CAROLINA CHAT
01-10-2015, 07:39 AM
#9314
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: NC
Posts: 211
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you 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 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!
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you 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 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!
01-10-2015, 12:33 PM
#9317
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Close Enough
Posts: 1,413
Hmm, I remember having to pick up the phone and talk to an operator. I don't remember her name but she knew everyone and you just told her who you wanted to talk to. I remember asking to talk to my Dad..yep that's the way I said it and she connected me with Dad.
Also how about party lines? You pick up the phone and there was already a couple of people talking..
Also how about party lines? You pick up the phone and there was already a couple of people talking..
01-10-2015, 09:20 PM
#9319
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Close Enough
Posts: 1,413
I was talking to my Mom about it earlier and she couldnt remember the name of the woman who ran it, but it was a switchboard system. I couldn't remember what it was called but she remembered it well.
I still say my Dad lives on RT2..that was it..no actual street address, the mailman just knew where everyone lived. Of course now he has an official address that I actually have written down because I cant remember it. lol
I still say my Dad lives on RT2..that was it..no actual street address, the mailman just knew where everyone lived. Of course now he has an official address that I actually have written down because I cant remember it. lol