Remember Da Good Ole Days?

[Edie Antoinette]

I had me a rubber Froggie when I was 2yrs old that I loved! Unfortuantely I squeezed him out of the little
window in the back of our 55 Chevy and he lost his life on the highway..

ROFLMBO (it wasn't funny then though..:( ...)

So what are some of your memories of the good ole days regardless of your age?

[Edie Antoinette]

I love this from Richard Pegue's site: The Best Music Of Your Life...Under Do You Remember?
"Here's a long one with LOTS of Stuff N Things from Dee Evans

Older 'n Dirt!!

"Hey Dad," one of my kids 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. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa 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 AND 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 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.

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 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."

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. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My 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. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

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. "

[KnightD12]

Thank goodness, there was at least ONE thing on that list I don`t remember. Blackjack chewing gum. But, maybe I`m just so old I forgot about that one. Ya think? ROFL I sure didn`t know it then, but those were indeed .".Da Good Ole Days"

[Edie Antoinette]

Needless to say..I'm older than dirt...lol

[Boo]

Older than dirt and proud to be......I to remember all but the gum. My first washing machine was the one where the clothes wash and you had to put them through the wringer....and then you had to push the washer to the sink for the water to run out.....the things we had to do ......now you had to go outside and hand them up.....when is the last time you saw clothes hanging out to dry?

[Edie Antoinette]

My Grannie had one of those. I remember it so well being in the kitchen. Wow. She kept a large jar of prunes in the middle of the table and would give us one in the evening. Actually she would have poured boiling water over the prunes and that would make them plump up and be soft. Mmmmm (little did I realize) LOL!

I used to hang my clothes on the line in the 70's..but that's the last time I've seen it really--or did it.
Remember these?

S&H Green Stamps were once known as “America’s Most Valuable Stamps,” at one time printing three times as many as the U.S. Post Office. Printed by the Sperry and Hutchinson Company, they had been around since 1896 but did not reach their zenith until the 1950s.

The concept was quite simple. When you purchased food by cash from a participating store, the business would dole out one small green stamp for each ten cents spent. Patrons meticulously licked the stamps and placed them into small books, each containing spaces for 1200 serial numbered stamps. The 30 empty pages contained advertisements promoting the lucrative benefits of the program.

After accumulating several full books, consumers traveled to local “redemption centers” and exchanged them for predetermined merchandise. The business’s catalog, known as an Ideabook, offered customers a wide variety of choices and corresponding book requirements: Pair of bookends (1), Baldwin piano (380), Singer sewing machine (35), week’s vacation in Hawaii (190), pair of Speed King roller skates (1), Kodak Hawkeye camera (5½) and a Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder (43).

[Boo]

I know all about the Green Stamps......I had to lickem and put them in the book.

[ZeroGravity]

LOL!

[ZeroGravity]

I like reading other's thoughts on 'back in da day'....I enjoyed reminiscing with Mr. Pegue as he took me down memory lane...

Like KnightD12, the only thing on that list that I didn't know (or remember) was the Blackjack chewing gum lol

[Edie Antoinette]

To be honest, it's before my time too. I don't remember it, if only slightly..but it sounds
yuck. Licorice flavored gum? Uh, no! I picture black teeth. LOL!

Thanks for the response Gene and Z..

[KnightD12]

Speaking of things from da past, I had no idea Ebonymagazine has been around since 1945. Not sure about Jet. They were our only magazines back in da day. When is the last time you read either an Ebony or Jet??

[Edie Antoinette]

Look at the PRICE too! I have this site that goes back to the early, early Jets.

Jets From 1950's-2005

Nov 1, 1951

Nov 8, 1951

Nov 15, 1951

Nov 22, 1951

Nov 29, 1951

It's a goldmine! Saint sent it to me a while back...but sadly, the last time I purchased the Jet and
Ebony Magazines I swore I would not do it again because they are so thin now. I also read that
Johnson's daughter is selling the magazines and they are not having the Ebony Fashion Fair. Sad.

[KnightD12]

A thin Ebony? Oh Nooooo! That used to be one of the thickest magazines around. You should see my newspaper lately. lol But the internet is taking a toll on all print media. Times are indeed a changing. I still read Jet when I see one in the mail. Every now and then I can find something in there that I don`t see anywhere else. And yes, I still like the centerfold too.