FORUM FUN FEATURE!! How Many Do You Remember?

[Bumper]

How Many Do You Remember?

1. Blackjack Chewing Gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with coloured sugar water inside
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Hamburger joints with table side juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Telephone party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. Slingshots
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with word prefixes (Globe 23-590)
12. Pea shooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H green stamps
16. Hi-Fi’s
17. Metal ice cube trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Amos and Andy
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-In movies
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub ringers


If you remembered 0-5.......You’re still young

If you remembered 6-10.....You’re getting older

If you remembered 11-15.....Don’t tell your age

If you remembered 16-25.....You’re older than dirt!


(I was feeling pretty low because I could remember all 25, then my Alzheimers kicked in and I couldn't remember anything! - Bumper)

[Dale]

Last time I checked, dirt had been around for longer than 42 years!

[Lee & Kay]

Bumper,is you shore yall had all that in Canada? i confess to knowing all the above.love the juke boxes at the tables! i damn shore remember the wringer washers,as i got my arm caught in one of them sobs! the dumb things you do when your five. Lee

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by Lee & Kay

Bumper,is you shore yall had all that in Canada?

Lee;

Admittedly, I had to travel to the US before I actually saw Blackjack Chewing Gum, and S&H Green Stamps - though we had ther equivalent products - but the other things were here in Canada as well. Not only that, but a lot of us had electricity too, and I understand some folks in Canada are actually going to be getting running water before long, and maybe telephones in a few years.

[tommy]

7 and that just scared the crud out of me...I am getting old!

[cuffedlinks]

#'s 8, 13, 20 and 24 I do not recall as a part of my youth and/or child rearing days...

I do of course remember them as a part of history but Cowboy Bob was just a bit before my time....

[tommy]

that makes you older than dirt Cuff... OOOUUUUCCCCHHHH!!!!

[Critter]

Unfortunately all of the above, although I must admit it was my Grandma that had #25.

Wait a minute that should be fortunately that I can remember.

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by cuffedlinks

#'s 8, 13, 20 and 24 I do not recall as a part of my youth and/or child rearing days...

I do of course remember them as a part of history but Cowboy Bob was just a bit before my time....

Now, Cuff, you claim not to have had experience with Howdy ***** (#13) but yet you refer to Cowboy Bob. I'm impressed that you were obviously paying attention when they covered that little bit of Americana in your "history" class. I'll admit though, that what you call "history", I think of as current events.

[jmac]

I'm hitting around 14-16 although I'm not old yet, I'll only be 40 in a couple of weeks. I do remember priming & pumping the hand pump on my Grandma's well & using the outhouse before they got running water (I think that was more laziness in getting actual running water than it not being around, cuz we had it in town). I also remember my friends parents running a restaurant & they had the jukeboxes on the tables. We still have a drive-in theatre in Winnipeg (although it's days are numbered) but I remember when it was the thing to do every weekend in my teen years. Thanks for the simpler times memories Bumper.

[Nerak936]

Good one, Bump!

As for those home delivery milk bottles..... I remember returning with the family one hot summer day (we'd been away for a weekend, I think), and the milkman had mistakenly delivered a coupla bottles on the back patio probably shortly after we left. When we returned, the milk had curdled in the sun and shot those cardboard tops off like rockets onto the lawn. The curdled milk was all over the place and "STUNK to high heaven", as Mom would say. Luckily I was probably all of 7 or 8 years old and didn't have to help clean it up. All I had to do was exclaim "GROSSSS!" and get inside the house as soon as possible.

[cuffedlinks]

Originally Posted by sun seekers

that makes you older than dirt Cuff... OOOUUUUCCCCHHHH!!!!

Naw....just one awfully good memory (self-awareness or consciousness, if you will) from about 30 months onward...

I recall delivered milk in certain areas of my hometown....What I DO recall more than that though, are the "Charles Chips" deliveries...potato chips in tins...

I know, potato chip deliveries in tins sounds a bit odd...but they did happen...in fact there still are some of the cans about...

[Lee & Kay]

gosh Mr.Bumper,i admitted to knowing all of the above,(which makes me way old)(btw i did not see any mention of sympathy,for my misfortunate adventure with the wringer washer!) i was asking merely to keep the facts straight,as i didnt want any of those spell checker types to jump in here,and ruin our fun.(btw we is getting us a new private phone line,next week here in Texas,and granny dont like it none attall) Lee

[Nerak936]

Howz about this one?

My family had a summer home on a lake in New Hampshire. One of the waaaay exciting things we did occasionally was go to a drive-up A&W restaurant (can't recall what town it was) where the girls would come out to your car to wait on you (albeit not on rollerskates). The ol' tray on the window of the car next to Dad. Those hamburgers and root beers were sooooo good!!! A wonderful, happy memory...... such a treat for us kids..... I also remember a couple of times when Dad would forget the process and almost drive away with the tray still hanging on the car!!

Gee, I was a lucky kid.....

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by Nerak936

One of the waaaay exciting things we did occasionally was go to a drive-up A&W restaurant (can't recall what town it was) where the girls would come out to your car to wait on you (albeit not on rollerskates). The ol' tray on the window of the car next to Dad.

One of the first A&W restaurants in Canada was just a few blocks from our place, back in the early 60's. The "Car Hops" came to your car, took your order, and delivered the same way, with big frosty mugs of root beer and the burger family on a tray that hung on your car window. We had lots of drive-ins all over town that operated that way. A&W, Dog N Suds, and other local favourites. No roller skates here either. Not practical since these places were open 12 months of the year and roller skates aren't an option at -35 and 6" of white stuff. Ice skates, maybe, but not the roller variety. Haven't encountered snowshoes with wheels. Then they went to a system where you pulled up onto the lot and gave your order to a radio and a car hop delivered it, then I guess it all switched to drive-thrus. I think the last of the car hops disappeared some time in the late 80's. Out in BC, there was a chain of drive-ins called White Spot (still there today, but conventional restaurant layouts now), and their car trays had adjustable extensions on the ends so they would reach all the way from one side of the car to the other and you had a "table" across the whole seat to eat off of. A neat idea, but a Hell of a thing for the poor car hops to manipulate. Trying to collect mugs from the A&W was a popular trick back in our high school days. Go in with 3 people, order 4 root beers, and hope to be able to swipe the extra mug was a common tactic. The car hops were pretty sharp though, and it rarely worked. That was what qualified as "Street Crime" in those days. I guess I'm nostalgic for those days to. :o