This came across my desk and I did take the test and yes, I am older than dirt. How many of you are too! Hope you have a good laugh out of this too.
We were cleaning out my grandmother’s house and found an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. It the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my granddaughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a saltshaker or something. I knew it was the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to “sprinkle” clothes with because we didn’t have steam irons. (Also the pillowcase in the refrigerator full of sprinkled clothes). How many Do you Remember?
Headlights with dimmer switches on the floor
Ignition switches on the dashboard
Heaters mounted on the inside of the firewall
Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Rubber band guns (Rubber bands made from old inner tubes)
Older than Dirt Quiz. Count all the ones that your remember – not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
- Blackjack chewing gum
- Wax Coke-shaped bottles w/ colored sugar water
- Candy cigarettes
- Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
- Coffee shops tableside jukeboxes
- Party lines
- Operator that says number please
- P.F. Flyers
- Newsreels before the movie
- Butch wax
- Peashooters
- Howdy Doody
- 45 RPM records
- Metal ice trays with lever
- S&H Green Stamps
- Hi-fi’s
- Mimeograph paper
- Blue flashbulb
- Packards
- Roller skate keys
- Cork popguns
- Drive-ins
- Studebakers
- Wash tub wringers
- Paper dolls
- Transistor radios
- Dick, Jane, and Spot readers
- Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Oliver-6933)
- Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
- 33,78,45 rpm record players
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, Darling…
If you remembered 16-30 You’re older than dirt!
“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” Psalm 37:25
