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Someone
asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food'
when you were growing up?' |
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'We
didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed
him. 'All the food was slow.' |
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'C'mon,
seriously.. Where did you eat?' |
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'It was
a place called 'home,'' I explained. ! |
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'Mum 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.' |
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By this
time, the lad 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. |
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But here
are some other things I would have told him about my
childhood if I'd figured his system
could have handled it: |
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Some
parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on
a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit
card. |
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My
parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that
weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). |
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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 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and
epilogue; 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.... |
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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. |
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Pizzas
were not delivered to our home... But milk was. |
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All
newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered
newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a
week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. |
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Film
stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in
the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies
were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing,
without profanity or violence
or almost anything offensive. |
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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 |
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Growing
up isn't what it used to be, is it? |
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MEMORIES
from a friend: |
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My Dad
is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in
December) and he
brought me an old Woodroofe’s 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. |
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How many
do you remember? |
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Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. |
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Ignition
switches on the dashboard. |
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Trouser
leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
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Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. |
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Using
hand signals for cars without turn indicators. |
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Older
Than Dirt Quiz: |
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Count
all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told
about. |
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Ratings
at the bottom. |
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1. Sweet
cigarettes |
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2.
Coffee shops with juke boxes |
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3. Home
milk delivery in glass bottles |
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4. Party
lines on the telephone |
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5.
Newsreels before the movie |
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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]) |
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7.
Peashooters |
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8. 33
rpm records |
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9. 45
RPM records |
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10.
Hi-fi's |
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Metal ice trays with levers |
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12. Blue
flashbulb |
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13. Cork
popguns |
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14. Wash
tub wringers |
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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 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I must
be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the
best parts of
my life.
Don't
forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just
did!!!!!!!!!
(PS.. I
used a large type face so you could read it easily)
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