I Remember when I was a Boy

[doka404]

I remember when I was a boy..every guy fawks dad used to give us extra chores around the property so we had extra pocket money to buy fireworks with..then we all went in and got them together,came home and built the guy and bonfire..ready for the night

[mudnut]

Found the thread for ya, TD

[4bye4]

When i was a boy, Dad was the depot manager for Shell Co. in Moora, 200k north of Perth. The depot was next to the creek, across the road from the Mobil depot. Every couple of years the creek would flood and full and empty drums would float off around the town. When it settled down, my Dad and the Mobil manager would drive around collecting all the drums. When they had finished they would park next to each other in the main street and have a drum swap meet and count.

[threedogs]

I remember you had to have a licence to own a TV, some were coin operated with a timer. lol


I remember when I was pain free and bulletproof, now just a pathetic excuse for a human being lol

[bazzaboy]

I remember the 70's when I shopped in a place called "The In Shop", and came out looking like one of the Village People, and I thought I looked cool.

[threedogs]

I remember the 70's when I shopped in a place called "The In Shop", and came out looking like one of the Village People, and I thought I looked cool.

I take it you were a "mod"

[Arfa Brayne]

Your licence was on paper and if you used liquid paper to cover and redo the dates and your paper shop had the new colour copier you could make realistic fake ID's for your mates. Just had to scrunch them up a bit to get some authenticity into them.

Bugger licences, you only needed a black and white photocopier to make $100 bills.

Sarge (police seargent) knew everyone in town anyway - so a forged licence was useless. Still remember doing the licence test with Sarge - had me drive down to the bakery for morning tea (just wait here son - be back in a minute) filled out the licence on the way back to the station. Only comment he had was 'ya know you don't have to double clutch these newer cars ? '

[bazzaboy]

I take it you were a "mod"

I was for a short time but couldn't pull it off. Tried being a "Rocker" and that didn't work for me either. Hated everyone by that time so I became a biker.

[Arfa Brayne]

Does anyone remember "hypnotizing chooks" ? Hold them on their back and stroke the breast bone - cousin held the record at 11 chooks all out cold.
or the old trick with a lump of fat and length of string in the duck yard? See how many ducks you could get in a row while cleaning the bunnies from the morning ferreting.

Same cousin invented "calf skiing" - wet morning grass & a pair of bald blunnies. Grab a poddy calf by the nutsak and hang on for grim death. Greatest risk of injury was to the spectators from rupturing a spleen laughing.

Messing around in the workshop with oxy-acetylene bombs and getting roasted for using up all dad's gas.
Duels with home made blow guns shooting 3" nails with a paper cone tail, and extracting the nails from your legs.

Getting a flogging for hurting yourself.
Getting a flogging because your brother hurt himself.
Getting the cane in primary school for not crossing T's
Having punch ups over the price of tadpoles
Getting in fights because one of your mates was a "wog"

Fixing bike tyres with contact glue and electrical tape.
Being able to shoot a blowfly with a postie rubber band from 3 yards
Shooting at everything with a shanghai and pretending you actually hit something
Tying a live blowfly to the hair of the principal's daughter who sat in front of you at primary school (and getting caned for it)
Watching your mate dip the braided hair of the same girl (she was a stuck up little .....) in an inkwell and watching the ink wick up it.(he got suspended)

Jumping pushbikes off the wharf (with floats tied to them and a rope)
Roofing iron canoes with a dozen packs of chewing gum patching all the nail holes
Sherbet bombs, big charlie, footy cards, sunnyboys, pinball machines and sharing a bag of hotchips/vinegar with the end ripped out.
Bikes without gears or brakes. No helmets, no shoes, loose cotter pins and buckled rims.
Homemade bows and arrows
BIllycarts with scavenged wheels and a million 2nd hand fence nails (had one with cast iron wheels on the front - wouldn't steer for peanuts but it took out a water meter pretty good - got flogged for that one too)
Cow sh!t fights
Field mushrooms.

All good fun - without vandalism, big money, or electronic screens.

[mudski]

Yeah i remember going down to the dam at the end of our street to catch yabbies and hypnotizing them and lining them up in formation.

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[Bigcol]

oh some wonderful memories on here..........

I remember the Black and White TV - Test Patten after 11.00pm
my Father going to Vietnam in '67
driving across the Nullarbor Xmas '68 - was just a dirt road...............
watching the first man on the moon (apparently it did not happen according to some conspiracy theorist )
Royal Easter Show in 1969 - as a treat because we were going to PNG for 2 years (used to be called while we were there "Territory Of Papua and New Guinea" TPNG)
I remember the 25th anniversary of the ending of the War in the Pacific at a monument they built near Wewak (where we lived for 2 years)
driving across the Nullarbor in '75 - still a dirt road
in the 70's, I remember Number 96 with Abigail............
69075

[Arfa Brayne]

The smell of the kitchen.
Wood stove, blackberry pie or a roast in the oven, green tomato pickles or preserves burbling on the top, fresh kero/wax polish on the lino.
Way better than the smell of plucking a chook or gutting a sheep.

21st July 1969 - streets deserted like an abandoned town, everything stopped and silent - every living soul gathered around the nearest black and white telly with halted breath, to see man set foot on the moon.

Bringing more back from the tip than you took there.

Taking 10 minutes to pick up the newspaper and the rest of the morning to get home (talking to everyone else picking up the paper)

Trying to give away chokos or lemons .

Mulberry fights, (or lillypilly fights) and trying to get out the stains before you got home.

Night Drifting (donuts) at the quarry in Kingswoods and Falcons shooting fireworks at each other out the windows.

Lobbing rows of tom thumbs over the wall of the open air theatre, or sneaking onto the roof of the projectionists hut for a free show (or dousing with the fire hose if you were caught)

[TPC]

The smell of the kitchen.
Wood stove, blackberry pie or a roast in the oven

I remember having cuts all up my arms, legs and on my face from gathering enough blackberries for my mum to make a pie.
It was always worth every cut.

[TPC]

I think this meme is appropriate here.
69079

[threedogs]

You all must remember that TV turned off over night after "Epilogue"
and re started in the morning. staying up watching the test pattern was not fun

We used to go as a family to Heildelberg park[end of Bell st]
to collect bags and bags of quinces and billies full of black berries
Quince jelly oh yeah
Mum would preserve fruit all the time. Peach, apricot, necterine
you name it.
I think a dying art these days, I fear
Plasnart dont forget the penny on the train tracks you could squish one of those suckers to nearly 4" long lol

[Touses]

I remember when I was young
the world had just begun
and I was.....happy!

Chain!

God I miss decent NEW music!

[threedogs]

You worked me so hard my back is broke... we're moaning lol
Oh yeah Matt Taylor, then you had Maxy Merrit, Doug Parkinson in Focus.
Jeff Duff , Loaded Dice oh yeah and many many more


Saw alot of these early Aussie bands in a Venue in Melb called "Thumping Tums"

[threedogs]

Some of the TV shows like Homicide , Combat, Munsters, Addams Family
Division 4, The Liberace show, Sing along with Mitch, In Melbourne Tonight.
nah memory fade thats all Ive got

[bazzaboy]

Some of the TV shows like Homicide , Combat, Munsters, Addams Family
Division 4, The Liberace show, Sing along with Mitch, In Melbourne Tonight.
nah memory fade thats all Ive got

What about Steve Vizard & Peter Moon ..... Grasshopper - Budgie bottom?

[4bye4]

The Mavis Bramston show - still some of the funniest material ever on TV.

[threedogs]

The Mavis Bramston show - still some of the funniest material ever on TV.

I wasnt allowed to watch the Mavis branston Show abit too blue
My names McGoolly whats yours, Steptoe and son, On the Buses

bazzaboy IMT was a favourite thats for sure.
We used to watch Hey Hey its Saturday when it was on in the Morning
very tongue in cheek comments back then

[bazzaboy]

Remember these?

[the evil twin]

'I remember when I was a Boy' will take on a whole new meaning in Victoria shortly.

[Bush Ranger]

When I was a boy, I had more hair. But now I have more head and that`s what I need.

[threedogs]

bazzaboy ah the old spud gun winner every time
Steve Vizard was much much later still funny as cant beat Graeme Kennedy
like full frontal, fast forward, classics.
who didnt have a crystal set, first heard "lola" by the Kinks it was so good ATT
they played it 3 times in a row on 3XY lol

[threedogs]

I had to share the bath water, uugghhhhhhhhhh

Late Edit::: Hey "I can remember when I was a boy" Ha Ha
gotta be a good thing yes lol lol

[4bye4]

You had a bath? We had to stand naked in the rain.


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[Cuppa]

You had a bath? We had to stand naked in the rain.




Eeeeeee looxury lud, when I wer a boy we ‘ad to stand lookin’ at each other, spit & then wipe oursels doon wi broon paper!

[4bye4]

Eeeeeee looxury lud, when I wer a boy we ‘ad to stand lookin’ at each other, spit & then wipe oursels doon wi broon paper!
Broon paper! Broon paper! We had to wipe down with leaf off nettle bush to give skin a rosy healthy glow.

[4bye4]

Back to reality, My childhood is filled with memories of my father. He used to take me with him when he "did the rounds" from Moora to all the farmers and stations in the area. He always knew where to drive off a road into the bush and find a clearing where we could have lunch. I found out later that many of these places were in fact wartime aerodromes, just there in case Australia was invaded. During the war Dad was in an army division called BIPOD, which was Bulk Issue Petrol Oil Division, although Dad called it Bloody Idiots Pushing Oil Drums. These blokes were virtually unknown, but they established oil and fuel reserves around Australia and maintained and moved them from time to time so that if we were invaded the Army would have stock of fuel and oil to mount a defence. This experience possibly planted the seed for me to want to tour Australia and go off road.

[threedogs]

you must remember Cruisader Rabbit, also Snaggle Puss,, lippy the lion and Hardy har har,lol
Atom Ant, Casper,,plenty of others that escape me , Remember you cant kill a toon lol
and who could forget Mr McGoo the voice of the millionare on Gilligans island.
Would like to put the professor up against McGiver oh yeah
The Flintstones and the Jetsons filled in most saturday mornings lol

[4bye4]

Rennet the Aussie one, Felix the cat?


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[threedogs]

Rennet the Aussie one, Felix the cat?


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Yes Felix was a favourite and Aussie to,

As for the bath comment we were living up at Mackay
in a Queenslander house, with outdoor loo. the gal trough
was filled with some water and a kettle of hot water tipped in.
So there you were a little guy naked under the house in full view
if anyone walked by, only company I had was the green tree frogs lol

[threedogs]

Circus boy was a favourite in the pre colour TV days lol
My favourite Martian for the win too

[Robo]

I remember when.............................................. .........sorry forgot what I was going to say.


I think that was I was thinking, I think!

[4bye4]

I think that was I was thinking, I think!

I remember only last week. That's it only last week

[Robo]

I remember following & watching in horror as a mate of mine riding a motor bike going of the track so fast that when he and bike hit a tree the bike dropped straight to the base of tree and my mate wrapped himself horizontally middle of his back and spun 360 deg around the tree and fell on top of bike.
Like watching something out of a cartoon.
I thought he had broken his back for sure.
punctured kidney liver and spleen, OOuch .

And he still rides bikes today, 30+ yrs later

[GeeYou8]

We carry on about recycling today, the bottle-o (licensed marine collector) would come and collect your empty beer bottles & leave a few cents on the back step, a pleasant surprise when you got home from school. We would get 3 cents back on a soft drink bottle at the deli (that is what we called milk bars here in WA). The milko collected your empty milk bottles, his horse new the route.
Graham

[mudnut]

Professor Julius Sumner Miller and his glass and a half of full cream milk and why is it so? I used to love watching his science show. I remember he filled a glass bottle full of water and reckoned he could use it as a hammer, because water doesn't compress. He wimped out as there was a small bubble from putting on the lid.

I really wanted him to belt in the nail he had set up, and remember screaming at the telly, that he should've filled the bottle in a bucket of water so there was no bubble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ma4kW3xVT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3BSkMj1wLc

[Arfa Brayne]

Professor Julius Sumner Miller and his glass and a half of full cream milk and why is it so? I used to love watching his science show. I remember he filled a glass bottle full of water and reckoned he could use it as a hammer, because water doesn't compress. He wimped out as there was a small bubble from putting on the lid.

I really wanted him to belt in the nail he had set up, and remember screaming at the telly, that he should've filled the bottle in a bucket of water so there was no bubble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3BSkMj1wLc

Ah - another science nutter, thank god, I thought I was alone in the world.
It would be interesting to see how many of our generation took to Science or Physics as careers due simply to the enthusiasm inherited from Julius Sumner Miller.
Probably my favourite TV show as a young kid, followed by the mess trying to copy the experiments. Mum still has a dent in the kitchen ceiling from the Milo lid.

[threedogs]

We carry on about recycling today, the bottle-o (licensed marine collector) would come and collect your empty beer bottles & leave a few cents on the back step, a pleasant surprise when you got home from school. We would get 3 cents back on a soft drink bottle at the deli (that is what we called milk bars here in WA). The milko collected your empty milk bottles, his horse new the route.
Graham

yep in Boys Club we had Bottle drives all the time.
and Penny drives where you lined up all your copper
coins end to end.
Nup can't do that anymore
Also had woodchop days where we chopped wood for the elderly for the colder months
How we never lost an arm or leg was beyound me

[mudnut]

I found the you tube link and added it to the post. Yes, his way of demonstrating stuff was excellent.
And this one, where he's playing with mercury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbX4TSguTI#t=857.211556

[dads tractor]

I remember when there was NO TV, all there was , was The air adventures of Hop Harrigan and the Smokey Dawson show along with Dad n Dave, all listened to on the Little Nipper radio.
Sitting on the floor as we had no chairs.
I remember a Joey kept in a sugar bag hanging on the kitchen door, and making Fairies houses out of sticks and setting fire to the hayshed (aged 4)
I remember stepping on a rabbit dung heap and getting snapped by a rabbit trap my dad had set.
We trapped a wild cat, it got away with a rabbit trap and lived under the house, us kids were petrified to go outside.
Darn those rabbit traps were cruel, but those were the days.
Still remember it all, even 60 years later lol
Cheers, the ferret.
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt164/ferret/imgpwmcrae031.jpg

Have you still got the peddle car Ferret as its a Cyclops and they are worth $ or like everyone else it ended up behind the shed to rust away .

[jay see]

Have you still got the peddle car Ferret as its a Cyclops and they are worth $ or like everyone else it ended up behind the shed to rust away .
Like these.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/09/242.jpg

Mrs won't let me throw then out.

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[Plasnart]

Like these.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/09/242.jpg

Mrs won't let me throw then out.

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The fire truck might be worth some bikkies to the right person mate! Not sure about the rest though.

[threedogs]

jay seee is that the Aldi fire truck from a year back or so, was tempted to buy one @$200 a pop.

I remember the Rumble in the Jungle, growing up , for that matter most heavy weight fights
until Pay for view, but most pubs let you in for free anyway, good money spinner

[dads tractor]

Copy the stickers and dimensions and treat rust so when the grandies are finished and we are driving electric cars or wheelchairs you have a project in the shed .The wagon needs to be the metal body and wheels to rate and the 3 wheelers have to be the same all metal. Have fun looking .

[threedogs]

I reckon Ferets pedal car fully re-coed would come in at $1500
maybe more depends who's there. Would look great on the floor
next to some oil bottles,lol Man cave must have thats for sure lol

[dads tractor]

yep reading u 3d

[threedogs]

New show on tv soon called Aussie pickers should be interesting.


Back to when I was a boy I remember at school flicking the silver
foil bottle tops with some sort of accuracy.
When I was a boy we sang "God save the Queen"

a piece of 4"x2" made a great belly board with a fruit box
nailed to the back, under the seat[bunch of rags] you had oil for you
rear bearings,,, a handful of flat head nails to keep the rear bearing [claw hammer]
in place, if your were flash you bolted a free spinnig pram rim on the belly board and wrapped
your steering rope till tight, trouble was to turn left you needed to turn right
till you fitted more rope so it was correct. lol lol

[jay see]

jay seee is that the Aldi fire truck from a year back or so, was tempted to buy one @$200 a pop.

I remember the Rumble in the Jungle, growing up , for that matter most heavy weight fights
until Pay for view, but most pubs let you in for free anyway, good money spinner
Nah, my folks brought it for my oldest son when he turn 1, he's now 15.

Copy the stickers and dimensions and treat rust so when the grandies are finished and we are driving electric cars or wheelchairs you have a project in the shed .The wagon needs to be the metal body and wheels to rate and the 3 wheelers have to be the same all metal. Have fun looking .
All are metal, but the bike. That's a Spiderman one.
Will end up storing them somewhere, there in pretty good nick.

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[DX grunt]

I remember when I was a boy.......let's leave it at that. lol

[jay see]

I remember when I was a boy.......let's leave it at that. lol
Well that's a start...

Would be worse if you couldn't remember.

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[DX grunt]

Well that's a start...

Would be worse if you couldn't remember.

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I'm 57 and have a lot of remembering to do. lol

[jay see]

I'm 57 and have a lot of remembering to do. lol
Careful.

A guy at work is about the same age and he swears that whenever he needs to remember something new he needs to make room, so has to forget something, problem is that he can't remember what he forgot.....

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[DX grunt]

Careful.

A guy at work is about the same age and he swears that whenever he needs to remember something new he needs to make room, so has to forget something, problem is that he can't remember what he forgot.....

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I'm far from a gofer, shopping basket and bicycle flag, yet. lol

Got too much living to do. No disrespect to those who require these.

[4bye4]

Thought I'd crank this thread up again:D
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[mudnut]

I remember getting an old valve radio and a tele given to us. We could listen to to the short wave radio, and pick up morse code being sent from mysterious places. My brother took the case off the tele and got it going. We used to watch the Goodies and the Kenny Everet show. Sometimes the picture started rolling or flickering badly. My brother would flick the valves with his finger to fix it.

[threedogs]

I remember when Ron Howard was called Opie.
I also remember when Gilligan was called Doby Gillas
or was it Maynard lol
and the Millionaire was Mr McGoo

[PeeBee]

I remember just about everything from the age of 4 years and wish I could block out the nightmare years until age 19, but can't. Very ugly to say the least, but I'm still here so guess thats a good thing.

[Bush Ranger]

I remember when I was little.

[threedogs]

Who remembers Felix the Cat, and Cruisader Rabbit.
Mr Pebody, Snaggle Puss rings a bell "exit stage right"
Top Cat was another.
Sadly I grew up on Musicals, word perfect on most
sad indeed eh lol
,

[Bush Ranger]

I remember the Banana Splits.

[threedogs]

I remember "The Man from U.N.C.L.E"
and Matt Helm

[GQtdauto]

I remember
Countdown
The goodies
Have a vague recollection of decimal currency changing over
Have no idea what I did last week , can't tell you what I had for breakfast!

[rainsey]

Who remembers Felix the Cat, and Cruisader Rabbit.
Mr Pebody, Snaggle Puss rings a bell "exit stage right"
Top Cat was another.
Sadly I grew up on Musicals, word perfect on most
sad indeed eh lol
,

What about Captain Pugwash. Can't forget Roger the Cabin Boy and Seaman Stains.


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[mudnut]

Wagon wheels were a meal.

[MB]

Info tech became a new elective study class in year 10 options. Failed I think for not being able to snake a green line across a tiny Mac screen and bending floppy discs into its letterbox!

[mudnut]

You were lucky to get a computer. I think we had two between 20 students.

[GQtdauto]

What about the commodore not talking about the car but the computer

[threedogs]

Conputers who had computers,,, just having a calculator could get you expelled

[Haji]

I remember when I was a boy..".........., I cud cry when my dad live home and I don't even wanna see him....

[bazzaboy]

I remember ............. pan toilets, the "fruit-o man", eating lots of rabbits, sixpence would buy you lots of lollies, cracker night, ink pots at school, being great friends with a young Greek kid ( bloody wog ), mum actually talking to the bank manager, floating "stick boats" down flooded gutters etc ........ simple, better days.

[threedogs]

I remember ............. pan toilets, the "fruit-o man", eating lots of rabbits, sixpence would buy you lots of lollies, cracker night, ink pots at school, being great friends with a young Greek kid ( bloody wog ), mum actually talking to the bank manager, floating "stick boats" down flooded gutters etc ........ simple, better days.

must be the same vintage as I too did all that, first pay was $12.85 boy was I rich back then LOL

[bazzaboy]

must be the same vintage as I too did all that, first pay was $12.85 boy was I rich back then LOL

I must have had a better job than you. I got $17.50 putting the handles on aluminum fry-pans. I lasted 2 weeks. I knew that there had to be something better than that. Joined the PMG. Delivered telegrams on a push-bike and then became one of Sydney's first "modern motorcycle" postmen.

[threedogs]

I much have had a better job than you. I got $17.50 putting the handles on aluminum fry-pans. I lasted 2 weeks. I knew that there had to be something better than that. Joined the PMG. Delivered telegrams on a push-bike and then became one of Sydney's first "modern motorcycle" postmen.

Started work @ 15 as a sewing machine mechanic as it was known then.after 2 yrs I was the highest paid
for my age in Vic. That was working for Holeproof in Sydney rd Brunswick, right behind Frank Mussett motorcycles.
Where my passsion for bikes started. Still repair a machine every now and then
Back then you were paid by your age,,,lol

[Bob]

As a family going Rabbiting on Saturday & Sunday and earning more money than Dad did in a whole Week.
We kept about 10 Ferrets and would take them all Ferreting for the two days.
The Rabbits were not killed when caught but put in the back of a Ute with Loose Hay.
We also had a big Tandem Trailer that was used for the same purpose.
My brother and I would kill each night just on dusk. Gut and Pair them.
The Rabbits were placed on Long Wires strung between Trees and covered with Hessian.
The Rabbit buyer would collect them each Sunday Night and put our Money in a Tobacco Tin
hidden under one of the Trees.
We were paid 2 shillings and six pence (25cents) a Pair.

It was Hard Work as we worked about 10 hours a Day but we loved every minute of it.

[threedogs]

As a family going Rabbiting on Saturday & Sunday and earning more money than Dad did in a whole Week.
We kept about 10 Ferrets and would take them all Ferreting for the two days.
The Rabbits were not killed when caught but put in the back of a Ute with Loose Hay.
We also had a big Tandem Trailer that was used for the same purpose.
My brother and I would kill each night just on dusk. Gut and Pair them.
The Rabbits were placed on Long Wires strung between Trees and covered with Hessian.
The Rabbit buyer would collect them each Sunday Night and put our Money in a Tobacco Tin
hidden under one of the Trees.
We were paid 2 shillings and six pence (25cents) a Pair.

It was Hard Work as we worked about 10 hours a Day but we loved every minute of it.

cant do that today eh, you'd be lucky these days to even see a rabbit

[bazzaboy]

As a family going Rabbiting on Saturday & Sunday and earning more money than Dad did in a whole Week.
We kept about 10 Ferrets and would take them all Ferreting for the two days.
The Rabbits were not killed when caught but put in the back of a Ute with Loose Hay.
We also had a big Tandem Trailer that was used for the same purpose.
My brother and I would kill each night just on dusk. Gut and Pair them.
The Rabbits were placed on Long Wires strung between Trees and covered with Hessian.
The Rabbit buyer would collect them each Sunday Night and put our Money in a Tobacco Tin
hidden under one of the Trees.
We were paid 2 shillings and six pence (25cents) a Pair.

It was Hard Work as we worked about 10 hours a Day but we loved every minute of it.


I hate ferrets. My mate's father had them and they stunk. I supposed being fed bread & milk does that to you. I remember one day out at Sofala while we were rabbiting, my mate's father had to dig a ferret out of an extensive burrow. I had my 22 hornet and put a bullet through his ferret's head thinking it was a rabbit coming out. He wasn't overly happy with me. I just thought... 1 down, 3 to go.

[Kennedy]

I can't resist -

#I remember when there were only 2 types of people, blokes and sheilas !!
#Our 'town car' was a Holden Premier, despite the 50miles to nearest town being dirt and the first 25 miles or so not much more than 2 wheel tracks with grass in between them and a few sandy creeks.....and you didn't see 4WDs in the big smoke!
#Often driving 25-30 miles in the Willys jeep to visit cousins from about 8yo
#First job after leaving school paid $40/week....7 days a week with maybe a day or half day off each fortnight...5am start every morning to milk the cow and fill the wood box before breakfast....sounds a bit tough by today's standard but I reckoned I had it made at the time!
# I was about 28 before I had access a fixed line telephone.....remember the old black public phones ?? press button A...press button B !

Loved the post about the dinosaurs....thanks to the Mrs, our 5yo is convinced I had one as a pet when I was his age!!!

[threedogs]

Kennedy what a cool story Id run with it , you can say you had a veloceraptor
but had to sell it cause it ate the neighbours dog, you then brought a tryceritops.
lol lol

[threedogs]

I remember going to the outhouse and see hanging from some hemp rope
squares of the white pages about 6" x 6",,,,,,,,,,,, stuff this 4 ply rubbish,
butts were butts back then lol

[threedogs]

When I was a boy his name was Opie not Ron Howard
award winning director or Richie Cunningham.
Combat with Vic Morrow was on TV.
Had to have a TV licence back then too,,,lol

[threedogs]

pretty sure life was a lot less stressful than today'

[mudnut]

I remember fighting for the leg bone of the Sunday roast. Hang on! I still have to fight for it.

[GQtdauto]

Well we didn't have money so we made our own entertainment , went fishing sometimes alone on the Goulburn river , would be gone all day at age seven .

[threedogs]

I remember fighting for the leg bone of the Sunday roast. Hang on! I still have to fight for it.

Barz the shank bone, worked most times and then suck the marrow out.
must get a marrow spoon lol

[bazzaboy]

Started work @ 15 as a sewing machine mechanic as it was known then.after 2 yrs I was the highest paid
for my age in Vic. That was working for Holeproof in Sydney rd Brunswick, right behind Frank Mussett motorcycles.
Where my passsion for bikes started. Still repair a machine every now and then
Back then you were paid by your age,,,lol

I share your passion for bikes. I started riding road bikes when I was 16. Used to ride my 500 Triumph to school and back on my last year. Since then ..... so many bikes. Sold my last one, a 1500 Honda Valkyrie, a couple of years ago when I felt I'd "lost my edge". You'll know what I mean. 62 now and still love them, and still work on friends bikes occasionally. Got more involved in my 4WD as an alternative/replacement. Enjoy it, but it's not the same. Miss that unique feel of freedom that only bikers understand.

[threedogs]

I share your passion for bikes. I started riding road bikes when I was 16. Used to ride my 500 Triumph to school and back on my last year. Since then ..... so many bikes. Sold my last one, a 1500 Honda Valkyrie, a couple of years ago when I felt I'd "lost my edge". You'll know what I mean. 62 now and still love them, and still work on friends bikes occasionally. Got more involved in my 4WD as an alternative/replacement. Enjoy it, but it's not the same. Miss that unique feel of freedom that only bikers understand.

same vintage I sold my bike when my first son was born.
The wife just asked me the other day if I missed the bikes.
In a heart beat I answered you betcha. two things I could do well
run fast and ride a road bike. Ive raced on most tracks in Vic.
even the old Hume weir track, Calder was just around the corner
so easy to slip in a few laps, I rode with the Vigilante MCC for about
6 years, Ive even swung off a sidecar now thats fun lol lol

[growler2058]

I remember when I was a lad, that Australia wasn't full of soft, whingeing, sookylala politically correct freaking, fun & freedom hating wowsers

[threedogs]

First 12" vynyl LP I purchased was "Best of Johnnie Cash"
I think it was Live at San Quentin, happy to be wrong

when you pressed the button to cross the road there was a "dude"
telling you to walk, How far can they take this PC shite fcol

Bon Scott headed AC/DC when I was a boy

[4bye4]

Our house in Moora when I was a kid 5 to 8 years old
71208

The house just last year. A few extra trees and the back yard dunny has gone.
71209
I've changed more than the house.

[threedogs]

Whats on everyones play list, my taste is wide.
from The Three Tenors to Jethro tull, Deep Purple
etc etc, I have over 1000 songs on my SD card
but need to put less so I can hear all of them lol
Even Jet and Wolfe Mother and here somewhere

[4bye4]

When I was young I used to carry condoms in my wallet. Now I carry bandaids and pills.

[mudnut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiZ9U83_SM

[Bob]

I remember nothin :o;

[Avo]

I remember being so poor that i was lucky to be born a boy......
Otherwise i wouldn't have anything to play with

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[Woof]

Only thinking yesterday when there was only 2 types of bread to buy, white or brown and you had to buy it from the local bakers

[Brodie tas]

Had a great read and laugh threw this post. Im gen y but alot of this stuff has related to what my dad has told me over the years. Seen a few comments about getting the snip, i reamber in primary school getting the whole sex ed and they told us about the snip. So i went home in horror and told my dad he told me when he was done he couldn't walk for 9 months i thought bloody hell it must of hurt haha then he told be they used it for a fan belt for a truck!

But the best times when i was a boy was at chistmas time my dad worked alot to keep food on the table but for a week we would pack up the 60 series cruiser and head camping 4wding and fishing time of my life. As im getting older a 4yo son of my own i can see the work and effort he put in to do this with us.

[Bidja]

I remember when telephone boxes were red and had buttons A and B, or U could yell thru the receiver to be heard without paying.

When the grey water passed thru the gully trap and poured out into the road side gutter.

[TPC]

When a great day or bad day was determined by either landing a speccy jump on ya pushy or stacking it. Fark for such simplicity now haha!

Yea, now you either land a speccy jump in your Patrol or stack it and do 10k damage.

[PeeBee]

Running down to the local milk bar to buy the old man a pack of Dunhill cigarettes and getting annoyed when the price jumped closer to 20 CENTS a pack, as it lessened the left over amount you got to spend on lollies! I am thinking this was around 1967 - 68.

[MB]

Brothers being given a gift of an original ‘Tirfor’ great bit of torture kit at the fun times!
Oneday our futuristic self powered versions will fail and we’ll be glad to have packed the extra 20kg + cable carry spool :-)


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[TPC]

Brothers being given a gift of an original ‘Tirfor’ great bit of torture kit at the fun times!
Oneday our futuristic self powered versions will fail and we’ll be glad to have packed the extra 20kg + cable carry spool :-)


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They are heavy and take up a bit of space too but cannot fail.

[MB]

Managed to double kink its cable in my stupid 20’s Tony, he’d be pissed mate!
Never ever slack off and hook/tie point a vehicle drag that last few metres. Old school Tirfors don’t slip, just lock down jaws and wreck the beaut spool, idiot MB20350 :-)



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[Bidja]

Going around the rabbit traps at night as a young boy with the kero lantern and being taught not to put the lamp next to the set. Rabbits would know that somethings up. Use to get 7 and sixpence a pair and wired up the skins to dry. Mid 60's (10yrs of age). Main activity for many yrs apart from building wooden billy carts.

Don't think battery powered torches were around then, we certainly did not have one anyway.

[MB]

Luxury & Paradise ;-)
https://youtu.be/VAdlkunflRs


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[Bidja]

MB so good Monty Python there mate.

I remember bob a job but I wasn't scout so I was lucky to get a ha'penny. Have to go back and tie some flies to go fish'n later in the morn...

[Plasnart]

MB so good Monty Python there mate.

I remember bob a job but I wasn't scout so I was lucky to get a ha'penny. Have to go back and tie some flies to go fish'n later in the morn...

Luxury! Haha!!

[Bidja]

Luxury! Haha!!

Should be bliss couple of nights and quiet as (Just me). Probably a few brumbies poking around, but they can be a bit curious and unpredictable sometimes. S-E of Kiandra (Snowy Mnts).

Someone has to be there. .. lol

[Touses]

Only thinking yesterday when there was only 2 types of bread to buy, white or brown and you had to buy it from the local bakers

I can't be nearly as old as you. I remember 4 types of bread. White and brown. Sliced and unsliced.

[mudnut]

I remember being fascinated with the bread slicing machine at the bakery. Occasionally we would be lucky enough to see the baker toss freshly baked loaves into the loading chute. The smell of the cut bread was heavenly.

[threedogs]

I remember when they delivered milk and bread to your front door.
You just left the money in the letter box.
Born Free was number One ha ha ha

[Winnie]

Luxury & Paradise ;-)
https://youtu.be/VAdlkunflRs


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkWe were so poor we had to jerk off the dog to feed the cat.

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[Avo]

Shit 20 years ago the wife now and I sat up decorating our kitchen table in scribblehttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2019/12/231.jpg

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[Plasnart]

Shit 20 years ago the wife now and I sat up decorating our kitchen table in scribblehttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2019/12/231.jpg

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So are you Nah Nah or Jazz mate? :D

Edit: I'll take a stab. Onya Nah Nah!

[Arfa Brayne]

My parent's couldn't afford sliced bread. Mum was bloody particular too - had to be sliced perfect - old high top loaves.... my job among many.

With reference to the fires at the moment, as teenagers we'd grab rakes, wet sacks, shovels and give what was then known as the "Bush Fire Brigade" a hand with preventitive backburns hauling hoses etc. Thought of it as good honest fun.

There was no fancy water bombers of high tech gear back then, just some old Bedfords and basic hand tools.
The trick was to prevent severe fires by patchwork burning on a regular basis, and keep fire trails open and maintained.
We realised that good preparation was the best way to defend against fires, with volunteers and a non-existant budget.

The idea was not to "fight" fires, but to create a situation where there was multiple levels of defensive preparation against fire harming buildings and people.

Seemed to work pretty well back then. Fires were generally in the grassy low shrub of the forest floor. When older, we'd go for a drive out around the bush tracks when there was a bushfire for a sticky beak and see if anyone needed a hand.
Dad taught us about driving downhill through a firefront, rather than trying to outrun it.
Drove through a few fire fronts without issue or even much fear, but they weren't crown fires.
Never saw a crown fire in person, only on TV in last 20 years when the forest floor became overgrown.

Forest floor when I was a kid was Kangaroo grass, burrawong, bracken, and a few little shrubs - could walk through like a park.
But that was when it was managed by Forestry and cattle lease.
Once Phil Coperburg and NPWS took over it all went to neglect and ruin.

Then again - I'm a "boomer" - apparently we know nothing and it's all different now.

[MB]

Agreed AB Mate!
Good Hard Yakka memories as a kid too as late as the early 80’s having to travel with Dad further out of our ‘Green Wedge’ just started then I believe to the likes of outlying Toolangi regions down here.
Tracks were maintained up there, many family Valiant station wagons doing the same daily throughout spring ready for their home fires next winters!



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[Arfa Brayne]

Bush used to be so open and clear under the gums, that I'd chase roos and wallabies riding my push bike (single speed 28" with backpedal brakes) across the forest floor.

Same bush today you couldn't even walk through it's so choked with weeds and undergrowth.

[threedogs]

I can't be nearly as old as you. I remember 4 types of bread. White and brown. Sliced and unsliced.

Also you could get loaf or half loaf sizes

[MB]

Scariest childhood memory by far was waking shortly before sunrise as kids with my little brother in our thin tarp like tent cover.
Tens if not a hundred Giants in our slumber were stumbling around our camp and trying to eat us firstly by licking and taste testing our outer dewy dodgey wet shelter.
Back then in Wonnangatta Valleys we could piss bolt back to Dad’s main campsite through only ankle deep Cattle grass at best too.
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[MB TD42]

I remember when a full time job was still an option...oops too much boohoo...lol

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[Brissieboy]

During a rare lazy evening and an ale or two, I was lamenting the lack of any decent shows on TV these days and thought about what was around when I was young.
Do you remember the old westerns when TV was first introduced into Oz? Like:
Rawhide
Laramie
Stage Coach
Rifleman
Sugarfoot
Kit Carson
Gunsmoke
Have gun will travel
Bronco
Bonanza
The list goes on - there were dozens of them.
Then followed a phase of doctor shows:
Dr Kildare
Dr Ben Casey
Marcus Welby
and more.
I would like to bring back some the old westerns because the worst of them was better than the best of the crap 'reality', talent, cooking, blah blah blah than passes for entertainment these days.
I read or do something a little creative rather than watch TV these days - a lot to do with being hard of hearing as well as the sh!t that's on.

[MB TD42]

During a rare lazy evening and an ale or two, I was lamenting the lack of any decent shows on TV these days and thought about what was around when I was young.
Do you remember the old westerns when TV was first introduced into Oz? Like:
Rawhide
Laramie
Stage Coach
Rifleman
Sugarfoot
Kit Carson
Gunsmoke
Have gun will travel
Bronco
Bonanza
The list goes on - there were dozens of them.
Then followed a phase of doctor shows:
Dr Kildare
Dr Ben Casey
Marcus Welby
and more.
I would like to bring back some the old westerns because the worst of them was better than the best of the crap 'reality', talent, cooking, blah blah blah than passes for entertainment these days.
I read or do something a little creative rather than watch TV these days - a lot to do with being hard of hearing as well as the sh!t that's on.Cool hand Luke...[emoji41]

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[jack]

Wagon Train, Bonanza, Combat, The Outer Limits and many more.

[Brissieboy]

Cool hand Luke...[emoji41]
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Cool hand Luke is a movie, not a TV series. But a damn good one!

[Bob]

I remember when I was a Boy . Not any more LOL

[ferazop]

I remember as a kid, up at dawn, hop on the bike with the sluggy(later .22) and take off for the day with some sandwiches and a canteen of water, meet up with the mates and just go all day, where I grew up in Newcastle, I could ride from one end of the Hunter Valley to the other barely seeing a house. techzpod (https://techzpod.com/) download mobdro (https://get-mobdrovip.com)

[mudnut]

I remember major brand jams were Aussie made, Aussie owned and had bits of fruit in them. Not like the insipid 'jelly' that is the norm, now.

[MEGOMONSTER]

I remember when I was a boy ,
Eating Ovaltines. Lol


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[jman69]

i remember when i was a boy......... 16, working at the local Ampol servo. super fuel......12.5 c.p.l.

[jman69]

working at Amppol at 16 years old. petrol...... 12.5 c.p.l. i once filled my car up for four dollars.

[Brissieboy]

In the mid 60s when I started driving petrol was around 3s6d (no dollars then but equal to 35c) per gallon - roughly 8c per litre.

[Pete49]

Yes that was a part of the 60's but the part I remember was the pay....5 pounds 11 shillings a fortnight after tax then pay mum 2 pounds for board, 10 shillings in the bank then ciggies and petrol for the bike couple picture shows (1 per week) if anything good was on. Thank god I haven't smoked for over 20 years.