15 here too. Did anyone use clothes pins to attach playing cards to 
their wheel spokes on their bicycles for that "engine" sound?  Or, did 
your Mom make you a horse out of an old broomstick with a stuffed sock 
for a head: button eyes, yarn for a mane etc. ?
Sorry to be off the subject, but I think we all need a break now and 
then.

Kathleen Spencer
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:30  AM, Morken, Tim wrote:

> I especially liked the comic books that came with PF Flyers!
>
> Tim
> Atlanta
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Owens [mailto:ohenry@dfw.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:30 AM
> To: Histonet
> Subject: Older than dirt/off subject
>
>
> I know this is not Histology related and some may have a few unkind 
> words to
> say about this. But there are times when the stress level gets high 
> that one
> just has to kick back and remember the slower and kinder days.  Enjoy.
>
>
> I counted 19, not good. We had one of those bottles on the ironing board
> too. AND I remember all but the soldering iron on the gas burner. Just 
> not
> one of my better days.
>
> Susan
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
> A: Older Than Dirt Quiz
>
> Count all the ones that you remember
> - not the ones you were told about!
>
> Ratings at the bottom.
>   1. Blackjack chewing gum!
>   2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>   3. Candy cigarettes
>   4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
>   5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
>   6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
>   7. Party lines
>   8. Newsreels before the movie
>   9. P.F. Flyers
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Oliv! e - 6933)
> 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 flashbulb
> 20. Packards
> 21. Roller skate keys
> 22. Cork popguns
> 23. Drive-ins
> 24. Studebakers
> 25. Wash tub wringer
>
> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> B: Older than dirt.......
>
> My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 my daughter 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.
> **********************************************************
> C: How Many Do You Remember??
>
> Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
> Ignition switches on the dashboard
> Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall
> Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
> Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
> Don't forget to pass this along!!
> Especially to all your really "young" friends.
>
>