gurrera
Registered
> I sure fit this
> catagory!!
>
> Darn,
> I'm
> older than dirt!
>
>
> Someone
> asked
> the other
>
> day,,,,,,,,,
>
> 'What was
> your
> favorite
> fast food
> when you were growing
> up
>
> ?'
>
> 'We
> didn't
> have fast food when I
> was growing
> up
> ,' I informed
> him,'
>
>
>
>
>
>
> All the
> food was
> slow .'
>
>
>
>
>
> 'C'mon,
> seriously.
> Where did
>
> you eat?'
>
>
> 'It was
> a
> place called
>
> 'at home,' I
> explained!
>
> 'Mom
> cooked every day and
> when Dad got home from
> work,
>
>
>
> We sat
> down together at the
> dining room table,
> & if I didn't like
> what she put on
> my plate, I was allowed
> to sit there until
> I did like it
>
> .'
>
>
> By
> this
> time, the kid
> was
> laughing
> so hard I was afraid he was
> going to suffer
> serious internal
> damage, so I didn't tell
> him the part about how
> I
> had to
> have permission to leave the
>
>
> table.
>
>
> Here are
> some other
> things
> I would
> have told him about my
> childhood if I figured
> his
> system
> could have
> handled
> it:
>
>
> Some
> parents NEVER
> owned their own house, wore
> Levis, set foot on a golf
> course,
> traveled out of the
> country or had a credit
> card
>
> My
> parents never drove me
> to school. I had a
> bicycle that weighed
> probably
> 50
> pounds, and only had one
> speed,
> (slow)
>
> We didn't
> have a television in
> our house until I was
> 10. It was, of
> course,
> black and white,
> and the station went off the
> air at 11,
> after playing the
> national anthem and a
> poem about God. It came
> back on the air at
> about 6 a.m. And there was
> usually a
> locally produced news
> and farm show on,
> featuring local
> people ...
>
>
> I
> never had
> a telephone
> in
> my room. The
> only phone was on a party
> line. Before you could
> dial, you had to listen and
> make sure some
> people you
> didn't
> know weren't
> already using the
> line.
>
>
> Pizzas
> were not delivered to our
> home... But milk was
> & so was
> bread
>
>
>
> All
> newspapers were
> delivered by boys and all
> boys delivered
> newspapers M y brother
> delivered a newspaper,
> six days a week. He
> had to get up at
> 5 AM
> every
> morning
> .
>
>
> Movie
> stars kissed with their
> mouths shut. At
> least, they did in the
> movies!
> There
> were no movie ratings
> because all movies were
> responsibly produced
> for everyone to enjoy
> viewing, without profanity
> or violence or most
> anything
> offensive
> .
>
>
> If
> you grew up in a generation
> before there was
> fast food, you may want to
> share some of these
> memories with your children
> or grandchildren.
> Just don't blame me if
> they bust their gut
>
> laughing
> .
>
>
> Growing
> up isn't what it used to
> be, is it
> ?
>
>
>
> MEMORIES
>
>
>
> My
> Dad is
> cleaning out
> my
> grandmother's
> house (she died in December)
> and he brought me
> an old Royal Crown Cola
> bottle. In the bottle
> top was a
> stopper
> with a
> bunch of holes in it. I knew
> immediately what it
> was,
> but
> my
> daughter had no idea. She
> thought they had tried
> to make it
> a salt
> shaker or something. I knew
> it as the bottle
> that sat on the end of the
> ironing board to
> 'sprinkle' clothes
> with
> because we didn't
> have steam irons. Man, I am
> old
> .
>
> How
> many do
> you
> remember
> ?
>
> Head
> lights
> dimmer
> switches
> on the
> floor
> .
>
> Ignition
> switches on
> the
> dashboard
> .
>
> Pant leg
> clips for bicycles without
> chain
> guards
> .
> Soldering
> irons you heat on a gas
> burner
> .
>
> Using hand
> signals
> for
> cars
> without turn
> signals
> .
>
>
> Older Than
> Dirt Quiz
> :
>
> Count all
> the ones that you
> remember
> ,
> NOT
> the ones
> you were told
> about
> !
>
> Ratings
> at the bottom
> .
>
>
> 1. Candy cigarettes
>
>
> 2.
> Coffee shops with tableside
> juke
>
> boxes
>
> 3.
> Home
> milk
> delivery
> in glass
> bottles
>
>
> 4.
> Party lines on the
>
> telephones
>
>
> 5.
> Newsreels before the
> movie
> 6.
>
> 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 had
> a
> TV!!
>
> 7.
>
> Pea-shooters
>
>
> 8.
> Howdy
> Doody
>
>
> 9.
> 45 RPM
> records
>
>
> 10.
> 78 rpm records
>
> 11.
> Hi-fi records 33 1/3
> rpm
>
> 12. Metal
> ice trays
> with
> lever
>
> 13.
>
> Blue
> flashbulb
> 14.
>
> Cork popguns
>
>
> 15. Studebakers
>
> 16.
> Wash
> tub
> wringers
> <>
>
>
>
>
>
> If you
> remembered 0-3 = You're
> still
> young
>
>
> If
> you remembered 3-6 = You are
> getting
> older
> If you remembered 7-10
> = Don't tell your age,
> &If you
>
> remembered
> 11-16
>
> = You're older
> than
> dirt
> ! THAT'S
> ME
> !!!
>
>
>
> I
> might be older than
> dirt but
> those
> memories are some
> of
> the best
> parts of my
> life
> .
Gurrera
> catagory!!
>
> Darn,
> I'm
> older than dirt!
>
>
> Someone
> asked
> the other
>
> day,,,,,,,,,
>
> 'What was
> your
> favorite
> fast food
> when you were growing
> up
>
> ?'
>
> 'We
> didn't
> have fast food when I
> was growing
> up
> ,' I informed
> him,'
>
>
>
>
>
>
> All the
> food was
> slow .'
>
>
>
>
>
> 'C'mon,
> seriously.
> Where did
>
> you eat?'
>
>
> 'It was
> a
> place called
>
> 'at home,' I
> explained!
>
> 'Mom
> cooked every day and
> when Dad got home from
> work,
>
>
>
> We sat
> down together at the
> dining room table,
> & if I didn't like
> what she put on
> my plate, I was allowed
> to sit there until
> I did like it
>
> .'
>
>
> By
> this
> time, the kid
> was
> laughing
> so hard I was afraid he was
> going to suffer
> serious internal
> damage, so I didn't tell
> him the part about how
> I
> had to
> have permission to leave the
>
>
> table.
>
>
> Here are
> some other
> things
> I would
> have told him about my
> childhood if I figured
> his
> system
> could have
> handled
> it:
>
>
> Some
> parents NEVER
> owned their own house, wore
> Levis, set foot on a golf
> course,
> traveled out of the
> country or had a credit
> card
>
> My
> parents never drove me
> to school. I had a
> bicycle that weighed
> probably
> 50
> pounds, and only had one
> speed,
> (slow)
>
> We didn't
> have a television in
> our house until I was
> 10. It was, of
> course,
> black and white,
> and the station went off the
> air at 11,
> after playing the
> national anthem and a
> poem about God. It came
> back on the air at
> about 6 a.m. And there was
> usually a
> locally produced news
> and farm show on,
> featuring local
> people ...
>
>
> I
> never had
> a telephone
> in
> my room. The
> only phone was on a party
> line. Before you could
> dial, you had to listen and
> make sure some
> people you
> didn't
> know weren't
> already using the
> line.
>
>
> Pizzas
> were not delivered to our
> home... But milk was
> & so was
> bread
>
>
>
> All
> newspapers were
> delivered by boys and all
> boys delivered
> newspapers M y brother
> delivered a newspaper,
> six days a week. He
> had to get up at
> 5 AM
> every
> morning
> .
>
>
> Movie
> stars kissed with their
> mouths shut. At
> least, they did in the
> movies!
> There
> were no movie ratings
> because all movies were
> responsibly produced
> for everyone to enjoy
> viewing, without profanity
> or violence or most
> anything
> offensive
> .
>
>
> If
> you grew up in a generation
> before there was
> fast food, you may want to
> share some of these
> memories with your children
> or grandchildren.
> Just don't blame me if
> they bust their gut
>
> laughing
> .
>
>
> Growing
> up isn't what it used to
> be, is it
> ?
>
>
>
> MEMORIES
>
>
>
> My
> Dad is
> cleaning out
> my
> grandmother's
> house (she died in December)
> and he brought me
> an old Royal Crown Cola
> bottle. In the bottle
> top was a
> stopper
> with a
> bunch of holes in it. I knew
> immediately what it
> was,
> but
> my
> daughter had no idea. She
> thought they had tried
> to make it
> a salt
> shaker or something. I knew
> it as the bottle
> that sat on the end of the
> ironing board to
> 'sprinkle' clothes
> with
> because we didn't
> have steam irons. Man, I am
> old
> .
>
> How
> many do
> you
> remember
> ?
>
> Head
> lights
> dimmer
> switches
> on the
> floor
> .
>
> Ignition
> switches on
> the
> dashboard
> .
>
> Pant leg
> clips for bicycles without
> chain
> guards
> .
> Soldering
> irons you heat on a gas
> burner
> .
>
> Using hand
> signals
> for
> cars
> without turn
> signals
> .
>
>
> Older Than
> Dirt Quiz
> :
>
> Count all
> the ones that you
> remember
> ,
> NOT
> the ones
> you were told
> about
> !
>
> Ratings
> at the bottom
> .
>
>
> 1. Candy cigarettes
>
>
> 2.
> Coffee shops with tableside
> juke
>
> boxes
>
> 3.
> Home
> milk
> delivery
> in glass
> bottles
>
>
> 4.
> Party lines on the
>
> telephones
>
>
> 5.
> Newsreels before the
> movie
> 6.
>
> 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 had
> a
> TV!!
>
> 7.
>
> Pea-shooters
>
>
> 8.
> Howdy
> Doody
>
>
> 9.
> 45 RPM
> records
>
>
> 10.
> 78 rpm records
>
> 11.
> Hi-fi records 33 1/3
> rpm
>
> 12. Metal
> ice trays
> with
> lever
>
> 13.
>
> Blue
> flashbulb
> 14.
>
> Cork popguns
>
>
> 15. Studebakers
>
> 16.
> Wash
> tub
> wringers
> <>
>
>
>
>
>
> If you
> remembered 0-3 = You're
> still
> young
>
>
> If
> you remembered 3-6 = You are
> getting
> older
> If you remembered 7-10
> = Don't tell your age,
> &If you
>
> remembered
> 11-16
>
> = You're older
> than
> dirt
> ! THAT'S
> ME
> !!!
>
>
>
> I
> might be older than
> dirt but
> those
> memories are some
> of
> the best
> parts of my
> life
> .
Gurrera