Audiophiles are older than dirt


Someone sent this to me recently. If you remember number 16..... then you are older than dirt.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. 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 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
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!

I wonder what it means if you read posts on Audiogon that are titled;

"What is Hi-Fi", "How is mid-fi defined", "Hearing tests, where and how", "I need help with a Dual 1291 that rumbles", "New stereo trend", "Tubes and moisture", "TT sounds so bad, I cringe", "Real audiophiles dont like remotes", "Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC", "What did you own in the 60s?", "Vacuum tube chess set", "Aging technology verse inevitably aging ears", and this lollapaloozer "An audiophile goal" and finally "Farewell my friends".

Yeah, we are all older than dirt!

Bob
PHP143
If the first 100db suck, why continue?





acoustat6
The supermarket had a floor standing self tube tester. They sold Fizzies drink tablets. We would suck on them while colored foam spewed out our mouths. My dad had a 56' Studebaker Commander 3 spd. In 66' I was 8, he taught me to drive it. The tavern sold draft quarts to go in paper containers. After dinner, kid in the driver seat, beer in the passenger seat in suberbia on a summer's eve. Mom was pissed! Then Christmas, the little Daisey BB gun under the tree, Mom hadn't know about...pissed again! Ah, fond memories of good ol' days!!
I realize we were kids, but we were some dumb little bunnies. Anybody remember "Flash Gordon" or "Space Cadet"; they could have picked those sets up at the 5 and dime store, and we thought it was all real. How about "Saturday Night Raslin"; Dick the Bruiser was the bad guy, and Lou Thez was the good guy. We believed every fake minute of it. Although I was too old for "Howdy Doody", I looked at it with my little cousins; what else could you do on a rainy day.
I remember when Billy Barty used to sub for Sheriff John and when he sung "Put Another Candle on my Birthday Cake", it would be Sheriff John's voice. At first it freaked me out, but I got used to it. I just couldn't figure out the hows and whys.

I, too, remember the tube testers at the store and testing the new ones to put in our TV. One day when my dad was replacing a tube there was this big slamming noise. We looked over there was my dad, looking a bit dazed, in a seated position, flat up against the wall, warning us to be very careful when replacing tubes.
Scored 100%. I remember taking tubes from our old RCA Victor radio to Thrifty Drugs where there was a floor standing tube tester. The days of crew cuts and Pomade! "Flash Gordon", "Space Cadet" and "Spy Smasher" at the Sat. matinees.
78's
Metal toy soldiers.
Shoe store x-ray device for sizing
Sturmey Archer shifter on bike top tube
Onion-skin marbles
Cherry Mash candy (still available)
I would add ten more.

1. coal furnaces
2. ice boxes
3. ice men bringing ice
4. operators asking "number, please."
5. men coming down the street ringing bells to sharpen scizzors and knives.
6. crystal radios
7. irons heated on a wood stove
8. portable record players
9. horse drawn beer delivery wagons
10. Penny post cards

Also, I remember when everyone used "lamp" cord as speaker wire, stock power cords that came with equipment, wooden equipment cabinets, cider blocks and wooden planks for audio equipment, electronic kits, hearing classical music in public school classes, record changers, and music consules with speakers, tuners, and record changers built in.