Age Barometer

[Mufflicker]

I remember 15 of them. Because my parents were in their 40's when I was born and we didn't have much money I was exposed to things that really belonged to the generations before me. I've used a wringer wahser in the last year.
Adding to the list
Giving the operator your number when you made a long distance call.
Pick-ups with foot starters.
Column manual transmissions(3 on the tree).
Black and white TV.
Am radio being the only thing.
My parents actually had some 78's
Tube radios.
Metal oil cans.
Soda cans you had to open with an opener.
There were still some incandescent street lights when I was a very young child.
Road markers that burned kerosine.
S & H and Plaid stamps.
Ramblers( not know if Canada had cars made by American motors or not.)
Woolworths with lunch counters.
No McDonalds.
Every gas station being full service. Most of them where garages.

 

[Meesh]

How about Rocket Radios (no power, you attached with a clip to almost anything metal.)

Pez dispensers (yeah, they're retro now)

Plymouth Valiants with push button transmissions.

*Shuffles away with his walker.

 

[xarir]

1. Candy cigarettes
2. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
3. 45 RPM records
4. Mimeograph paper

I guess I'm young ...

Goes away to sit at the kiddie table ...

 

[Jack Mioff]

Wringer washer - still got the scars on my arm when I ran it through the wringer. Mom had to hit the emergency release to free me.

What the hell were the name of those stamps you got at the IGA and could redeem for items at a separate store? Were those the "plaid stamps"?

My buddies and me tried to 'modify' a Rambler. Gave up.

Cheers,
Jack.

 

[Svend]

glass milk jugs
canvas tents
rabbit's foot
conkers/doneywackers
Jello car coins
Major Matt Mason
Nehru jackets
clackers
Superballs

 

[baci2004]

I remember 14 of them.

Here's one...toothpaste in a lead tube. Yikes!

 

[TheNiteHwk]

glass milk jugs
canvas tents
rabbit's foot
conkers/doneywackers
Jello car coins
Major Matt Mason
Nehru jackets
clackers
Superballs

Stop already...lol.

canvas tents: went to a day camp somewhere on Trout Lake when I was a kid. They had these huge canvas tents they used for inside activites if it was raining or something. Still remember the smell and how hot they were inside if it was sunny.

rabbits foot: my first ever key tag/chain

jello car coins: nobody had a bigger collection then me.

clackers: my sister use to drive me nuts with those things.

superballs: use to bounce 'em as high as possible out on the road in front of my house. my Mom would yell out the window... "don't lose that one cause you ain't gettin another one."

 

[glaeken]

Here`s a few more:

G.I. Joe with the Kung Fu grip
Big Jim
AFX
Super Slider Snow Skates
Crazy Carpets
Earth shoes
Mukluks
Pong
The Friendly Giant (Look up. Look waaaaay up.)
[SIZE=-1]Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Coal/wood burning furnaces
Polyester leisure suits
Even worse, two-tone [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]polyester leisure suits
Mullets - Yikes!
Crown Royal with the cloth bag
A&W drive-in
The Red Barn
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For the computer geeks out there:

[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Punch cards
Commodore PET/64/Vic 20
Cassette tape drives
8" floppies
Acoustic coupler modems

[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]For the real computer geeks out there:

[/SIZE]COBOL/F
TABGEN
IBM PC/XT w/10MB (yes MB not GB) hard drive
Adventure (It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.)
ARPANET
VAX
CP/M
TEX
XEROX PARC

 

[Pargolfer]

I guess I am old....

I am as "OLD AS DIRT"..Let me check right now with Annalee...

 

[Macator2003]

Count how many you remember...

1. Blackjack chewing gum -nope
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water -nope
3. Candy cigarettes -they still have 'em, just without the red end
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles -they're still out there
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes -they're still some around
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers -fraid not
7. Party lines -barely
8. Newsreels before the movie -nope
9. P.F. Flyers -nope
10. Butch wax -what??
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933) -nope
12. Peashooters -yup
13. Howdy Doody -nope
14. 45 RPM records -you bet
15. S&H Green Stamps -what??
16. Hi-fi's -yes sir
17. Metal ice trays with levers -oh yea!
18. Mimeograph paper -is that the same as carbon copy??
19. Blue flashbulbs -yep
20. Beanie and Cecil -who??
21. Roller skate keys -sorry
22. Cork popguns -yes
23. Drive-in -there are still some around
24. Studebakers -ditto
25. Wash tub wringers -unfortunately yes

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!

I remembered 14.

0-5 -you're either still young or you just can't remember squat!!

 

[shack]

Wringer washer - still got the scars on my arm when I ran it through the wringer. Mom had to hit the emergency release to free me.

Reminds me of when my older sister tried emulating how our mother used to grind her own beef in a manual meat grinder. Unfortunately she tried adding her index finger to it. A bit misshapen but she didn't lose it.

 

[Svend]

It's the wax used to keep the front of a crewcut or brush cut hairstyle standing up.
Check out old pictures of the Leafs from the 60s.

 

[thirdtime]

Count how many you remember...

1. Blackjack chewing gum Tasted lousy
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water Also tasted lousy and not even a thimble's worth of water in it
3. Candy cigarettes You can still buy them
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles Little bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Not many coffee shops around then. Only Mr. Coffee
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Yup
7. Party lines Was that 1 long & 1 short?
8. Newsreels before the movie Don't remember that. Remember a movie costing $1.25
9. P.F. Flyers Yup
10. Butch wax Nope sorry. How about Brylcreem?
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933) Ours was Russell
12. Peashooters Had one
13. Howdy Doody Yup. How about 'Sky King' & 'Mighty Mouse'?
14. 45 RPM records I still have some 78s. Nothing to play them on
15. S&H Green Stamps Nope sorry
16. Hi-fi's They'd play 78, 33 or 45s
17. Metal ice trays with levers Have one
18. Mimeograph paper Yup
19. Blue flashbulbs It got expensive shooting indoors
20. Beanie and Cecil I hated them
21. Roller skate keys Kinda screwed if you lost it
22. Cork popguns Yup
23. Drive-in Ah.. the memories. Dufferin, Scarboro, 400 & Northwest
24. Studebakers Yup
25. Wash tub wringers I was afraid of it

How about:
Before postal codes. Our address was G....... Cres. Toronto 19, Ontario.
Kresge, Woolworth and Sayvette stores?
Going to the local variety (convenience) store with your Dad with all the tubes out of the TV, to use their tube-tester to find out which one was blown and pray they had one in stock?
Mojo candy - 2 for a penny
12 cent comic books, 10 cent chocolate bars and 25 cent bread
Going to Eaton's or Simpson's downtown to have your picture taken with Santa
Fina and B\A gas stations
Schools testing their air-raid sirens
TV before cable - you'd get CTV, CBC, CHCH and depending on the weather possibly 2, 4 and 7 from Buffalo and 3 in Barrie
Christ am I old!!!!

 

[thighspy]

Old???

How about Ice boxes??And having to get up in the middle of the night to drain the pan--which always slushed over my belly.Talk about awake.
Of course one could buy a Fridge for a $ down and a $a week,(If THEY could catch you)Gas at 17 cents a gallon,bread from a Bakery at 11 cents.And it was real bread,it even tasted like bread,not plastic.Milkbottles,with a cream catcher on the top.Milkbottles with the money for the milkman on the porch.Now one is lucky if the porch is;nt stolen ---yes yes i remember honest people.Pussy for 10 $?????OYESSS.
But ,there was also a little book -sort of Passport for Alcohol ,you bought too much,and one was cut off. 3 People was an assembly,and was broken up by the police,And on -----

 

[glaeken]

Hey, did that Crown Royal come in a purple velvet bag? LOL

Yup, it was a purple velvet bag with the Crown Royal crest on it.

 

[Svend]

How many people here collected pogs as a kid?

 

[Bud Plug]

19, and I'm under 45!

 

[Mufflicker]

Here`s a few more:


Pong I had a used one once. I was too poor to aford a new game.

Coal/wood burning furnaces I`ve got to go out in a few minutes and throw some wood in ours.
Polyester leisure suits ugly
Even worse, two-tone polyester leisure suits

A&W drive- the is/was one around not too long ago.
The Red Barn

For the computer geeks out there:

Punch cards -I came onto the computer seen just at their end. The first think you did was number then so if you dropped them you could run them through the collator(sp?) and get them pactk in order. I remember making chrismas wreaths out of them.

Commodore PET/64/Vic 20 -We got one on High school just as I was leaving. We had a teletype terminal hooked to a pdp-11
Cassette tape drives That went with the "fast terminal"

8" floppies
Acoustic coupler modems yep

For the real computer geeks out there:

COBOL/F
TABGEN
IBM PC/XT w/10MB (yes MB not GB) hard drive was around when they were the hottest thing out there. I also had keys to a lab that had an apple mac with TWO floppy drives.
Adventure (It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.)
ARPANET
VAX yep
CP/M yep
TEX
XEROX yep PARC

Gee you guys know how to make a guy feel old.

 

[glaeken]

Gee you guys know how to make a guy feel old.

Just spreading the joy.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

These list would not be complete without

Pennyloafers.