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Older than dirt quiz

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I must admit I scored in the "older than dirt" category :rolleyes:

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 bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
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!
 
Unfortunately I remember them all plus a few that weren't on there.

How bout

26) Kaisers

27) Washing machines with the rollers on top

28) Maryjanes

29) Mr.Ed

20) Perry Mason (not from reruns)

21) Victory at Sea (Sunday nights at seven on NBC)

22) No state sales tax anywhere in the U.S.

23) Only three channels to choose from on TV

24) Roof mounted TV antennas

25) Root Beer Barrels

26) Extended recess one day only, except for the girls who got to stay inside and watch a movie.

27) The day the music died Feburary 3rd 1959

28) The day JFK died

29) Seeing The Ten Commandments at the drive-in when it came out
 
All 25 plus all the other stuff they reminded me of!!!
At least I still have a memory. That makes me feel better:D
 
All 25 and then some, but I always knew I was older then dirt. I tell you what makes you feel old also, is when your 7 year old grandson asks his mommy if she had tv when she was growing up. It happened the other night when they were over visiting.:shrug01:
 
All 25 plus all the other stuff they reminded me of!!!
At least I still have a memory. That makes me feel better
:lmao:

I got 11 plus two more from Nytro's list :ack2:. I may grow old, but I refuse to grow up (at least thats what my wife tells me).

:dancer01:
 
Uh... what about if you can't REMEMBER which ones you used to know of? :crazy03: How old is THAT?
 
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