agebarometer

Age Barometer How old are you? Keep track of how many of the things listed below that you can remember:

1. Blackjack chewing gum

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles

5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

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 levers

18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue flashbulbs

20. Beanie and Cecil

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 = You are old

Don't tell your age If you remembered 16-25 =

You're older than dirt!

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Old Enough To Remember??

..all soft drinks came in bottles and you could get a deposit back.

..cars had no air-conditioning.

..there was "free air" at all service stations.

..there were S&H green stamps.

..you could go as a child and buy your mom a pack of cigarettes.

..music was on vinyl records 45 rpm and albums were 78 rpm.

..there was one light (red) on top of police cars.

..there was only AM radio.

..everyone took the bus to town.

..you could go and see a live Jan & Dean concert for $3.00.

..gas was .26 a gal and ethel was way too high at .30.

..Typing Class was noisy.

..girls had big hair.

..you only had GM, Ford and Chrysler

making cars in the US.

..most of the change in your pocket was pure silver.

..no one ever heard of Bankruptcy, Divorce or KY jelly.

..football helmets came without face guards.

..the Network News was only 15 minutes long.

..motor oil came in metal containers.

..toothpaste came in metal tubes.

..the balcony at the movie theatre had the best view.

..Cracker Jacks had a decent and unusual prize in it.

..the only sideburns you saw were on the pictures of dead presidents.

..every one you knew had a Smallpox scar.

..you believed everything the Government said.

..the worst you could do socially was drink a beer.

..every house had a tall outside TV antennae.

..you could call a Doctor and he would come

to your house (the same day).

..men put on a suit, they also put on a hat.

..Atomic War was a real everyday thought.

..men carried metal lunch boxes to work.

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