W2DR Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) I thought I'd repost this for all the new "Seniors" on the forum. And for all the other "Senior" folks who may not have seen it. Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you actually remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Black Jack 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. 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H green stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with a lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-in movies 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! Edited October 17, 2023 by W2DR kant spel 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 (edited) Great quiz. I remember 9. But then some of the others I probably only don't remember, because they have not been common here where I live. Edited October 17, 2023 by wolfko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Q Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Great! A "blast from the past!" I'm definitely Older than Dirt. Easier to mention the few that I didn't actually experience. #7. We didn't have party lines where I grew up. But I remember when we got a dial telephone. #10. Saw ads for Butch Wax, but never actually encountered it. Brylcreme was another matter. #20. No Packards around in my area (that i know of) when I grew up. Did briefly serve on a ship (MSO) that had Packard engines. On the other hand there was little as annoying as #22, cork pop guns! Our museum support organization sold them every year at our tri county fair. By the end of it we wanted to murder them. That was in the early 2000s. Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Thanks for the reposting, Doug. Just as fun the second time around -- like us seniors. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Burgess Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I'm on 13 - but have probably forgotten most of the others 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I know 7 of these. But some are specific for US culture, the German version would surely have RO 80 instead of Studebaker, for example. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I remember all of them sans the party line. My parents had a party line when I was 1 yr old, so I was told. Got Dirt? 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted October 17, 2023 Author Share Posted October 17, 2023 17 minutes ago, Rob Abernathy said: I remember all of them sans the party line. You really missed out Rob. When I was 5-6 years old we had a 4-party line. Our ring was two longs and a short. It was really great fun listening-in on the other three folks 🙂 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbypickett Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 I remember 12 of the options. So I wont tell anyone that I'm nearly 56yo. cheers Gumby 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Here is an anglicised version: Red = don't remember Orange = not in the UK as far as I know Green = remembered 1. Black Jacks 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Sweet cigarettes 4. Drinks machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Cafes and pubs with jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with silver paper lids for pasteurised and beer bottle tops for sterilised. 7. Party lines on the telephone 8. Pathe News before the film. 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax (that was our hair product) 11. BBC test card that came on at night after the last programme and was there until the single TV channel returned. 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records and 33 rpm and 78 rpm too. 15.Green Shield stamps 16. Hi-fi record players 17. Metal ice trays with a lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-in movies 24. Studebakers but I did have a Dinky Toy of one 25. Washing machine 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! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) Maybe I would remember the following two, if anybody just could enlighten me what they are: 1. Party Line 2. P.F. Flyers Edited October 18, 2023 by wolfko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Hello, a party line was a shared telephone line. We had them here in the UK too. PF Flyers seem to be footware in the USA, aka sneakers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 21 minutes ago, Nick Cooper said: Hello, a party line was a shared telephone line. We had them here in the UK too. PF Flyers seem to be footware in the USA, aka sneakers. Thanks Nick. We had shared telephone lines here, but it was not possible to simultaniously use the line. Sometimes one could very faintly here another partizipant talk, but this was by fault. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 9 for Emmsie getting old I don't I know it. cheers Iain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 6 hours ago, Nick Cooper said: a party line was a shared telephone line. Ah, that is what we had as well. Increases my result by 1. Maybe the really young even do not know 26. Phone Booth 27. Cash 28. Responsive customer service of airlines 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Remembered all of them plus Stillwater's. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Stillwater said: 28. Responsive customer service of airlines Not only of airlines, not only of airlines...😉 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 I remember the times when I could remember. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 21 hours ago, Nick Cooper said: Here is an anglicised version: Red = don't remember Orange = not in the UK as far as I know Green = remembered 1. Black Jacks 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Sweet cigarettes 4. Drinks machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Cafes and pubs with jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with silver paper lids for pasteurised and beer bottle tops for sterilised. 7. Party lines on the telephone 8. Pathe News before the film. 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax (that was our hair product) 11. BBC test card that came on at night after the last programme and was there until the single TV channel returned. 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records and 33 rpm and 78 rpm too. 15.Green Shield stamps 16. Hi-fi record players 17. Metal ice trays with a lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-in movies 24. Studebakers but I did have a Dinky Toy of one 25. Washing machine 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! You just barely made it into the Older than Dirt club Nick! 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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