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HubCap
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 6:26:58 AM
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Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained.. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 5.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people..
I was 13 b before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) 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?
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 on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels, if you were fortunate )
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Dowdy
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulbs
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!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
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Hogwild01
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 4:17:01 PM
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How about Tuf-Nut knives you would get with a pair of jeans.
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architect
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 5:39:20 PM
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1/ My mother to her dying day called her Rich's revolving charge card her "charge plate"
2/ I miss those side vent windows that all cars had in the front seat.
3/ My gramdma not only had a party line but the phone rang at each home on the line, you had to recognize your ring. Her's was one long while her neighbor was two shorts. Her phone was powered by a battery pack with 3 batteries about 21/2" diam x 6" long.
4/ When I was in 3d grade our town changed from operator assistance phone calling to the dial system and the phone co. sent people to school to teach us how to dial. When the dial system came on line at midnight of the appointed day the system had a short breakdown because everybody in town had stayed up to try out the new marvel. It was at least another 20 years before we could make a long distance call without operator assistance.
5/ Does anybody remember the "seven-up" candy bar?
6/ And, don't forget the DeSota
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architect
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 5:44:31 PM
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I forgot one. Rember clamping a playing cart sticking a quarter inch or so into the spokes of your bicycle to make it sound like a motor bike? For that matter what ever happened to motor bikes?
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Feb
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 5:51:23 PM
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Every young boy in school had a pocket knife. You often played split with your pocket knife during recess.
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Psycho
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 9:50:12 PM
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Thats pretty interesting Architect...But must have been a little before my time. Or could be that I didnt see that stuff because we were to poor to have it. lol Approx. what year would that have been?
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architect
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 10:33:05 PM
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1950 to 1960 but it seems like yesterday.
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JustAGuy
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 11:46:46 PM
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What was my fast food? Easy ... bologna sandwich ... two pieces of Sunbeam bread .. a little mayo ... a little ketchup .. and two thin slices of blologna ... out the door and on my way ... :)
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| Name: |
JustAGuy
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Fast Food
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8/25/2009 11:47:54 PM
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What was my fast food? Easy ... bologna sandwich ... two pieces of Sunbeam bread .. a little mayo ... a little ketchup .. and two thin slices of blologna ... out the door and on my way ... :)
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architect
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Fast Food
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8/26/2009 10:18:57 AM
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Soda* crackers with mustard and Vienna sausage. Still like it.
* for the younguns that's saltines
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Does anyone remember when they used to make "Frito Pie" at the drive-in by spiting the small bag of Fritos along the pleated side and putting in a spoonful od chilli?
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