OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ :

[Brutuskend]

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings for the quiz are 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 bottles
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
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!

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OUCH!

I remember ALL of these.

 

[waggy]

doh. im remember a bunch of those.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: waggy
doh. im remember a bunch of those.

obviously you didn't remember your schooling, sonny boy.

 

[arcenite]

candy cigs and drive ins... wewt.

I'm young

 

[Martin]

 

[Anubis]

16

and im only 22

 

[OulOat]

Nothing

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: Anubis
16

and im only 22

19, and I'm only 22

 

[jfall]

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

That's all we have where I live

 

[Ranger X]

8. I'm getting old.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Every single one !

My fondest memory would be Betty Page

 

[Gyrene]

Only 5.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Party lines, Candy cigs, and drive in's were the only ones I remembered. I'm only a couple weeks shy of 23 though so that's understandable

 

[Brutuskend]

I actually remember being in a house as a kid that had a old HAND CRANK phone!

 

[FoBoT]

1
2
3
4
5-they still have these
7
14
15
17
18
19
22
23

cool, not older than dirt, yet

 

[Anubis]

they still have candy cigs also

or at least gum ones

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I actually remember being in a house as a kid that had a old HAND CRANK phone!

At 5 I had a wind up record player. I think they were 7" 78rpm. It had a cup that held fresh needles

 

[Bv3]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe
candy cigs and drive ins... wewt.

I'm young

Those are exactly the two that I remember.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
1. Blackjack chewing gum - No
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water - YES I loved these!
3. Candy cigarettes - Yes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles - No
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes - Yes, in "retro" restaurants, saw one of these last year
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers - No
7. Party lines - No
8 Newsreels before the movie - No
9. P.F. Flyers - No
10. Butch wax - No
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) - No
12. Peashooters - No
13. Howdy Doody - No (unless you count the clips I've seen in movies like Back to the Future)
14. 45 RPM records - Yes, and I still use these today when I'm DJ'ing (vinyl will always sound better )
15. S&H Green Stamps - No
16. Hi-fi's - No
17. Metal ice trays with lever - No
18. Mimeograph paper - No
19. Blue flashbulb - No
20. Packards - Packard Bell computers? I'll vote no cause I'm not sure
21. Roller skate keys - Yes
22. Cork popguns - Yes
23. Drive-ins - Yes, went to one a few months ago
24. Studebakers - No
25. Wash tub wringers - No

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!

6/25, I'm getting older