Memories

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some may be to young to remember, i am not one of those.....


"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite 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 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa go 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. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears
Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. 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 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it 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. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

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.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
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. 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
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
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 the best part of my life.

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

"Senility Prayer"...God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference."
Have a great week

I remember way too much of that....think I fell into the 3rd catagory.....ouch! Oh well.....good memories!

Well I fell into the older then dirt box :roflmao: I remembered all but one on the list but rememberd some not on the list & it willbe a long time befor I trade in my HD for a power walker of any source

or you can go back to the Gas wars , cheepest I ever paid was .17.9 A gal & A pack of smokes was A dime , Bottle of sode/pop .10 & you got a nickel back for depost

I remember a lot of those same things Cowboy and yep I fall in the category of older than dirt. Your right most guys never wore Levis or at least my dad and his dad neither did. I had jeans for school that my mom bought me that you rolled em down as you grew taller and by then the knees were on there second sewed on patch.
Gas wars, well when going to high school and getting my first car gas was from 20 to 25c per gallon and they checked your oil and cleaned the windshield to.
Fast food was either a Dairy Queen ice cream cone or my dad would bring home a jug of A&W root beer. We all sat at the same table for all our meals said grace before each one. Pop was in an old cooler that you put a coin in opened the lid and pulled out a glass bottle of pop.

When we went to school we walked about a 1/2 mile to a school bus stop, where all the kids from the surrounding neighbor hoods went; now days they pick em up at every driveway it seems.
We also respected the teachers and got whacked if you were out of line.

I rode our 50 pound bicycle to the school for the little league baseball games where we all pilled in the back of the coaches big old pickup and our bikes were still there when we got back. Soccer we had never heard of that.
The bicycle we all shared it 2 brothers and 2 sisters.

In school it was mostly just the girls that took typing class (should have made it mandatory for the boys so that all of us old guys could type today.

I remember my first junk food I think it was a hostess product called a Susie Q or something like that and I was a teenager by then, don't think there around any more.

For a long time the only transportation we had was a old motor scooter that my dad used to go to work on and get groceries with. My mother really hated that thing, still talks about it today.

I remember when we got our own private phone line that was really something. TV what was that and toys, we made our own.

Kids today will never understand and to many of them now think that everybody owes them something for being born.

You know what though, I remember that we were all happy and still had a lot of fun growing up.