Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Remember
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 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 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 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 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. WELCOME TO THE VILLAGES.!!! Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really O L D friends. |
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Damn! All of them! Think I'll take a nap, I'm feeling tired.
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"the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." |
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There is more
Ed Sullivan Show
Radio: Mr District Attorney, The Green Hornet, The Shadow, Shift gear on floor board Cops behing Billboards Being drunk was frowned on Revival Services Woll Sheets No Airconditioning Penny Candy 10 Cent Gas Hitchhiking was safe Only rich went to Florida Smith Brothers Cough Drops Homemade ice cream Setting up pins in Bowling Alley Sunday drives Schwin Bikes with light and horn Practice writing in Classes One room school houses Hitching up horse's to plow Home made pies Using pump to get water. Outhouse What else is there? |
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Schwin bikes with a playing card between the spokes. We didn't need no stinkeen lights, that's what the horn was for.
Roller skate keys. Dodge ball, stickball, hide n seek, tag until the street lights came on. Then five minutes to get into the house. Juicy Fruit Mary Tyler Moore's legs in cigarette box Call for Phillip Morrrrrrrisssssss
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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Oops, forgot castor oil and prune juice
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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A few more thoughts
Do you remember?
Sugar bags with a sown top you had to rip and unlace to open. Dimmer switches on the left floorboards in cars. The triangular vent windows in cars. Windowpane polish used at Christmas to stencil on windows, Sanding and waxing the runners on your sled Warming up the tv Green and plaid stamps Your mom waxing the kitchen floor A burning barrel The tv had a dial to select the channel and it had a fine tune ring around it. The tv had to Warm up. The ROTARY phone was basic black and on the kitchen wall. Ice forming on the inside of the windows in winter. Shoe horns. Children should be seen and not heard. Making book covers for text books from brown paper bags. TV commercials were 1 minute long Playing with gyroscopes. Home remedies for all kinds of ailments i.e. a physic /castor oil. The school physical in the school. Cats cradle played with string. The thick rubber strap with metal hooks that you used to hold your text books while you walked. Pegged pants. Ducks ass hairdo. Girls sewing bells on their slip during Christmastime in school. Always being a shepherd in the Christmas play. PF Flyers ( you always ran faster) Those great ads in the back of your favorite comic books. X-Ray glasses, getting a Charles Atlas body. 3-D comic books Playing outside in summer til it got dark. You had to have a bike and were really groovy if it was an English Racer with 3 or more speeds. 32.Playing Mumblety-peg 33. A rain barrel. 34. Playing cigarette tag. 35. Choosing eenie meenie miney mo 36. Blowing on dandelion puffs. 37. Peeling an apple in ONE peel and throwing it to learn who you would marry. 38. Your classroom had a cloakroom 39. Playing war with cards. 40. Mercurochrome NOT Iodine please 41. Putting metal taps on your school shoes 42. Girls who wore short skirts were made to kneel by a school official and her skirt didnt touch the floor she was sent home. 43. Blue violet used for a mouth ailment. 44. Snow days 45. The whole family sat down to dinner or supper depending on what you called it. 46. The advent of UHF that was supposed to give you many more channels on your aerial linked tv. Last but not least: your crummy brother/sister.
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LI SNOWBIRD LI, Tall Trees "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." Plato |
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The good thing is that I do remember just about all of those things from the OP and all the supplemental posted items!
The sad thing is that I do remember all of those things…… |
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Some of Farm
Jumping in the hay
Riding in the hay wagon pulled by the team of horses Feeding the pigs Milking the cows Taking the milk cans to the road for pickup Pitching hay on to the wagon Picking apples, cherries, peaches Planting potatoes behind a horse pulled plow Gettin up in the moring without heat Taking a bath in a wash tub once a week Bringing in the cows Going to the ice house Getting bacon from barrell at the barn Eating farm pancakes and bacon and eggs Sitting on the porch in the evening Drinking milk directly from the cows AND ETC. |
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I remember all of them, except we only had 2 television stations, NBC and CBS....ABC was the last to come on the air.
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Don't take life too seriously, it's not like you're going to get out alive!!! |
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we have a drive in up 441, just south of ocala
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Opening coffee cans with a "key" that you wound off a strip of metal leaving a razor sharp edge that occasionally would give you a nasty cut.
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue (and more) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMo6w...gbuFRTT06nS9pn |
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I remember all the above plus gas and meat rationing, 78 rpm records, using red and blue mills' (fractions of a penny) hand cranking a car to start it, push mowing a lawn, roll up window shades before Venetian blinds became the rage, when wall to wall carpet was very expensive and only for rich folks, coffee prepared in a percolator atop a burner on the stove, when "English" three speed bikes became available...
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"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine |
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Quote:
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If you see something that’s not right, say something. |
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"I am as old as dirt". I remember almost all of all items listed!!!
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"It doesn't cost "nuttin", to be nice". MOM I just want to do the right thing! Uncle Joe, (my hero). |
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