older than dirt quiz

[Larry Heflin]

How many of you are still using Brylcreem or Vitalis? Remember the commercials? Hair care is not much of an issue for me anymore.

[Dave Sheldrake]

Hair?

Oh yes, that distant memory from many years back

cheers

Dave

[Bob Turkovich]

How many of you are still using Brylcreem or Vitalis? Remember the commercials? Hair care is not much of an issue for me anymore.

There's has to be a Johnson's Paste Wax punchline in there somewhere...

[Jason Roehl]

How many of you are still using Brylcreem or Vitalis? Remember the commercials? Hair care is not much of an issue for me anymore.

I haven't used those, but 25 years ago, when a flat-top was back in style, I had one, and my father introduced me to butch wax. Now I just give myself a buzz cut. I can't imagine having to take care of a mop of hair anymore. Cool in the summer, holds a knit cap like velcro in the winter.

[Stephen Tashiro]

Were we witnesses to a great advance in civiilzation? - when did underarm deodorants become common?

Even after they were available, barbers would still perfume the hair of male customers. You just expected the barber to pour a heavily perfumed tonic on his hands and then rub it into your hair.

[Bill Wyko]

Do you all remember when the doctor would come to your house? I lived in Los Angeles when I was a kid and as congested as that town was, the Doc still made house calls. (The smog was what made me sick all the time so we moved to AZ.)

[Dave Sheldrake]

Were we witnesses to a great advance in civiilzation? - when did underarm deodorants become common?

Even after they were available, barbers would still perfume the hair of male customers. You just expected the barber to pour a heavily perfumed tonic on his hands and then rub it into your hair.

Oh my...it's like reliving my youth here and I'm not that old!!

"I'm Victor Kiam the president of Remmington, I liked the razor so much I bought the company" was one well known TV add here

cheers

Dave

[Bill Neely]

I remember them all plus we didn't even have a television until I was about 12 years old. Probably a good thing, I learned to love books. Anyone remember when cokes were a nickel out the machine, pay phones were a nickel? The iceman used to deliver ice on our street and a junkman came around with a horse drawn wagon picking up whatever he could find. Our neighbor two doors down drove a model T phaeton.

[Richard McComas]

If sweet cigarettes and candy cigarettes are the same, then I remember all 14. I'll be 70 in November.

[Marty Schlosser]

13 for me... but it probably should have been 14 but I couldn't recall the newsreels shown at the movies. BTW, our milkman used a horse and it was the same guy who brought around icebox ice.

[Al Launier]

At 73 I recall all 14 above plus a few others, including:

• getting up very early as a child to do farm chores in the morning before walking a mile to catch the school bus;
• started working at the age of 13 to supplement family income
• getting block ice for the ice box;
• having no bathroom plumbing, only an out house in the cow barn;
• filtering & drinking raw milk;
• having no family health insurance and relying on a doctor that house calls for emergencies;
• hunting regularly & butchering farm animals to supplement food for a family of 11;
• having to till, plant & weed & harvest several gardens totaling about 5 acres;
• haying fields for cattle food;
• having no family dentist & pulling my own teeth with a string;
• waiting for neighbors to get off the phone so we could use it;
• having strong family discipline;
• no social life;
• so many other experiences that made the family members stronger people.

Not particularly good memories - fortunately life has changed so much for the better since then!

[Tom Stenzel]

I hit 12 on the geez-o-meter.

Had a two party line well into the '90s. My brother worked for AT&T, said there was a party when I finally went to a single line. Had the Western Electric phone wired to the wall set for a 'tip' party so it ran on my calls. The other party's phone was wired for "ring". Another reason I liked the phone: the brass bells sound like a phone.

I also have a pound can of ACME Dura-Dust containing 50% wettable DDT. It's about half full.

Getting a chip of ice from Perry the Twin Pines milkman was a treat.

On Detroit's near east side by the old Packard Motor plant, my grandmother shoveled coal to heat her house until 1966. She lived to be 99.

-Tom

[Mike Henderson]

I remember too many of the things talked about here. As Al said above "Not particularly good memories - fortunately life has changed so much for the better since then!". While there were some good things about growing up on a farm, it was not the romantic place the city slickers (back then) and modern urban dwellers think it is.

Al pointed out "no social life" and that was really true. You were tied to the farm 365 days a year. There were things that had to be done in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. Like him, we had animals. I assume if you were only raising crops you would have a bit more flexibility.

I left the farm and never looked back. I'm much happier where I am, but I understand and appreciate the work and the sacrifices that farm families make. It's hard, dirty work.

Mike

[Steve Peterson]

I only hit 11 of them. I am only 53, so maybe I only missed some of them by a few years. Plus it might depend on where you lived. We usually had goats or cows, so there was no need for milk delivery, except for one small period of time. The rivers never froze where I lived, so I don't know if they ever had ice delivery in my town.

My parents used to make me sit at the table until I finished my string beans or peas. They used to tell me that children were starving in Ethiopia as if that would somehow make me want to eat them. I told them to send the string beans to the kids in Ethiopia.

Steve

[Steve Peterson]

Remember the mechanical buttons on the remote.

What remote control? My dad would shout "Hey kids, come here quick". We expected to see something exciting on TV so we would come running to the living room. Often it would only be my dad asking one of us to change the channel.

Steve