'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, 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 6AM 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. 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 table side 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. 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) 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. Packard's 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23.. Drive-ins 24. Studebaker's 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.
Haha, the only thing I might not remember is "P.F. Flyers". If it was the wagon or the snow sled then I remember it. Our family had both a Studebaker and a Packard (at different times). I think the Packard weighed about 80,000 pounds. [Edit] my snow sled was a Flexible Flyer. so it's not that.
take a bicycle rim,take the spokes out and nail it to the back of a smoke house and use that rim for a basketball goal.
I remember some of that, but that's just because my folks were broke. B&W tv with just three channels and if there was a storm you were just screwed.
My mom would get so mad at me for "playing" with her green stamps!!! Hahahaa We had a different delivery system for our milk...:whistle::whistle: I do not remember the glass bottles with cardboard stoppers, but I heard about them!!
Jees.... You guys are breaking my heart. I am goin to get my Schwinn bike with the fatty tires (and with the playing cards clothes-pin mounted in the spokes for a cool sound) and go look for glass pop bottles so I can return them for a bag full if penny candy. Oh TV... Howdy Doody Captain Kangaroo Sky West Lone Ranger Have Gun will Travel .....all in black and white on a TV with thirty knobs and only 2 that work (Off/On Volume and Channel Selector knob) and rabbit ears??? Oh yea....my first car was used '64 Dodoge 440 (4 door with 318) and had a pushbutton shifter. ..
I've asked this one on here before (maybe on the OC) so no searching or googling. What was Tom Terrific's dog named?
You mean...Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog? I can't believe I rememebered that....now where are my car keys.... Dave, Where you at SpringFest? ..
HAHAHAHA i remember using a rotory phone!! i hated people with zero's in there number!!! we had a TV that took about 3mins for the bulb to warm up and channels 4,5,7,13 then had to turn the lower knob just to watch cartoons on 14. we didnt get fast food on the reservation until all the Casino's went up!!! :rofl: but my favorite food growing up was my Grandma's home made tortillas. im the only one in my family who can pretty much clone her tortillas, everyone who has eaten them has fallen in love with them!!!
Sky King... what were the names of his niece and nephew and of his plane? Penny, Clipper and Songbird did you know that SKy King may have been largely based upon a true character who patrolled his own ranch and surrounding area in the 1930's I know older than dirt... in fact sometimes I think I was around was dirt was made..
Hold up there Nevin, living on the Reservations during the 80's does not mean you are old enough to know what these things are, it means technology took too long to reach you. lol If you are old enough to know the majority on the list, then you were doing smoke signals to communicate, not use a phone. hahahahahahaha
I was probably there when you were made.... son... ... but in all honesty you and I are pretty close in age... people often start out by what year did you graduate... (high school).. but in my case my best 3 years in high school were in the 11th grade...
Oldies with true stars... "Wanted: Dead or Alive" with Steve McQueen "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood "Highway Patrol" with Broderick Crawford (alot of people are sayin....who?) "Superman" with George Reeves "Tarzan" with Johnny Weissmuller ..
STFU!!! :rofl: I do know what that stuff is and i still used that stuff!!! i collected my green stamps, lick the back of all 250 and placed them in their green book and happly walked down to the store with my sis and bought $5 worth of candy!!!!:harhar: and so what if i know how to use smoke signals!!
