How many do you remember?

Automobile ‘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. 5 and 10 cent Candy machines

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes and Blackjack chewing gum

4. Coke coolers; Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

 

5. Coffee shops and Diners with tableside jukeboxes

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

7. Black Dial Telephones and Party lines

8. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)

9. P.F. Flyers

10. Butch wax

11. Howdy Doody & Buffalo Bob

12. Peashooters

13. Newsreels before the movie

14. 45 RPM records

15. S&H Green Stamps

16. Drive-ins with Car-Hops

17. Metal ice trays with lever

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue flashbulbs

20. Listening to Radio and 'The Shadow Knows'

21. Packard cars

22. Roller skate keys

23. Wurlitzer Jukeboxes

24. Cork popguns

25. Hi-fi's

26. Studebaker cars 

27. Wash tub wringers

28. 10 cent Theatre PopCorn

29. Free Air for your Car Tires

30. 17 cent gasoline and your windshields cleaned for nothing

 

 

If you remembered 0-7 = You're still young

If you remembered 8-11 =You are getting older

If you remembered 12-16 = Don't tell your age

If you remembered 17-30 = You're older than dirt!

 

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