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  • meek

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    ‘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, wore, Levis , set foot on a golf course, 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 5. 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 13 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.

    We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.

    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 6 am 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.

    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.
    Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
    Real ice boxes.
    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 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 were fortunate])
    12. Peashooters
    13. Howdy Doody
    14. 45 RPM records
    15. S& H green stamps
    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 are getting older
    If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
    If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

    Don't forget to pass this along!!
    Especially to all your really OLD friends....
     

    fl57caveman

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    remember almost all of these, but no milk delivery, they didn't do that where I grew up...

    we had to set the table for dinner, with correct placement of spoons,forks and knives, and we
    said grace before eating...no elbows on the table either, or talking with our mouths full

    if you loaded the plate, you ate it all..

    when you went out to play, you had to stay in earshot when Mom yelled for you to come in
     

    War-Buff

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    I remember pretty much all of them but we didn't get milk delivered either, at least I don't remember it. As a youngster I had a paper route replete with biting dogs and the occasional non-paying subscriber. As far back as I can recall, we had a little b/w tv, and we had a party line phone for years. Town had a drug store with a soda fountain, a 5 & dime store, a grocery, a lumber yard & a hardware. We never heard of walmart, and I saw my first McDonalds as dad drove by it while taking me to the orthodontists for braces in Lansing MI. Dad wouldn't even consider stopping for a burger. We kids played outside, went swimming and fishing alone, rode bikes without safety equipment, blew up firecrackers unsupervised, rubbed mercury onto pennys with our fingers. We were very poor but I never noticed. We didn't get trophys for "participating" (losing) and we were taught right from wrong. Those were the days :amen:
     
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    Welldoya

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    I remember most all of them.
    We lived on the east side of Panama City until I was about 5 (late 1950s) and I do remember milk delivery. Seems like it came in quart and half gallon glass bottles with the crimped cardboard top.
    Back then it was common for a couple of kids to walk downtown by themselves with no problems.
     
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