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

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

Originally Posted by Grockle

I remember the Co-oP mobile grocers van

We used to have one of those in Croydon.
(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.) 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.

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

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

Originally Posted by dirtdodger

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!

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

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

Doesn't everyone?

Originally Posted by cooper

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'.

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.

Originally Posted by numpty

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!

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