Subject: Bring back any memories?
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>>Subject:Bring back any memories?
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>>Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite '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 'home,'' I explained. !
>> '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 at6AM
>>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.
>>Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
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>>MEMORIES from a friend:
>> My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
>>hebrought 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.
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>>How many do you remember?
>>Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
>>Ignition switches on the dashboard.
>>Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
>>Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
>>Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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>>Older Than Dirt Quiz:
>> Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
>> Ratings at the bottom.
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>> 1. Sweet cigarettes
>> 2. Coffee shops with jukeboxes
>> 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
>> 4. Party lineson the telephone
>> 5. Newsreels before the movie
>> 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])
>> 7. Peashooters
>> 8. 33 rpm records
>> 9. 45 RPM records
>>10. Hi-fi's
>>11. Metal ice trays with levers
>>12. Blue flashbulb
>>13. Cork popguns
>>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!
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>>I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts
>>of my life.
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>>Don't forget to pass this along!!
>>Especially to all your really OLDfriends....I just did!!!!!!!!!
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>>(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)
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