Do You Remember?

I received this in my email today and had to share it. I remember alot!


Do You Remember When?
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favourite 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 dad, where did you eat?"
I explained, "It was a place called home. Your grandma cooked every day and when I got home from school, we sat down together at the dining room or kitchen 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 wasn't allowed to talk at the table or 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, or wore jeans, or set foot on a golf course, or travelled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years, they had something called a revolving charge card. This was only used at the store that had issued it.
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 30 pounds, and it only had one speed (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 14. It was, of course, black and white. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger and a film which gave the screen a 'colour' look.
My family didn't have a car until I was 18. I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room. 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 one penny a paper. I had to get up at 4.00 am every morning.
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 my daughter 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 of these do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember and not the ones you were told about. Ratings are at the bottom.
1. Sherbet 'Gob Stoppers'.
2. Penny ice blocks.
3. Lolly cigarettes.
4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles.
5. Coffee shops or snack bars with tableside juke boxes.
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil caps.
7. Party telephone lines.
8. Newsreels and cartoons before the movie.
9. Bread delivered by horse and cart.
10. Two mail deliveries on weekdays and once on Saturday.
11. Four digit telephone numbers.
12. Peashooters.
13. Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
14. 78 RPM records.
15. Dad and Dave.
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever to remove ice cubes.
18. TV stations shutting down at 9.30 pm.
19. Blue flashbulbs.
20. Packards.
21. Steam trains as a mode of transport and not just tourist attractions.
22. Cork popguns.
23. Drive-ins.
24. Studebakers.
25. Washing machines with wringers and washtubs for rinsing.
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.
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Senility Prayer:
"God grant me... the senility to forget the people I never liked, the good fortune to run into the ones that I do and the eyesight to tell the difference."