How Many Do You Remember?
Submitted by Bruce Davis


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 
8. Newsreels before the movie 
9. P.F. Flyers 
10. Butch wax 
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) 
12. Peashooters 
13. Howdy Doody 
14. 45 RPM records 
15. S&H Green Stamps 
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 the best part of my life.