Remember this?

**Cujo** · 11-10-2012, 11:40 AM

A bit old for me some of it, and a bit hokey.
Fast food to me was fish 'n chips, meat pies and hamburgers but not chain joints and they were all take away.
Friday night was fish 'n chip night to give mum a break from cooking.

Bring back any memories?

Got sent this in a email.

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.'

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.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

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.

My parents never drove me to school. 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 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 p.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

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.

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, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

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.

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 hebrought 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.

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.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on 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

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.

**Norton** · 11-10-2012, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Koojo

If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

14 of 14.

Also remember:

78 rpm records
Ice boxes, with block ice delivered to house.
Radio programs such as The Shadow, Dick Tracy, etc.
Pot belly wood burning stove.
No women allowed bars.
Mimeograph machines
Brownie camera

**BaitongBoy** · 11-10-2012, 11:58 AM

Good thread, Dawg...some sweet memories there...you calling me "positively ancient?"...heh...

**peaches** · 11-10-2012, 12:12 PM

Building your own billy cart using old pram wheels.

Sunday roast dinners.

Bonfires on cracker night.

Milkshakes in cold metal cups.

Saturday afternoon movie serials. (that made you
come back next week to see what happens).

**Norton** · 11-10-2012, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by peaches

Milkshakes in cold metal cups.

They were the best. Made from scratch by the "soda jerk"

**Cujo** · 11-10-2012, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by peaches

Building your own billy cart using old pram wheels.

Sunday roast dinners.

Bonfires on cracker night.

Milkshakes in cold metal cups.

Saturday afternoon movie serials. (that made you
come back next week to see what happens).

All cracking stuff.
And if you wanted to play, no playstation or gameboy or DVDs., it was outside on yer bike, climbing trees, catching whatever lived in whatever water was nearby (or making billy carts).
Sunday roast dinners was a thing, but for us it was lunch.

**peterpan** · 11-10-2012, 01:02 PM

I can even remember the milk being delivered in churns on horse drawn floats.

**bobo746** · 11-10-2012, 01:05 PM

And garbo's that carried the bins on their shoulders.
Milk supplied at school.

**peaches** · 11-10-2012, 01:05 PM

Collecting marbles, cats eyes, bodgies, steelies, can't remember
the others.
Collecting cigarette packets, folding them up,and the one who got
closer to the wall won the lot.

And your right, it was Sunday lunch.

**daveboy** · 11-10-2012, 01:08 PM

Who remembers TV repair men and knive sharpeners ? our TV repair man was called Mr Floody operated out of Plumsted was a regular visitor.

**alitongkat** · 11-10-2012, 01:11 PM

it was mickey mouse on the tv (black white of course), which made me walk the first steps...

earliest i remember, is jeanny in the bottle (with larry hagman)... she looked AMAZING !

**Thetyim** · 11-10-2012, 01:15 PM

I can remember the sweep coming to clean the chimney.

I was 4 years old and thought it was exciting

**peaches** · 11-10-2012, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by bobo746

And garbo's that carried the bins on their shoulders

The dunny man, who would spill shit everywhere if a suitable Xmas gift
wasn't left for him.

**Mr Lick** · 11-10-2012, 01:21 PM

We had to play outside when my father was at work, he locked the door on his way out.

3 pronged toaster over the coal fire. Sweeping the ashes out first thing in the morning.

Tin bath in front of the fire (shared water).

Catapults

Cardboard in cycle spokes

Gramaphones

Collecting empty coke bottles from the coach station and getting a refund for them at the local grocers

Carol singing

Saturday morning flics at the Regal/ABC/Odean/Gaumont (3d)

**Ozcol** · 11-10-2012, 01:25 PM

I must be an old fart too, I can remember all of those, My old man used to sit and watch the test pattern on the TV (b&w) till the programs came on.

**crocman** · 11-10-2012, 01:30 PM

Putting two bob in the meter
Flash Gordon and the mud men
crank handles for the car
wringers on washing machines
lawn mowers you pushed
and you could walk the streets safely.

**DrAndy** · 11-10-2012, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by daveboy

Who remembers TV repair men and knive sharpeners ? our TV repair man was called Mr Floody operated out of Plumsted was a regular visitor.

I remember when Plumstead flooded and we cycled down to have a look at the abandoned double decker buses

we came down through Bostal woods

**alitongkat** · 11-10-2012, 01:35 PM

a vase in the car
and those v-shaped stickers, where you have been...

**DrAndy** · 11-10-2012, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by crocman

and you could walk the streets safely.

wot, wif all those razor spivs and Teddy Boys around

**crocman** · 11-10-2012, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by crocman

and you could walk the streets safely.

wot, wif all those razor spivs and Teddy Boys around

can your muvva sew?

**hillbilly** · 11-10-2012, 01:46 PM

The other day my daughter asked me if I was well versed in current affairs. I replied that I think so. She then mentioned a band by the name of 'something 5' or '5 something' that was playing in BKK.

She wanted tickets. I had no idea what she was talking about.

Luckily, come to find out the tickets were sold out...

**Cujo** · 11-10-2012, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by peterpan

I can even remember the milk being delivered in churns on horse drawn floats.

Bloody hell, you're not old.
You WERE old, now you're just bloody ancient.

**crocman** · 11-10-2012, 01:53 PM

look and learn annuals for christmas

**alitongkat** · 11-10-2012, 01:55 PM

my friend had to walk with a big plastic "can" to get the milk...

and people placed all sort of crap onto the tv...
vases, dolls, jesus figures, photos from the (notso)loved ones...

with a crocheted mat...

most distinctively could be the fact, whether you were beaten up in school or not...

**Cujo** · 11-10-2012, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by crocman

look and learn annuals for christmas

Yes, I used to love those.

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