Memories From The Past!

My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house (she recently died) 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?

1. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
   
2. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
   
3. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
   
4. Real ice boxes.
   
5. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
   
6. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
   
7. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
   
   

See How Many Of These You Remember?

Count only the ones that you remember, NOT the ones you were told about. Ratings are shown at the bottom of page.

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 tableside juke boxes
   
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
    
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.and 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
    
    

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 some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends....

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