Does this bring back memories

[AlanHo]

Bring back any memories?

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'

'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 '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'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, or wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, travelled 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 10.

It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 p.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, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM 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 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 do you remember?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor of the car.

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

Soldering irons you heated 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.

1. Sweet cigarettes

2. Coffee shops with juke boxes

3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles

4. Party lines on the telephone

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 2 channels [if you were fortunate])

7. Peashooters

8. 33 rpm records

9. 45 RPM records

10. Hi-fi's

11. Metal ice trays with lever

12. Blue flashbulb

13. Cork popguns

14. 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 11-14 =You're older than dirt!

I must be 'older than dirt' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)

[rong]

I can remember all of them bar No 2

[AlanHo]

I can remember all of them bar No 2

Perhaps they were called cafes (or caffs) in your neck of the woods.

I think the term "Coffee shop" is modern parlance.

[andsome]

You forgot 78rpm records, and wind up gramophones. My grandparents who lived next door did not have electricity in the house. My granddad said it was too dangerous because you could not smell it. They had gas lighting. I used to have to take the radio accumulator to the shop to be recharged. My Grannie had flat irons that she heated on the gas cooker. I also remember ration books.

I think my first bike weighed more than yours.

[-pops-]

Some more:

Cars you had to put a handle in the front of to wind it up to get going.

Cars with a flip out direction indicator.

Cigarette cards actually in packs of cigarettes rather than albums.

Drene.

Little blue bottles of Evening in Paris on the counter at Woollies.

Loose biscuits.

Black and white photos were the norm for your holiday snaps. Taken on a box Brownie.

Water from a pump in the garden.

No electricity. Mains electric when you did get it installed was DC.

Children could go on adventures all day without parents panicking that little darling had been abducted.

All shops had a proper counter at which you would be served.

There are myriads more.

[rong]

I think somewhere in the deepest depths there is a memory of a cafe with a duke box after all

Cars you had to put a handle in the front of to wind it up to get going. Yes

Cars with a flip out direction indicator. Yes

Cigarette cards actually in packs of cigarettes rather than albums. Yes

Drene. ???

Little blue bottles of Evening in Paris on the counter at Woollies. ???

Loose biscuits. Yes

Black and white photos were the norm for your holiday snaps. Taken on a box Brownie. Yes

Water from a pump in the garden. A well

No electricity. Mains electric when you did get it installed was DC. No

Children could go on adventures all day without parents panicking that little darling had been abducted. Yes

All shops had a proper counter at which you would be served. Yes

[catgate]

Things that peeped over the wall with one eye and spit at you as you were going past.

Women who walked sideways.

Blind dogs for people with only one leg.

Begging bowls for pastry chefs.

Trams with cow catchers on them that were coated with real cows blood.

Never seeing an artichoke.

Not knowing what an artichoke was.

Watching lumps of coke fighting.

Seeing who could run away from home for ever.

Mrs. Edwards.

[AlanHo]

Things that peeped over the wall with one eye and spit at you as you were going past.

Women who walked sideways.

Blind dogs for people with only one leg.

Begging bowls for pastry chefs.

Trams with cow catchers on them that were coated with real cows blood.

Never seeing an artichoke.

Not knowing what an artichoke was.

Watching lumps of coke fighting.

Seeing who could run away from home for ever.

Mrs. Edwards.

Pastry chefs are forced into begging when they run out of dough

The fighting stopped when they liquified coke and served it in bottles and cans. It still fizzes a bit though.

[rong]

Things that peeped over the wall with one eye and spit at you as you were going past.

Women who walked sideways.

Blind dogs for people with only one leg.

Begging bowls for pastry chefs.

Trams with cow catchers on them that were coated with real cows blood.

Never seeing an artichoke.

Not knowing what an artichoke was.

Watching lumps of coke fighting.

Seeing who could run away from home for ever.

Mrs. Edwards.

None of these, I've always lived down south

[AlanHo]

Some more memories

Hoop and stick (Old bike wheel with spokes removed)

Train spotting with Ian Allen books to record the numbers

Girls doing hand-stands with their skirt tucked into blue knickers

Making a kite with split cane, string, glue and brown paper (that flew like a brick)

Making paper chains for Christmas decorations

My mom sitting so close to the open fire that her legs got all purple mottled.

Chilblains in winter

Double decker buses with an open platform

All the working men seemed to have boils on their necks and/or styes

Making miniature mortars on bonfire night using a length of old pipe pushed into the ground, ball bearings and thunderflash bangers

Jowett Javelin cars with the epitomy of streamlining.

Lambretta and Vespa scooters

Carters Little Liver Pills

Fish and Chips in newspaper

The rag and bone man with his horse & cart giving away goldfish in exchange for scrap metal and old clothes

Phillips 9 inch........................our first TV

The Potters Wheel interval on TV

The TV black and white test card

The Saturday morning kids matinee at the cinema

Candy floss

Metal blakies nailed into your school shoe heels.

[doug]

This thread is making me cry with the memories - Ah The Nostalgia.

[Gandalph]

This thread is making me cry with the memories - Ah The Nostalgia.

It's just making me think "Thank god for advanced technology". :lol:

[catgate]

Train spotting with Ian Allen books to record the numbers

I still have my old one date 1946.

Jowett Javelin cars with the epitomy of streamlining.

I used to have one.

Making miniature mortars on bonfire night using a length of old pipe pushed into the ground, ball bearings and thunderflash bangers

I remember very carefully mixing red phosphorous and potassium chlorate together to make a very nasty banger. My cousin's pal lost his right hand with a false move and we rapidly abandoned it(*). He got a false hand from the elbow down.

edit (*) The practice of making bangers, although he abandoned his right hand too.

[rong]

Making miniature mortars on bonfire night using a length of old pipe pushed into the ground, ball bearings and thunderflash bangers

We used to make rifles out of a piece of tube with the end bent over then tied to a piece of wood then stick a penny banger down the end and have battles, if you put the bangers down the tube to early they went out to late and you had some explaining to do to your mum

[AlanHo]

I remember my dad boasting that we were like royalty - the Queen had a Phillips 9 inch too.

[rong]

I remember my dad boasting that we were like royalty - the Queen had a Phillips 9 inch too.

Can she still have it though

[catgate]

I remember my dad boasting that we were like royalty - the Queen had a Phillips 9 inch too.

Yes, but the queen's would not be just black and white.

[andsome]

Remember when the absolute maximum price for a fair ride was a shilling, and most cost considerably less?

[D4\/!d]

This thread is making me cry with the memories - Ah The Nostalgia.

Ah but Nostalgia's not what it was.