MEMORIES…..

Another oldy but goody.

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in
December) and he brought me an old lemonade 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?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards..
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
The washing ‘copper’ for heating the water.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
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 2 channels
[if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hand wound gramophones and 78 rpm records
11.. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
15. Glass or wooden scrubbing boards and home-made soap
16. wooden tubs
17 butter paddles

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
11-17 = You’re positively ancient!

I must be ‘positively ancient’ but those memories are some of the best parts
of my life.

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  1. Im definately ancient. Often think of the soap Mum would make in the copper…and about 40 yrs ago I actually got some butter paddles made so I could make butter out of the cream we skimmed from the milk bucket. They were also good for threatening the kids when they were youngsters…LOL

  2. oh yes… my sister always used a butter pat. i used to think “Why dont you kids hide it I would if it was me”lolol…. kiwi but I dont remember all these hehehehe well thats what i am telling myself loved this mac

  3. My dear friend, I remember them all and do your remember the ‘possers.’ A copper half moon thing, on a stick, with holes in it that was used for pushing washing around boiling hot water?

    I am anicent, due to remembering all those things and, like you, some of them give me fond memories but I also think for now and for the future-except with mobile phones that I only use if I have to-and love living in an age with double glazed windows and central heating that can be used in the winter because of the fuel allowance we receive.

    By all means, and that is why I loved your list, let us not forget where we came from, and who we were, but let us continue to live a life that could not have been dreamed of 40 or 50 years ago.

    Thank you for bringing back fond memories for me.

    By for now,

    John.

  4. I am ancient as well – remember almost all of those things, and what about the “dunny out the back” with scraps of newspaper. Oh the good old days 🙂 but I wouldn’t trade my toilet rolls !!!!!!
    Great blog kiwi xoxox

  5. Thank you for your post kiwigirl, it also brings back many fond memories for me, I have to admit, I never thought I’d ever say “those were the good old days” like my older relatives did back in my youth, but here I am saying it “THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.” I wonder how many more generations will say the same.