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

Originally Posted by 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.

thee must of had bread and dripping !

Originally Posted by Chucaro

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.

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

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

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

I can remember being caned!

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).

Originally Posted by 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).

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

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!