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[doug]

Just had to pass this on. Pinched from davebuts on the Talktalk forum

Older than dirt

I MUST BE A REAL OLD GIT BECAUSE I REMEMBER THEM ALL

I AM OLDER THAN DIRT

am older than DIRT... 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.

'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !

'Mum 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.'

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.

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, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. 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 14.

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.

I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone 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.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6.00am every morning.

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.

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 tri ed 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 20 old.

How many do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.

Ratings at the bottom.

1.Candy cigarettes

2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes

3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles with carboard lids

4. Party lines on the telephone (NUMBER PLEASE)

or walk next door but one to use the phone and leave the money on window ledge

5.Newsreels before the movie

6.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])

7.Peashooters (.22 SINGLE SHOT)

8. Howya Goin

9. 78 rpm records

10.Hi-fi's

11. Metal ice trays with lever

12. Blue flashbulb

13.Cork POPGUNS

14. Hillman Minx

15. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young

If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older

If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age,

If you remembered 11-15 =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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I remember it all very well indeed.

There is an error, though. Where I lived, there was only one TV channel which went off about midnight (after the epilogue) and coming back on again at about 5pm with children's television.

Daytime TV, apart from very special occasions like the Coronation and Churchill's funeral was a complete novelty. There was sport on Saturday afternoons but saturation coverage didn't start until 1983 - about the same time as the launch of Channel 4. I remember the first programme which was BBC Breakfast Time introduced by Selina Scott, Nick Ross and Frank Bough - he of the home knitted Fair Isle pullovers and cardigans (and serious cocaine habit and kinky sexual habits it was later revealed).

I was living in a hotel at the time having just moved to a new job and still looking for a place to live, which I found and I still live in the same house.

[andsome]

My first memories of television was when a friends parents went out for the evening and he was allowed to have friends in to watch TV. There was only one channel, BBC, and that ran if my memory serves me from about 7pm to 10 or 11 pm. The transmission frequently broke down, and if we were lucky we saw a picture of goldfish swimming round. I well remember a load of hoo ha when it was announced that the BBC were going to try to broadcast a programme from a club in Paris. The idea was that there would be no close ups of the nude dancers, only distant views. Needless to say the picture quality was awful and the transmission broke down after a few minutes. The size of the screen in a huge cumbersome box was all of 9 inches, with very round corners.

[catgate]

My first memory of TV was going to the Festival Of Britain with my father, and during the trip to London we went to the Radio Show at Olympia. Upstairs was a long darkened corridor, along one side of which was a long "table", upon which were displayed all the television sets then available. The best of these seemed to be an 8" Bush.

When eventually TV became available in the frozen wastes of our northern homeland, that is what father bought.

It would be interesting to set up an old 8" Bush alongside a modern 48" a wide screen, just for silliness.

[Gandalph]

I remembered 15 out of the 15,

The Co-op butcher coming round with the Horse and Cart, and the Greengrocer, and the Fish man.

The cream on the milk in the winter was sticking out of the top of the bottle by about two inches with the cardboard stopper carefully balanced on it. That's if the blue tits hadn't removed it first.

Our first television when I was seven years old was a twenty-one inch Philips. The first time I ever saw a telly was when I was five years old it was when the Queens Coronation was televised.

My dad bought a Standard Vanguard car and it was the only car for ten streets at that time. I think everyone in the village thought he had won the Pools.

I remember the Epilogue on the telly before the National Anthem, then dad would switch it off and I would watch the white spot in the middle and time how long it took to totally disappear.

Ah! the good old day's. :lol: