QUIZ - Do You Remember...?

[SpankThePony]

1 Miss them deerly!
2 Loved them
3 Loved them. and you can still get a modern decendant. (don't think they can legaly look like cigarettes any more, at least not in good conscience.)
4 Still a vendor in the college that drops bottles.
5 I know at least one place in the city center that has these. They probably do coffee..... Mostly milkshakes though I think.
6 Granny still got glass bottles up untill a while ago. What are cardboard stopperss though?
10 I have some sealing wax and a stamp to go with it.... no idea what Butch wax is though sorry.
11 don't you still get those?
12 Replaced with potato eye guns and bic pens with the middle pulled out and a bit of paper to chew up.
13 How can anyone not know gorge bush?
16 there are still a few available if you look
18 I have a stack of the old stuff.
20 still see the odd one on the road, or most likely the same one but there there!
22 Miss them


some of these things I think were more american things.
Soda Pop for one....

Things like 14 I cant be sure of.
I'd have to check what dads old records were.
heh.
there is a still one of those computer things that takes casets lieing around here somewhere.

some of these things really didn't go out that long ago.....
some of them are still here!
Or maybe it's just that I live in Ireland....
One thing I miss is being served chips from the chipper wrapped in newspaper, soaked in viniger!
Sure it may have been slightly poisonous, but where else will you get the vital inks in your diet?
another thing I miss is those meater long rolles of licorice lace you could get!
Mhhhhh I miss them so much.

 

[twardmo]

My grandma had a wringer washer and i used to eat candy cigs as a kid, and there used to be a drive in pevely, but other than that i'm clueless

 

[slobone]

My grandma had a wringer washer and i used to eat candy cigs as a kid, and there used to be a drive in pevely, but other than that i'm clueless

Granny had a wringer washer when I were a wee tyke. Cousin Sue got her hair caught in it one time. You should have heard the skareeems....

 

[PieRules]

I only remember candy cigarettes and movie reels from school. I'm 26. Am I supposed to remember more?

 

[Leidian]

Hmmm...I knew 6. Does 21 really count as "getting older", or have I just been lucky to go to lots of places that still have these things around? All 6 are things I have seen in person.


2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
18. Mimeograph paper
23. Drive-ins

 

[fuzzy64]

Older than dirt! I remembered 16 of them!!!



HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!!

 

[NedNickerson]

Remember when cashiers had to key everything in on the old-fashioned cash registers?

I was in a slow line at the grocery store tonight and got into a conversation with a lady in line ahead of me. She said, "Imagine how much slower it would be if the checker had to key everything in!"

I remember the first time I saw a laser scanner at the checkout. I was amazed at how fast it was, and it hasn't been all that many years ago!

 

[NedNickerson]

Does anyone remember Beany and Cecil?

 

[Nonimus]

If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older

I got 7...and Yes, I am getting older....LOL

Same here

 

[sparky95]

What were skate keys used for? Servicing and repair of the wheels?

 

[RationalLunacy]

Christ......the only ones I don't remember are 1 and 10. Sheesh!!!

 

[NedNickerson]

What were skate keys used for? Servicing and repair of the wheels?

The old-fashioned metal skates clamped onto your shoes. They key was used to tighten the skates to your shoes. By turning the key, you could widen or tighten the clamp.

Check out these photos:

http://justusboys.com/forum/view.php?photos=Ned+Nickerson&albumid=27198&imageid=222099

http://justusboys.com/forum/view.php?photos=Ned+Nickerson&albumid=27198&imageid=222101

http://justusboys.com/forum/view.php?photos=Ned+Nickerson&albumid=27198&imageid=222103

http://justusboys.com/forum/view.php?photos=Ned+Nickerson&albumid=27198&imageid=220067

 

[Zeremonie]

Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you
remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at
the bottom.

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

I think that those were still around when I was kid in the 1970s.

3. Candy cigarettes

same answer as above - I really do remember those but barely.

9. P.F. Flyers

I have no idea what this is. ???

14. 45 RPM records

yep. I loved 45s.

15. S&H Green Stamps

Is that the same thing as the blue stamps your mom got at the gas station, and then you'd lick them and paste them into a book, and then you could mail in the books and get toys? I remember I really wanted the toy toolbox set (don't ask me why - I mean I'm inept with tools, and was a girly girl) and finally got enough blue stamps to get it.

21. Roller skate keys

I don't even know what those are. Anyone ???

23. Drive-ins

I went to the drive in as a kid. Don't people still do that? Here in Washington there are several thriving drive ins which seems weird consider how much it rains here.

 

[Zeremonie]

Remember when cashiers had to key everything in on the old-fashioned cash registers?

I was in a slow line at the grocery store tonight and got into a conversation with a lady in line ahead of me. She said, "Imagine how much slower it would be if the checker had to key everything in!"

I remember the first time I saw a laser scanner at the checkout. I was amazed at how fast it was, and it hasn't been all that many years ago!

I see that the roller skate keys have been explained! I didn't get it at all. LOL.

I remember when the cashiers had to key everything in. It was that long ago. Didn't that change in the 80s? And remember when there was no such thing as an atm!! God, I remember my parents had to go to the bank physically to get money!

As for keying everything in - The grocery store chain Trader Joe's had some reason why they were resistent to changing to scanning and kept the keying in system much longer than anyone else!! In 2001 when I was in school in San Fran I remember that the trader joe's still had cashiers keying every item in. By the time I graduated lawschool in 2004 they had finally changed to scanners. I can't remember the reasoning as to why the company thought that scanners wouldn't be a good thing.

 

[NedNickerson]

Does anyone remember "The Mighty Hercules?"

The Mighty Hercules
(sung by Johnny Nash)

Hercules, hero of song and story.
Hercules, winner of ancient glory.
Fighting for the right,
Fighting with his might,
With the strength of ten, ordinary men.

Hercules, people are safe when near him.
Hercules, only the evil fear him.
Softness in his eyes,
Iron in his thighs,
Virtue in his heart,
Fire in every part,
Of the Mighty Hercules.

 

[BigDestiny]

I feel pretty good about getting 9 (and three of them were only because my great grandmother had them in her basement), since I thought I was a lot older than that.

That being said, yes Ned Nickerson. I remember The Mighty Hercules.

 

[johnflagc]

Yes, I remember all 25 from Ned's first post and alot of them from other posts but luckily am not old as dirt as dirt has been around for centuries ha ha........anyways was a fun thread to recall things from childhood.........I still have some 98 records along with 45's and 33 and a thirds........I recently let loose of my 8 track player I bought in 1966 when the new T-Bird I bought that year had one in it..........was amongst those who stared at a test pattern when tv first came out and airings didn't come on til noon at least in my rural area of North Dakota.........then too we didnt get electricity on the farm til REA came through in 1948............so Christmas tree had real candles on it for lighting and we only lit them for short periods of time..........well, thanks again for the thread Ned........