How old are you really?

[destiny]

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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside 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. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered:

0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

 

[destiny]

:o
I only remembered 4 of them.

 

[Judy]

:o I'm older than dirt

 

[mcrees]

I didn't know that 43 was older than dirt.
Our last drive-in in town just closed last year. It was owned by the original family until about 5 years ago then it sold and finally closed.
A Dutch Boy sandwich would sure be good about now.

 

[destiny]

:o I'm older than dirt

: But wiser than King Solomon! :

 

[bibleberean]

:o I'm older than dirt

Me too. I used butch wax!

 

[destiny]

I didn't know that 43 was older than dirt.
Our last drive-in in town just closed last year. It was owned by the original family until about 5 years ago then it sold and finally closed.
A Dutch Boy sandwich would sure be good about now.

We have one of the last drive-in's in the country in our county, it's still open. I've heard theres not many left.

 

[stovebolts]

I beg to differ! I got 18 of them and I'm only 38!
That, IMHO (In my humble opinion) is not OLDER THAN DIRT! (ok, so I was grandma's boy : )
P.S. I hated the aluminum ice trays!! I'd always get stuck to them! But I do miss the kool-aide popcycles!!

BTW, Just outside of Flint Michigan, is a real nice drive in that still shows movies in the summer.

 

[stovebolts]

Me too. I used butch wax!

Yuppers, didn't take much to figure out you were an old codger :

:smt027 colros:

 

[destiny]

I was thinking, i really should remember more of those on the list.
I used to stay with my 'granny' alot when i was a child, she lived in a very old two story house and it was crammed full of old stuff. It must just be my memory. I remember she had an old ringer washing machine on the back porch. My husband told me what butch wax is.

 

[bibleberean]

Me too. I used butch wax!

Yuppers, didn't take much to figure out you were an old codger :

:smt027 colros:

I prefer to think of myself as a vintage classic. :-D

 

[stovebolts]

Destiny,
Ok, so what Exactly is Butch Wax??

BTW, Bibleberean,
When I think of you, I think of
Ec 7:5
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Because I know you know that

Pr 10:8
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

 

[bibleberean]

Butch Wax was a jar of hair control product. It was so greasy that it would literaly drip of your side burns in the hot sun.

My dad used it to make his flat top stand up straight.

I used it to keep my cow lick down. When the dry surfer look became "cool" I quit using it.

I had a pompadour that had to be kept stiff . My hair was plastered with the stuff as a little kid in the early 50's through about 1963.

I don't know if they still sell the stuff or not.

God bless,

Roberto