Butch wax.
14. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Glendale - 4722).
15. Peashooters.
16. Howdy Doody.
17. S&H Green Stamps.
18. Metal ice trays with a lever.
19. Mimeograph paper.
20. Roller-skate keys.
21. Cork popguns.
22. Wash tub ringers.
23. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
24. R.C. Cola bottle with a stopper in the end with holes in it (sitting on Mom's ironing board).
25. Drive-ins.

If you remembered:
0 - 5, you're still young;
6 - 10, you're starting to age;
11 - 15, don't admit your age;
16 - 25, you're OLDER THAN DIRT !!!!!!!!!!!!!


and of course you know in another 40 years another list exactly like this one wlll appear.....!!!


Larry
 
Larry Messing said:
Hey John.....

Ok here are a few more my Dad sent me...... i used to have those guys on both Cassette tape and 8 Track...... (. What the Hell is that..??)

These were before my time but for those of you who are old enough...............

How many do you remember?

1. Head light dimmer switches on the floorboard.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Real ice boxes.
4. Pant-leg clips for bikes without chain guards.
5. Candy cigarettes.
6. Cigarette "loads".
7. Automobile heaters mounted inside the firewall.
8. Coke machines that dispensed glass bottles.
9. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
10. Party lines.
11. Newsreels before the movie. (No, ...how about cartoons before the movie?)
12. P.F. Flyers & Red Ball Jets
13. Butch wax.
14. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Glendale - 4722).
15. Peashooters.
16. Howdy Doody.
17. S&H Green Stamps.
18. Metal ice trays with a lever.
19. Mimeograph paper.
20. Roller-skate keys.
21. Cork popguns.
22. Wash tub ringers.
23. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
24. R.C. Cola bottle with a stopper in the end with holes in it (sitting on Mom's ironing board).
25. Drive-ins.

If you remembered:
0 - 5, you're still young;
6 - 10, you're starting to age;
11 - 15, don't admit your age;
16 - 25, you're OLDER THAN DIRT !!!!!!!!!!!!!


and of course you know in another 40 years another list exactly like this one wlll appear.....!!!


Larry
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19,,,, and I feel it ,,,,, :( :) Also remember hand dug well & carrying water to the house in buckets for mom, baths in a #3 washtub,
outhouse with spiders and wasps, you'd light a piece of paper and wave it around below the seat to chase em out, cleaning out
ashes in the heating and cook stove and carrying in wood for both, so much more.

The good ole days ? ;)
 
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Harold Reid, bass singer and jokester in the Statler Brothers group, died this week at 80 years old. Great group, very entertaining.
David
 
15 and I remember more than most at my age(58) because I was usually the youngest cousin in family gatherings.
 
Larry Messing said:
Hey John.....

Ok here are a few more my Dad sent me...... i used to have those guys on both Cassette tape and 8 Track...... (. What the Hell is that..??)

These were before my time but for those of you who are old enough...............

How many do you remember?

1. Head light dimmer switches on the floorboard.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Real ice boxes.
4. Pant-leg clips for bikes without chain guards.
5. Candy cigarettes.
6. Cigarette "loads".
7. Automobile heaters mounted inside the firewall.
8. Coke machines that dispensed glass bottles.
9. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
10. Party lines.
11. Newsreels before the movie. (No, ...how about cartoons before the movie?)
12. P.F. Flyers & Red Ball Jets
13. Butch wax.
14. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Glendale - 4722).
15. Peashooters.
16. Howdy Doody.
17. S&H Green Stamps.
18. Metal ice trays with a lever.
19. Mimeograph paper.
20. Roller-skate keys.
21. Cork popguns.
22. Wash tub ringers.
23. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
24. R.C. Cola bottle with a stopper in the end with holes in it (sitting on Mom's ironing board).
25. Drive-ins.

If you remembered:
0 - 5, you're still young;
6 - 10, you're starting to age;
11 - 15, don't admit your age;
16 - 25, you're OLDER THAN DIRT !!!!!!!!!!!!!


and of course you know in another 40 years another list exactly like this one wlll appear.....!!!


Larry
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Sadly every darn one of them.
 
david0225 said:
Harold Reid, bass singer and jokester in the Statler Brothers group, died this week at 80 years old. Great group, very entertaining.
David
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My all time favorite group, sad to see the older artists leaving us.

 
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I remember them all, our phone number was Juniper 8- 7270. If you cut the strings off a cork shotgun you had a "magnum" until your brother hid the corks.

How's this for old, my Dad used to hand me a one gallon gas can and a 50 cent piece and say " Go down to Tony's Garage and get a gallon of gas for the lawn mower and a candy bar for yourself and one for your brother, and don't forget to bring me my dime back."

Ahhh -the day's of 30 cent gas and nickle candy bars, heck, you hardly ever see a 50 cent piece anymore.

I loved the Statler Brothers. Cassette tape and 8 track? I probably had them on 4 track.
 
skratch said:
Dang Ron, one more clean shirt ought to do you ,,,,, just kidding ! ;) :)
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There are days I feel like it. Being locked up with the wife due to this virus thing I’m betting one of us will be up on charges if this goes on for another month. And just when I was thinking the first 51 years was the hard part.
 
25 correct and I had 4 track before I bought an 8 track. I also had a Lear Jet ( yup the airplane people) 8 track.
 
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