Oldies but goodies

My Dad was  cleaning out my Grandmother's house and 
he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola  bottle.  In the bottle top 
was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately 
what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had  
tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle 
that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with 
because we didn't have  steam irons. Man, I am old.

*** How Many Do You Remember? ***

Car Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Car heaters you paid extra for, mounted on the inside of the fire wall
Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
Coal furnaces you had to shovel coal into every few hours.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Hair curling irons heated on a stove burner & "rats" or rags to curl 
hair.
Using hand  signals for cars (cars didn't have 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. Double Bubble gum with comic strip
2. Coke bottle-shaped Wax, with colored sugar water you drank
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda machines that dispensed bottles
5. Diners, corner malt shops, etc. with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home delivery of Milk in glass bottles-you separated the cream
off the top for skim milk or shook it up for whole milk
7. Party phone lines (sometimes 1 line was shared by 2 to 8 or more
separate houses
8. Newsreels & cartoons before each movie, & serial cliffhanger
movies-a new chapter each Saturday
9. P. F.  Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers that had 5 numbers & a 2-letter prefix of a
word (Olive = OL-69330)
12. Buster Brown & his dog Tige
13. Howdy Doody TV show
14. 33 1/3 & 45 RPM records; Hi-Fi; LPs
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Ice man, Bread man, Scissors Grinder, Rag Man
17. Slide Rule
18. Mimeograph paper & machines
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Packard & Studebaker cars. Nash Rambler cars with fold down
seats.
All cars having one long upholstered seat (no bucket seats)
21. Metal roller skates that you put your shoes into, then tightened
with roller skate keys
22. Drive-in Movies & drive up Car-Hop restaurants where you were
served car-side
23. Rope Clotheslines
24. Washing machines with 2 roller wringers.You hand fed the wet
soapy clothes through the rollers, first into 1 rinse tub & then from 
that
tub into a 2nd rinse tub & then hung clothes on the line with wooden
clothespins-Remember Rinso Blue in the rinse water?
25. Red Light, Red Rover, Double Dutch Jump Rope, Hopscotch, A
Tisket-A Tasket, Musical Chairs, Spin the Bottle, Hide N' Seek, etc.
26. Before Permanent Press:Boiling/making starch on the stove, then
putting the clothes in the starch, wringing them out & putting them in
the refrigerator until time to iron the clothes
27. Cloth diapers you rinsed out, usually in the toilet-then after
washing with Ivory soap, you boiled them on the stove.
28. Sterilizing baby bottles/nipples.
29. Washing dishes by hand-before automatic dishwashers
30. Pre-TV: Listening on Radio to Inner Sanctum, The Mysterious
Traveler, The Whistler, Mercury Theater of the Air, Sky King, 
Straight Arrow, Lone Ranger, Texas Rangers, Sargeant Preston & 
his faithful dog Yukon King, I Love A Mystery, Arthur Godfrey, 
Helen Trent, etc..

If you remembered
0-05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are  getting older
11-20 = Don't tell your age,
20-30 = You're  older than dirt!