Some very good ones here and I remember most of them.

Here's a few more for the real oldies. I remember these too!!!

> > REMEMBER?
> > 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?
> >
> > 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 Kati
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?
> >
> > x Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > x Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > x Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > x Real ice boxes.
> > x Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > x Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > x 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
> > x 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > x 3. Candy cigarettes
> > x 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > x 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > x 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > x 7. Party lines
> > x 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > x 9. P.F. Flyers
> > x 10. Butch wax
> > x 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) One of our first
> > phone numbers was 340R
> > x 12. Peashooters
> > x 13. Howdy Doody
> > x 14. 45 RPM records and before that they were 78 rpm
> > x 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > x 16. Hi-fi's
> > x 17. Metal ice trays with lever and before that, real "ice boxes" that
> > you
> > put ice in to keep things cool (not cold)
> > x 18. Mimeograph paper
> > x 19. Blue flashbulb
> > x 20. Packards
> > x 21. Roller skate keys
> > x 22. Cork popguns
> > x 23. Drive-ins
> > x 24. Studebakers
> > x 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!
> > Don't forget to pass this along!!
> > Especially to all your really OLD