Are you "Older Than Dirt"?

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**Older than Dirt Quiz**

Count 1 point for each one that you remember....not the ones you were told about. 
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles w/colored sugar water
3. Candy Cigarettes
4. Soda Pop machine that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee Shop/Diners with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles w/ cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test pattems that came on at night after the last show and
      stayed on all night until TV shows started again in the morning
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
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 W/metal wheels and keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub Wringers

If you remember 0-5 = You’re still young.
If you remember 6-10 = You’re getting older.
If you remember 11-15 = Don’t tell your age.
If you remember 16-25 = You’re older than dirt!

*I may be older than dirt, but those memories are some of the best parts of my life!!

Enjoy…

(personally I missed #10.)

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Missed 4: #s 7, 10, 13, and 20.

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Got all 25. Past my ‘sell-by’ date. Dust to dust.

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15 from personal experience.

Never heard of Blackjack or Butch Wax.

Remainder were common historical knowledge like skate keys, party lines, newsreels, and the cork popguns which were a childhood cartoon trope.

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Black Jack gum was licorice-flavored gum. Kids in my neighborhood loved it because it turned your tongue black if you chewed it. I’d bet it would send your blood pressure soaring, but as kids we didn’t worry about that.

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It’s still available at Walmart.

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Hard pass.

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I wish I could attach a PDF of my answers…

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Missed two: # 1 & 16. Someone explained #1; still don’t know what #16 is.

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#16 Hi-Fi’s
Plural of audio systems that were in “High Fidelity”.
High Fidelity or Hi-Fi is A term to explain wider response in audio systems or recordings.
Sometimes, when in “STEREO”, Stereo Hi-Fi.

Or as on Wiki : High fidelity - Wikipedia

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