Older Than Dirt Quiz

[BroIgnatius]

Older Than Dirt Quiz:

Count all the ones that you actually 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 table side juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard
stoppers
7. Telephone party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone number with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H green stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19.Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns


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 16-22 = You're older than dirt!

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I think I rated a 7.

 

[~Anastasia~]

I'm at 14 ... not QUITE older than dirt. But the truth is, I think I remember a few more but just forgetting the circumstance at moment. Us older folks do that sometimes.

 

[St_Worm2]

I just turned 61. Need I say more

 

[KevinC1129]

7...I'm not as old as I thought I was.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

17! I'm YOUNGER than I thought! Woohoo!!!!!!!

 

[prodromos]

I don't think a lot of those existed in Australia. Our milk bottles had aluminium foil caps.

 

[Anhelyna]

Oh dear - I'm really giving my age away - before the foil caps, glass bottles here had cardboard disks in them and the birds used to have a great time pecking at them and driving them into the bottles so they could get at the milk

 

[BeachSun]

17! I'm YOUNGER than I thought! Woohoo!!!!!!!

You know, some people have said...

 

[BeachSun]

10. No denying... I'm old.
Wah wahhhh

 

[Wolseley]

I got 16. I don't recall Packards, but my Dad had a '46 Dodge wrecker and a '51 Chevy ¾-ton pickup; and the guy who lived just across the street had a '55 Buick.
We had milk delivered to the house for a time when I was a kid, but the milk came in regular plastic jugs like you see now.
I remember Butch Wax, but I always used Brylcreem.....didn't even use that after about the 4th grade.
Howdy Doody, letter phone prefixes ("Opahratah----gimme Evergreen, tree tree, tree tree!") and newsreels were just a tad before my time.

 

[longhair75]

I got them all. I can still remember my phone number being JAckson 0949. Where I live, we only used the first two letters, but I know why my prefix was Jackson. My local phone company switch was on Jackson Street.

JFTR: I am 64

 

[RobNJ]

Ummm 20, and I'm familiar with the others

ETA: Make that 19, and familiar with the others... Forgot there was a four wheeled Packard. Was also the name of one the ancient department stores in my area

 

[Martinius]

All 22! Went into an antique shop recently with my grandkids and warned them that I was older than some of the things we would see. Sure enough, there was an RCA 45 rpm record player just like the one I had. My grandkids wanted to know what it was for.

 

[prodromos]

We still have a bunch of old 78's and the grammaphone player. You have to replace the stainless steel needle each time you play a record. Spring has broken for the 2nd time though, so I might have to see if I can work in some sort of motor drive as it is nearly impossible to get replacements.

 

[bill5]

10. Not too bad.

Also how about:

- Bottle caps candy
- Transistor radios
- bikes with "banana seats"
- pop tops (pull tabs on soda cans)
- silk print shirts
- bell-bottom jeans
- platform shoes
- hot wheels
- vans with shag carpeting EVERYWHERE
- commercials. back then there were no commercials for lawyers or car insurance; it was almost all household products, fast food, and clothes

 

[prodromos]

Transistor radios

Valve radios, dude. Valve radios.

 

[St_Worm2]

10. Not too bad.

Also how about:

- Bottle caps candy
- Transistor radios
- bikes with "banana seats"
- pop tops (pull tabs on soda cans)
- silk print shirts
- bell-bottom jeans
- platform shoes
- hot wheels
- vans with shag carpeting EVERYWHERE
- commercials. back then there were no commercials for lawyers or car insurance; it was almost all household products, fast food, and clothes

Your van doesn't have shag carpeting

 

[RileyG]

I got two. They still sell #2, and #3, or at least throughout the Midwest where I'm at. I'm 21, almost 22.

 

[longhair75]

for the really old people:

Farfel the dog singing N_E_S_T_L_E_S Nestles makes the very best.......Chocolate!