Just how vintage are you?

[Prairie Dog]

Vintage Quiz (aka Older Than Dirt Quiz):

Count all the ones that you remember, NOT the ones you were told about ! Your ratings at the bottom.

> Blackjack chewing gum
> Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> Candy cigarettes
> Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
> Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> Party lines
> Dad and Grandfather wearing a Fedora
> Newsreels, travelogues or cartoons before the movie
> P.F. Flyers
> Butch wax
> Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
> Peashooters
> Howdy Doody
> 45 RPM records
> S&H Green Stamps
> Hi-fi's
> Metal ice trays with lever
> Mimeograph paper
> Blue flashbulb
> Packards
> Roller skate keys
> Cork popguns
> Drive-ins
> Studebakers
> 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 = Your a tru vintage guy or gal (aka, You're older than dirt !)

 

[CharlesB]

6 or 7

 

[dhermann1]

Vintage? Sure. Just plain old? Definitely. I remember every single one of those, like it was yesterday. Someone wanna pass me my Serutan? And my Carter's Little Liver Pills?

 

[ShooShooBaby]

i remember 5, but i don't think the jukebox one counts for me because i only remember those in 50s-theme diners! so really, 4.

i'm 28, for the record!

 

[Mid-fogey]

Well...

...18 or so without stretching. But we need some Euro versions for our folks on the other side of the pond.

 

[imoldfashioned]

7 for me--mostly courtesy of my grandmother.

 

[GwenLake]

Not a single one. I've been so deprived.

 

[russa11]

I remember 12 of these. Does this mean I am old or just have a good memory?

 

[Quigley Brown]

Vintage? Sure. Just plain old? Definitely. I remember every single one of those, like it was yesterday. Someone wanna pass me my Serutan? And my Carter's Little Liver Pills?

And remember, Serutan is 'natures' spelled backwards. Or at least that how I remember Lawrence Welk saying it...lol

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

I guess I'm old, I remember all of them. lol

 

[Diamondback]

Scored 10, and I'm only 27! Don't know what that means, but it can't be good... (well, maybe around here it can!lol)

 

[retrogirl1941]

Scored 10, and I'm only 27! Don't know what that means, but it can't be good... (well, maybe around here it can!lol)

I scored 9 so only 1 behind you!


Samantha

 

[LizzieMaine]

All of them. I also remember when dirt first came out. They said it would never last.

 

[KY Gentleman]

I recalled 15 so at least I'm not "older than dirt"....

 

[Miss Brill]

> Candy cigarettes <<< these were nasty in the 1970s, I remember when you puffed on them powder came out & it looked like smoke. Not a favorite at all.

> Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

> Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers << my aunt had milk home delivery in the 1970s

> S&H Green Stamps

> Metal ice trays with lever <<< we used these in the 70s and 80s, and I bought some a few months ago & love how fast the water freezes

> Wash tub wringers <<< we had one in the 70s and 80s

 

[Rooster]

23......hell I'm only 50.....[huh] All this stuff must have hung on longer out in the sticks.lol

 

[The Captain]

How can I forget?

Being that I took my first breath in the spring of '35, asking me if I remember these items is a snap. Yes, I do and still use some of them! (I save everything)

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes

You still have these in almost every single diner in Jersey.

 

[Diamondback]

All this stuff must have hung on longer out in the sticks.lol

Grandpa and I did a lot of roadtripping early in life, some of the few memories I have from that time.

 

[Viola]

I remember candy cigarettes.

And like Amy Jeanne said every diner on your way down da shore has jukeboxes still. lol