AGE BAROMETER

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
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 (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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!




They should have added a few others ---

Movies with no foul language
The Buster Brown Song
Patriotism was a good thing
H. R. Puff-n-Stuff
The Price is Right *before* Bob Barker
78 RPM Records
Amos and Andy
Young Doctor Malone
Carter's Little Liver Pills
S. S. Kresge Co.
Body by Fisher
Edward R. Murrow
A&W Drive-Ins (Rootbeer with "That Frosty Mug Taste")
Doctors who actually made house-calls
Paying bills with cash (thru the mail)
Rotary Phones
Black & White Television
Changing a TV tube (or radio)
bias-belted tires (non-radial)
Buster Brown Shoes
Hush Puppy Shoes
The Lone Ranger & Tonto (was one of my most favorite shows)
N-E-S-T-L-E-S -- "Nestles is the very best"
"Jolly Ho-Ho-Ho Green Giant" jingle
Plop, plop, fizz fizz. Oh what a releif it is
Dancing Cigarette packages on commercials
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Smokey The Bear -- "Only YOU can prevent forest fires!"
Howdy Doody
Transistor Radios
Pogo Sticks




Improvement Era
YMMIA/YWMIA
Ward Budget Allotments
Ward/Stake Building Fund Allotments
Paper Sacrament Cups
Unpadded Wooden Pews in the Chapel
M-Men and Gleaners
Adult Aaronic Priesthood program
Sacrament being passed during Sunday School
Junior Sunday School
1 1/2 hour evening Sacrament meetings
Primary during the week