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Offline CG6468

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The Age Barometer
« on: June 12, 2011, 03:37:35 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2011, 03:42:18 PM »
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I got a perfect (?) score.

So did I......

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2011, 03:43:22 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2011, 03:46:51 PM »
 :bawl:

I remember all of them....
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2011, 04:43:16 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2011, 06:46:16 PM »
I remember them all. guilty as charged
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2011, 07:56:47 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on June 12, 2011, 03:37:35 PM
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.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2011, 07:58:53 PM by Thor »
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2011, 07:59:46 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2011, 08:01:16 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2011, 08:01:55 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2011, 08:29:18 PM »
screwing up at school. facing my parents was a fate worse than death
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2011, 08:39:02 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2011, 08:46:23 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2011, 09:23:00 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 12, 2011, 08:46:23 PM
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2011, 09:24:48 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on June 12, 2011, 09:23:00 PM
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2011, 09:25:44 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 12, 2011, 09:24:48 PM
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2011, 09:32:37 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2011, 09:35:09 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on June 12, 2011, 09:32:37 PM
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2011, 09:39:05 PM »
damn, I only remember 2 of them
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2011, 10:19:28 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2011, 11:07:53 PM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2011, 04:03:17 AM »
 :bawl:  I remember some of them being created..
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2011, 04:12:27 AM »
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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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2011, 04:41:04 AM »
Triple S blue stamps and S+H green stamps and the egg lady too!
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #24 on: June 13, 2011, 08:44:01 AM »


great place to make out
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