Older than Dirt

Okay, as with my previous email along these lines, if you're half my age or younger, feel free to
hit the delete key without reading this.

Glenn

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> This one is a bit long, so start it when you have a few minutes to invest, but it will bring back
> many great memories...  At least is did for me...
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> From one "Older than Dirt"
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> 'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
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> 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, I informed him.
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> 'All the food was slow.'
> 'C'mon, seriously Where did you eat?'
> 'It was a place called 'at
> Home,'' I explained. !
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> 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad 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.'
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> 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.
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> But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system
> could have handled it :
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> Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis , never set foot on a golf course,
> never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
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> 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 & Roebuck.  Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe
> he died.
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> My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
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> 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.
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> It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing
> the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was
> usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
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> I was 19 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.
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> 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.
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> Pizzas were not delivered to our home.
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> But milk was.
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> All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a
> newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents.  He had to
> get up at 6 AM every morning.
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> On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the
> ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the
> ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
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> Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie
> ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without
> profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
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> 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
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> Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
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> Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
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> 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.
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> How many 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 turn signals.
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> Older Than Dirt Quiz :
> Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
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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 glass bottles
> 5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes
> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> 7. Party lines on the telephone
> 8 Newsreels before the movie
> 9. P.F. Flyers
> 10. Butch wax  (that was our hair product)
> 11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows
> started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate )
> 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
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> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
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> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
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> I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
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> Don't forget to pass this along!!
> Especially to all your really good  O L D  FRIENDS
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