'Someone
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 17.
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 cigarettes4. 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's17.
Metal ice trays with lever
18.
Mimeograph paper19. Blue
flashbulb20.
Packards21.
Roller skate keys22.Cork
popguns
23. Drive-ins24. Studebakers25. 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.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to
all your really OLD friends....
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Friday, November 30, 2012
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