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Post by Dave on Jul 30, 2009 20:37:54 GMT
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 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 'at 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 figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled 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 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; 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, six 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.
How many of you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
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.Candy cigarettes
2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
7.Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13.Cork popguns
14. Studebakers
15. 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 11-15 =You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
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Post by Dave on Jul 30, 2009 21:10:02 GMT
Well I got 10, does anyone know what Studebakers
are?
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Post by stuartB on Jul 30, 2009 21:35:26 GMT
Well I got 10, does anyone know what Studebakers are? who are you kdding?? I got 11 and I'm at least 20 years younger than you  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 30, 2009 21:42:54 GMT
Well I got 10, does anyone know what Studebakers are? who are you kdding?? I got 11 and I'm at least 20 years younger than you No, I grew up on Buckland and we were poor, not like you rich Paignton kids ;D |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 30, 2009 21:47:33 GMT
who are you kdding?? I got 11 and I'm at least 20 years younger than you No, I grew up on Buckland and we were poor, not like you rich Paignton kids ;D how very dare you!!! I'm a Yarcombe boy but more a Brixham boy than a Paignton kid!!! we had it tougher than you lot  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 30, 2009 21:52:02 GMT
Yes I remember now as I put up pictures of the pub for you and told you the story of what happened, when I made a delivery there once. Anyway I lied, we were the only house on Buckland to have Axeminster carpets and all the TV channels. |
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Post by stuartB on Jul 30, 2009 22:05:16 GMT
Yes I remember now as I put up pictures of the pub for you and told you the story of what happened, when I made a delivery there once. Anyway I lied, we were the only house on Buckland to have Axeminster carpets and all the TV channels. so you were the one! ;D most of the options in the quiz are still current here in wales |
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Post by merse on Jul 31, 2009 3:47:07 GMT
Well I got 10, does anyone know what Studebakers are?  They were an American (so left hand drive) Station Wagon or Estate Car in English parlance...................all shiny chrome, two tone paint work, wings and white walled tyres. The place to see them was in the vicinity of the American military basis of the time places like Lakenheath in Suffolk and when the folk who owned them started taking "Sunday Runs" to places like Southend they unwittingly began the craze that exists to this day of the "Pimp Runs" where all the local boy racers preen their cars up and down the Promenade of a Sunday morning! |
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Post by chelstongull on Jul 31, 2009 7:36:26 GMT
1.Candy cigarettes - YES 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes - NO 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles - YES 4. Party lines on the telephone -YES 5.Newsreels before the movie - NO (Pearl & Dean) 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) - YES 7.Peashooters - YES 8. Howdy Doody - NO 9. 45 RPM records - YES 10.Hi-fi's - YES 11. Metal ice trays with lever - NO 12. Blue flashbulb - YES 13.Cork popguns - YES 14. Studebakers -NO 15. Wash tub wringers - YES if you mean mangles. NINE |
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Post by seventyseven on Jul 31, 2009 8:54:07 GMT
1.Candy cigarettes. yes... 'Mum! Sarah's smoking in the back garden!!!
2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes. no... Coffee shops... in Torquay!!!
3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles. yes... Nostalgia!
4. Party lines on the telephone. yes... Perfect for the nosey neighbour brigade!
5.Newsreels before the movie. yes
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 3 channels [if you were fortunate]). yes
7.Peashooters. yes... and Dutch Arrows (never did find the one that sailed over the houses at the bottom of the 'green' in Mincent Hill!
8. Howdy Doody. no
9. 45 RPM records.yes...
10.Hi-fi's. yes
11. Metal ice trays with lever. yes
12. Blue flashbulb. yes
13.Cork popguns. yes
14. Studebakers. no
15. Wash tub wringers. yes... and still have the images of my dear ol' mum standing out in the back garden with her mangle on 'full power'!
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 11-15 =You're older than dirt!
12!
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Post by aussie on Jul 31, 2009 9:27:54 GMT
We must have been some what behind the times Down Under because I can easily recall all of those things, especially the Studebaker Hawk, Christ knows what they wieghed, Biege and brown with wood panels some of them, white walled tyres, massive bench style front seats, didn`t some one like Zappa write a song about Studebaker Hawk? Howdy Doody has got wooden balls! Some of the cafes in Melbourne have had the little glass fronted jukeboxes put back in for nostalgia with some of the old classics back on them Like The Dave Clark Five song that everyone used to stanp their collective feet to! Did the test pattern on t.v. over here have a horrible high pitched noise that came with it, ours used to be a circle of mossiac, square shades of black and white with a picture in the middle of Andy Pandy and Looby Lou. Did you guys have to leave little covers out for the milkman to place over the milk bottles to stop the birds pecking through and nicking milk? Oh those were the days you could just walk into a friend or nieghbours house with out knocking just announcing you were entering! I don`t class myself as as old as dirt because I am yet to start farting dust!
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Post by chelstongull on Jul 31, 2009 11:44:12 GMT
didn`t some one like Zappa write a song about Studebaker Hawk? Studebaker Hawke was mentioned in the epic 'Billy The Mountain' track off 'Just Another band From LA'. A classic and well remembered Aussie. |
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Post by aussie on Jul 31, 2009 13:18:32 GMT
Why does it hurt when I pee? Was one of my favourites, Zappa was truely one funny mother of invention!
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Post by merse on Jul 31, 2009 16:49:15 GMT
I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, How many of you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. 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.Candy cigarettes 2.Coffee shops with tableside 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 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7.Peashooters 8. Howdy Doody 9. 45 RPM records 10.Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with lever 12. Blue flashbulb 13.Cork popguns 14. Studebakers 15. Wash tub wringers I dunno about weighing fifty pounds but I never had a bike worth more than fifty pence! I remember each and every one of those things so obviously I am the oldest and dirtiest of members. We never had a telly until 1964 and I remember my dad making his own ITV aeriel out of a wire coat hanger some co-ax and a long galvanised pole so that we were the only recipients of "Westward TV" in Aller Park as he picked up the Stockland Hill signal. All my mates reckoned my Dad was quite barmy, but they had a different tale to tell when they came around and crowded in front of the 14" ;D "blue" and white screen. That bluey glow was a dead give away on walks around the area as one could immediately tell just who did and who didn't have a set. House phones were only for "posh folk" (we weren't!) and we never ever had a car until 1966 when both my mum and dad passed their driving tests at the ages of 42 and 46 respectively and they bought a brand new Mini Countryman ( a sort of Dave Roach sized Studebaker) for about £800! My mum immediately decide we would go on a touring holiday of North Wales, my dad reckoned she was round the twist and refused to come. Off we went and spent a whole week getting lost ~ mum had never even thought of buying a road atlas and naively thought Welsh folk would be as welcomimg to visitors as those in Devon. A few days of getting "lead up garden paths" to say nothing of mountain tracks soon opened her eyes to just what an awkward bunch of so and so's they could be and my abiding memory was of entering one small town shop and the chatter in English soon changed to exclusively Welsh; "Croeso y Cymru" my arse, I think we were lucky they didn't fire bomb us! How about hand turned "mangles" (just like Granny caught her tits in) made by ACME ? Gas fridges? Those huge wooden tongs mum used to haul the whites she had just washed out of the gas powered boiler? The cash counter at the CO-OP where they used to send your change whizzing back on the overhead cable with a detachable little canister for the counter assistant to give you your change? Those huge meat slicers the "Grocery Shop" always had on the counter for the sliced ham (and a few finger tips thrown in for good measure) that the guy in a long white coat would carefully cut for mum? Did your mum have a meat mincer like mine did and did you ever put a lizard in it as I once did?  Clotted cream in jam jars with greased proofed paper tops held on with an elastic band and bought from some old Doris in a pinny and her best Sunday hat in the Pannier Market? (surely an inspiration for Nora Batty?) Chickens from the market with their heads and necks still on? The smell of freshly baking bread wafting accross Courtenay Park at night from the bakeries in Brunel Road as we waited for those "Midnight Expresses" to go and watch The Gulls away? Sheila Hayman's big tits......................now it's time to stop!  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 31, 2009 16:54:19 GMT
Sheila Hayman's big tits......................now it's time to stop! Please don't tell me you played with them as well |
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