Just how old are you anyway ?

ARCADIAN · Poncho Master!

Just how old are you anyway ?

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

I got 14 @50

69-Tin Indian · Guru

Suffice it to say I'm old as dirt. Hmmm.....does that make me a dirty old man? Just puttin' it out there. There sure were a lot of great things in that list though. I do remember Black Cat cigarettes as my Nana used to smoke them. And boy do I EVER remember having a party line!

68post · Poncho Master!

ARCADIAN wrote:

Barry they were Black Cat Number 7's

-- Edited by ARCADIAN on Friday 22nd of October 2010 07:12:24 PM

Yes, that's it! aww

L79_Acadian · Veteran Member

I see Stephen is really showing his age, he had to make the questions larger,so he could read them. Well I helped him out some more too, with the next post
Roger
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-- Edited by L79_Acadian on Friday 22nd of October 2010 08:18:23 PM

L79_Acadian · Veteran Member

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
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
There, now you can read it WITHOUT your glasses.
Lol, Roger

-- Edited by L79_Acadian on Friday 22nd of October 2010 08:17:13 PM

canadian l79 · Addicted!

I'm BAD I remember all of them at 70+.

64 RAG · Addicted!

Easy one for me, also if you watch reruns of happy days you see most of them.
At first I thought I had 26, showing my age I guess.

Stephenzone · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

L79_Acadian wrote:

I see Stephen is really showing his age, he had to make the questions larger,so he could read them. Well I helped him out some more too, with the next post
Roger

-- Edited by L79_Acadian on Friday 22nd of October 2010 08:18:23 PM

I only need the glasses for reading and welding

66 Grande guy · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

17 at 54 but then I lived and still do live a pretty backward part of the country.

Anybody have any Clove flavoured lifesavers? I still look for them every time I go into a candy store but I'm startin to lose hope.

LeeRoy · Guru

Got em all! Funny, I don't feel 58. Can't remember what I did last week though LOL!

L79_Acadian · Veteran Member

Thats why I enlarged the fonts Stephen, now you wont have to have your glasses on when you are reading the thread.
I was going to drop in yesterday, I was in Cobourg for a interview at Protoplast.but I got pressed for time, and didnt make it to your house.
Roger

67custom · Guru

At 62 I remeber 19 of them but then we came from an area that did not have some of that fancy stuff

Addicted!

I remember too darn many.with or without my glasses!~!

Elroy · Poncho Master!

@ 49 I hit 16. I remember those party lines out on the farm and the doggone wringer washers, how about riding the stone boat picking rocks, stooker stacking bales, dumprake, old time thrashing machine and all that old farm stuff ??

DANO65 · Poncho Master!

OK , all of you who were raised on party lines, how many of you still pick up the phone and listen before dialling??

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Elroy wrote:

@ 49 I hit 16. I remember those party lines out on the farm and the doggone wringer washers, how about riding the stone boat picking rocks, stooker stacking bales, dumprake, old time thrashing machine and all that old farm stuff ??

I must have ate 40 pounds of hay chaf/dust a day standing on the stooker. The arches of my feet would be in pain after kicking the release all day (the stooker had a sticky one). furious

mfleury · Poncho Master!

same as ontario

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

DANO65 wrote:

OK , all of you who were raised on party lines, how many of you still pick up the phone and listen before dialling??

You mean not eeryone does that??? confuse

LN7 NUT · Addicted!

I'm 27 and I remeber 15 of these!

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water I used to get these all the time when I was young, there was this old timey candy store in Calmar Alberta where I lived with my mom when I was in the first grade. (we lived in Calmar, not the candy store)
3. Candy cigarettes Samecandy store!
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle There was still a few of these around in the late 80's when that style of glass bottle was at the end of being phased out, those ones with the styro lable were a better seller at the time.
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes There was at least 3 restaurants I recal going to as a kid that had these, and now i know of one that I go to as much as I can that stiill has them!
7. Party lines I live out in the country and we had a party line till about 1987 or so.
12. Peashooters
14. 45 RPM records I still have and play lots of these, and 33 1/3 and 78's!
16. Hi-fi's I love my HiFi!
17. Metal ice trays with lever That's what I use right now! (plus my fridge is a round top 1943 Westinghouse!)
19. Blue flashbulb Mom used those in her Brownie, now I have a Brownie Hawkeye of my own!
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys I knew what they were, but never used one because I have never found roller skates that fit my gargantuan feet!
22. Cork popguns My best friend had a whole casche of these and the ones that shot elastic bands!
23. Drive-ins I went to see Apolo 13 in Edmontons last Drive in shortly before it cloased.
24. Studebakers There have always been a few in my neighbourhood that are still in use!
25. Wash tub wringers A few of the farms I worked on as a kid still used these for the barn washing.

-- Edited by LN7 NUT on Thursday 28th of October 2010 01:43:07 PM