On Jan 13, 8:58 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > *How many do you remember?** * > > *Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.** > **Ignition switches on the dashboard.
- or push button transmissions? > **Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.* - and air conditioners. > *Real ice boxes. > **Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. * - or baseball cards mounted with clothes hangers so they hit the wheel spokes and sounded like a motor? "Rubbubbub-bap-pap-pap" > *Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. > **Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. * - even using turn signals seems too much for some people. > > *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** - they still make it. > **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** ** - still a few of them around. Very rare though. > **6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers > **7. Party lines** **on the telephone > **8. Newsreels before the movie* - and/or cartoons. > *9. P.F. Flyers - made you run faster and jump higher! > **10. Butch wax* > *11. 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 3 > channels** **[if you were fortunate]**) ** - test patterns were for adjusting color, and/or contrast. Not many people knew how to use it though....I did. You can still run across them on lesser channels every once in a while, but it's rare. > **12. Peashooters** * - see Popguns. > *13. Howdy Doody ** > **14. 45 RPM records* > *15.** **S&** **H greenstamps > **16. Hi-fi's - all that means is High Fidelity. Hi-Fi still exists, it just doesn't go by that name. What about "console televisions" instead? > **17. Metal ice trays with lever - the kind you could stick your tongue to! > **18. Mimeograph paper > **19. Blue flashbulb > **20. Packards > **21. Roller skate keys - ♫♪ "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key". ♫♪ > **22. Cork **popguns Or slingshots and Daisy BB guns? I imagine there's still a few around though. Speaking of slingshots; they've come a long way. Laser sights, and potentially deadly (human deadly) with the right ammo. http://www.slingshotsusa.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_147&products_id=30 > **23. Drive-ins - still a few around. Diners Drive-Ins and Dives! > **24. Studebakers** - and broken axle gears? > **25. Wash tub wringers ** - and wash boards? According to this, I'm older than dirt....and possibly predate god. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
