Older than dirt quiz

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OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ :open_mouth:

Count all the ones that you remember - not the ones you were told about!
(Ratings at the bottom)

Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi’s
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Packards
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards

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!

Older than Dirt?
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Blackjack chewing gum - good stuff! Liked the clove one better. Think you can still get em

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water - well of course. Can still find these too.

Candy cigarettes - with the red-colored tip like they were lit!

Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle - well, sure. 8 ounce bottles.

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes - actually most soda shops and “family” restaurants had em

P.F. Flyers - and Keds

Butch wax - used it for my flattop

Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933) - shoot, we had live operators and 3-digit phone numbers

Peashooters - that wasn’t me, teacher!

Howdy Doody - I had a thing for Princess Winterfallsummerspring…

45 RPM records - still have a bunch

S&H Green Stamps - still find them around house, and Plaid and Gold Bell Gift Stamps too

Hi-fi’s - Duh. Also had a Grammaphone.

Metal ice trays with lever - still have some. Nice.

Mimeograph paper - ah the smell of mimeo fluid in the mornings at school…

Blue flashbulb - I have some with a screw base…

Packards - And Nash!

Roller skate keys - have one around here someplace…

Cork popguns - natch

Drive-ins - oh yeah

Studebakers - not sure I ever actually touched one…

Wash tub wringers - had one at ancestral home that attached to side of cement sink/tub in basement…

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals - had to learn them for license exam. Still use at least one “hand signal” once in a while…

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards - darned straight. Especially with those cuffed pants. Ouch!

(PS my social security card is a clay tablet…)

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great post…i counted a solid 14 for me

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15 if you count the wooden clothes pin for the pant leg?

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21 and therefore older than dirt.

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  1. I guess it’s young dirt.
Older than Dirt?
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Damn Chadwick, I’m 45 and only counted 9. I guess that must mean that I either led a sheltered life, or am going senile. :frowning:

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I’m really closer to the “SOCK IT TO ME” generation. I may be new to the forum, but I’m old as dirt almost everywhere else! LOL. My score: 17 out of 25.

I can only hope I have 1/10th the energy of these two relics!!

Walt Handelsman

From what I’ve read about you “Old Geezers” on these boards you’ve got nothin’ to worry about. I’ve got my own OG, at home! And I gotta tell you… it would take AT LEAST two , or three, 20yr olds to replace him!

Catch you OG’s later… screw the merlot…I’ll have a nice dry martini…dirty, please.
Bella

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20

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Well Jim, not too many people responding to this quiz…guess it’s time to DUCK AND COVER!!!

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OMG!!! I better get my hair dyed!:smiley: