Old Timers Quiz

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You don't have to be over the hill to take this quiz, but it does help. Can you remember when:

  1. Ithaca, H&R and Iver Johnson were still in business?
  2. Shotgun shells had roll crimps?
  3. Factory .357 ammo used soft swagged bullets that leaded the barrel like you wouldn't believe?
  4. Schools taught useful things like reading, math and science?
  5. Not everyone was a victum?
  6. Dupont and Hercules still made powder?
  7. Hollywood made good movies?
  8. The mainstream news media was only slightly biased and not at all anti-American?
  9. Few people reloaded because it was thought to be difficult and dangerous?
  10. Sports stars couldn't make millions by endorsing high priced products of dubious quality?
  11. The world didn't revolve around gays, minorities, sex and drugs?
  12. Fuzzy logic was the hot thing in the world of computers and cybernetics?
  13. Gasoline cost $0.20 per gallon?
  14. Environmentalists and animal rights activists hardly existed?
  15. The country wasn't run by trial lawyers?
  16. Nearly everyone smoked and no one complained?
  17. Nearly everyone owned at least one gun and no one complained?
  18. California had a two-party system and was a great place to live and work?
  19. Pop music was worth listening to?
  20. Shooting and marksmanship were considered important and wholesome activities, especially for young people?
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    If you can answer "yes" to all of these, you are even older than I am! :D
 
I'm afraid my answers are all 'yes' except for the following:

4. YES! Actually they still teach those subjects, but you don't have to learn them to pass.
13. Would you believe 12 cents per gallon?
18. YES! I have only fond memories of a once great state. I don't see how it can ever be the same.
 
"Gasoline cost $0.20 per gallon?"

That wasn't all that long ago. I paid less than that as late as 1971 or 72.

Heck, a pack of Marlboros was 25 cents at one gas station in 1972.

Nobody reloaded because we couldn't afford to shoot enough to bother with reloading. It's a wonder anybody I knew learned to shoot because we were expected to come back with a squirrel or rabbit for every shot we fired or bring back ALL the ammo.

None of this "Oh daddy we didn't see anything to shoot for dinner so can't I please just shoot the one in the chamber?"

I exaggerate, but only a tad.

John
 
Hey Mal, are you sure you don't remember 12 gallons of gas for 2 cents? :D


For the most part, most of my answers are yes, but with some of your questions the answerers would have to be infants, really.

Shotshells, especially slugs, are still made with roll crimps. If you're talking paper shells without the star-fold crimps, that's probably pre 1950s.

Original factory loads for .357 Mag. actually used nicely hardened bullets. Sounds like you tied into some crap somewhere along the line.

Hollywood still makes good movies. L.A. Confidential isn't that old. The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers aren't that old. Hollywood movies have been hit and miss every since they started capturing light on film.

The one about "pop music was still worth listening to" is a funny one. Back in the 1950s and 60s I'm sure a LOT of people were saying "this new music sucks! Bring back the Big Bands!" I generally hated the music of my generation, the 1980s, and listened to the music of the 1950s & 1960s.

But a funny thing happened a few weeks ago. I found a station that plays 6 hours of just 1980s music on the weekends. And I find myself listening to it, and liking it.

Maybe it's a nostalgia thing.
 
On the one hand, I remember bringing a .32 breaktop revolver as a prop to my public speaking class in high school (c. 1991). On the other hand, I also recall a time and a place where getting mail from abroad was almost impossible and where gun ownership was almost unknown. I also recall living in a state where legal carry was almost impossible...not anymore.
 
I was trying to remember when plastic shotgun shells came out, but I gave in and looked it up before I got any older. I knew I was nearly a teenager when it happened. JT

From the Remington site:

"1960 Remington introduces plastic body shotshells."
 
Yes, I was talking about paper shells before the star fold crimp, I should have been more specific.

All I remember about the .357 ammo was that it was Remington in about 1965. I also remember reading an article in some gun rag about soft bullets being the bane of the .357, unless one reloaded.

Unfortunately (for me) the only music I have ever cared for is traditional jazz, about half of which is big band.
 
I remember walking through the airports in this country with a Winchester Mod. 63 in a cloth bag and boarding flights with it. One always gave the Captain the gun to hold as a courtesy

The airline people never even batted a eye. Half the time the flight attendents brought the gun to my seat just before we landed. I did that between the ages 9-13.

The lowest I have seen fuel was $.10 per gallon, Gulftain premium
 
Some folks hand crank their prized collector cars.

One of my get to work cars was hand crank only. 26 T coupe. Was in tall cotten when I got a decent A, power and lectric start. This was bout 1950, better, far better cars around but I drove what I could pay for then. T cost me 10 bucks. I had to get it runnin. A's ran me around 40 bucks.

Sam
 
"That wasn't all that long ago. I paid less than that as late as 1971 or 72. "

Er...John...1971-72 WAS a long time ago - at least according to the guys (college grads) I work with these days who were born ten years after that.:D
 
8. The mainstream news media was only slightly biased and not at all anti-American?
Click to expand...

Wasn't the last time this occured back in 1748 when Benjamin Franklin retired from the newspaper he published, the Pennsylvania Gazette?
 
If it makes anyone feel better about my generation (I am 20), I think that I was born 30 years too late. Most of the things I like were created (cars, music, some firearms) were created 30 years ago. I just cant see how someone could say a '77 T/A SE is uuuuggglllyyy or how Hendrix or The Eagles is bad music and ask "How on Earth do you listen to that crap day-in-day-out" or "Richard Petty, who is that?" or "The King? Isnt that Elvis?"

I want to scream at the ignorance of (and then beat some intelligence into) the people comprising my generation.
 
Morparmike,
By 77' that's all they could do was try to look pretty. The horsepower stopped in 1972.
Wish I still had my 71' Cuda sometimes.
 
"Er...John...1971-72 WAS a long time ago - at least according to the guys (college grads) I work with these days who were born ten years after that."

I work with them too. Up until a couple of years ago they all thought that money grew on trees and investing was child's play. Reminds me of the old saying about being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple. Nope, they just happened to be born during an economic bubble that wasn't sustainable. They never are. Reality can be a rude awakening for some people.

As far as being old goes, now my parents are old...mom was born in '24 and dad in '22. Got an aunt who was born in '17. I knew all of my grandparents well - they were all born around 1890-1895. All a matter of perspective.

I love old stories.

My mom's dad was roofing one-story barracks in Norfolk back around the time of WWI and when this thing buzzed them a couple of workers jumped off and ran - it was an airplane, the first one they'd ever seen. Then he got the dreaded flu and was put on a train for the 200-mile ride home.

Back in the late 1700s a man on my dad's side was knocked down and scalped in the mountains not far from Charlottesville. He lived to tell about it by playing dead in the rain.

His senior year my father had to walk the 2 miles from the family orchard out to the paved road to get the school bus - HE WAS THE DRIVER and they wouldn't let him take it back up in the woods because the trees knocked the paint off it. They lived on the side of a mountain and really did have to walk towards town to go hunting. The land grant for military service was signed by Governor Monroe - my cousin has it.

I don't feel old.

John
 
I not only remember 20 cents a gallon for gas, but they were checking your tires, filling your radiator, checking your oil, washing both front and rear windshield. On top of that they gave you trading stamps, a bar of soap, a glass and sometimes even a toy.

The only one I don't remember is #20 (Shooting being a wholesome sport). Old enough for the toy at the gas station but too young for guns.

BTW, you're old if you thought "Pong" was a great game.

JohnBT - please tell us more about your ancestor who got scalped. Who was he and where at? More specific on the time and whether he was carrying a gun. What was his occupation? Empty minds wanna know.
 
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Nice to know that I'm not the only "oldster" still out and about...

I'd only add one thing:

Do you remember when most adult males were veterans?
 
JohnBT: Sounds like we're about three years apart on all our dates. My grandparents (long gone) were born around the turn of the century -parents in the late twenties.

I miss a lot of things about the "old" days, but there are a lot of things to be happy about in 2003 as well.

I was talking to a friend the other day about the movie "The Doors" with Val Kilmer. Jim Morrison got in trouble for singing the line, "girl we couldn't get much higher" on the Ed Sullivan show, because they didn't want people to think it was a reference to drugs.
These days, Eminem sings about raping and killing his mother -and is the most popular artist around. That alone speaks volumes about our society.
:rolleyes:
 
Do You Remember These

By The Statler Bros

Saturday morning serials chapters 1 through 15,
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green.
Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, Pepsi Please,
Ahh, do you remember these?

Cigar Bands, on your hand, your daddy's socks rolled down.
Sticks, snow floats and aviator caps with flaps that button down.
Movie stars on Dixie Cup tops, and knickers to your knees,
Ahh, do you remember these?

The Hit Parade, grape Tru-Aid, The Sadie Hawkins Dance,
Pedal pushers, duck tail hair and peggin' your pants.
Howdie-Doodie, Tutti-Frutti, the seam up the back of her hose,
Ahh, do you remember those?

James Dean, he was keen, Sunday movies were taboo,
The Senior Prom, Judy's mom, Rock-n-Roll was new.
Cracker Jack prize, stars in your eyes, as Daddy tore the keys,
Ahh, do you remember these?

The boogey man, lemonade stands, takin' your tonsils out,
Hindenburg, -n- wait your turn, and 4 foul balls you're out.
Cigarette loads, -n- secret codes, -n- savin' lucky stars,
Can you remember back that far?

The boat neck shirts, and fender skirts and crinoline petticoats,
Mum's the word, and a dirty bird and a double root beer float.
Moon hub caps, and loud heel taps, and he's a real gone cat.
Ahh, do you remember that?

Dancin' close, little moron jokes, and cooties in her hair,
Captain Midnight, Ovaltine, and The Whip at the County Fair.
Charles Atlas Course, Roy Roger's Horse, and "only The Shadow knows"
Ahh, do you remember those?

Gable's charm, Frog in your arm, loud mufflers, pitchin' woo,
Going steady, Veronica and Betty, white bucks, and "Blue Suede Shoes"
Knock Knock jokes, and "Who's there?", Dewey, Dewey who?;
Do we, do we remember these? Yes, we do, Ahh do we do we remember these?

Before my time, but who here DOES remember these? :) Please explain them if you do.
 
A little before my time...but I do remember many of those. At a Sadie Hawkins Dance, the girls had to ask the boys to dance...as a ten year old, it always worried the h*ll outa me. Twas a big deal back then.
 
Time to make yall feel a little aged again...

My Grandfathers were born in 1919 and 1924, my Grandmothers about 7 years after them. My dad was born in 1955, and I was born in 1983.

However, my knees seem to have been born sometime around Roosevelt's time in office. Theodore, that is.:D

Feeling old yet?:neener:
 
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