Thread: I can remember when..........

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

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.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

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

I've never even seen a chalk & slate
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

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?

G'day Folks

Aah! Brisbane in the late 40's and 50's 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 paying 1shilling and 3pence for a hamburger with the lot, 3 bob for a packet of the New Rothmans filter tips 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
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 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 "Bikes,Booze,Birds"

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

cheers

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I didn't earn $20.00 in a week

MAYBE HE MEANS 20c PIECES??

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

Fire crackers in letterboxes was fun

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

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....

Originally Posted by The ho har's

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



Mrs ho har

they pay Mr HO HAR with cabbage???? what an outrage!!!

Originally Posted by digger

MAYBE HE MEANS 20c PIECES??

Crispy?