The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

Since this is the Old Folks Home, I thought I'd share what a friend sent me this morning.

I remember each one of these.

Older than dirt.
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. ! '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 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.
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, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled 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 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 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, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. 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: 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?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering 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.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. 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 11-15 =You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt 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've seen these lists before. Wouldn't you know it, got a 15.

Love this! I'm older than dirt, because I remember every single thing! I can add..out house. Yep. My grandmother did not have an indoor bathroom. So, anyone here that knows what a Pe,.can is..raise your hand.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh you got me to thinking.. I have to bring up goodies. 5 cent candy bars. Penny Candy..really, only a penny.

Turing those pop bottles in for cash. Oh yeah!

Every Easter, those colorful little chicks in the window at the five and dime store.

And, being able to go play your favorite record in the five and dine store while shopping..one of my favorites..Bobby's Girl.

Hop Scotch at school Jump rope at school. Prayer at School. Skirts only for us girls in school. The Poodle skirt.

Can't remember the name of the shoes..but those black and white ones..that the girls and the boys wore.
10 cent lunches in school
My beautiful mother, coming to the PTA meetings.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You guys know that stores still sell candy cigarettes (and gum cigars) in Virginia? I have my dad mail me a few boxes every year. Not because I like them but because they make wonderful gag gifts and no one in their 20s believe they are for real. They come in a couple different types of "brands" but my favorite is the STALLION. They don't ship well but it's well worth it.

(On a related note I also think I was singlehandedly responsible for the cessation of Secret Santa at my workplace. I had a lot of fun putting randomly odd gifts in carefully chosen stockings. People were seriously confused about why they were getting cans of sardines, candy cigarettes, etc from their secret santa).

 

[ozexpat]

I grew up in Australia

Our country first got TV in 1956 - to broadcast the Melbourne Olympics

I was born in 1962

The TV did not go color until 1974.

We moved to the bush in 1976 and left behind 4 TV stations and wall phones.

Our Phone number was 8N. A long-short ring with 4 others on our line.

We got TV in 1980 with 2 channels, and a private line in 1984.

In the Philippines we use Singer treadly sewing machines and even have a back up charcoal iron. The spinkle bottle is replaced by a hand sprayer but even our electric iron is a dry iron - better control apparently.

In many ways, I get to live in your yesteryears lol

 

[Pozees]

Cynthia - Saddle Shoes

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Quote:
The table below will provide the first and last frost dates The USDA has a good zone map. If you put your Zip Code in it will tell you your zone. First and Last Frost Dates, by Hardiness Zone USDA Hardiness Zone First Frost Date Last Frost Date 1 July 15th June 15th 2 Autust 15th May 15th 3 September 15th May 15th 4 September 15th May 15th 5 October 15th April 15th 6 October 15th April 15th 7 October 15th April 15th 8 November 15th March 15th 9 December 15th February 15th 10 December 15th January 31st (sometimes earlier) 11 No frost. No frost.

USDA frost dates scare me. Example I'm a zone 8 but in the mountains generally we have a late may freeze. I'd contact a good local nursery to ask there opinion or pick up a sunset garden book. Under zone descriptions it gives the growing months of a particular zone and is more area oriented usda zones are just to large a area to be specific

 

[ronott1]

Cynthia - Saddle Shoes

Patent Leather Saddle Shoes?

 

[Highcotton]

Wow! That's a lot of posts to go through. Welcome to all the new old folks. New/old? :/ Yay for rain in ca, new chicks and all the cute stories. Yes, I'm old...but not as old as I thought I was. Still mired in mud here, poor chickens are gonna go on strike if I don't let them out of the run soon.

We finally took the christmas tree down so Maddy is still pouting. If it was up to her we'd have a tree all year.

That is a beautiful new Avatar. Tell Maddy she is prettier than any tree.

 

[Highcotton]

USDA frost dates scare me. Example I'm a zone 8 but in the mountains generally we have a late may freeze. I'd contact a good local nursery to ask there opinion or pick up a sunset garden book. Under zone descriptions it gives the growing months of a particular zone and is more area oriented usda zones are just to large a area to be specific

Yes Sunset has some very good zone descriptions. Their zones are divided more than the USDA zones.
Here is a link http://www.sunset.com/garden/climate-zones/

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yes they have eastern zones too