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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: CG6468 on June 12, 2011, 03:37:35 PM
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THE AGE BAROMETER
How many do you remember?
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
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 levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
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
I got a perfect (?) score. :bawl:
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I got a perfect (?) score.
So did I......
doc
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I remember the wax coke shaped bottles, but only when I was very young. I'm sure they were way past their prime in popularity, then.
I have used the metal ice cube trays. I got some from my grandmother when she passed. If we didn't have an ice dispenser, I'd use them.
I'll award myself a score of 1/2.
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:bawl:
I remember all of them....
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The only one I'm not familiar with is "butch wax". Gonna look that one up....
ETA: My stepdad had a flattop, but I don't think he used that stuff. I think he used Brylcreem.
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I remember them all. guilty as charged
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THE AGE BAROMETER
How many do you remember?
1. Blackjack chewing gum- Y
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water-Y
3. Candy cigarettes-Y
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles-Y
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes-Y
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers-Y
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers-Y
10. Butch wax-Y
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)-Y The first telephone number I remember was Hotel5-5669, which turned into 465-5669 a few years later.
12. Peashooters-Y
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records-Y
15. S&H Green Stamps-Y
16. Hi-fi's-Y
17. Metal ice trays with levers-Y
18. Mimeograph paper-Y
19. Blue flashbulbs-Y
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys-Y "Brand New Key" by Melanie ;)
22. Cork popguns-Y
23. Drive-ins-Y
24. Studebakers-Y
25. Wash tub wringers-Y
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
I've heard of the unmarked ones, but never experienced them.
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I got five.
The schools still used mimeographs and sold candy cigarettes in the 70's. The barber shop my father went to still has the old glass-bottle Coke dispenser and you could buy 45 RPM singles at places like Phonoluxe and Earnest Tubb.
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I remember 17 however there a several I think I should know for some reason.
What's even more interesting is that some still exist here, those being...
Drive-ins - We have one that I go to a few times a summer.
Metal ice trays with levers - I've seen a few in a store around here, and I know quite a few people that still use them
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles - We've got these too
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers - We don't get glass bottles but 99% of people can get home delivery twice a week. The guy come to my house once a week thanks to where I live. They give people a sign you put in your window, one side says yes and the other no, you simply turn it to tell them if you need them to stop or not.
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My first collection of records were mostly 45s. I used to buy glass bottled sodas from the gas station vending machines for a dime. I LOVED the smell of freshly mimeographed papers.
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screwing up at school. facing my parents was a fate worse than death
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I remember 6 of them. We still have the Winchester Drive-In here. It's the only operational one still in the state. My folks had a Polaroid with the blue flashbulbs.
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There were fewer that I don't remember than I do remember. We have two drive-ins within an hours drive from here. Why isn't full-service gas stations on that list?
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There were fewer that I don't remember than I do remember. We have two drive-ins within an hours drive from here. Why isn't full-service gas stations on that list?
Those still exist, mainly in states that prohibit self serve gas. Like NJ & OR.
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Those still exist, mainly in states that prohibit self serve gas. Like NJ & OR.
Do they check the oil and clean the windshield or just pump the gas?
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Do they check the oil and clean the windshield or just pump the gas?
Dunno. I never had to use one. I'll defer to someone who lives in those states.
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We have some full service stations. The definition of "full service" around here is that your gas is pumped for you, nothing else.
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We have some full service stations. The definition of "full service" around here is that your gas is pumped for you, nothing else.
In which state do you reside?
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damn, I only remember 2 of them
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There is one full-service station around here. It is also the only one in the area that sells gas without ethanol. Thanks to gov't subsidies for liquid corn juice, it's also forty cents more than the E10 mix that everyone else is selling.
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I just remember 4 of those items. Some of those things on that list, I have never heard of in my lifetime.
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:bawl: I remember some of them being created..
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I've bought and consumed candy cigarettes and I've been to a drive-in to see a movie.
The rest - I know what most of them are but have never seen / used/ etc.
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Triple S blue stamps and S+H green stamps and the egg lady too!
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(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Drive-In_Theater.jpg)
great place to make out
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In which state do you reside?
MO. Also, we are still allowed to pump our own gas here.
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screwing up at school. facing my parents was a fate worse than death
In my case, the nuns ratting you out with a note and a courtesy phone call didn't help.
Other than that, I caught the tail end of most of the items. Especially phone numbers. Party line in the 50's, Exchange names (like ORleans 5-2155 when the operators and party line systems were phased out) to electro-mechanical switching and the exchange name changed to numbers when area codes and zip codes were introduced in the 60's (which has been eclipsed by digital swiching when touch tones phones were introduced in the 70's). And milk delivery at my ancestrial home was by cow, direct. Took me a couple of years to get used to the taste of store-bought milk. Now fresh milk tastes sour to me.
Studebacker was absorbed into American Motors before I new anything about cars, but an uncle had one.
Newsreels were already a thing of the past when I went to see my first movie, "Old Yeller".
Heck, who had a Nike-Hercules base nearby? I don't remember when it was built, but I do remember seeing staff airmen around the town by the base when we got to go with my dad to his cousin's bar near the base.
I remember that draft beer was 10 cents a glas then and Dad would give me some dimes and tell me to get him and his buddies some beer from the bar. I had to stand on the brass bar just to get the dimes on top the bar and squeak "Chet, my Dad wants 4 beers, please". Got kidded from the bar flies about checking my drivers license cause I looked young, but I might be a midget.
And "Duck and Cover" drills in school?
Fall out shelters?
Ahhh, good times, good times.
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MO. Also, we are still allowed to pump our own gas here.
I was just thinking the other day about our full service gas stations. My hometown had one. My grandma went there all the time. It's not that I am lazy, but I hate having to pump my own gas when we have wind gusts up to 50 mph or when it's 115 degrees out. I have no problem paying an extra fee to have someone else pump my gas.
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I remembered 13, with one caveat: the washtub wringer was my grandmother's and she still used it. I was a tiny child. :-)
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Got a chuckle out of this one:
15. S&H Green Stamps
Hell.....I remember my grandmother collecting "Eagle Stamps"......
doc
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I got 13. :o :whatever:
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Got a chuckle out of this one:
Hell.....I remember my grandmother collecting "Eagle Stamps"......
doc
Well, you're REALLY old, DOC!! What would one expect?? You probably had outhouses in your youth........ :tongue:
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Well, you're REALLY old, DOC!! What would one expect?? You probably had outhouses in your youth........ :tongue:
Thor, some places in the country's in the 1960's still had outhouses, The smell of pine wood and a bag of lime is a nostalgic event for me.
Bathing caps for woman to keep their hair dry, a new kind of hair product called Spools that made pin curls, Buying a kotex from a machine that included a safety pin to attach it to the panty----or the waist strap with hooks on each end to keep them in place.
Pantie hose came in when I was about 10 but I do remember for that time in a school play having to wear nylons and garters and trying to keep my seams straight. Oh heck remember when woman worried about their slip showing???
Late 50's the starched slips that girls wore under their skirts to make them stand out.
Bras that made a females boobs look like torpedo's, wasn't there an auto at that time that had a front fender that looked like a torpedo, perhaps a Packard????
Woman over 50 when hair was turning gray that had their hair died blue.
Men that wore men's hats, not the ball caps of today that one sees on woman and children.
Kids toys that needed imagination to operate, the paddel with the string and a ball, anyone remember the monkey between two sticks one could make do tricks.
Much more but it boggles the mind when I remember in the 1970's buying my daughter those ceramic balls on a small rope called Clicker balls to be swung and met and click-------Off market some of the balls shattered or boinked the kids in face or head---A fore runner I believe of Numb Chucks.
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Thor, some places in the country's in the 1960's still had outhouses, The smell of pine wood and a bag of lime is a nostalgic event for me.
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Several people I know are forced by circumstance to have outhouses. I mean the old drop-it-in-the-hole outhouses too.
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one seat or two??? :-) using that in the winter was a pain. unless you liked frozen ass. i was glad when indoor plumbing came.
maybe they are still around
(http://www.outhousegraffiti.com/outhouse_double_politics.jpg)
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We had an outhouse at our hunting shack in SW Minnesota. I preferred to use a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag. Suffice it to say that if one wasn't first into the outhouse, they really didn't want to go in there. It wasn't too bad when it was really cold, but there were several hunting seasons that it was in the 70s during the day. The lime helped, but not that much.
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We had an outhouse at our hunting shack in SW Minnesota. I preferred to use a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag. Suffice it to say that if one wasn't first into the outhouse, they really didn't want to go in there. It wasn't too bad when it was really cold, but there were several hunting seasons that it was in the 70s during the day. The lime helped, but not that much.
I prefer to go for a walk with a roll and a spade.
Imagine if you will - outhouses in summer, in a place where the shade temperature is 40C and it's humid enough to wring out the air for a drink.
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I prefer to go for a walk with a roll and a spade.
Imagine if you will - outhouses in summer, in a place where the shade temperature is 40C and it's humid enough to wring out the air for a drink.
Nice sensory description, LC EFA.......... :puke: