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[size=14]Bring back any memories?
 
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 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'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, 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 a.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.

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 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.

How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer 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 signals.
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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..

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends.....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) 
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[Jimbob]

Too many of those are familiar!

[STMO999]

I remember all of those, except the stupid American ones.

[Sixstring]

Bugger!!! I remember EVERYTHING well.....................

Now when was I born??

[alunonhisown]

[size=14]Bring back any memories?
 
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 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'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, 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 a.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.

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 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.

How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer 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 signals.
>
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone5. 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 records10. 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..

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends.....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) 
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I remember the ones I have highlighted.
The Milk is obvious as my daddy was the local milkman and is remembered to this day as 'JOHNNY THE MILK'
The party line, our telephone number was 631 and we had a party line with 257, a Mrs Mills, and we used to argue about wanting to use the phone.

[Entwood]

OOPS ....   remember them all ..

But I also remember....

Being able to leave the house without locking all the doors like Fort Knox

If you dropped a wallet or lost a watch it WOULD be handed in to your local cop shop

Local cop shop was just that .. LOCAL .. with a bobby who spoke to you and helped

When neighbours spoke to each other

Neighbourhood watch just happened .. and didn't need a committee and posters ... jsut folks looking out for each other...


I could go on but I'll get morose ... 

[Kevin Wood]

10. Hmm. :-/ Borderline positively ancient.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

Hmmm, 9.


At our table, you HAD to learn to like you food FAST - big family, only dad worked, so food wasn't plentiful.  If you didn't finish before your brothers, expect to start losing food from your plate, and in the knowledge there wasn't any more until tomorrow night!

[unlucky mark mv6]

I remember my mom and dad making me eat her horrible home cooked chips,bloody vile they was,and the milk being delivered,as we used to jump on his milk float,and have a ride around the estate,and i do remember the old lady buying the 45 and 33 vinyls,but im not that old.How i wish those days could return.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It worries me that I remember facts that came before that list:

No telephones at all, except the A/B button one in the call box a few streets away.

The television having "interludes" like the Potters Wheel when no programme was on.

Records that played at 78 rpm.

Streets with no parked cars.

Kitchens that had no white appliances, just a boiler, ringer and a 'skeleton' gas cooker.

No inside toilet, no carpets in bebrooms or on the stairs, with linoleum if you were lucky. Wood splinters in your feet regularly!

Frost on the inside of the windows, with only a coal fire in the 'sitting room' for heating, and Ascot water heaters in the bathroom and kitchen, were strip washes took place.

Mother carrying a damp flannel to wash our faces and hands at the end of train jouneys.

Walks with mother were the fog made it impossible to see two feet in front of you and you ended up covered in soot.

Irons that were heated up on a fire before ironing the clothes

........and so I could go on!  I must be old!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It worries me that I remember facts that came before that list:

No telephones at all, except the A/B button one in the call box a few streets away.

The television having "interludes" like the Potters Wheel when no programme was on.

Records that played at 78 rpm.

Streets with no parked cars.

Kitchens that had no white appliances, just a boiler, ringer and a 'skeleton' gas cooker.

No inside toilet, no carpets in bebrooms or on the stairs, with linoleum if you were lucky. Wood splinters in your feet regularly!

Frost on the inside of the windows, with only a coal fire in the 'sitting room' for heating, and Ascot water heaters in the bathroom and kitchen, were strip washes took place.

Mother carrying a damp flannel to wash our faces and hands at the end of train jouneys.

Walks with mother were the fog made it impossible to see two feet in front of you and you ended up covered in soot.

Irons that were heated up on a fire before ironing the clothes

........and so I could go on!  I must be old!!

Yes Lizzie.......Victorian England was a pretty austere.... and unforgiving place.......but you survived it....

[STMO999]

It worries me that I remember facts that came before that list:

No telephones at all, except the A/B button one in the call box a few streets away.

The television having "interludes" like the Potters Wheel when no programme was on.

Records that played at 78 rpm.

Streets with no parked cars.

Kitchens that had no white appliances, just a boiler, ringer and a 'skeleton' gas cooker.

No inside toilet, no carpets in bebrooms or on the stairs, with linoleum if you were lucky. Wood splinters in your feet regularly!

Frost on the inside of the windows, with only a coal fire in the 'sitting room' for heating, and Ascot water heaters in the bathroom and kitchen, were strip washes took place.

Mother carrying a damp flannel to wash our faces and hands at the end of train jouneys.

Walks with mother were the fog made it impossible to see two feet in front of you and you ended up covered in soot.

Irons that were heated up on a fire before ironing the clothes

........and so I could go on!  I must be old!!

Yes Lizzie.......Victorian England was a pretty austere.... and unforgiving place.......but you survived it....

Tee hee

[Olympia5776]

This was posted on a Friends Reunited site we have for our Primary school.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.


Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.


Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.


We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy  Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,
 

no video/dvd  films, 

no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!



We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.



Only girls had pierced ears!



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.



You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...



We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!



RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on

MERIT 



Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.





The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!



Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
 






We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL !




And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.


And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.





PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age anymore
 

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It worries me that I remember facts that came before that list:

No telephones at all, except the A/B button one in the call box a few streets away.

The television having "interludes" like the Potters Wheel when no programme was on.

Records that played at 78 rpm.

Streets with no parked cars.

Kitchens that had no white appliances, just a boiler, ringer and a 'skeleton' gas cooker.

No inside toilet, no carpets in bebrooms or on the stairs, with linoleum if you were lucky. Wood splinters in your feet regularly!

Frost on the inside of the windows, with only a coal fire in the 'sitting room' for heating, and Ascot water heaters in the bathroom and kitchen, were strip washes took place.

Mother carrying a damp flannel to wash our faces and hands at the end of train jouneys.

Walks with mother were the fog made it impossible to see two feet in front of you and you ended up covered in soot.

Irons that were heated up on a fire before ironing the clothes

........and so I could go on!  I must be old!!

Yes Lizzie.......Victorian England was a pretty austere.... and unforgiving place.......but you survived it....

Very funny Optimist, but the fifties were not much different than 60 years before for us poor!!

[Varche]

Oh my god.

Thank goodness it was in big type!

A/B phoneboxes. Did anyone else tap out calls free? It was some process to get any distance!!

Must go time for my afternoon nap