'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
From the time I was 3 into my teens I was on an old New England farm; in the summer into autumn, my favorite fast foods were wild strawberrys, black/red raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, plums, apples and grapes; all from the vine, bush or trees; we also had some cherry trees (more like oversized bushes) but they rarely produced much.My parents never drove me to school... I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow).
I had one of those that my dad assembled from a thrown-away frame; he didn't secure the coaster-brake arm, however, and I went sailing over the handle bar...We didn't have a television in our house until the '50s. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 am. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
We received 3 channels: 3 (Burlington, VT), 6 (Schenectady, NY) and 8 (Poland Spring, ME), with an antenna tuned for and pointed toward each. Our Admiral TV wasn't black and white -- it had a blonde wooden cabinet; it produced a color picture -- black, white and shades of gray. 
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
Our neighbor introduced us to home-made pizza and our uncle to subs (called grinders) from a local Newport, NH, store; my home town was far behind in these places being established; Claremont, NH's first Pizza Hut replaced a home in which my cousins had once lived.All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 every morning.
I wasn't involved with this until @16; my mom made deliveries by our truck or car on a 101-mile route delivering to dispersal locations as well as to rural boxes.Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.
This was true for early TV, too; no one in the same bed. I've been getting copies of old shows lately, many of which I've never seen.Headlight dim-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-if's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life...
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