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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

I only missed that Lions and Tigers one..........what was that from, never heard that before?Don

Wizard of Oz - about the meet the Cowardly Lion for the first time, I believe....... Too old here - 100%!!

Well, I got em all... Hope this gets me a discount at dinner like my AARP card does!!!!!

Got them all don’t know whether laugh or cry……….what were we talking about agan???????????

I missed number 10 also. Never like the movie, didn't watch it until my kid was about 8 (12 years ago). My wife only saw it once as a kid, and she was frightened by the flying monkeys. She still refuses to watch it.

Originally Posted by Mike P

Got them all don’t know whether laugh or cry……….what were we talking about agan???????????

I think we were talking about something important.......

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Saturday morning cartoons were my favorite. My Mom would wake me up and I would sit over the heat register on the floor with a blanket wrapped around me on cold winter mornings, and watch all of the kids shows. One of my favorites was the Buster Brown Show with Andy Devine. She would always bring my breakfast on a tray and I would be there for hours and hours.


YouTube - BUSTER BROWN SHOWS on ANDY'S GANG with ANDY DEVINE COLOR


YouTube - Froggy the Gremlin

YouTube - ANDY'S GANG MIDNIGHT THE CAT


YouTube - Squeaky's Circus
Don

Oh dont lie now, tv was not around yet, when you guys were kids!

Don...you're killin' me! Plunk your magic twanger froggy!

Don, do you remember "Smilin' Ed McConell too? he was the host before Andy Devine.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Don, do you remember "Smilin' Ed McConell too? he was the host before Andy Devine.

No, I don't remember him. I guess I started watching sometime around 51 or 52.

I used to get so PO'd at that bad frog!! But Midnight was cool when he/she would say "Nice." Ah, we were so easy to entertain back then.

I remember the day we got our first TV, I was still in my high chair, but I remember sitting there eating cereal while my Mom did ironing and watched TV. She caught it from my Dad when he got home from work because she got so engrossed in watching the new fangled tv that she forgot to cook his dinner!

The family of one girl I dated when I was about 16 didn't have a lot of money,so when you went into their living room they had two tv's......one sitting atop the other. The sound worked on one and the picture worked on the other.

Don

I dunno, I only missed 2 at the tender age of 35...... Of course I only knew the other ones by chance. If you asked me other questions from the era that weren't related too much to pop culture, I would have probably failed them miserably.

Anyway, the ones I missed were the "Good Night Chet" and the "Peter Pan" questions. I had no clue on either of them.....At first I figured the Good night thing must have been from the Waltons; but the names in the choices didn't seem right. Later I saw that it had to do with the news casters. It figures though that I would miss the Brinkely one.

I remember watching Cronkite and Chancellor before they retired and Rather and Brokaw took over for them; but never really watched Brinkley much.

Mainly because I don't remember his NBC days hardley at all other than the fact that he had worked for them. I'm just too young for that one I guess. Anyway, I really only remember him being on ABC at the time and our local ABC affiliate was located about 70 miles away from my house. As such the channel just barely came in with a lot of snow and static and you could never quite see what was going on because either the signal was simply too weak or our antenna just wasn't good enough at that particular frequency to receive a clear signal.

On a side note, regarding our poor reception of ABC's signal, I remember trying to watch the Miami Dolphins play the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl one year in the 80's. It's the only time for sure that I know that ABC was broadcasting the game because it didn't come in clear at our house. I couldn't tell you which network broadcast which superbowl or any other major event beyond that one, and it's only because the signal was horrible that I remember that it was ABC that broadcast that particular game.

Anyway thanks for making me feel older than I really am. When I was in my teens that always felt good.....now though... I'm not so sure it's that great of a deal.

Cheers,
Dutch

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now where is Princess Summerfallwinterspring when we need her-
hubba hubba

How many of you are still freaked out by the wizard of Oz. Flying monkeys, witches and midgets, what a scary thing to show our kids. I'm still disturbed to this day by it not to mention the Hollywood rumors of midget orgies during the filming of it!

Originally Posted by TOW'D

now where is Princess Summerfallwinterspring when we need her-
hubba hubba

Or Mr. Bluster?

Here is a similar test I found and cut and pasted off line

GEEZER TEST! ARE YOU "OLDER THAN DIRT?"
by Frank Kaiser
Where did headlight dimmer switches used to be located?
a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor, left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle has holes in it. For what was it used?

a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?

a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?

a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women adapt to look as if they were wearing stockings when none was available due to rationing during W.W.II?

a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?

a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?

a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate-licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. How was Butch wax used?

a. To stiffen hair cut into a flattop so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?

a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
c. Long pieces of string or twine

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?

a. Consider all the facts
b. Ask Mom
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex?

a. A cold
b. VD
c. Cooties

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey?"

a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?

a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?

a. Part of the game of hide and seek
b. What you did when your mom called you in to do chores
c. Hiding under your desk, covering your head with your arms in an A bomb drill

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?

a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?

a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you "high"
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window
c. Wrote another pupils name on the top, to avoid failure

17. Why did your mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?

a. To keep you out of mischief licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick on tattoos

18. "Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?"

a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the group who made the song "The Gypsy" a hit in the US?

a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?

a. Tony Bennett
b. Zavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin












ANSWERS

1. b) On the floor, left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the '60s to catch on.

2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?

3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.

4. a) Blackjack Gum.

5. b) Special makeup was applied followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. c) Cooties.

12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. c) Macaroni.

14. c) Hiding under your desk, covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

*Barry Hollander, sharp-eyed reader of Generations and The Senior Connection of Howard County MD, said that he remembers Princess Summerfallwinterspring as a real person. We checked it out and, sure enough, before the puppet, there was a live princess. Here's what John Lockwood at Concentric Dial-Up Internet says, "Princess Summerfallwinterspring was portrayed by a young actress and was a lot less offensive than Thunderthud. Sadly, the young woman was killed in an automobile accident during one Doody season and her character was quietly dropped from the show. The following fall, however, they decided to reintroduce the Indian maid. Amid much fanfare and right on the air, in front of the peanut gallery, Buffalo Bob breathlessly introduced the new Princess Summerfallwinterspring! I was excited. Just think, a new Indian Princess and in my lifetime, too. I had heard that she had been killed in car crash, but I did not really understand at that age exactly what that meant. I was more than slightly taken aback when the camera panned across Doodyville and alighted upon - a puppet. "My God! she turned into a puppet!", I thought. To this day, I wonder what they were thinking. Maybe they thought we wouldn't notice. I did. I noticed right away."

16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get "high."

**Equally sharp-eyed reader, Rich Hovey, says, "For the record --
The purple ink wasn't exactly ink (more like a carbon paper released from a backing by the strong smelling fluid) and wasn't from a mimeograph machine -- it was from a Ditto machine. The Ditto replaced the black-ink mimeograph for most teacher-produced worksheets during the '50s and '60s I believe. The mimeograph hung in there a while for printing longer runs of material usually to be distributed to all students in the school."

***And reader, Mark Kornmann, suggested that two other answers would be appropriate:

b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window

c. Wrote another pupil' s name on the top, to avoid their failure

Mark noted, “This question previously appeared with "Mimeographed" instead of "dittomastered". Mimeograph ink most often was black, & copies made via that process did not have the telltale "olic" chemical odor of the purple dittoes. Go to Mimeograph machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, then click on the dittomaster link down the page for the skinny.

17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. a) The all male, all black group, The Inkspots.

20. a) Tony Bennett and he sounds just as good today.



SCORING

17 — 20 correct: You are not only older than dirt, but obviously gifted with mind bloat. Now if you could only find your glasses.

12 — 16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy.

0 – 11 correct: You are a sad excuse of a geezer. Redeem yourself by declaring to everyone that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

© 2002 — Frank Kaiser


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Originally Posted by TOW'D

100%
now where is Princess Summerfallwinterspring when we need her-
hubba hubba

Here she is, hubba hubba indeed. Her name was Judy Tyler