Age Barometer

[rockin'robin]

Total the number of these that you remember:

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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!.

 

[SimonJ]

I got 8 and don't I know it! lol

 

[Babyblue]

Wirelessly posted

I remember most of them.

 

[radioman]

Ouch !!! I remember 10 of them .. right at the edge... I forgotten all about those blue flasshbulbs ....remember sucking on those wax drinks....

 

[playsonfreeway]

Wirelessly posted

I guess I am older than dirt. I remember all of them

 

[rolling7]

What memories! I got them all, bath time to get the dirt off.

 

[Reba]

Wirelessly posted (BB Curve 9300)

The only things I don't remember having were #1 and #25.

 

[Bottesini]

16 remembered. So I am on the young side of older than dirt! :P

 

[rockin'robin]

Wirelessly posted (BB Curve 9300)

The only things I don't remember having were #1 and #25.

Black Jack chewing gum...yummy!...and those wringer-type washing machines...my sis caught her hand in one....

 

[Marie579]

So glad that I only remembered less than half of course I had to recount a couple of times

 

[femme Fatale]

I only recognize 9 of the listed things, would have been more but I was limited to what I can have as a kid.

 

[Boobookitty]

I loved the black jack gum and wax soda (of course wax teeth lol)

 

[DeafBadger]

Total the number of these that you remember:
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
7. Party lines

If you remembered 0-5 You're still young.

I saw these in the 90's. Rare sightings, yes, but I saw them!

 

[Angel1989]

16 remembered. So I am on the young side of older than dirt! :P

Im with you on this one. I like being on the "young side of dirt"

 

[Tousi]

I remembered almost all of them. There are still places where you can get Black Jack gum.

 

[Frisky Feline]

some of them, i remember. i cant believe that i kept sucking on the wax. ugh.

 

[diehardbiker]

Wow alot memories! I ain't telling my age!

I do remember home delivery of milk in metal carton! Even Washing machine with wringle in it.

And yes I pulled glass bottles from soda machines and it was ten cents back then.