Older Than Dirt Quiz

janmike
janmike Posts: 6,146
edited December 2007 in The Clubhouse
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
How many do you remember?
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were
told about . Ratings at the bottom.

1. Cho Cho bar
2. Drive ins
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or milk bars with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil Stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. Packards
10. Blue flashbulb
11. Telephone numbers with 2 letters and 4 numbers
12. Peashooters
13. Wash tub wringer
14. 78 RPM records
15. Metal ice trays with lever
16. Studebakers
17. Cracker night
18. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
19. Bread delivered by horse and cart
20. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
21. Ignition switches on the dashboard
22. Heaters mounted on the inside of the wall
23. Real ice boxes
24. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards
25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner

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!

PS - I am way older than dirt! :D
Michael ;)
In the beginning, all knowledge was new!
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited December 2007
    3 yay for me!
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    9 for me....Damn ..candy cigarettes ( Actually I remember gum cigarettes not candy but I felt it was close enough )
    The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,600
    edited December 2007
    Holy crap. I'm in trouble.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited December 2007
    1 for me!
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    BaggedLancer wrote: »
    1 for me!

    Get the hell out of here...your diaper might need changing :D

    At least I only made the GETTING oldER list :cool:
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited December 2007
    great googlamooglies, I got 21 :eek:
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • nikolas812
    nikolas812 Posts: 2,915
    edited December 2007
    One for me. Well. maybe two. We still have a drive in theater. Does that count? If it does then I remember 2. If not. One. Candy cigarettes.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited December 2007
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Get the hell out of here...your diaper might need changing :D

    At least I only made the GETTING oldER list :cool:

    No diapers...finishing my potty training last week. :p
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited December 2007
    Which kind of candy cigarettes are we talking about? I remember 3 different kinds-chocolate, taffy, and then some kind of pressed sugar ones -they looked like THIN pieces of chaulk-with pink dye on the ends, to represent the embers?
    Anyway, I got 9/25.
    Dammit, I just saw another one I remember. Correction-10/25
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited December 2007
    Damn 17.

    Must be a faulty quiz or scoring system. I mean after all, I would know if I were old - wouldn't I, and I'm not old I tell you - I'm not.....

    Living in denial,

    Michael
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    obieone wrote: »
    Which kind of candy cigarettes are we talking about? I remember 3 different kinds-chocolate, taffy, and then some kind of pressed sugar ones -they looked like THIN pieces of chaulk-with pink dye on the ends, to represent the embers?
    Anyway, I got 9/25.

    Ones I remember were gum...with a white powder on them as you pulled them from the actual cigarette pack...they were pink colored all the way through.

    If nobody else remembers these I am officially removing 1 count from my final score to make it 8 ;)
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited December 2007
    16 for me :confused:

    But I'm not that old....Really.:p
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  • first capital
    first capital Posts: 100
    edited December 2007
    What is cracker night?

    Signed: Older than dirt
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited December 2007
    first capital wrote: »
    What is cracker night?
    X2

    6 for me.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited December 2007
    21 for me too George ...

    I don't remember ever seeing

    1. Cho Cho bar
    17. Cracker night
    19. Bread delivered by horse and cart
    25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner

    I didn't even know what the first two were without looking them up ...
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited December 2007
    Crud! 18!!!
    "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2007
    first capital wrote: »
    What is cracker night?

    Signed: Older than dirt

    Fireworks.
    Michael ;)
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited December 2007
    6 for me.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,951
    edited December 2007
    Crap,count me in the older than dirt catagory.....
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited December 2007
    PolkWannabie wrote: »
    21 for me too George ...

    I don't remember ever seeing

    1. Cho Cho bar
    17. Cracker night
    19. Bread delivered by horse and cart
    25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner

    I didn't even know what the first two were without looking them up ...


    22...I also don't know what 1 and 17 are...and never had bread delivered by horse cart (but we did have the "Bunny Bread Truck" come by the house). But I actually have a soldering iron as described in 25 (and a iron to use on clothes that is heated the same way). They were my father's.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited December 2007
    cfrizz wrote: »
    6 for me.

    You're telling your age.;)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,951
    edited December 2007
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Get the hell out of here...your diaper might need changing :D

    At least I only made the GETTING oldER list :cool:

    Cloth diapers that is......with big oversized pins to **** his ****.:)
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    PolkWannabie wrote: »

    I don't remember ever seeing

    19. Bread delivered by horse and cart

    I remember we had a Bakery open truck through the neighborhood that had tray after tray ( Pull out ) of doughnuts/pasteries/bread/etc They were always still warm too...but it was motor driven..no horses in sight :)
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited December 2007
    I don't remember five of them. Maybe I do but my memory plays tricks sometimes.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited December 2007
    :eek: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! That's right Pampers hadn't been invented yet!:D

    I'm not ashamed or embarrased to admit I'm 46 years old, Brad!

    We actually had an old turntable that used to play some old 78 records that we had!:eek:
    tonyb wrote: »
    Cloth diapers that is......with big oversized pins to **** his ****.:)
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  • Midnite Mick
    Midnite Mick Posts: 1,591
    edited December 2007
    5 here....whew I am on the verge, but still young here baby!
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited December 2007
    Whats weird is going to a family reunion and meeting someone for the first time that tells you " I used to change your **** diapers " :D Then its like " Alrighty then...wanna drink ..I need one "
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited December 2007
    Shoot I am only 37 and I got 16
    Guess cuz we wuz po an from da woods:confused:
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited December 2007
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    I remember we had a Bakery open truck through the neighborhood that had tray after tray ( Pull out ) of doughnuts/pasteries/bread/etc They were always still warm too...but it was motor driven..no horses in sight :)
    Yes ... The bread TRUCK I remember ... Just not the horse and wagon part ...
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited December 2007
    A piece from the past.
    http://www.mountaindairy.com/index.htm
    My Mom was a Stearns before she got married. This farm is my uncles. They still deliver milk in those OLD trucks you see at the bottom of the screen. They are 30's internationals I believe. Gota love seeing those old trucks coming down the country roads. They were delivering milk in the glass jars into the 80's. We had an old insulated aluminum box on the porch(all customers did) supplied by Mountain Dairy. I have no idea why they have no nice pics of the place up there. They came from the family Storrs which the town is named after, and donated a huge chunk of land to the University Of Connecticut.
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