Older Than Dirt Quiz

[Dial_tone]

Count all the ones that you remember NOT the ones you were told about

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 juke boxes
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 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 = 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!

 

[HumorMe]

I got a score of 40.

 

[Sean Scott]

I only remembered about four, as for the gum i still buy blackjack and beemans at some stores.

 

[Y_lifter]

Count all the ones that you remember NOT the ones you were told about

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 juke boxes * Still got um
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 *Our Sansui kicked
17. Metal ice trays with lever *
18. Mimeograph paper * Buzz
19 Blue flashbulb *
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys * lost many
22. Cork popguns *
23. Drive-ins *
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 13 = Don't tell your age,

 

[SoreArms]

5

 

[gonelifting]

Wow, when will these things come out? Looking forward to them.


lol jk I got 12

 

[powerslave]

9

 

[Zebo]

13. I felt better before this quiz. I need a nap.

 

[Scotsman]

Crap I got a 23.

Now part of that is due to having family in the very rural south where many of those things lived on longer than in the rest of the country. Also my good friend's dad restored those kinds of old cars when I was younger.

Still if doesn't help that I am now going grey on my temples along with my beard and a good bit of my hair, so all in all this quiz makes me feel very old.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Smurfy]

damn 13. ive never scored so poorly on a quiz before.

 

[string_bean00]

They still have candy cigarettes at the party store down the street.

 

[Dial_tone]

I got 16.

 

[HumorMe]

I got 22.

 

[Tactile]

Some things to add to that list...

Those orange bbq's shaped like a ball
8 track tapes
Lawn darts
Rock 'em, sock 'em robots
Short, stubby beer bottles
Pez dispensers
Tiny Tim
Computer punch cards
Downtown was wear you went to shop
Rollerskating
Firecrackers
Peyote, mescaline & crystal THC
Being able to smoke a cigarette anywhere
Hockey players without helmuts..even the goalies!

 

[Delinquent]

3

 

[Deterass]

I just went to the drive in.

 

[AAP]

after reading that, I got out my Green Machine and smoked all the Big Wheels on the block.

 

[Dial_tone]

What were those lil motorcycles that you pulled the string thing on then set on the ground and they'd take off? SSR's or something.

 

[Zebo]

What were those lil motorcycles that you pulled the string thing on then set on the ground and they'd take off? SSR's or something.

I actually had an Evel Knievel one of those....lol

 

[SoKlueles]

YES!!!!! im still a teeny bopper

 

[digger]

All but numbers 8 and 10. Wait a sec -- "Butch wax"? You mean the stuff the barber used to make a flat top? We had it -- we just didn't call it that. So, 24 out of 25.

I not only remember the glass bottle Coke machine, I filled one -- at college. It was a bit of an antique, but we could still get bottles for it from the local distributor. It was a special privilege to get 10 cent Cokes when everyone else had to pay a quarter. And we turned the refrigerator up to the point they started to turn slushy, sometimes. Mmmmm.

 

[PHATchik]

4.

 

[Robert Jan]

I honestly remember 6 of them. Im only 18 years old. I have old family that leave old crap lying around...

I remember

5,6,12,16,21,22

 

[Mr. dB]

Ugh, 25 out of 25.

Well, 24 if you consider that I have never personally experienced a party line, but I knew they existed.

 

[john937]

22, and I'm lying about the other 3.

 

[RADAR]

Whoo hoo Got em all---what did i win?????



RADAR

 

[Dial_tone]

A solid state Quasar tv.

 

[HumorMe]

Whoo hoo Got em all---what did i win?????



RADAR

A six pack of Geritol.

 

[biteme]

I remembered all but 3. I guess I'm an old fart, but I can still put nearly all the young ones to shame in the gym. Hahahahaha.

 

[The Red Dragon]

0 and i live in an urban area too =/

 

[biteme]

Here's some more:

bottle cap candy
wacky packages
Mighty Mo's
paper airplanes with the rubberbands (they sucked)
Marathon bar
That electric football game that sucked ass. I played that for hours and hours.

The little manual hockey table
The first computer type ping pong game (the box was green)
Radio Shack ping pong games
a little dude named biteme that had the biggest imagination in the world, could play for hours by himself, fantacising that he was a pro athlete, mysterious cowboy that could not be killed, etc.

promise rings
mood rings
black lights
Farah Fawcett Poster (Jacked off to that many times)
Charlies Angels
Baretta
Fish
Barney Miller
The super heroes cartoon. (Diaper man, tornado man, rope man, strong man, cuckoo man)
The Hercules cartoon (With Johnny Nash singing the theme song)
Starsky and Hutch
Mission Impossible (I hated that show, it always meant bed time for us)
The late show ( with the little owl)
The Twilight Zone
Rollerderby

 

[HumorMe]

Pet rocks

 

[RADAR]

A solid state Quasar tv.

Screw That crap---Its probably old & busted--Quasar no longer manufactures TV's



Keep yer junk

RADAR

 

[Mr. dB]

Screw That crap---Its probably old & busted--Quasar no longer manufactures TV's



Keep yer junk

How 'bout a Sylvania Superset then?

 

[RADAR]

How 'bout a Sylvania Superset then?

Nope, Sylvania still makes tvs but they have dropped the superset name,Man those were the days.French Company bought em out-NAP-North American Phillips Corp.
That company makes the sets all the same but stamps the logo-Phillips, Sylvania, Magnavox,Crosley,NAP.


RADAR

 

[starfish]

Here's some more:

bottle cap candy
wacky packages
Mighty Mo's
paper airplanes with the rubberbands (they sucked)
Marathon bar
That electric football game that sucked ass. I played that for hours and hours.

The little manual hockey table
The first computer type ping pong game (the box was green)
Radio Shack ping pong games
a little dude named biteme that had the biggest imagination in the world, could play for hours by himself, fantacising that he was a pro athlete, mysterious cowboy that could not be killed, etc.

promise rings
mood rings
black lights
Farah Fawcett Poster (Jacked off to that many times)
Charlies Angels
Baretta
Fish
Barney Miller
The super heroes cartoon. (Diaper man, tornado man, rope man, strong man, cuckoo man)
The Hercules cartoon (With Johnny Nash singing the theme song)
Starsky and Hutch
Mission Impossible (I hated that show, it always meant bed time for us)
The late show ( with the little owl)
The Twilight Zone
Rollerderby

damn.... you are older than dirt. I don't remember any of that

 

[Gymgurl]

I actually had an Evel Knievel one of those....lol

LOL I remeber these!! I socored a 8

 

[Mr. dB]

Nope, Sylvania still makes tvs but they have dropped the superset name,Man those were the days.French Company bought em out-NAP-North American Phillips Corp.
That company makes the sets all the same but stamps the logo-Phillips, Sylvania, Magnavox,Crosley,NAP.

Crosley? Holy shit, they still put the Crosley name on TVs???

Crosley, yeah the same Crosley, in addition to TVs and refrigerators, used to make a small car whose engine block was made out of stamped steel instead of cast iron. It was folded and brazed, and I guess the actual cylinder liners would have to have been cast. We had a Crosley B&W TV for a while when I was a kid, we got it from my aunt when she died.

 

[The Shadow]

Wodin scored a 59.

 

[pitbullstl]

What were those lil motorcycles that you pulled the string thing on then set on the ground and they'd take off? SSR's or something.

No way dude, Green Machines were the big wheels that you steered with those two joysticks......they rocked. Although AAP was too busy playing with Barbies to have actually had one..