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Older Than Dirt Quiz

Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! 

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1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
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 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!



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Got ten of them and I'm under 40. There are still drive-ins running in Saskatchewan.

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18 @ 53. Not bad I guess.

The washing machine wringer made me grin. Somehow my brother got his arm stuck in one when he was a kid!

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1: Nope
2: Yep
3: bought some for the kids last weekend
4: Yep
5: Family restaurants too
6: Yep, but in Scotland, not here. Here it was 3 bags delivered to the door thanks to the card in the window
7: Yep
8: Nope
9: Nope
10: Nope
11: Nope
12: Yep
13: Nope
14: Yep
15: Nope
16: Yep
17: Yep
18: Yep
19: Yep
20: Yep, but not new
21: Nope
22: Yep
23: Yep
24: Yep, but not new
25: Yep

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I experienced nearly all @ 68 yrs old.  Miss no 5 a lot!!!biggrin One additional one not on the list is going to the movies (Saturday Matinee) swapping comics and listening to the local band before the movie starts!!!!biggrin  Rock Stars, Bill Hailey and his Comets and Tab Hunter singing "Young Love" 

Try and beat that!!!!

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I remember 24    I had heard if Butch wax        Most of that stuff was so cool and created so many jobs...  

We had a dairy in Sackville  and they had short box GM pickups,  and the delivery boys stood on the side steps from house to house..  Glass Bottles  26 cents for a quart  and 8 cents for a pint of choclolate milk    The trucks had wooden stakes with a flat roof (cab Height) to keep milk dry

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The English punk rockers in the 70s were using Butch Wax to spike up their hair.

PF Flyers, S&H Green Stamps, and Black Jack chewing gum are all American things!

You can tell this is an American oriented list. What about truly Canadian things!



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I got thirteen of 'em.bleh

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14 for me

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1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
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

 

21 at 49




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I'M 38 AND REMEMBER 13 OF THEM.

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I got 15. I remember #1 as Black Cat chewing gum, though.

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2 lol

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I don't remember 2.

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Do not remember two also. Guess we are still older than dirt.

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I'm 49 and knew all but two too..
And Black Cat gum is correct...anyone else remember Black Cat smokes?.

~ confused.gif

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48 got 13 but then I tend to forget what I did yesterday.

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20      54 years . My brother still has our mothers ringer washer top section. He runs his chamois through the rollers when washing his car.

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25 @59

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I got 12@46

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I remember when the ice was delivered, and stored in the "porch"

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I remember all but 4 of them, #1, 9 10 & 21. What's a roller skate key? Electric start?

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I got 8@34     Must be a bad day, I had to edit my age as I got it wrong the first time.....confuse

-- Edited by unclebernie on Friday 22nd of October 2010 05:55:20 PM

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Carl I remember when they cut the ice with saws in the Owen sound harbour in the winter, loaded it on sleighs pulled by 2 horses and stored it in sheds packed in sawdust! I am old as dirt!!!!

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Ghost Post wrote:

I'm 49 and knew all but two too..
And Black Cat gum is correct...anyone else remember Black Cat smokes?.

~ confused.gif


I used to love Black Cat gum as a kid. Licorice flavor, I remember sticking a big wad of it on my brother's school photo 'cause he p----d me off. I got in trouble for that, of course.
I also remember smoking during boot camp in 1981, the package had a black cat head on it, but I don't remember the name of them.confuse

 



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