Let's have some fun with an old-age test.

Add one point for each of the numbered items you remember. When finished, check your score at the end.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Hamburg joints with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. Slingshots
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. Amos and Andy
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 6-8 = Kids are calling your sir/ma'am.
If you remembered 9-12 = You probably have gown kids!
If you remembered 13-15= You're older than dirt!
If you remembered 16-25 = Check your pulse....now!


**Gulp.... My score is 18 ACK

*smiles*
Ken

18 here too! I used to love those wax soda bottles. I remember chewing up some of that wax too.......lol Also, remember those red wax lips? Bubble gum trading cards? Prizes in Cracker Jacks that were actually cool?? And Sno-caps at the movies?

Hee hee...I got 12. Grown kids? They're 5 and 7!! :laughing: Guess I just have a good memory... :tounge2:

I too got 18. I'm going to go call Shady Pines Nursing Home and see if they have room available. Getting old ain't for wimps.

I got 14! And my daughter is only 13! I feel SOOO old now!

I could remember 14 items. I'm not sure I like being older than dirt!!!

Yippy skippy, a 14! I "bought" my first-ever tv for my bedroom with S & H Green Stamps.

Great, I got 23. Ken if there are any and I mean any wise cracks, you're in trouble. BTW, you should remember more than 18, you're only a few months younger than me.

Frannie

I got 18! Where is my rocking chair?! What was it again I got 18 of? Oh, no! I'm older than dirt?

I got 12! But, you know, there's a Sonic Drive-In about a mile from here so I wonder about some of those things . . .

I got 4-I assumed they were Talking about Drive in Theaters. There is a Drive in Theater still running here.

I got 15 - I don't have kids & I am only 31 how can I be older then dirt? I go to the drive in at least once a month in the summer. Our cottage still has the metal wash tub and ice cube trays. I should have been born in another era!

Duh, drive-in movies! There was one in the town we lived in last year, in CA. Still recent enough for my kid to remember it. Though she's clueless about vinyl records or for that matter tv without cable or a remote.

MY score is 24!! Some of that stuff isn't so far back - I'm only 44. The only one that I never saw, firsthand, was Howdy Doody. We never got that, here.:girly1: :girly2:

I got 13 - and I'm not even 30!

I got 2...which is good because I am only 19! I don't want to be old. (no offense to anyone)

Hey, Spooky, getting old beats the alternative!:tounge2:

You young kids don't know how to handle a situation like this!
What happened is that your mother told you about it; it's a false memory. Or--you saw it in an old movie or tv show. Everyone has watched Lucy. My problem is I REALLY remember 23 of these! But I'm young at heart!

I got 12!