I can remember when..........

[jx2mad]

Diesel fuel was brown coloured and oily and you could use it as truckwash.
We could fill our truck and get change from ten bob.
The pan shuffler came once a week.
The postie rode a horse
The baker delivered hot bread (yum)
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[V8Ian]

Diesel fuel was brown coloured and oily and you could use it as truckwash.
We could fill our truck and get change from ten bob.
The pan shuffler came once a week.
The postie rode a horse
The baker delivered hot bread (yum)
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Men had to be men
Women sometimes had to be men too
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Sleepy]

.....and when you had "a joint" it was a lump of meat and you were "gay" you were happy:D

[Sleepy]

c'mon coops - I am younger than you and i can remember the night cart!

[Grover-98]

You didn't have television, you didn't have mobiles you didnt have internet... Just though a young person should jump in and save you guys from wishing us back :wasntme:

Funny how different things are!

[V8Ian]

The pan shufflers had a dislike of low slung washing lines:mad:

[Bigbjorn]

There was an expression "flat as a **** carter's hat". Can anyone explain?

[JDNSW]

Some others:-

When you hung a billy on the front gate with the money in it and the milkman (with his horse and milkcart) filled it up.

When the iceman left a block of ice on the front doorstep.

When the grocer delivered your order.


John

[RobHay]

...You could make decent pocket money collecting bottles.
...Blue Hills was on the radio at midday.
...There was a large tree stump in the butchers shop.
...There was sawdust on the butchers shop floor.
...The butcher would buy all your old newspapers.
...Light came from a large kero lamp.
...Light came from a series of carbite lamps.
...You banged your head on the meat safe on the verandah.
:D

[Sleepy]

......I used to pump fuel at a SERVICE station.

17 cents per litre (16 for standard).
Checked your oil, tyres, top up the radiator and w/screen washer, cleaned your windscreen.

And I got paid $9 for 6 hours work.:angel:

[MickS]

The milk you drank at little lunch was sour from sitting in the sun;
You would flick the silver caps from those milk bottles like mini frisbies;
The Sunbury pop festival was on TV in glorious black and white;
and I still remember falling in love with Stephanie who was in my grade at school when I was 7 :angel: :eek:

[MickS]

...You could make decent pocket money collecting bottles.
...Blue Hills was on the radio at midday.
...There was a large tree stump in the butchers shop.
...There was sawdust on the butchers shop floor.
...The butcher would buy all your old newspapers.
...Light came from a large kero lamp.
...Light came from a series of carbite lamps.
...You banged your head on the meat safe on the verandah.
:D

Sorry Rob, just had to re-read your post - thought it said "banged your meat on the head safe on the verandah...." :eek: :D

[Sleepy]

Do they still have those ice creams called 'Gay Time'.Thought that was weird when I came here,''Can I have a gay time please?'';)

Whats more it was a "Golden Gaytime":o......................ok this is getting a bit weird.!:angel:

[Chucaro]

I remember when the DC3 and DC4 were the "big" planes and then the Super Constellation come along for the international flyghts :D

1969.........$6.00 shopping and the trolley was full, wages......$ 45.00 a week for a fitter

[DiscoMick]

When a Chevrolet was a cool car.

[953]

When I grew up, a tranny was a radio :eek:.
Cheers Dean.

[Narangga]

When to drive a 4WD in Australia meant you drove a

LAND ROVER

cos the other stuff hadn't arrived yet. :D

[Grumndriva]

I can remember...
Listening to the King's Christmas message on the radio.
Going to Mt Gambier with the rest of my school to see the new Queen drive by.
Sending food parcels to relatives in the UK who were still on rationing. Fuel at three and ten pence halfpenny per gallon (39 cents for 4.54 litres).
Doing homework by kerosene lantern and carrying a candle for light while getting ready for bed.
Mum doing the ironing using Mrs Potts irons heated on the top of the wood stove.
Heating bath water with a chip heater...
Gawd I must be old!

[V8Ian]

So 'pan shufflers' were tall people running through peoples back yards.;)Thanks for explaining that GG:angel:
They wore a leather shoulder apron, upon which they carried the can (that's where the saying came from)' jogging from truck to dunny and back.:(

[DiscoMick]

When five cents bought a meal of hot chips.

[Shonky]

I remember when Paul Keating was PM! :o

:p

[V8Ian]

Harold Holt gave up swimming.
Trams plied Brisbane's streets.
Cream buns cost 5d (4c).
Public phones had A & B buttons.
A 10c toll applied to the Hornibrook Highway.

:wheelchair:

[Sleepy]

.......when 4wd's in the city were rare.
CB radio users were "pirates".
Offroad "Gear" was a shovel, rope and maybe some wheel chains.
Track Closures were only in National Parks.
Putting a Holden 6 into a Land Rover was an "upgrade".:p
Seat Belts were to stop you sliding around on the vinyl bench seat in the Kingswood.:D

[V8Ian]

.......when 4wd's in the city were rare.
CB radio users were "pirates".
Offroad "Gear" was a shovel, rope and maybe some wheel chains.
Track Closures were only in National Parks.
Putting a Holden 6 into a Land Rover was an "upgrade".:p
Seat Belts were to stop you sliding around on the vinyl bench seat in the Kingswood.:D

Kingswood? I recall Holden Special being top of the range :( up to EJ :o

[Sleepy]

Kingswood? I recall Holden Special being top of the range :( up to EJ :o

:wheelchair: <<< just for you Ian :p

[vnx205]

In can remember when Arnotts biscuits came to the grocer in big tins. A penny's worth of broken biscuits was enough to keep a couple of kids happy for an hour or so.

I can remember when the postman in Sawtell delivered the mail around the town on horseback. He could sort the mail while the horse ambled along to the next letterbox. I'd like to to you try that on a Honda Postie Bike. :p

[V8Ian]

:wheelchair: <<< just for you Ian :p
I already used him Sleeps :lol2::lol2::lol2:
Also remember cracker night, but it should have been called cracker month :twisted:

[martinozcmax]

I remember the old guy who used to go around extinguishing the gas lights in our street at night. (Birmingham UK early 60's) The slightly older naughty boys would open the glass door and blow out the lamp without turning the gas off first. Shut the glass door and wait for the gas pressure to explode the gaslight.

A threepenny bit for pocket money which got you into the Saturday morning flicks with change for the interlude ice cream. One of my younger brothers used to get confused as had to be under 5 when asked on the bus going to the cinema (free travel if under 5) then over 5 when asked to ensure he got in.

Buses you could chase after and jump on whilst holding onto the pole at the entrance.

A bag of the batter scratchings from the chip shop (all the little bits that fell off when cooking battered fish) for 1 penny, great with salt and vinegar. Not sure they's be considered PC now.

What about the Dandy and Beano every week, usually read someone else's we weren't lucky enough to be able to buy them.

I'm old enough to be happy with a stereo radio and electric windows in my 93 Disco Tdi 200 - wow mod cons! :D

[JDNSW]

Kingswood? I recall Holden Special being top of the range :( up to EJ :o

Special? I recall when the Holden Special was introduced. This was a major change, before that there was only one model. Followed by the Premier, I think with the EJ.

John

[Bigbjorn]

Special? I recall when the Holden Special was introduced. This was a major change, before that there was only one model. Followed by the Premier, I think with the EJ.

John

There were the Standard, the Business, and the Special in the FJ range. Premier first appeared in the EJ, had leather trim, carpets, bucket front seats, a console, a clock, and a heater.

[ramblingboy42]

a big 4wd truck was a chevy blitz......then they became mobile cranes

[isuzutoo-eh]

I remember a time when you bought music on shiny discs, which you could listen to using what we called a 'discman'. Ipods were an iconic invention which signalled the change between buying music and leasing it.
You could fill your fuel tank for under $100 and petrol V8 engined cars were still available new.
International travel was by aeroplane, and nearly everyone did it.
Our television was known as High Definiton but it was still a two dimensional view on a flat screen. Most households only had two or three televisions.
We carried mobile telephones with us, that you had to recharge every other night, and hold to your ear when using them. They didn't work in tunnels and you had to turn them off when flying in aeroplanes.
There was a company called Microsoft that made computer operating systems, that the majority of people used even though legally you had to pay to use it.
You had the option of carrying money on a plastic card or as notes and coins that you could actually touch and count.
The air in cities had a moderate level of smog, but there was still what we called 'the country' where the air was cleaner, the sky was blue and you could see stars at night.


Aah, the good old days.
:angel:

[Grockle]

...when I was happy with a new Corgi model car

[Sleepy]

.....when men had long hair, on their chest and their head :lol2:

[V8Ian]

I remember when you could buy a brand new Land Rover that leaked like a sieve the first,and every,time it rained.:pOh! ooops!:angel:

I also remember when I had hair.:o
I can't :p

[miky]

as kids we used to buy an OXO cube for a farthing as we waited for the school bus.

[Grockle]

Milky ,why not some sweets instead?

[Sleepy]

as kids we used to buy an OXO cube for a farthing as we waited for the school bus.

Sorry just finished laughing and realised I need my eyes checked.

A "farthing" :angel:.........I was going to say Baked Beans work better..:lol2::lol2:...

[Grockle]

re oxo cube,it must have been like chewing sticky salted gravel :D

[Grockle]

Blackshheep brewery in Masham do, it's with there 'Salty bitch' real ale.

[DEFENDERZOOK]

i can remember when.......

the sydney harbour bridge toll was 20c.........

petrol....super not standard.....was 25cpl........

you had to get up out of your chair and walk clear across the room.....just to change chanels.......

recycling bottles meant they were simply washed and then refilled and sold again.......

showbags cost 50c....and they were overflowing with goodies......instead of vouchers.....

skivvies were in fashion.........

20c worth of lollies got you enough to over fill those white paper lollie bags........

soft drink cans were made of steel..........

you could ride in the open doorways of the old red rattlers.......

things were repaired instead of replaced........

[V8Ian]

Getting the cane at school.:(

[DiscoMick]

I remember safari suits, and brown suits with flares. :eek:

[DiscoMick]

And white belts and shoes.

[V8Ian]

We got paid real money in an envelope on Fridays.:D

[Grockle]

...when Fauna Production pty ltd's 'Boney' staring James Laurenson was the top imported tv programme in Scotland and he drove a Land Rover in opening shots.:BigThumb:

[Brick]

...it took me all day to spend $3 at the Perth Royal Show, including rides and a show bag

...$2/hr to pump fuel at the local servo after school (made $100 in one week during school hols - unions would be up in arms these days)

...20c lolly bags at local deli (not many of these left anymore either)

...a XYGT Falcon cost less than 2% of what the same car would cost now

...you could undertake any recreational activity without the govt sticking their hand in your pocket

[Sleepy]

We got paid real money in an envelope on Fridays.:D

Ahhh, and didn't it just smell nice:ohyes: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, MMMmmmmm crispy twenties:D:D:D

[V8Ian]

Ahhh, and didn't it just smell nice:ohyes: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, MMMmmmmm crispy twenties:D:D:D
:(I didn't earn $20.00 in a week:(

[Grockle]

First weeks pay £16.00,£2.00 a week hp on the FS1E moped, 90p for a gal of 2 star and two shots of two stroke, £2.50 a week board and rest was mine.

[lardy]

if we got pocket money (rare in a family of 6) 1/2p chews were the go rather than the more expensive bars or sherbert fountain.
1970's it was so cold in our house, that you could draw on the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows, as we just had a coal fire downstairs.
so cold that you had to get undressed and into your pj's after getting into bed and warming it up.
dripping was saved from the roast beef on sunday (the jelly and fat) and we would go too school with a toasted doorstop on monday, kill ya but good tucker!
we had a leased black and white t.v. that took 10p's to run it and in them days when your t.v. was buggered a good wack on the side would stop the picture rolling.....the drama was if you just put 10p in the t.v. meter then the electric run out (also a meter) you would be well ****ed off lol!!

[lardy]

First weeks pay £16.00,£2.00 a week hp on the FS1E moped, 90p for a gal of 2 star and two shots of two stroke, £2.50 a week board and rest was mine.

thee must of had bread and dripping !

[Bigbjorn]

1969.........$6.00 shopping and the trolley was full, wages......$ 45.00 a week for a fitter

1967, a friend, a 25 year old A Grade motor mechanic, packed up his young wife, two preschoolers, and moved from Brisbane to Sydney to take a job at $60 per week. Couldn't get $50 in Brisbane.

Spring 1968, Sydney again. I was still single, had saved a bit from shift work and buying and selling a few used cars, and I was planning on taking the summer off. I was offered a job as an electrician's TA with a contractor working on HMAS Melbourne at Garden Island. I was told I would gross $100 per week with the site allowances and regular overtime, two nights and Saturday morning. Unprecedented wealth! I took the job and my first week worked o/t on four nights and all day Saturday to gross $140. My pay slip got passed all around the bar at The Royal, Randwick. This was the last time I worked at anything resembling my trade (fitter-machinist 1st. Class) until I started a small machine shop in the mid-eighties.

[kermit31]

Ah the memories ,I grew up in northern victoria which probably explains a lot but things which stick out are watching TV whilst sitting on the footpath outside the local electrical store until the owner came along around 9pm to turn it off, electricity arriving - we used to have a 32 volt generator from memory ?? ,the end of 6.00 o'clock closing , the arrival of " Courage " beer , it wasnt uncommon to take a gun to school- shooting rabbits on the way to and from , sticking a tissue up the slot of the old payphone to block the coin return and then returning the followingt day to reap our ill gotten gains , I remember my mum saving the cream from the top of the bottles for the week preceeding xmas for the pudding ( with real sixpences ) and along with the mandatory bread and dripping we used to fry bread yum ! but when times were tight we lived? on cows hearts, sheeps tongues and pretty much any part of the animal - you learned not to ask what you were eating in case you found out. Rgrds

[DiscoMick]

I can remember when my parents' house first got electricity!

[V8Ian]

I remember when you were kept after school as punishment, instead of excluded. Wish I'd been rewarded for misbehavior.:angel:

[DiscoMick]

I can remember being caned! :eek:

[p38arover]

The milkman and the baker both had horse-drawn carts - this was at Harris Park (Parramatta). The dunny man came at night.

When I started work in international telecoms in 1965, a 3 minute phone call to the UK cost 6 pounds. I was earning 10 pounds a week as a trainee (I took the job because it paid twice as much as being an apprentice fitter and turner).

[V8Ian]

The milkman and the baker both had horse-drawn carts - this was at Harris Park (Parramatta). The dunny man came at night.

When I started work in international telecoms in 1965, a 3 minute phone call to the UK cost 6 pounds. I was earning 10 pounds a week as a trainee (I took the job because it paid twice as much as being an apprentice fitter and turner).
That'd be right, I was netting $18.?? as a first year a few years after then. I thought I was rich the first time I netted over $20:D

I ran out of fuel at Lutwyche one night, I put 20c in at the coin pump (remember them?) that took me to New Farm, next day to Eagle Farm then Hamilton; try that now!;)

[Jamo]

I drank too much when I was at Uni and now I don't remember much at all!

[numpty]

1969, Sydney, as a first year apprentice Fitter/Machinist, weekly wage was $17.52..............and I paid tax on that:eek:.

You try telling kids of today that and they wont believe you.:p

[Bigbjorn]

1969, Sydney, as a first year apprentice Fitter/Machinist, weekly wage was $17.52..............and I paid tax on that:eek:.

You try telling kids of today that and they wont believe you.:p

I still have a pay slip from 1959, second year apprentice, gross for a fortnight $31.32. A good bit of overtime in that plus "bonus" of $2.50. I can't remember what that was for. First year wage was about $8.50 weekly. The first of my primary school mates to start an apprenticeship was as a boilermaker and pay was $5.50 weekly in 1955. He says he gave his mother $2.50 for board and it cost 70 cents tram fares to and from work. After tax he had about $2 left and his mother made him bank fifty cents of that..

[martinozcmax]

I still have a pay slip from 1959, second year apprentice, gross for a fortnight $31.32. A good bit of overtime in that plus "bonus" of $2.50. I can't remember what that was for. First year wage was about $8.50 weekly. The first of my primary school mates to start an apprenticeship was as a boilermaker and pay was $5.50 weekly in 1955. He says he gave his mother $2.50 for board and it cost 70 cents tram fares to and from work. After tax he had about $2 left and his mother made him bank fifty cents of that..

I can remember earning 3 pounds a week in my first job and having to hand over two quid for the family. Used to walk to work to save having to pay bus fares out of my remaining pound. :D Thought I was on a fortune when I joined the Royal Navy at 16 and earned the princely sum of 14 pounds a fortnight. Those were the days.... ;)

[numpty]

$16.87 after tax. $6 board, $5 in the bank, the rest was train/bus fares and of course spending money:D

[Mick-Kelly]

I remember when we had to lick ta road clean with out tongues and da would beat us to death each night afore we went ta bed in the lake. :p:p
But seriously we still got caned at school when i went through Grammar in the 80's. The masters drank spirits in their lounge during lunch break as well. Might have changed a bit now though. I remember one of the kids getting knocked off his feet with the biggest bible i have ever seen whacked into the side of his head by the headmaster Mr Howell.

[V8Ian]

I know Qld is 20yrs behind the rest of Australia but it was still a shock to me to hear friends of my age telling me they used chalk and slate at school :eek:

I've never even seen a chalk & slate :eek::eek:
so you can tell I never went to school in Qld ;)
Nor me, you must know some really old folk!;)

[Grover-98]

and walk socks :D and teachers always stuck their pens down the sides of their walk socks :D

Oh dear god! I only just had a teacher last year in my final year of schooling who STILL put his pen down the side of his "Work Socks"

[Bigbjorn]

I know Qld is 20yrs behind the rest of Australia but it was still a shock to me to hear friends of my age telling me they used chalk and slate at school :eek:

I've never even seen a chalk & slate :eek::eek:
so you can tell I never went to school in Qld ;)

Might have been an individual school thing. I went to a large inner suburban primary school and it only used slates in Grade 1, up until 1950. Also went to Winton State School and don't remember slates there at all. The old Qld school desks had a slot in the front of each position for the slate to be stowed. Also had a semi-round groove for pencils and a hole for an inkwell, and a book shelf underneath. It was not considered funny by teachers to stick the plaits of a girl in front into the inkwell. We had some great long desks and forms that took six kids all in a row.

[V8Ian]

Might have been an individual school thing. I went to a large inner suburban primary school and it only used slates in Grade 1, up until 1950. Also went to Winton State School and don't remember slates there at all. The old Qld school desks had a slot in the front of each position for the slate to be stowed. Also had a semi-round groove for pencils and a hole for an inkwell, and a book shelf underneath. It was not considered funny by teachers to stick the plaits of a girl in front into the inkwell. We had some great long desks and forms that took six kids all in a row.


1950!

My parents hadn't even met as they were at different schools.:o

[V8Ian]

They must have met in junior school then;)
Reform I think.:p:D

[The ho har's]

We got paid real money in an envelope on Fridays.:D


ho har still gets paid in nice green ones on Thursday's in a nice white envelope:D:o



Mrs ho har:angel:

[numpty]

Might have been an individual school thing. I went to a large inner suburban primary school and it only used slates in Grade 1, up until 1950. Also went to Winton State School and don't remember slates there at all. The old Qld school desks had a slot in the front of each position for the slate to be stowed. Also had a semi-round groove for pencils and a hole for an inkwell, and a book shelf underneath. It was not considered funny by teachers to stick the plaits of a girl in front into the inkwell. We had some great long desks and forms that took six kids all in a row.

I went to school in Sydney in the 50's and 60's and we had desks with pencil grooves and ink wells also, and used post office nibs for writing until high school, but no slates nor chalk. Neither were used by my older sister or brother either. But I also know of many Qld (Brisbane) associates who have told me they used them in the 60's.

[The ho har's]

I know Qld is 20yrs behind the rest of Australia but it was still a shock to me to hear friends of my age telling me they used chalk and slate at school :eek:

I've never even seen a chalk & slate :eek::eek:
so you can tell I never went to school in Qld ;)


I went to school in Sydney (where I was born) Hervey bay and a couple in Brisbane and I remember using a slate at Cannon Hill S/S and Holland Park S/S


Mrs ho har:angel:

[Hymie]

The first house I remember living in was in Springvale, then an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne-almost rural in fact. The kitchen had a dirt floor.
I remember getting the cane, on the hands for a minor infringement on the backside for a real stuff up.
I remember my Dad ripping down an Effigy of Ronald Ryan that was hanging from a powerpole and tossing it in the drain where Warrigal Rd and The Old Princes Hwy Intersect.
Remember the Traffic Clocks along Beach Rd Mentone, before traffic lights!
Remember when Hooligans rode Harleys and Buisnesmen drove Commodores?

[UncleHo]

G'day Folks :)

Aah! Brisbane in the late 40's and 50's :D catching the tram from Ascot to the City, and looking out the window to see the big americian army trucks with the BLACK drivers,first black men I have ever seen, then moving to Norman Park when dad got out of the army, walking up to the local shop with the ration coupons for butter and sugar :) going to Norman Park state school and using slates and slate pencils up to grade 3 and then paper from Gr4 onwards,the long desks and forms, dip-in ink wells and pens, catching the tram to manual training at East Brisbane SS,then being a foundation student at the new Balmoral SHS :(getting the cane regularly, starting work as a clerk @ 5pounds 2 shillings and 6 pence ($10.25)gross :eek: paying 1shilling and 3pence for a hamburger with the lot, 3 bob for a packet of the New Rothmans filter tips:D riding a gents 3 speed pushbike from Mt Gravatt to Southport along a single lane "gold coast highway" for a swim, after the City Hall & Cloudland dances chasing the trams trying to convince girls to get off and ride home in the car :twisted::angel:
And going into "Barnes Auto's" underground petrol station in Adelaide St, (only fuel after 6.00pm) Capalaba Drive In (and not to watch the movie) ;)

Then I moved to Sydney this city never stopped :),worked hard,in the motor trade as a spare parts interpreter/warranty clerk studied "Automotive Trade theory & Calcs", lost a marriage :(, bought another motorcycle(10 bob [$1] to fill the tank), and discovered Kings Cross and it's delights, no, not what you lot are thinking :mad: and did a lot of surfing,and met a lot of good friends,met "the Management" and started showing dogs.(kept the bike) was at Bathurst for the bikes 1969-1987:)
in the days when the cops didn't have radios on their bikes, "if they could catch ya they could book ya :p "Bikes,Booze,Birds"

Returned to Qld 1982 then drove schoolbuses for 15 years.bought a 2a military to restore, still have it :)

cheers

[digger]

:(I didn't earn $20.00 in a week:(

MAYBE HE MEANS 20c PIECES??

[scarry]

I can remember having a slate & chalk at primary school,in the late 60's

I can also remember getting the cane in the 70's:(

It would cost 5c to get to school on the bus,only if it rained,otherwise it was a one mile walk

20c would buy a jelly tip

Large coke bottles were worth 20c(i think)for recycling

The garbo would pick the metal bin up from the backyard,and would get his "tallie" at christmas

Family bars of chocolate were easy to pinch from the local store on the way home from school:angel:

Fire crackers in letterboxes was fun:o

Slingshots using ballbearings from the bin at the local garage were even more fun:o

Used to get $12 for a Saturday morning working at the local cut price store

The old man complaining about the workmanship on the work Landy's by Annand & Thompson

Petrol was 13c litre.

$60 first year wages & living away from home.....

And the bench seat in the HQ,very slippery & badly sagging,but not bad at the drive-in;)

For those that know this area..
We used to race from the lights at Springwood on the highway,up to Tamborine village,down through Cunungra,onto the coast,back on the highway,then north to the lights at springwood.Late at night only,in Toranas.
Not bad those SLR 5000's
Wish i still had one:(



Now those were the days....

[digger]

ho har still gets paid in nice green ones on Thursday's in a nice white envelope:D:o



Mrs ho har:angel:

they pay Mr HO HAR with cabbage???? :owhat an outrage!!!

[V8Ian]

MAYBE HE MEANS 20c PIECES??
Crispy?:o

[Bigbjorn]

Some others:-

When you hung a billy on the front gate with the money in it and the milkman (with his horse and milkcart) filled it up.

When the iceman left a block of ice on the front doorstep.

When the grocer delivered your order.


John

John, the changes in milk delivery happened in the very beginning of the 1950's in Brisbane. New health regulations required all milk to be pasteurised. This effectively meant all milk had to be delivered in bottles, and rang the death knell for the small suburban dairies, mostly mum and dad operations, or small family enterprises, running a small herd and doing a local delivery run with a couple of vats of milk in a buckboard ute or spring cart. The bottles then were round with a thick lip on the neck and a waxed cardboard seal. Next came square bottles with a foil seal, followed by round glass bottles with a foil seal. Now we no longer have a milkman delivering to the door.

I worked on an ice run on Saturday mornings in the last years of primary school. I wish we had been allowed to leave the block at the front door. We had to go to the back door, knock, wait, and then carry the block inside and put it in the ice chest. I absolutely loathed deliveries to one block of flats, three levels of steep narrow stairs to hump a block up. Fifteen flats in this block so there was lots of stair climbing. No wonder I was fit and lean. Six hours work for ten bob.

Our local grocer, Mr. Stewart, in Merthyr Road, had asign in the shop, deliveries one shilling, ten shilling orders delivered free.

[Sleepy]

.....

when I used to have a short term memory.:D

















what was this thread about again?:confused::angel:

[Grockle]

Pay attention Paul !, I remember the Co-oP mobile grocers van , the butcher's boy delivered the meat to your door and parafin deliveries.

[Sleepy]

I remember the Co-oP mobile grocers van

We used to have one of those in Croydon. :D:D
(Not Croydon UK or QLD but in VIC...circa 1970)

And I vaguely remember the ICE depot where Dad and I would go down and pick up those big blocks of ice for the ICE BOX (Yes that was when ICE was the H2O variety ;)). They came zipping out of the machine along the rollers and this man with a big hook would grab them for us and wrap them up in paper.

Speaking of which I remember getting Fish and Chips for lunch on Fridays . Mum would give me 20c for 5 potato cakes and 10 cents of chips. (You always got 6 PCs and enough chips for all your mates.:lol2:) And it was all wrapped in newspaper. (I can smell the vinegar now!)

OK, I'm on a roll.

I remember the "Hearld" ...(It's a Melbourne thing) and if you were late for work. (I started at 6am) they would say "Did you bring the Hearld?"......we still use that question.....the Gen Y's have no idea what I'm on about. :lol2:

[dirtdodger]

Buying hot jam donuts at the Croydon Markets on Sunday mornings.

When they were bitten into, the hot jam would scald your lips.

[Sleepy]

Buying hot jam donuts at the Croydon Markets on Sunday mornings.

When they were bitten into, the hot jam would scald your lips.

Yeah - I'm there - I can remember when they auctioned Livestock at Croydon too. (And all the skinheads outside Croydon station.......Have a look at the back cover of "Living in the 70's" by Skyhooks - it was based on Croydon railway station!)

Jeepers - I'll be puttin on my Treads next!

[p38arover]

and walk socks :D and teachers always stuck their pens down the sides of their walk socks :D

Doesn't everyone? :eek:

[p38arover]

We used to take the chalk,bore a hole in the end,put 2/3 match heads in,chalk dust on top,and put it back.The teacher would start writing on the board and' STRIKE'.:D
Nah. Soak the chalk in sugar and water, then let it dry.

It won't rub of the board. It has to be washed off.

[p38arover]

used post office nibs for writing until high school, but no slates nor chalk. Neither were used by my older sister or brother either. But I also know of many Qld (Brisbane) associates who have told me they used them in the 60's.

Break the centre out of the nibs leaving the two side points. Fit nib to pen and throw, like a dart, at the blackboard whilst the teacher is facing said blackboard. The twin points will penetrate the Masonite blackboard and stick in said board.

I remember slateboards but I don't know if it was in NSW or Qld.

I remember being the only boy in 8th grade at my school. I sat next to every girl in class and had the hots for a few of them, particularly the headmaster's tall blonde daughter!

[LROCV309]

For Victorian viewers, in the 60s:
Briquettes in large hessian sacks
Gas meters than ran on one shilling coins
"Hee-ah da Herald" - selling the evening paper to drivers at the lights outside the newsagents in High St
... and many more :)

[Bigbjorn]

Reform I think.:p:D

Boggo Road State High?

[V8Ian]

Boggo Road State High?
I believe it was called Borstal:o

[Ricey]

Buying hot jam donuts at the Croydon Markets on Sunday mornings.

When they were bitten into, the hot jam would scald your lips.

& the jam would go everywhere! I used to help dad take his cattle down to the old stockyards at Croydon market for sale. Not too many were happy with the refurb of the place back then, it used to be a great market.

[dirtdodger]

Fishing in the Yarra at Wonga Park.
And actually catching fish.

Native blackfish.............Probably extinct now.

[Ricey]

Driving around Croydon Hills before it was developed in the old paddock ute. Spending every weekend there working on dads farm.

[Grockle]

The village blacksmith,who used to fix the broken frame on my bike more times than I can remember and the village cobbler.

[vnx205]

I went to school in Sydney in the 50's and 60's and we had desks with pencil grooves and ink wells also, and used post office nibs for writing until high school, but no slates nor chalk. Neither were used by my older sister or brother either. But I also know of many Qld (Brisbane) associates who have told me they used them in the 60's.

I remember being one of the boys whose job it was at Sawtell Primary School in the early 1950s to mix up the powder with water to make the ink to be used in those inkwells with those nibs.

I also remember using the nibs to create the same darts that p38arover describes.

[jx2mad]

I used to duck down to the creek at Coff's Harbour and go fishing before school.

[3toes]

The change over in the seventies when QR moved from the old red rattler slam door train carriages built prior to ww1 to the new steel, air conditioned and carpeted trains.

Downside was that these new trains had cloth seats rather than the leather of the old. All those surf board covers which QR supplied over the years for the price of a train ticket were no longer available. A pattern and a sharp knife and you could knock out the two halfs in 3 stations.

[DiscoMick]

I used to duck out for a swim during lunch time at Coffs High.

[vnx205]

I used to duck out for a swim during lunch time at Coffs High.

I can remember when pupils didn't duck out from Coffs Harbour High School to go for a swim. :p

Presumably standards slipped a bit from when I was there about seven years ahead of you, 1958-1963. :D

[jx2mad]

I was at Coff's Harbour High from 58-60. Used to have sport swimming in the creek.

[BMKal]

Practical jokes during school years, mostly boarding school -

Chewing up a bit of blotting paper into a ball, then soaking in the ink well before flicking from the end of the ruler at the back of the teacher's head while he/she was writing on the blackboard.

Vegemite on the black dunny seats.

Glad-wrap stretched across the dunny bowls (especially in the girls' dunny).

Carpet Pythons left in the girls' dunny.

Smoke bombs made from ping pong balls and the foil out of your empty cigarette packet.

"Touch" explosive made from nail varnish remover and ground up iodine crystal.

[LSBob]

I can remember being paid on the pay day before 30 June, getting your Group Certificate the following day, filling out the Tax Form of 3 pages - the last page was just tables and getting your refund in the first week of July. This was before computers.:o
Our boss had an old ex lawyer mate who would drop in and see him occasionally and he still wore a wing collar.
Going to the Flinders Street Railway station on a Friday by Flinders Lane amongst the Herald paperboys was one selling the Communist paper. Never saw him make a sale but he did it for years.
Counter lunches at those small hotels now all gone,:angry: would cost 4 bob.
The 6 o'clock swill, talk about a drinking frenzy!
The families with the kids in their pyjamas watching TV in the electrical stores from the street.
Going to school and catching a bus into the city by yourself.
Listening to Biggles, Inspector West, the Argonauts, Superman on the radio.
Making your own radio and using a cats whisker (and quartz crystal?) to find a radio station.

[JDNSW]

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Making your own radio and using a cats whisker (and quartz crystal?) to find a radio station.

Galena - lead sulphide.

John

[vnx205]

I was at Coff's Harbour High from 58-60. Used to have sport swimming in the creek.

Yes, and because it was tidal, we didn't have records at the swimming carnival and the diving event had to be scheduled for high tide. Even so I came up from a dive once with scratches on my chest from the shells on the bottom.

Did you dig holes in the sand on the other side of the creek and stick First Formers in buried up to their necks when the tide was coming in?

[BMKal]

Did you dig holes in the sand on the other side of the creek and stick First Formers in buried up to their necks when the tide was coming in?

Hahaha - geez, and I thought we were little mongrels where I went to school :angel:

[Bigbjorn]

I can remember when there were no speed limits on most roads outside built up areas in NSW. Unrestricted didn't just refer to a Sydney taxi licence.

[DiscoMick]

I was at Coffs High the year the sixth formers planted a banana plantation in the school playground overnight. Certainly caused a stir.