OLDER THEN DIRT... THOUGHT SOME OF YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS ... Someone asked the other day, What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up? We didnt have fast food when I was growing up,I informed him. All the food was slow. Cmon, seriously. Where did you eat? It was a place called at home, I explained. ! Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didnt 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 didnt 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, never woreLevis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow) We didnt have a television in our house until I was 11. 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 was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called pizza pie. When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. Its still the best pizza I ever had. I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didnt know werent 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. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. 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 dont blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isnt what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend : My Dad is cleaning out my grandmothers house (she died in December) and he brought 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 didnt have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? 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. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone 8 Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11.. 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]) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15.S&H green stamps 16. Hi-fis 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = Youre still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Dont tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You re older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Dont forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUST HAVE BEEN A RICH KID... I didnt have all the stuff this guy had, We had an outhouse with brown and white corn cobs, you used a brown one and then a white one to see if you need another brown one. We didnt have TV or a radio or telephone, if we wanted to watch TV we snuck up to neighbors house at the top of the hill and peeked through his living room window until he caught us and chased us away. we were so poor mice wont live with us for there was nothing left to eat. ( 12 Kids ) Mom cooked on a wood burning stove and she could throw together some great dishes. I loved her homemade bread. we heated the house with a big wood burning stove in the living room, when you went to bed in the winter and you complained it was cold she would just throw on another brother. if we had a long winter and wood supply ran low we had our butts in the woods copping trees for firewood sometimes with snow up to your butt. For lights we had kerosene burning lamps, I felt we had one up on President Lincoln with his candle. We worked for our neighbor who had a big farm. In the summer we cut and hauled hay all day and if you were lucky you made a whooping $2.00 a day,( after all you were just kids ). Dad had a 37 Chevy 4 door sedan that he bought new in 37 for $375.00 and kept it until 1954. Thats when my mother learned to drive. She was the only woman I knew who could make a 37 Chevy do 0 to 60 in 5 seconds. after she started driving my father was changing parts on every weekend. Before she started driving my Dad put almost 300 thousand on that old Chevy and only changed the brake shoes and points and plugs. I helped him change the bearings in the rear once. (that started my mechanical career ). Later on in life my mother saved her money and bought a 49 Hudson for $50.00 and whatever it said on the speedometer she could make that car do and more. too bad they didnt have women Nascar drivers back then she could have made a fortune as Queen of Nascar. Please dont start crying and get your key board all wet. I survived and enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17 and have never regretted my life as a child. My mother and Father both died in the 70s and I miss them as if it was yesterday. Oh, by the way, This was in New Jersey in 40s and 50s. Not in Tennessee. Luke
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:01:10 +0000
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