QUIZ - Do You Remember...?

[slobone]

I'll bet you anything you can still find tableside jukeboxes in some places. And my local supermarket just brought back milk in bottles -- can home delivery be far behind?

 

[JakeBequette]

Just Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water and drive-ins...​

 

[justdoitinnj]

I remember all 25
Matter of fact, I still have a #25 in my basement and use it too !
We have a restaurant in my town called "The Queen" that has tableside jukebox's (try 3 for a dollar now).

 

[Lefty]

move over, i need a room in the senior assisted care facility or nearest retirement community for active seniors (used to be called the old folks home).

 

[justdoitinnj]

Uncle Miltie, Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, The Early Show, The Late Show, Bertie the Bunyup, I had a Butch haircut when I was a kid and used Butch Wax, if I remember correctly it reminded me of Crisco if Crisco was pink.
I remember when homosexuals were called "Queers"
We just had a Drive-In re-open here in south NJ
I also remember penny candy
I still have a few 45's & 78's

 

[Croynan]

Odd the only one i remember is when they would deliver milk to our caves.

What about the washing machiness that had wringers for the wet clothes - i heard about those but never saw one as you needed electricity for them and there were no electrical outlets in the caves.

They also had manglers for pressing the clothes - but that too required electricity and the caves were not wired for that.

Thing i cannot remember is when AD started, we always dated our stone tablets with BC.

ramblings of a local village idiot, we were new in those days. no. 321

eM.

 

[slobone]

I remember when homosexuals were called "Queers"

Umm... I don't know how to break this to you, but that one's made a comeback. Haven't heard "pansies" in a while, though.

 

[J-23]

I'll bet you anything you can still find tableside jukeboxes in some places.

We have them in a bunch of diners here in NJ.

 

[puka-pride]

well.. i used to have candy cigs when i was like 8... my cottage still uses a party line and i've been to a few places that still has table side jukeboxes..

 

[herenthere]

http://www.neodygrads.com/pages/your_age.html

This Will Tell Your Age

"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?

Thanks for a really great well written response.....I totally enjoyed reading it!!

 

[upyrkilt469]

I too remember all 25, but I know I am old as dirt. My first and favourite car was a Studebaker. I never saw tv until I was in my 20's. Milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops, bread, ice (no electric refrigerators) were all delivered to the house usually by a horse and wagon.

 

[TriBi]

Well - I came in under 10...
(but if I had grown up in North America I suspect it woiuld have been closer to 20 - ouch!)

 

[buzzj]

OMG! I remember 27 of them.

 

[frankfrank]

I remember all but #20!

I have plenty of #14, in fact selling them has been my sole means of support since 1978 and it's still going strong.

 

[frankfrank]

...and regarding #18, it was actually DITTO MACHINE paper (though even in those days often called mimeographs, which were actually a different company) that had the purple ink and the wonderful smell to it. Mimeographing was much messier than Ditto machines. These go back to the days BEFORE copying/Xerox machines became common.

 

[screwnutty]

I can remember 10 of those items....sigh.... I really do miss drive in movies!

 

[dolphwasser]

I got them ALL except the Butch wax. I have no idea of what that is, but then, when you're older than dirt, your brain is just as old.

 

[NedNickerson]

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 tableside 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 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 want to see what some of these looked like, visit my gallery here:

http://justusboys.com/forum/view.ph...genumber=1&albumid=27198&sortby=0&sortorder=0

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[botboy03]

Actually Adams produces Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans gums on a rotating basis every three years... If I understand correctly, they are currently in the third year of production, so after 2006, they won't be made again until 2009...

http://www.victoryseeds.com/candystore/gum_black_jack.html

http://www.candydirect.com/html/beemans-gum-black-jack-gum-clove-gum.html

My grandmother got me addicted to Clove chewing gum as a child( I am 22) and just thinking about it right now, my mouth is watering so much. I can taste it. Damn, now I need to get some. Thanks

Zac

 

[gmoney]

I remember 15 of them! I used to love the smell of mimeograph paper! (my early days of getting high). As kids, we used to change the order card in the milkbox so we could get chocolate milk in addition to Mom & Dad's normal order. Only worked for a short time!