Where do you fit in?
We've all taken those tests in Reader's Digest or the Sunday supplement to find our personality type, our intelligence, or whatever. Here's one to see where you "fit in."
Where do you place yourself in the following? Are you old enough to remember when cars didn't have seat belts or turn signals? How about headlight dimmer switches on the floor? Ignition switches on the dashboard? Heaters mounted on the fire wall? Stick shifts on family sedans?
Do you recall when the refrigerator was called the "ice box" because it was cooled by ice?
Folks who rode bicycles had pant leg clips. Where's yours?
Maybe you can recall Black Jack chewing gum or Day's Work chewing tobacco. Pepsi was "twice as much for a nickel too." Lucky Strike green went to war and Fibber Magee promoted Johnson's Wax (Mollie stored it in Fibber's closet).
Have you enjoyed those little wax Coke bottle-shaped treats filled with colored sugar water? How about candy cigarettes? Licorice strips, both red and black? Jaw breakers?
Soda pop machines dispensed their product in glass bottles.
Coffee shops had juke box controls with speakers located in the booths..
Milk was delivered to your home in glass bottles with cardboard lids.
Telephone "party lines" were a major means of communication.
Newsreels preceded the main attraction at the "picture show."
Do you recall PF Flyers, butch hair wax, peashooters, Howdy Doody, S&H Green Stamps, and 45 rpm records for the hi-fi?
Do you recall when refrigerators replaced ice boxes? They were called "the Frigidaire" and had metal trays to make cubes in the freezer.
There were mimeograph stencils, mimeo paper, spirit duplicators, carbon paper and Hectographs. If you recall the Hectograph you've been around long enough to draw Social Security.
Flash bulbs for your camera looked like small light bulbs and were blue.
Popular cars included the Packard and Studebaker.
Roller skates had keys to use in attaching them to your shoes, and pop guns had corks. Rubber guns shot ammunition made from inner tubes.
Wash tubs had wringers. Many "washing machines" were powered by small gasoline engines.
If you don't recall more than five of the above you're still young. If you remember 10, you're getting older. If you remember more than 10, don't tell your age. And if you recall more than that, you probably brag about your age because you're "older than dirt."
— BILL MEYER
