Remember this stuff......things that bring back good memories

[kc2ifr]

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
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
> 9. P.F. Flyers
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (OLive-6933)
> 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!
>
> I might be older than dirt but those memories are
> the best part of my life.

[W5AMI]

Does 48 count as older than dirt?  What would 88 be, dead?! 

I remember a lot (scored 19) of those things from when I was a kid in the 60's!

Does bring back memories of things I had forgotten about.  I can't believe we actually ATE the wax on those little wax coke bottles with the juice inside.  Guess we thought that was supposed to be something special. 

[W1RKW]

Cool thread Bill. 

I'm older than dirt.



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    My Grandmother used to do this too
> 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.     yes
> Ignition switches on the dashboard.     yes
> Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> Real ice boxes.
> Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.    yes
> Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.    yes, used one in metal shop in Jr HS.
> 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    no, but remember Beemans
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water    yes
> 3. Candy cigarettes       yes
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles       yes
> 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes      yes, some still around here
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with   
> cardboard stoppers       yes, and my mother gets home milk delivery today in glass but with plastic covers
> 7. Party lines    yes, my friends parents had one
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
> 9. P.F. Flyers       yes
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (OLive-6933)
> 12. Peashooters
> 13. Howdy Doody
> 14. 45 RPM records      yes
> 15. S&H Green Stamps    yes
> 16 Hi-fi's     yes
> 17. Metal ice trays with lever       yes
> 18. Mimeograph paper      yes
> 19 Blue flashbulb     yes, got one of those
> 20. Packards
> 21. Roller skate keys     yes
> 22. Cork popguns    yes
> 23. Drive-ins     yes
> 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!
>

[KB2WIG]

24 of 25 ... we did not go to the movies.. too expensive.....    #4 + church key + cup = :<)

 rag man
vegie man 
junk man   all had horse drive

knife sharpener
 
 #11  if you were in the same "prefix" you only needed to dial 4 numbers.

modesty
courtesy


splash down

3 on the tree
8 track

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

This one is funny. Quite a few new cars have these.

[W3SLK]

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

This one is funny. Quite a few new cars have these.

How many remember the old Chevys that didn't need the key to start it?

[WA3VJB]

Our "old" Buick is still too new to have the starter on the exhilirator pedal.
I think 1961 was the last year for that. You'd tromp on the exhilirator with the key "on," and that depressed a starter switch like the one for your high beams.

OOOO
remember when high beam switches were on the left edge of the floorboard below the parking brake pedal?

[KB2WIG]

How many remember the old Chevys that didn't need the key to start it?

AMC also.... 

Anyone for the Rambler???


<<  as for remembering    We had  a Hudson >>
Neighbor owned a 12Cyl Packard........     klc

[John Holotko]

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. yep
> Ignition switches on the dashboard. no
> Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Maybe
> Real ice boxes. Before  my time
> Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Before  my time
> Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Before my time
> Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.Before my time... I do know them  though. Used them riding  motorbikes in traffic

> 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   yep
> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water Still around today. Young ones today know about em.
> 3. Candy cigarettes  Still around today
> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles  yep
> 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes yep
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
> cardboard stoppers  yep
> 7. Party lines yep
> 8. Newsreels before the movie  Way before my time


> 9. P.F. Flyers  Before my time
> 10. Butch wax Yep
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix
> (OLive-6933)  Yep
> 12. Peashooters  yep
> 13. Howdy Doody slightly before my time
> 14. 45 RPM records yep
> 15. S&H Green Stamps  yep, Plaid Stamps, Triple S Blue stamps too
> 16 Hi-fi's yep
> 17. Metal ice trays with lever yep
> 18. Mimeograph paper yep
> 19 Blue flashbulb yep, Also remember "magicubes"
> 20. Packards Nope - before  my time
> 21. Roller skate keys yep
> 22. Cork popguns  Yep
> 23. Drive-ins  yep
> 24. Studebakers  way before my time
> 25. Wash tub wringers way before my time
>
> 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!
>
> I might be older than dirt but those memories are
> the best part of my life.


I'm 30₁₆

How about kids tying cards or balloons to  the forks of their bicycles so they flap against the spokes to make it sound like a motor ?

[W3SLK]

kc said:

Anyone for the Rambler???

Wasn't that the one with the 'Briggs & Stratton' key?

[k4kyv]

How many remember the old Chevys that didn't need the key to start it?

What about the starter switch on the floor.  You turned on the ignition with the key, then "stepped on the starter."

To go really way back, the first car I remember my parents having had an electric starter, but there was a hand crank to use in case of a dead battery.  You just cranked it like you would a Model T.

[The Slab Bacon]

At 51 1/2 I must be older than air! I can rember all of them, plus K.C's entrys and Pauls entrys! I was even looking at a Studebaker today that I am considering finding a way to buy. I owned a 1958 buick special with the starter button on the gas pedal. My father har a '64 225 like Paul's, we both blew 1 motor each in it!!

I'l even add another one to it! Who remenbers the "Burma-Shave" jingles?? I still remember one favorite one: "In this world of toil and sin, Your head goes bald, but not your chin.........Burma Shave"

It all gives a really nice "warm fuzzy feeling" of times gone by, and what I feel was a much nicer world to live in. I am a child of the 50's and 60's and still remember how life was back then. Quite often I wish life was still as simple as then.

But Think what you may it does sure bring back some really good memories!!
(even if I am older than dirt)
                                                 the Slab Bacon

[W1QWT]

Excellant!
Well I just made the older than dirt category!
The important thing though is that all those memories are good memories.
I even still have a rocket radio! You know those little crystal radios, shapped like a rocked, that
you clipped to the metal fence while waiting to bat at little league. I used to listen to a guy up here
in Massachusetts named Arnie the WOO WOO Ginsberg on it. Now all the kids are waiting listening to XM or sirrius radios. I had two tin cans one string first and then finally when I was a teenager got Laffayette walkie talkies. Now the kids all have their own cell phones. Too bad they are loosing out.
At 58 I don't feel like dirt yet!
I remember a friend who had an old Buick or Olds I think that had the first automatic transmission. It was automatic but it had a clutch to get you going in first gear. But then I had a 1954 Plymouth, a tank of a car, that I could shift without using the clutch. I don't remember if it had synchros or not but I could just pick the right RPM and put some pressure on it and it would just fall into gear.
I also had a friend with a 1940 Ford so I remember the heaters on the inside.!

Regards
Q, W1QWT

[k4kyv]

... I owned a 1958 buick special with the starter button on the gas pedal. My father har a '64 225 like Paul's, we both blew 1 motor each in it!!  ...Who remenbers the "Burma-Shave" jingles?? I still remember one favorite one: "In this world of toil and sin, Your head goes bald, but not your chin.........Burma Shave"

It all gives a really nice "warm fuzzy feeling" of times gone by, and what I feel was a much nicer world to live in. I am a child of the 50's and 60's and still remember how life was back then. Quite often I wish life was still as simple as then.

But remember back then, Black Americans had to sit in the back of the bus and schools were still segregated, as were most restaurants and hotels.  Authors, performers and entertainers were still subject to the blacklist.  You had to be 21 to vote, but you could be drafted into the military and blown to bits at 18.  We drove cars that resembled tanks both in size and fuel consumption.  In 99% of the USA, the coffee, wines, cheeses, and other culminary delights we take for granted today were unknown.

It's kind of like old radio stuff.  I love to work on 30's vintage audio and radio equipment. But I still like my DVM, oscilloscope and other modern day test equipment, and read the magazines and technical publications of that era but I'd hate to have to depend on what was available to the technician in pre-WW2 days to service vintage equipment.  I appreciate the sound of vintage receivers tuned into a strapping high quality AM station, but the shitty sounding Collins mechanical filters are certainly appreciated under heavy QRM conditions.  A lot of romantic tales exist form experiences of taking long trips travelling across the country and through local communities using the local roads in each region, but few of us would want to go back to the days before the interstate highway system.

[Carl WA1KPD]

I had a friend who’s Dad had an early Saab. 2 cycle engine and a centrifugal clutch. Bruce W1UJR do you service those?

I also remember a friend of my fathers getting a brand new car when I was about 4 -6. Very unusual

 

It is a late 1950s BMW and yes the whole front opened up to let you in

[kd5cpl]

Hi---

Guess I'm in denial about being "old" at 54. I remember most all of the items on the list for the original post!

About a year ago a fellow working at the 7-11 store around the corner was listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival and remarked how much he liked them. I told him that I still have almost all of their original albums, as well as many albums from many other artists/groups from the same period. He then asked me if any of them were old enough to be on vinyl! He must have thought CD's and cassettes existed in the late 60's. He was at least in his mid 20's too. Too young to have heard cigarette jingles on the radio or TV, or have heard/seen Ipana toothpaste or Duz detergent commercials either.
 
73;
Gary

[WA2ONK]

Yup....Remember them all.
Also remember the "beer and soda" man delivering 32oz bottles of Kern's soda in wooden cases.
And what about those vacuum wiper motors, ya step on the gas and the wipers would almost come to a stop.

Chuck...

[W3SLK]

I had a friend who’s Dad had an early Saab. 2 cycle engine and a centrifugal clutch. Bruce W1UJR do you service those?

I also remember a friend of my fathers getting a brand new car when I was about 4 -6. Very unusual

 

It is a late 1950s BMW and yes the whole front opened up to let you in

Carl. I actually had a chance to test drive one of these about 20 years ago. I thought they were cool because the whole front end opened up as a door. The only drawback was that I couldn't see much in the way of 'collision protection' since anything you hit would come through that hatch like a hot knife through butter.

[K3ZS]

I came upon an acciident that had just happened with one of these.   A headon crash with a 1960 Pontiac Bonneville.  The driver of the little car was killed and there was a small dent in the bumper of the Pontiac.  It was not a high speed crash either.  I believe the car was an Isett.  It had a front opening door and llike the one in the picture.

[Bill, KD0HG]

Nash Metropolitan?

[k4kyv]

I actually had a chance to test drive one of these about 20 years ago. I thought they were cool because the whole front end opened up as a door. The only drawback was that I couldn't see much in the way of 'collision protection' since anything you hit would come through that hatch like a hot knife through butter.

Just like the old VW Bus back in the 60's.

[KB2WIG]

Nash Metropolitan?

beep beep?

[kc2ifr]

I had to post this.......although some of us feel old because we remember most of this stuff,
this will make us feel a little better

Subject:  Old Man and his pond

The old farmer had a large pond in the back, fixed up nicely with picnic tables, barbecue pit, horseshoe courts and some apple and peach trees. The pond was properly shaped and designed for swimming when it was built.

One evening, the old guy decided to go down to the pond and look it over. He hadn't been there for a while. He grabbed a five gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.

As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young girls skinny dipping in his pond. As he approached, he made the girls aware of his presence.

At once, they all went to the deep end. One of the girls shouted to him,  "We're not coming out until you leave."

The old man frowned, "I did not come down here to watch you young ladies swim naked, or to make you get out of  the pond naked." Holding up the bucket, he said, "I'm here to feed the alligator."
 

Moral: Old men can still think fast.

[Carl WA1KPD]

Nash Metropolitan?

My grandfather had one, I seem to remeber that the gas cap was hidden in the tail light

[KB2WIG]

Quote from: Bill, KD0HG on Today at 16:34:41
Nash Metropolitan?

My grandfather had one, I seem to remeber that the gas cap was hidden in the tail light




Norm, K2KLV had a 2m Halo mounted on his bumper.....   


My 68 Buick had the gas cap under the plate ......... klc