Do You Remember?

[DarrellP]

Do you 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 table side jukeboxes
6 - Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7 - Party telephone lines
8 - Newsreels before the movie
9 - P.F. Flyers
10 - Butch wax
11 - Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Liberty - 3866)
12 * Peashooters
13 - Howdy Doody
14 - 45 & 78 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

And here's what it means:
If you remembered:

0-5: You're still young
6-10: You are getting older
11-15: Don't tell your age
15-20: You are getting up there
21-25: Congratulations! I hope to live as long as you!


I hate to admit it, but I remember them all! :D

[Neil Derryberry]

I remember about 12 of those.. for a benchmark, I hit the big 30 on Monday.

[Scott Greczkowski]

I scored 16. I hit the magic 33 in may. :D

[sampatterson]

Scored 20 (37 in October)

[Nick]

I remember them all. The fact that I can remember them all tells me that I still have a functioning brain cell or two. Also, I can spell, which doesn't seem to be important to some these days.

I'm 64.

[Pete K.]

I remember them all but I'm a young un'
compared to Nick! (50).

[Nick]

What A Difference 30 Years Makes!!

1973: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair

1973: KEG
2003: EKG

1973: KBG
2003: KFC

1973: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux

1973: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm

1973: Growing pot
2003: Growing a pot belly

1973: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
2003: Trying not to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor

1973: Seeds and stems
2003: Roughage

1973: Popping pills; smoking joints
2003: Popping joints

1973: Killer weed
2003: Weed killer

1973: Hoping for a BMW
2003: Hoping for a BM

1973: The Grateful Dead
2003: Dr. Kevorkian

1973: Going to a new, hip joint
2003: Receiving a new hip joint

1973: Rolling Stones
2003: Kidney Stones

1973: Being called into the principal's office
2003: Calling the principal's office

1973: Screw the system
2003: Upgrade the system

1973: Disco
2003: Costco

1973: Walking because you can't afford a car
2003: Walking because you can't afford another heart bypass

1973: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2003: Children begging you to get their head shaved

1973: Taking acid
2003: Taking antacid

1973: Passing the drivers test
2003: Passing the vision test

1973: Whatever
2003: Depends

Just in case you aren't feeling old already, read this:

Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the
faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshman. Here's this year's list:

The teenagers who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1984.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle Challenger blowing up on launch.

Their life has always included the specter of AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year before they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have never used a rotary dial phone.

They have always had cable.

They have no idea that television is free and can be received over the air.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always come in bags and cooked in the microwave.

They take a swim in the ocean and never think about 'Jaws'.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?" "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or
"de plane Boss, de plane."

They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who he was.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

McDonald's food never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

[Mike123abc]

Many of the items in the list have made a comeback or two, so they really are not that dated.

[Richard King]

2 - Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Drink the sugar water and chew on the bottle.
3 - Candy cigarettes
Peppermint
5 - Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
I own a green jukebox table top controller that I collected somewhere along the way (from the Ediner in Minneapolis).
6 - Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Delivered to insulated metal boxes on the porch every morning or two.
11 - Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Liberty - 3866)
My old prefix many years ago was Windsor.
13 - Howdy Doody
"What time is it?"
15 - S&H Green Stamps
Gold Bond stamps in Minnesota, started by Curt Carlson who went on to start the Radisson chain among other businesses.
18 - Mimeograph paper
I may have sniffed one too many.
20 - Beanie and Cecil
Kookla, Fran and Oly.
21 - Roller skate keys
I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you got Brand New Key.?
23 - Drive-ins
The last double feature I saw at a drive in (7 Hi drive-in Minnetonka Minnesota, now a KMart) was Rosemary's Baby coupled with The Odd Couple... Talk about an odd couple.
24 - Studebakers
What a Lark :D


By the way, I remember them all.