I received an Email on this and thought it would be fun to post.

MEMORIES from a friend:
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> My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he
brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper
with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but Kati had no
idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I
knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle"
clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
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> How many do you remember?
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> Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
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> Ignition switches on the dashboard.
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> Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
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> Real ice boxes.
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> Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
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> Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
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> Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
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> Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
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> were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
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> 1. Blackjack chewing gum
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> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
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> 3. Candy cigarettes
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> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
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> 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
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> 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
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> 7. Party lines
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> 8. Newsreels before the movie
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> 9. P.F. Flyers
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> 10. Butch wax
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> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
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> 12. Peashooters
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> 13. Howdy Doody
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> 14. 45 RPM records
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> 15. S&H Green Stamps
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> 16. Hi-fi's
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> 17. Metal ice trays with lever
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> 18. Mimeograph paper
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> 19. Blue flashbulb
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> 20. Packards
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> 21. Roller skate keys
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> 22. Cork popguns
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> 23. Drive-ins
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> 24. Studebakers
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> 25. Wash tub wringers
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> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
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> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
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> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
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> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Flash Cubes. My local pharmacy still sells them. I can't believe it!

Istill have metal ice trays with levers. And some 45RPM records. Hate to admit it, but I remember them all.

I remember my mom having one of those bottles when she did the ironing.I wish I could find one now, I still like to iron often...

My grandmother used to use this device that sat over the stove burner which looked lke a four sided cheese grater in the shape of a pyramid with no point. It was a sliced bread toaster. I saw one recently.

I happened to mention to my mother that I wish I still had that old Brownie camera from when I was a kid. I had the flash with it too. Over the weekend she went to a flea market and found one still in the original box. I am now the proud owner of a camera! (Goes great with my camera collection.)

I inherited a large collection of 78's. Also, a box of kitchen utensils from several older relatives. There was this device which we could not determine what they used it for. After several trips to antique stores it was determined this device was used to remove hot potlids. There are several other devices that make for good conversation and speculation.

Not in the same category as household equipment, but who remembers chapel veils? No self-respecting RC female in the 50's and early to mid 60's would go anywhere without her little plastic case containing a round "lace" head covering to wear into church. these were especially handy for times when you wanted to "make a visit" to the church to say a little prayer.(Now, our local church is locked up except for Mass and other special events.) Lacking a chapel veil, we would pin a kleenex to the top of our heads with a bobbi pin. Stupid. Anyway, Vatican II removed the interdiction re: female head-covering in church.

How about the mandatory "beanies" we had to wear in HS?
We had to produce them at whim. If you did not have yours they you received the dreaded "demerits" which went on your permanent record. Whatever happened to our permanent record?

There certainly was mimeograph paper.
All of our tests were printed on that stuff.
I used to love the peculiar smell of the ink.

I remembered most of all of the things in your memo. Do you remember H&Bs, the deli store on the corner of Orange Street and Roseville Avenue. I used to get all of the candy cigarettes and more there. I really miss those old times. I have a 2 year old granddaughter and a 26 year old son and when I mention these things, like mimeograph paper, he looks at me like I am nuts. Please respond to this memo so I can show him it and prove there really was a thing as mimeograph paper and that is what our tests were printed on. I graduated in 1972 and have many fond memories of SRL. I enjoyed the trip down memory lane.