The "Older Than Dirt" Quiz....

[Wildcat]

Weapon of choice in grade school.

Ha!!

I remember having those when I was a wee one. I'd eat a few, leave it on my arm...and then find the candy would stick to my arm.

How about those wax bottles with the sugar water in them? Eek, those tasted nasty. Yet we still had 'em!

 

[MaxxVolume]

Transistor radios helped millions of youngsters start their music appreciation voyage....

 

[BMWCCA]

Adjustable shoe size gauges at shoe stores?

I used the Brannock Device for years. My Dad owned a chain of children's shoe stores in St. Louis. I worked for him during the summer.
Saw a Brannock Device in a big chain store recently and explained how it worked to my daughter.

Remember the "X-Ray" measuring machines where you'd put your foot in a well and the machine would tell you your size?

Oh yeah, 16 of 16 for me, too!

 

[BMWCCA]

Remember the horizontal-bar speedometer gauges? Same system used on my '64 BMW. Has a string that runs to a float in the tank. Still working.

 

[bobsvinyl]

Ha!!

I remember having those when I was a wee one. I'd eat a few, leave it on my arm...and then find the candy would stick to my arm.

How about those wax bottles with the sugar water in them? Eek, those tasted nasty. Yet we still had 'em!

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We used to chew the wax to get the last of the flavor out of it.

 

[Wildcat]

Saw a Brannock Device in a big chain store recently and explained how it worked to my daughter.

Far as I know, stores still use these, don't they? The few places I've been usually have them around.

 

[BMWCCA]

Far as I know, stores still use these, don't they? The few places I've been usually have them around.

They don't seem to be so important these days since Chinese-made shoes just don't follow American sizing anymore. You have to try them on to be sure. I haven't seen a Chinese shoe built on a combination last . . . ever. Yet the few remaining quality US manufacturers still understand that most of us have a narrower heel compared to the measurement across the ball.

 

[Trekmaster]

Thanks for reminding me how friking old I am hahaha

 

[Scifi]

 

[Christian B]

Milk delivery in glass bottles was the best. Anyone else still shake the bottle or carton to mix the non-existent cream in? I guess old habits never do die.

We had the world's best milk man. He drove a 1948 GMC milk truck well into the 1980's when he retired. When the snow got too deep to drive up our street, he waded through it and delivered a bottle of milk to every house that needed one. After my mom passed away Dad gave him a key to the back door, and he delivered milk to our fridge.

Yes, it was a different time, and yes I am older than dirt, but I still have fond memories of Bob Casey the milk man.

 

[Wildcat]

Another question for the quiz---who remembers TVs before the days of UHF? Our old tube-powered Zenith didn't have UHF. We only got it when I was 3 years old, when my folks bought a small black and white MGA television. Didn't get color until around 1973.

 

[MaxxVolume]

Another question for the quiz---who remembers TVs before the days of UHF? Our old tube-powered Zenith didn't have UHF. We only got it when I was 3 years old, when my folks bought a small black and white MGA television. Didn't get color until around 1973.

Yeah, we had a B&W console-type TV, probably about a 17-inch screen....In the NYC area, channel selection was 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC) 5 (what would later become Fox), 7 (ABC), 9 (WOR-TV independent), 11 (WPIX-TV independent), and 13, which became the PBS/Educational channel. When UHF came around (late `60s ?) it supported 2 Spanish stations, that was about it....

 

[Wildcat]

Yeah, we had a B&W console-type TV, probably about a 17-inch screen....In the NYC area, channel selection was 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC) 5 (what would later become Fox), 7 (ABC), 9 (WOR-TV independent), 11 (WPIX-TV independent), and 13, which became the PBS/Educational channel. When UHF came around (late `60s ?) it supported 2 Spanish stations, that was about it....

Similar channels here--CBS 2, NBC 4, ABC 7. We had channel 9 from Windsor. My grandfather had a good rooftop antenna and could always get 11 (CBS) and 13 (NBC) from Toledo, OH.

When we finally got UHF, the tuner was continuous--it did not have detents to select a channel. Back then, I seem to recall we only had three independent stations--20, 50 (which had all those great syndicated reruns) and 56 (PBS). Maybe 62, which is now our CBS affiliate (since Ch 2 changed to Fox).

Channel 20 (WXON at the time) was notorious locally for carrying that scrambled OnTV subscription channel, from 8pm onward. For $50, hobbyists could go to the local electronics shop and buy a brown paper bag with a kit inside which would help tune it in.

 

[kfalls]

This bring back memories. My dad was an Omar Bakery Man in Indianapolis Indiana. I still have one of their metal pie plates.

 

[easycraig]

Glass bottle milk deliveries, Helms man pulling up, nothing but good memories! Thx, ec

 

[kfalls]

And the best orange and grape soda around.

For me it was a Vanilla Phosphate, or Green River fountain drinks.

 

[tubed]

This bring back memories. My dad was an Omar Bakery Man in Indianapolis Indiana. I still have one of their metal pie plates.

5 cent donuts.

 

[MaxxVolume]

Funny the things that stick in your memory....I still remember, plain as day, that early-am jingling sound of the glass milk bottles in their wire crates as the milkman made his deliveries....

 

[harman/kardon]

Does anybody remember the cables at the gas station making "Ding-Ding" when they were run over by a car? Did you have that device in America?

 

[2526]

Does anybody remember the cables at the gas station making "Ding-Ding" when they were run over by a car? Did you have that device in America?

Yes, and then the guy(s) would come out and gas the car, clean the windshield, check the oil and tires, etc.