Fun & Games You're Older Than Dirt If You Remember....

What I remember are Ohio Blue Tip Matches made in Wadsworth Ohio.

 

Your favorite Halloween catch was a homemade popcorn ball and you did't worry about eating it.

 

...or the caramel apples from the little old neighbor lady...who we all knew was really a witch.

 

Another name for "strike anywhere matches".. Lucifer...?
.....or perhaps ........"friction matches"

 

Your shaving kit consisted of Gillette Blue Blades , Barbasol Shave Cream and a Styptic pencil.

 

I still have one and it still works.

 

Lucifer it is. :devil:
Sulfur matches were invented in the mid 1800's. Their strong sulfurous smell gave rise to the nickname associated with the devil.

 

When cashier would grind your 8 O clock coffee at the A&P.

 

My family used to have some property in Maine that was once owned by Diamond Match Company... with remains of the old saw mill... There were some old "Lucifer" boxes in the barn.

..... You're older than dirt if you remember when turning up the heat meant putting another log in the wood stove ....

 

When we had real toilet paper and didn't have to use the Monkey Wards catalog in the out-house.:smile5:

 

Sounds like a quote from a Duck Dynasty commercial I saw the other day... something about the old guy receiving the Sears catalog way back when and thinking "Whew... high grade TP for the next month! Now we are livin' in style!"

 

You guys had toilet paper?

All we had was this:

 

You forgot to add "...and we LIKED it!"

 

Some more than others, but true nonetheless.

 

Gas Wars.

Stations would lower their prices several times a day reacting to each other. (And, they gave Green Stamps or free drinking glasses.)

 

Life before Tech.

People went outside to talk to each other.

 

Speaking of gas wars/shortage. Remember when there were odd even days for getting gas based on your license tag number..

 

Yup and it was really cheap back then.
The attendant pumped your gas while he was smoking and also cleaned your windshield and checked your oil.

 

Washed window with the same rag he checked the oil with ! !