Older Than Dirt Quiz...

[BillM]

Well, I least I only remembered 11....party lines? Hell ya, we had 9 people on our line, our ring was three short, and the number was two letters and 5 numbers.....lol. And now kids don't know how to use a dial phone.

 

[forbigpicture]

My kids say I’m so old I fart dust. I reckon that quiz just proved it. We had black jack gum in my area but mostly chewed Beemans gum around my house.

Clove was my favorite....

 

[bruno]

Got 16 of 17, never heard of the gum. Always used to chew the Bazooka gum.

 

[redidbull]

We used to eat violets too. They are still around. Taste a little like soap. Also I never heard of Butch Wax either. I thought it was the same as Butchers Wax but was very wrong. Jim

 

[Burgerman]

Got most of em., great memories. Still got my 45's and my 8 track still works.

 

[Torchie]

Got them all....
Boones Farm....LOL
I can remember when Gallo came in a container like a milk carton.
Then of course there was Annie Greensprings wine as well.
One that I would have added is Ginger beer but now that the hipsters have rediscovered Moscow Mules it's fairly common again.
And not only home delivery for milk but the milk chute as well. We used to crawl thru it to get into our locked house when we were little.
Not me in the picture.LOL
Torchie

 

[lazarat]

I missed 6 and 8. Qualified, this sure stirred up a lot of memories. I still have a lot 45's dating back to 1957, a huge vinyl collection of rock.

 

[maverickmk]

I got 15, quicker and easier than I care to admit.

#6 - I had to Google search "Butch Wax". I won't share my frightening results, but suffice it to say, I now understand the origins and how it applies to certain walks of life today.

#13 - I've never heard of Boone's Farm. (Thank you, offroadrolls.)

#16 - Legend has it, my younger brother was... how do I say this... a "delivered" product.

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Ha! I had to go back and see what #16 was [cl

I got 9.

 

[offroadrolls]

How about Spanada wine and MD 20-20
I got sick as heck drinking Spanada as a youngster.
Still not a big fan of wine.

 

[animal]

I ran the table.... remember all of them. I guess I'm older than dirt.

 

[bob w]

I'm with animal. Not even a challenge. I'm probably the oldest regular poster on here.

 

[lowbudget50]

I knew what 90% of the stuff was, I wasn't around when it was popular. But I have had Black Jack Gum my dad loves that stuff. LOL

 

[bob w]

Here's some from my early years:
The Ragman came through the neighborhood in a horse-drawn wagon shouting "Rags". People would sell him rags, metal and any other castoffs they had.

When the TV would go on the blink Dad would remove the tubes, take them to the drug store where they had a tester you could use. Test the tubes and buy new ones. Happened quite often.

Watching "Test Pattern" on the little round TV screen til programming started.

Taking the street car downtown with a friend and no parent when you were 8 years old.

 

[smallfoot]

Ah, the tube testers and that round screen tv....hoho! There was an Albertson's Drug Store in the little part of town where I grew up that had the tube testers. My uncle also found one somewhere and bought it and we started testing with his. I remember a small tv that sat on the refrigerator with a small round screen...
In my neighborhood we had an ice cream man but he didn't come by in a truck. He rode a bicycle with an icebox built on the front. The ice cream trucks came later...

 

[smallfoot]

Different name but his was like this one I found a pic of...

 

[Torchie]

Here's some from my early years:
The Ragman came through the neighborhood in a horse-drawn wagon shouting "Rags". People would sell him rags, metal and any other castoffs they had.

When the TV would go on the blink Dad would remove the tubes, take them to the drug store where they had a tester you could use. Test the tubes and buy new ones. Happened quite often.

Watching "Test Pattern" on the little round TV screen til programming started.

Taking the street car downtown with a friend and no parent when you were 8 years old.

Bob.
You got me on the rag man with the horse drawn wagon but I remember a guy that used to come around in a truck to sharpen knives and scissors. Also the fuller brush man coming door to door.
We had a Good Humor truck in our neighborhood.
watching the test patterns when the stations went off the air as well.
Also radio stations that had to stop transmitting at sunset.
No street cars although I still remember crossing over the ,as of then, un removed tracks..
Guess I'm just an old soul....
Torchie

 

[earthman]

Too easy, got them all I remember the ice man carrying a block of ice with tongs into the house and putting it in the top of the icebox. We continued to call refrigerators iceboxs for years. Strange i was thinking about the 5 and dime stores yesterday. Hadn't come to mind in probably 30 years now here it is. Kresges was the dime store and Woolworths was the dollar store.

 

[earthman]

Anyone here ride on a steam train still in service before being replaced by diesel?

 

[earthman]

 

[bob w]

No steam train e-man. My Grandmother and I (6 years old) took the train from St. Paul to Chicago to visit some relatives. They lived in a high rise apartment building. I didn't know people lived that way.

Remember ration stamps for gas and sugar and probably other stuff? Peeling the labels off cans and flattening them for the war effort. Penny post cards. Treadle sewing machine my grandmother made my clothes with. Milking 3 cows by hand on my grandpas farm and churning butter.