Something to make you smile…
… THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS …
‘Some young one 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, and 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.
But 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, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.
The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice.
This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
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 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and
the station went off the air at midnight, 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 was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called ‘pizza pie.’
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It’s still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it 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.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers — my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week.
It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents.
He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers.
His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers
were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
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 a gut laughing.
Growing up isn’t what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
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.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
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. Blackjack chewing gum
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 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
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] ) 12. Peashooters 13.
Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S& H greenstamps 16. Hi-fi’s 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 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 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!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
I confirmed myself as definitely positively…OLDER THAN DIRT!!!! lol
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Sophers…..You just described my childhood! It was the same. We sat at the table, we learned how to have a conversation (while eating what was on our plate, lol).
When we were a little “better off”, dad would buy a six-pack of coca-cola, the small bottles, and a hershey bar for each of us on Friday night (must have been payday). What a treat!
Okay, I won’t go on and on, but thanks for the great post. xx 🙂
Man ohh man, do I feel old now.
It was pretty much the same in UK, but with less. After the war, when rationing was officially over (in the 50s), people still couldnt afford to buy what little there was, because prices were so high. Self sufficiency was the word of the day, and I was sent out to do my first paid work, aged 8. At potato harvesting time, I had to pick up any missed potatoes and put them in a sack. That was fun, for all of the first half hour. The next 6 hours, and the rest of the week, not so funny. But when i put my hard earned wages, of £2 and 15 shillings into my mums hand, I felt like a man.
Helen!!!! Just had the time of my life!! This was such a good read!!! I am just a six! But gosh…… this was wonderful…. I kept hearing myself say “oh, I remember that”! I would like to add a few,…..
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck; Milk cards from school; Seeing the Wizard of OZ for the first time in color; Listening to AM radio ( there was no FM); Dating at 16, when the boy had to come into the house and meet your dad; My first order of McDonalds french fries; Clark bars and Bun Candy bars; Paper dolls; and of course my list could go on forever…….
And my last thought was…… How simple times were, and how much I miss those days!!!
I guess I’m older than dirt! Nice blog.
Helen , Yes loved this blog. We got our first TV in 1955 when I was 14 a Zenith 21 inch color TV in a maple cabinet. We also had only one phone in the house and I remember having pizza the first time when my girlfriends and I went over to Hagerstown , Md. and got one as Greencastle didn’t have a pizza place . I can remember all the way back to no. 25 so guess I am Older than Dirt. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Helen, What a wonderful blog!! Can remember almost all of those things so I guess that makes me older than dirt! Thanks for making me smile
Helen a fantastic blog, took me back, and besides having to sit there until meal was finished and ask permission to leave the table, when given dad and the boys stood up while the “lady” left the table!!! Think I may be older than dirt lol.
I’m definitely older than dirt – those were the good old days – I remember most of those (some would be a little different here in Aus). I want to add “jiving” – I had the time of my life jiving/rock’n’roll to the great music we had then, and dancing calypso to that music – wearing pedal pushers and Elvis Presley T-shirts. Great memories – thanks Helen 🙂
Oh yes forever, lovely memories, went dancing three times a week , starched rope petticoats lol, twist dress, six inch heels, don’t know how I ever did that! Lots of fun. Thank you Helen for the lovely memories and you too forever xxx
brilliant , I remember having to go outside to the toilet which was at the bottom of the yard , ok in summer but bloody cold in winter, I can still see my mam cutting the newspaper up into squares for toilet paper, wasn’t very dignified but I learned more sitting on the toilet reading the snippets than at school lol, thank you for the wonder read….Eddy
It was a fantastic thanks for the trip down memory lane I loved it