Thread: How the tide turns

Originally Posted by newhue

Kero lanterns, nails and bolts by the Kg or part, all delivered in a paper bag. Gee I loved that place.

And a lot of service stations used to have a kerosine pump, same as a petrol pump, and you could bring your own container and buy it by the gallon.

OK here it is

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw"]Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube[/ame]

OR this

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dOpfL6X2g"]The Four Yorkshiremen remake from 2001 - YouTube[/ame]

Baz.

Originally Posted by Redback

OK here it is

Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

Baz.

Tut! Four Yorkshiremen? I remember back in my day there were only 3 Yorkshiremen and one o' them were half Lancastrian really....

You kids don't know how lucky you are.

I remember Mum waiting for the "Rawleighs Man", a sort of mobile general store setup.
It was almost a social visit for my sister & myself as we were, in those days (early '50's), pretty isolated at..............Dakabin !!!!
From memory, he'd come out to our property every 3 months or so. She'd stock up on Hamiltons MAC ointment as I had an unhappy knack of self injury when I was a kiddie, although I still manage a bit of pain infliction nowadays.

Perhaps a view of "the good old days" that is a bit more balanced -

My mother taught in the high school at Hay in the 1930s. She remained friends with the lady she boarded with, who eventually married a grazier who lived about seventy miles NW of Booligal. In 1952 or 53 our family visited there (an epic trip, but that is another story!).

About ten years ago I was showing the daughter of that family, now living near here, photos that we had taken on that trip. She commented on one of them "That must have been taken from the hill where dad buried the babies".

John

Two Bob in the slot, coin pump for petrol between six pm and am, or after mid-day on Saturdays.

It's amusing.
My wife & I often reminisce about the "Old Days" when we were kids, we both grew up in small country towns.
The Thunder Box & Bog Man who emptied it come up along with the trouble you got into if you forgot to put sawdust in after a #2. Newspaper squares on a nail for toilet paper & the middle of the night walk with a Hurricane Lamp.
God, how good was it when we moved down the street to a house with a septic toilet!
Ice Cream that came in a tin, Norco I think.
Playing "Rounders" in the street after school.
Watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon in a stinking hot class room, only 1 TV in the 2 schools, with every other kid in town.
Wanting, but never getting, a "Dragster" push bike.
Playing competition football bare foot on a field full of goats head burr.
Everybody had chooks.
Going to a mates house to see TV for the first time, he had the first about a week after we got TV reception at all.
Telephones where you asked for a 3 digit number or the person by name.
Long distance calls where they called you back in an hour if you managed to get connected.
Many other things to numerous to mention here.....

But, although I think it was great fun & had a pretty good childhood, I don't long for those days & I usually like the way of life I have now. I still don't like big towns, I still like living at least somewhat remote but now I phone a friend almost anytime from anywhere.
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Now all that it is gone, we eat rubbish food that we do not know what it is on , people leave on credit and a hand shake does not have any value.

you can blame the baby boomers/gen x for making all the changes.