Older Than Dirt Quiz

Just how old are you anyway?
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 bottle
5. Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
6. Party lines
7. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.Peashooters
12 Telephone numbers with a word prefix ( BR-549)
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15 S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-Fi’s
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
20. Blue flashbulbs
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
6-0=You are getting older
11-15=Don’t tell your age
16-25=You’re older than dirt!!!

Courtesy Bob May, who might just fall in the 16-25 category!

Ray,
With my score I prefer to be known as a Sandy Loam!

Just remember ...

good soil is hard to come by. Mike

I got 15, but might be 16....depending on the answer to this:

Define....Party Lines....

Is it something at a Hollywood party, or....

Party Lines

As I recall back in the '50s and early '60s all those who had a phone that shared the same alpa prefix were on the same line. So a person with a fon# of BR-549 shared the same line with the person whose fon# was BR-138. Someone whose fon# was ST-348 would have been on a different line. So when ever you picked up the fon to make a call chances are that someone else would already be on the fon and it might be your neighbor whose voice you would recognize. Incoming callers often received busy tones as someone in the partyline would be already on the fon line. Very tough to make a call during certain hours of the day that were busy or high traffic hours. Not much privacy back in those days when everyone could listen to other's conversations.

I had a similar experience in the '70s and '80s using a portable VHF and UHF simplex mobile fon system, whereby a group of users shared the same antenna tower frequency.

There were no cell fons back in those days.

party lines

When I was a kid in the small town I grew up in we had an operator that connected you to the person you were calling and if it was after 6PM the house better be on fire or something like that. We had to use the ringer crank to get the operator. We had party lines with 4 or 5 people on the line. Each family on the party line had a certain ring that pertained to them. Our ring was 2 short and one long. That meant the call was for us and not our neighbor. If you had to make an important call and someone was on the line we would get on and ask them to hang up. Most of the time they would say OK and end their conversation for you to make the call. Usually they would pick up and listen to see what was so important. We had phone numbers like 422 or 510 with no prefix. The operator knew everyone anyway so most of the time all you had to do is ask for the person you wanted and she would connect you. If we knew the ring for someone on the party line we could just ring that with the ringer and they would answer. The only time we needed the operator was for someone not on our party line or a long distance call. For a long distance call you tell the operator who you want and when she put the call thru she would ring you back to connect you. When automatic switching was installed and did away with the operator we had to get new phones and dial a number instead of using the ringer crank. That's when the prefix numbers started to be used to denote the exchanges. In our area EM2 was Emerson 2 prefix and AD4 was Adams 4 prefix. The 4 digit number was the persons phone. My old number was AD4-2095. Times were sure a lot simpler back then or they seemed to be. I doubt if the kids nowdays would know how to call someone with the old system we had when I was a kid.

On another note; I remember all 25 of the things listed and here are some more;

1. BB Bats candy
2. How many of you had to use an outhouse?
3. TV stamps TOP VALUE stamps. A S&H competor.
4. 78 records.
5. Sky King
6. Cisco & Poncho
7. curb feelers
8. Steering knobs with naked ladies inside
9. tiger tails in the gas tank door
10. M-80's and cherry bombs.
11. Sidekicks like Jingles( Andy Devine), Fuzzy St. John, Gabby Hayes, and Frog Millhouse
12. Jukeboxes that were 5 plays for a quarter.
13. Whizzer bikes
14. Cushman scooters.
15. Irish mail wagons
16. Feeding a toad BB's
17. Greenie stickum caps
18. the Mattel fanner 50 cap gun
19. Quick Draw McGraw
20. Beany and Cecil or Lambchop
21. Captain Midnight
22. Lash LaRue
23. Pat and Nellybelle
24. Snaring hog suckers with a string and copper wire on a pole.
25. Using bacon for bait.

I remember all these also.

I scored a "6". This is a pretty good quiz, as I knew I've been feeling older. LOL!!!

#s 1, 8, & 25 Are The Only Ones That I Do Not Recall -
All The Rest I Recall Vividly.

#8, I remember wasn't able to look!

#9 ...

Like this one? My wife had this in the drawer since the early 70's. It now hangs from the mirror of our island car. Mike