OT: Are you older than dirt?

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Fascinating thread, and thanks @The CDR-Ret I didn't know what butch wax was either. But I had a "butch cut" every summer, normal hair the rest of the time.

I remember about 11 of them, but admit I know about almost all of them. Someone mentioned the NY exchange Murray Hill - for some obscure reason my phone number growing up was "Murray" (no Hill that I remember) in my NJ hometown. Abbreviated MU, and later "68". Party line when I was young.

A couple don't go back all that far, for example juke boxes in diners and at the tables. You could be under 50 and lived that.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

Well, this is startling…


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I'm older than Dirt! I sold the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve!!!

 

[Bald Husky]

The worst thing I ever tasted. Fletchers Castoria. I think that's right, for pooping. How about going in for surgery and had to endure the Ether to put you out. I'm sure the spelling is wrong, so I hope you know what I am talking about.

 

[Skeets]

Think I can still remember and sing the Rheingold beer jingle. Ballantine XXX ale

It's not bitter, it's not sweet. It's the extra dry treat.

 

[HuskyNan]

This is a picture of a ticket to the Sox that I’ve kept for some reason. Check out the price.

 

[SoFla Steve]

Not sure how many of you grow up in Connecticut, but I watched the Ranger Andy show, followed by The Big 3 Theater.

I was on Ranger Andy with my Cub Scout den. I was elected to stand up and give the troop and den number info. At school the next day, I was a star! It was all downhill from there.

Somewhere I still have my autographed pic of Ranger Andy feeding a squirrel or chipmunk or similar rodent.

 

[HuskyNan]

I was on Ranger Andy with my Cub Scout den. I was elected to stand up and give the troop and den number info. At school the next day, I was a star! It was all downhill from there.

Somewhere I still have my autographed pic of Ranger Andy feeding a squirrel or chipmunk or similar rodent.

My brother was on Ranger Andy, I think @JRRRJ

 

[zymurg]

many years ago there was a circus fire in Hartford. zymurg was there. were there any other 'yarders in the audience?

 

[OldSchooler]

Brooklyn Dodgers / Ebbets Field
Five Elsie ice cream wrappers and a quarter got you into the ballpark
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There was a jingle on the radio: "Yoo-Hoo for you-u-u, it's Yogi Berra's favorite drink."

 

[OldSchooler]

This is a picture of a ticket to the Sox that I’ve kept for some reason.

The worst thing I ever tasted. Fletchers Castoria. I think that's right, for pooping. How about going in for surgery and had to endure the Ether to put you out. I'm sure the spelling is wrong, so I hope you know what I am talking about.

Castor Oil

 

[OldSchooler]

Saturday morning TV shows for kids, and I don't mean cartoons.

-Sky King
-Fury
-Cisco Kid
-Lone Ranger
-My Friend Flicka
-Roy Rogers
-Zorro

I remember most of these from the radio. (TV was a disappointment when I saw them.) Sky King's niece and nephew were Penny and Clipper, and his 2-engine Cessna was the Songbird. Cisco's sidekick was Pancho. The Lone Ranger's nephew (son of the Ranger's slain brother) was Dan Reed, who was sent to school back east (presumably Harvard), and later had a son (Britt Reed), who became a newspaper publisher and was secretly known as the crimefighting Green Hornet. Each show would end with the newspaper boy hawking on the street -- "Extra, extra, read all about it: Police capture bank robbers, Green Hornet still at large." Gene Autry was my favorite cowboy. At the end of each show, he would urge his listeners to chew "delicious, refreshing, doublemint chewing gum, . . . until we're back in the saddle again . . ."

 

[OldSchooler]

I recall all except PF Flyers.
Was that a brand of bicycle? It seemed like all the bicycles of my youth were Schwinns.

I still have a Flexible Flyer sled in my garage. They were the best. My first "English" bike with hand brakes and gears was a Raleigh.

 

[Rixxx]

Ditto. Those were the days. TVs were B&W, small, full of snow.
As my kids used to remind me, “Papá, when you were young and dinosaurs stalked the Earth…”

Cars didn’t yet have fins. Madras shirts and bell bottoms were a few years into the future.

Before bell bottoms, we had Madras shirts and white Levi jeans. (High School circa 1965)

 

[Rixxx]

Also like many of you I remember getting milk at school in little glass bottles for 2 cents… how the heck did they ever do that

Maybe it was 4 cents.

 

[AzHusky]

many years ago there was a circus fire in Hartford. zymurg was there. were there any other 'yarders in the audience?

My mother and grandmother had tickets to the circus the day of the fire, but they for some reason decided to go to the movies instead. To this day my mom doesn't know why they choose the movies, but it was a very lucky choice. My mom is 97.

 

[McFly]

Like several others, I remember all but the BlackJack gum. But then, Sr. Mary St. John told us we should only chew gum in the privacy of our bedrooms, so I wasn't much of a gum aficionado anyway.

 

[Storrsbred]

many years ago there was a circus fire in Hartford. zymurg was there. were there any other 'yarders in the audience?

My mother and aunt (who was visiting from Wisconsin) were going to take me but that day, for some reason, they decided not to go.

 

[AidanFan20]

17 on the test. I remember when they INVENTED dirt.

 

[itsasport]

I remember going to the Star theater on Park Street in Hartford and seeing a double feature with a cartoon and news reel before the first movie. My sister, brother and I could go to the movies for under a dollar.

The Saturday afternoon Matinee at the Capital Theatre in Willimantic just before the start of the school year- 25 cents, cartoons, a "serial," the movie and a "pen and pencil set." It was a cardboard box that contained items for school- pencils, erasers, wooden ruler, etc. I think that it was a remnant of the depression when parents didn't have the money to pay for both a special treat movie and buy the necessary school supplies for their kids.

The five and dime store.

I had a stamp collection. Who does that anymore? I did not save the standard 3 cent first class stamps because I thought that they would be 3 cents forever. Post card stamps were a penny.

When did the Surplus Center close in Willimantic?

One amazing survivor is the cheeseburger at the Shady Glen in Manchester, which is apparently still open.

 

[itsasport]

My mother and aunt (who was visiting from Wisconsin) were going to take me but that day, for some reason, they decided not to go.

The Barnam and Bailey was outside of Willimantic in a tent just before that fire. I went to it and sat at one end of the massive tent looking at the three rings, one behind the other from my position (it was a "three ring circus.") There were acts in all three simultaneously, on the ground and in the air, with the elephants being walked around the perimeter. It was amazing.

There was a strong stench of animal manure and I remember thinking that I would forget that part of it.

 

[Bald Husky]

I remember most of these from the radio. (TV was a disappointment when I saw them.) Sky King's niece and nephew were Penny and Clipper, and his 2-engine Cessna was the Songbird. Cisco's sidekick was Pancho. The Lone Ranger's nephew (son of the Ranger's slain brother) was Dan Reed, who was sent to school back east (presumably Harvard), and later had a son (Britt Reed), who became a newspaper publisher and was secretly known as the crimefighting Green Hornet. Each show would end with the newspaper boy hawking on the street -- "Extra, extra, read all about it: Police capture bank robbers, Green Hornet still at large." Gene Autry was my favorite cowboy. At the end of each show, he would urge his listeners to chew "delicious, refreshing, doublemint chewing gum, . . . until we're back in the saddle again . . ."

I prefer the Doublemint twins.

 

[Bald Husky]

Before bell bottoms, we had Madras shirts and white Levi jeans. (High School circa 1965)

You mean "bleeding" madras shirts?

 

[meyers7]

Looks like I'm about right at "dirt", but not quite older than dirt....yet. Just a few more years though.

 

[GoUconn7961]

Well, this is startling…


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I scored a 12 - I'm gettin' there!

 

[BIGMAC]

For all those "older than dirt", What existed before "dirt" was created?

 

[Viet Vet]

Silly Putty?

 

[uconnfan68]

My brother was on Ranger Andy, I think @JRRRJ

Me too.

 

[Forego]

There was a jingle on the radio: "Yoo-Hoo for you-u-u, it's Yogi Berra's favorite drink.

Yogi also endorsed Yoo Hoo Fudge Bars. “Me Hee for Yoo Hoo Fudge Bars Too Hoo”. I never had one. Has any one out there ever had one?

 

[Fairfield Fan]

There was a soda fountain near where I grew up. It sold cherry cokes in big glasses.

 

[Forego]

For all those "older than dirt", What existed before "dirt" was created?

The blue prints used for the construction of I-95 from Bridgeport to Greenwich. I can remember the Q bridge being built back in the 50’s. My brother and sister can remember them blasting the tunnel through West Rock.