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

Originally Posted by 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)

Men had to be men
Women sometimes had to be men too

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

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

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

Funny how different things are!

The pan shufflers had a dislike of low slung washing lines

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

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

...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.