I Remember when I was a Boy

[ova50]

Been thinking about a "I remember, ..... when I was a boy" thread.
Anyhow,
Yesterday my daughter-in-law came over for a few hour visit, with one of her kids.

While they were there, and out of the blue, our grand son says to me, " Pop, were there Dinosaurs alive when you were little ?".

Now the first thing that crossed my mind, was that my daughter-in-law had set it up to take the piss out of me. (Ok, Im gunna run with this one).

I said to him, sure there was, I remember when I was a boy we had to walk a long way to school, the roads were all dirt and lots of bush, then you would hear a loud noise and trees being pushed over, we would run real fast and they would chase us. What was more scary, was that we had to keep ducking all the time as we ran because Dinosaur birds would be trying to peck your head. Thats one reason why older people can run faster than you, because we had to be fast to runaway from Dinosaurs.

Ha! didnt bite, payback to the Daughter-in-law. I looked at her and said, ha!! didnt work, wasnt bitting.
I then found out that she had nothing to do with it it :oops:.

Ended up putting the young bloke straight. My wife looked at him and said, "poppys a nut".
Thanks Hun, (I was being sarcastic) :tongue: .

Now, where was I going with this, oh yeh

What is your I Remember... when I was Boy

I remember.... when I was a boy, I could get get up out of a chair, or bend over to pick something up and you would hear nothing. These days, when I do those things I hear myself making these strange noises, things like, aahhhh, errrrrrrr, owooooohhhh and some that I have no idea how to spell.

I remember... when I was a boy. Some petrol station had brands, like Atlantic, Neptune and Total

[growler2058]

I remember when I was a boy all petrol stations had driveway attendants


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[growler2058]

I remember when I was a boy cop cars were kingswoods and valiant
Edit: and were blue


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[AB]

I remember...

Happy pants
Cross colour jeans
Hypercolour shirts

First bitumen road in our area and all the kids swarmed it to skateboard.

Going to our local forest to get chased by the older kids on motorbikes. We called the area "the chase". Now it's an estate called the chase and street name Chase Road.

Getting the old mans records out playing Pink Floyd trying hard not to scratch them...lol

[Stropp]

I remember when tv was black and white and there was only abc.

[Woof]

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

[TimE]

I remember when there was no TV and the highlight of the week was listening to serials on the wireless on Sunday evenings :(



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[the ferret]

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.
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[Clunk]

I remember nothing due to taking experimental drugs to pay my way through Uni................

Don't stroke it, TAP it!!!!.....

[the ferret]

I remember when petrol was four bob a gallon and smokes were four bob a packet, a steam train would go past the homestead and if I waved, he would blow the whistle,sometimes the fireman would throw off a big lump of coal that we would collect and Mum would burn it in the stove, nothing like scones baked in an old Metters No 1.
Milking cows and the hayshed cat clawed at the cows udder, the cow kicked the bucket over and Dad wrung the cat's neck, you'd go ta jail for that now lol.
Blowing stumps with gelignite,Riding to school on a draught horse, Dad plowing with the same horse.
Bush fires that would wipe out everything in it's path while we all sat in the Dam.
Cheers, the ferret.

[TPC]

I remember nobody in our neighbourhood locked their doors.
There was no computers or game consols so we all played footy or cricket on the street during the day and hide and seek at night.
I remember fireworks night when the whole neighbourhood got together around a massive bonfire.

[lorrieandjas]

I remember the days when you didn't have to look over your shoulder out at night, when people had manners, and kids were scared of cops and 12 year olds didn't look like they were 18. But I also remember wars, people dying of diseases that don't exist anymore and no man on the moon. It'd be nice if we could mix all the good things of the past with all the good things of today!

[Woof]

I just remembered what I was going to say.............I remember the 60s, 80s, 90s to current time

[Clunk]

I just remembered what I was going to say.............I remember the 60s, 80s, 90s to current time

What happened to the 70s? Lol

[Woof]

What happened to the 70s? Lol

Just a haze mate, rather not remember...LOL

[TPC]

Pink Floyd, Lava Lamps and marijuana happened to the 70s.

[Clunk]

Pink Floyd, Lava Lamps and marijuana happened to the 70s.

Nowts changed then!!!!!! Hahaha

[ova50]

Growler2058, I remember when I was a boy, I was one of those driveway attendants.use to have a guy come in once a week that had bought a new vw beetle, some where in the owners manual is must have said you could use a percentage blend of petrol. He would take out pen and paper, ask for something like 3.1 gallons of super, then he would drive to the standard pump and then say something like 1.7 gallons of standard. Then wanted his screen cleaned check his oil & tyres and wanted the spare checked, EVERY WEEK :icon_bonk::icon_bonk::icon_bonk:
And cop cars were Cooper S es.
The Ferret I remember I had a pedal cart very similar. Still, What about a pump up scooter!!!! Now thats way up there, totally awesome.
AB My mother who is pushing 80 loves Pink Floyd,often she still plays it, Us, us,us & them
The Dogman No mention of the 70s, A lot of us, whoops, I mean, a lot of people cant remember the 70s.
Lorrieandjas Amen to that!!. :icon_victory: :animierte-smilies-t


I remember when I was a boy most kids had to go to Sunday School. Weekday school sometimes meant the cane. Ouch.

[lorrieandjas]

I remember when I was a boy most kids had to go to Sunday School. Weekday school sometimes meant the cane. Ouch.
Bring back the cane!

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy
Sending letters to Santa for a few years always asking for a horse , only to be disappointed evey Christmas morning.
My dad would always say that the yard was too small for a horse and thats why Santa wont bring me one.
That didn’t stop my letters to Santa though.

Then one xmas morn, I raced out the door to the back yard like I had been doing for a few years hoping that Santa left me my horse.
I noticed bits of horse poo around the yard, looked all around the yard and behind the shed looking, but no horse.

My dad then told me the horse was there when he got up earlier but it must have got out because it probably didn’t like being fenced in.

Some years later dad told me he bought the horse poo and threw it around the yard, then told me the “horse escaped story” to shut me up over this darn horse for xmas every year.

Every xmas since then, someone in the family always brings up the horse story. Our 4 adult sons, my wife. inlaws etc and sometimes my mum spend most of the day making jokes about it, horse sounds etc.

If only Santa had got my letter.

[growler2058]

I remember when I was a boy going to the local fodder store and buying a pckt of slugs a box of .22, 12g and .303 ammo with no license and no questions asked. Buying a pouch of capstan for me nanna and Gus at the general store asking who my nanna was and saying slightly confused "dads mum?"


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[MC97GQ]

Morning Guys,

What a great thread, It's nice to have a little stroll down memory lane, the only problem, I feel a little sad for what is lost.

Now instead of helping the elderly, they are bashed and robbed in the street and in their homes.

I remember when I was a kid we called everyone Mr or Mrs or if they were close friends of the family they were Aunty or Uncle, now kids call you by your first name.

I went to my Uncles place a couple of years back and we were sitting chatting and he kept saying stop calling me Uncle Len, it's just Len, I couldn't get my head around that, this bloke had served in WW2 in Borneo and it seemed especially disrespectful to just call him Len.

I think respect is one of the most important things that has been lost.

Mark

[Winnie]

I remember the 90s

DIAL-A-TAP

[MC97GQ]

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(now it's all housing estates).

The only rule was a bloke had to be home by the time the first street light came on, if I wasn't, look out there would be hell to pay. It seems a bit slack now compared with all these helicopter parents, but my parents didn't seem to worry. And I never suffered for it.




Then again maybe they didn't care - one less mouth to feed:biggrin:

[growler2058]

I remember when hot chips came in newspaper and 20c worth fed a family of 3 easy


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[threedogs]

I remember when a FC Holden with a 2" copper exhaust was considered cool.

and the 70s its best to just let it go man ,let it go, move on. Peace bro
14th of Feb 1966, 2/- 0f 1" nails for the billycart build up.
forgotten more than I remember but liked it better back then

[Winnie]

Dad always tells me how he could head down the milk bar with $2, fill a bucket of lollies and come home with over a dollar. Not these days, too many cameras he says.

DIAL-A-TAP

[threedogs]

I remember looking forward to mums bunnies stew,

I remember the "STRAP" at school

[Bloodyaussie]

I remember the bus from Tamarama to Bondi cost 5c.

I remember buying cigs for my mum when I was 5 living in Glebe and you could buy a shit hole hole 2 storey terrace house for $14,000 and now there worth millions.

[Sir Roofy]

I remember turf calked tip and fiesta menthol ciggies and black and white
in a 10pack as a treat we had sausage meat on sundays andthe rest of the
week was duck under the table

[Bigrig]

I remember when I was a boy, my parents owned a house not far from the exhibition grounds, and every year, dad would pack a six pack and a bottle of coke (as a treat for me) and we'd climb up the outdoor entertainment area to be able to get up on the house roof (mindful of how to walk on tiled rooves without cracking them!) and up onto the top of the roof pitch, where he and I would sit and "have a drink" whilst we watched the fireworks - couldn't afford to go to them, and quite frankly I thought sitting up on that roof with the old boy was the most awesome thing ever, so didn't really understand at that time that there was no choice anyway.

Ahhh ... good times ... simple pleasures!

[threedogs]

I remember when SYNCRONISED swimming was NOT a sport

and there were 4 beatles, crowds 10 deep from essendon airport to the city

[Bob]

I remember having Rabbit Drives to raise funds for the local Footy Club, Listening to the Cricket on the ABC in the middle of the Night when it was broadcast from Cables sent from England and a Pencil hitting a Coconut was used to make the sound of the Bat hitting the Ball.

[ova50]

14th of Feb 1966, 2/- 0f 1" nails for the billycart build up.


14th Feb 1966, was big day for this country (still remember most of the song). And the Billycart often made from an old fruit box.


Morning Guys, I remember when I was a kid we called everyone Mr or Mrs or if they were close friends of the family they were Aunty or Uncle, now kids call you by your first name.
I went to my Uncles place a couple of years back and we were sitting chatting and he kept saying stop calling me Uncle Len, it's just Len, I couldn't get my head around that, this bloke had served in WW2 in Borneo and it seemed especially disrespectful to just call him Len.
I think respect is one of the most important things that has been lost.
Mark

I still call some of my parents friends from when I was a boy, Uncle or Aunty, its a habbit that I cant get away from. My dad also served in Borneo during the war. He volunteered and joined the Air Force. I cannot imagine any of my sons volunteering to put on a uniform, and heading off to fight a war and 2 of them are in their 30s, let alone when they were 18.


I remember when hot chips came in newspaper and 20c worth fed a family of 3 easy

Thanks Health Dept for banning the newspaper, not.

[QUOTE=Winnie;288314]Dad always tells me how he could head down the milk bar with $2, fill a bucket of lollies and come home with over a dollar. Not these days, too many cameras he says. QUOTE]

Gold !!!!!!!!! :clapping:

[growler2058]

I remember when I was a wee lad trying to start poppas mower up to help him out
But I filled the tank with water and not petrol
And when his mate came to look at it and found it full of water quickly grabbing my plastic clak clak mower and going flat out trying to mow the grass hahahahaha used to send the ok boy over the edge when I did it inside hahahahahahahahahaha


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[growler2058]

[QUOTE=Winnie;288314]Dad always tells me how he could head down the milk bar with $2, fill a bucket of lollies and come home with over a dollar. Not these days, too many cameras he says. QUOTE]

Gold !!!!!!!!! :clapping:

Mate of mine every day before school would get a huge bag of cobbers for 20c and never share
He had a full set of false teeth by 21 hahahahaha that'll learn him :)



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[threedogs]

I remeber the old days times were easier, the dollar was strong.
and a pie was 10c at school with sauce not freaking $4.50 plus 20 c extra like now.
and a potato cake {Scallop to others} were 5 for 10cents

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy:

K-Tel, My dad bought me their "Record- a Matic" to keep my LPs in.

When stereo record players became available. ( Still chuckle about remembering my dad dancing around the room and saying "Can you hear it, can you hear it".

When my mum would say " just you wait till your father gets home" (Was she kidding, I never knew anyone who was going to wait for their father to get home so he could give you a belting for something you had done wrong). I would sneak out and runaway, come home just after dark hoping they would be worried about me, then cop a whack for being out too late as well.

Hardly any shops were open on Saturday arvos and Sundays. Public holidays you would be hard pressed finding anything open including a servo.

There was no speed limits once you were outside a built up area.

Some great times and memories.

[threedogs]

Great thread OVA50,
I remember those tin hands that were used for turn signals on trucks.
Plus a fatty was a 6" wide tyre, and you could have a "GAYTIME"

[mudnut]

I remember it was dangerous to stir your teacher. I also remember we got $2 for a pair of rabbits.

[taslucas]

, and you could have a "GAYTIME"

Pretty sure you can still have one of those! Lol

Tap, crackle, pop

[Sir Roofy]

Great thread OVA50,
I remember those tin hands that were used for turn signals on trucks.
Plus a fatty was a 6" wide tyre, and you could have a "GAYTIME"

and the little orange indicators that came out of the pillar behind the front doors
was a morris i think

[TPC]

I remember getting dropped off at school in a 1948 Morris Minor, would tell my Mum to park around the corner so no other kids would see me getting out.
Now i would love to have that Morris.

[Maxhead]

I remember when I was a boy going into town and seeing tanks and riots everywhere, tear gas and water canons.....I used to get off on crying for no reason and getting a free shower thanks to the government.
I remember lining up at the shops for a couple of days to get supplies so you could have some decent food besides bread. We used to take turns like a shift, 4 hour on 4 hours off...lol

Ahhhh, the good old days!!! lololol

[jack]

Remember walking trough the centre of town (small Vic country town) carrying the sluggy, to meet my mate who old enough to have a 22. He was 14 I was 12, getting stopped by the local policeman who asked where we were going. Off to the tip to shot some rats, he told us to be carefull as we had to walk along the railway line and there would be a train along. We would have to walk along single track railway bridge. Also told us to clean up the feral cats.
Now you see a kid with a gun and the Special Operations Group arrives.

[Bigrig]

I remember when I was a boy, the old boy giving me a crisp $2 note and sending me up the shops to get a pack of smokes (winfield blue) and I could get 3 ice blocks for me and my 2 brothers, and some cobbers with the change for myself (remember cobbers - shops still sell them, but they were 1c each back then - little chocolate coated caramel delights ... mmmm ... might go get some!! lol) ...

Great thread!!!

[threedogs]

I remember one JUNK DAY, now called hard rubbish. The pile across the road had a 303 on it.
and mum said No you can't have it put it back. Mums hey go figure probably only 10 at the time.

Cracker night was the best too, dump the wood at local oval, memories like the corners of my mind LOL

[ova50]

Great thread OVA50,
I remember those tin hands that were used for turn signals on trucks.
Plus a fatty was a 6" wide tyre, and you could have a "GAYTIME"

Thanks 3dogs, you helped plant the "I remember when" idea. Fat tyres and fitted to a set of "chromies"


Roofy: Morris 850 and maybe 1000s had those. Dad a Vanguard that also had them. my older brother would wind down the back window and put his hand on it to stop it from coming out, people would yell at dad for not using his blinker. Boy did my brother cop a few whacks for doing it, still, it never stopped him.

TPC: I think most of us have been embarressed by some of the cars our parents owned. Dad bought a Zepher station wagon, he didnt like the colour so he bought a heap of spray cans and sprayed it light blue with a white roof, looked like crap and we would lie down in the back and hide, hoping our friends would not see us in it.

I remember: The Gloweave body shirt.

And the wrestling, went to the old Sydney Stadium a few times to watch. Saturdays my grandfather would come over with a few bags of that colour coated popcorn in these long bags, we would sit and watch channel 9s wrestling. He woulds sit on the edge of the chair and be screaming at the bad guys on the tele, "get off him you mongrel" I really think he thought it was true. Killer Karl Kox , Mark Lewin, Tex McKenzie and Brut Barnard were some of my favourites.

keep em coming.

[Bob]

I can remember when we had Pounds,shillings & pence.
12 Pence to a shilling 20 shillings to a Pound
My first Wage was 11 Pound a fortnight ie $22
A Beer was 11 pence almost 10Cents

When we converted in February 1966 you received
$2 for every Pound

First Prize in Tatts was 10,000 Pound ($20,000) and you were set for life

[Sir Roofy]

i remember one junk day, now called hard rubbish. The pile across the road had a 303 on it.
And mum said no you can't have it put it back. Mums hey go figure probably only 10 at the time.

Cracker night was the best too, dump the wood at local oval, memories like the corners of my mind lol

the penny bunger now that would lift a letter box of the post

[Sir Roofy]

i can remember when we had pounds,shillings & pence.
12 pence to a shilling 20 shillings to a pound
my first wage was 11 pound a fortnight ie $22
a beer was 11 pence almost 10cents

when we converted in february 1966 you received
$2 for every pound

first prize in tatts was 10,000 pound ($20,000) and you were set for life

bob dyers pick a box $64,ooo question

[threedogs]

Mario Milano used to frequent the Club hotel now the Remand centre
Boxing friday nights at the Cross Keys Pub
BSA, AJS, JAP and a few other single 500cc bikes were paddock bikes you could buy for $50.
Wish I had more HINDSIGHT, doh
plus we had Cruasader rabbit, Mr McGoo. rocky and Bullwinkle ahhh those were the days

[jack]

Monday night fights at Festival Hall, TV ringside. The old man and I would bet a bob on the outcome.
Sunbury Music Festival, looking at the pics the other day - instant pics as I had the latest and greatest Polaroid instant camera.
Vertical an horizontal hold on the TV, test pattern, fine tune. Having to get up and change the channel etc etc.

Probably boring these young ones to tears

[BigRAWesty]

I remember when I was a boy :p the local coppa bought me my first legal beer.. While he was on duty..
And everyone and then he'd give you a go off the line..

You could own a v8 as a p plater..

I had no kids..

I worked to the bone for $6.20.. Yet still had more money then what I have now..

Petrol was still below a dollar..

My td4.2 still had poke...

Aahhh.. They were the days..
And sadly I'm only talking 8 years ago..


Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/showthread.php?15134-Westy-s-Accessories.-A-small-back-yard-builder.)

[ova50]

the penny bunger now that would lift a letter box of the post

The threepenny bunger could bring down the whole fence, I remember dad had these threepenny bungers, they were like a stick of dynamite, he would put them under a steel garbage bin and they would lift the bin about 30 or 40 ft in the air. They banned them and the tupenny was the biggest you could get. Dad wouldnt let us play with the threepenny, said they were dangerous, yet he goes out and buys me and my brother slug guns. Dont figure.

I always felt ripped off when we went to decimal currency. Hand over sixpence and get 5 cents.

I remember when bread and milk were delivered to your home
Tommy Hanlon Jnr, "It could be you" show.
And TV was shut down by midnight.
I remember channel 10 having a horror movie show on Friday or Saturday nights called "Deadly Ernest"

Hope your jealous young ones :devilred:

[threedogs]

My first pay was $12, finally hit the bigtime watch out ladies.

The Threepenny bunger was the bees knees of bungers. Then we made cracker guns to fire our crap marbles
Sunbury, Mulwala, just the memory of having hair yipee

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy:
Nestle' use to do these books that you could fill up with little photos that came in the small Nestle chocolate bars.
One was called the Nestle Car Club and another was for planes.
Dead set guys, I still have mine, Probably worth a quid now.

[threedogs]

I remember soap only came in one colour.
it was yellow and called velvet.

[ozzyboy]

i remember my parents buying a house and land for 52k. then interest rates got to near 18% ??
I also remember, them not even eating dinner for a while, and santa bought us bikes for xmas !!
But mostly, i remember they didn't complain and acted like they were " owed " help from the govt because things got tough !!

ozz

[MC97GQ]

I remember soap only came in one colour.
it was yellow and called velvet.

Hey 3dogs,

Talking soap, only three kinds when I was a kid, basic soap - Sunlight, flash soap - Imperial Leather and soap for the worker - Sand Soap (now called Solvol)

[threedogs]

Yeah Solvo is for girls now {sorry} early solvo was like a rasp.
imperial leather was for girly man,
today I like the coal tar stuff.
Flash was for floors hey???
bon ami for windows and wunda wax for the lino

[Bazhemps]

I remember when I was a boy the olds could not afford laxatives so the old man would sit us on the potty and read us ghost stories!
My first pay was Four pound & ten pence.
Baz

[2TROLLFAM]

Like you all - I remember when I was a boy (ooops I mean girl ... LOL) that children had RESPECT!!
* We were seen, not heard
* We ate our dinner or went without
* We said please & thank you without even thinking about it
* We got up out of seats for adults on the buses & trains
* We played for hours - miles from home with no-one handing us a mobile phone & saying "check in every hour" (yup I do that !!)
* We played OUTSIDE (oh shock horror)
* We smoked ciggies down the paddock that my dad used to give us
* We had the crap flogged out of us if we did something wrong
* We rode our push bikes for miles & miles to see a friend or go to the beach
* We worked our butts off pocket money & didn't resent our parents for it
* Great Granny smelled funny but hey, she was really really OLD .. LOL
* We'd play my dad's 45's from the 50's & 60's for hours - dancing around the lounge room like loonies

but you know I think the thing I remember most is : WE HAD FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the ferret]

Ha ha, the old fourpenny bomb would blow a school locker off the wall,
wrap it up with string,,light it, chuck it in, slam the door and BOLT...............not me Sir!!!
Cheers, the ferret.

[2TROLLFAM]

Ha ha, the old fourpenny bomb would blow a school locker off the wall,
wrap it up with string,,light it, chuck it in, slam the door and BOLT...............not me Sir!!!
Cheers, the ferret.

Seriously??? you did stuff like that??? You naughty naughty boy LMAO!!!

[NissanGQ4.2]

I remember nothing what so ever, I do have occasional flashbacks but still a blur.....think it has something to do with all the acid and pot I had in my late teens :):):) them where the days :):):)

[stevogq]

[B]i reember when i was a boy[B] we used to drink out of the garden hose, water fights and running under the sprinkler, on weekends playing outside till 9pm, riding my bike in every suberb possible, RACISM NEVER EXISTED, and getting into all saughts of mischeif all while i never had a mobile or no gaming console, those were the days!!!

[growler2058]

Ha ha, the old fourpenny bomb would blow a school locker off the wall,
wrap it up with string,,light it, chuck it in, slam the door and BOLT...............not me Sir!!!
Cheers, the ferret.

We used to make touch explosives with iodine crystals and ammonia stuff it in locker padlocks hahahahahaha bolt cutters the only way to get that open again :) and various other "bombs" back then it was mischievous now it's terrorism


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[ova50]

I remember....... when I was a Boy

And wonder how many of you do too ???

Having the crap beaten out of you for swinging on the clothes line.

Also should add my appologies to the lady members of the forum for neglecting to add "I remember .... when I was a boy / Girl.

My wife was having a look at some of the replys and said. "I remember when I was a girl, the toilet paper was an old phone book that her dad had drilled a hole through, put some wire through it and it hung on the back of the door. If we ran out they would use the waxed paper that apples use to be wrapped in".

And to Bazhemps . The ghost story on the potty has cracked me and the wife up. Really, I was having trouble typing because I was laughing so much.

.

[threedogs]

Not to mention what would happen if you tied one to a rabbit but I digress again
I remember when the Barber gave you a lolly after your short back and sides
and didn't get arrested.

And to Ferret shame on you, shame I say. Lol

[mudski]

Getting the old mans records out playing Pink Floyd trying hard not to scratch them...lol

Atleast he has real taste in music.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Acid flashback..............I remember when parents could give there kids a hiding for doing the wrong thing, It was called discipline and most children quickly learnt to respected there elders and other people.

Nowadays disciplining a child is called child abuse and most kids these days don't respect there elders or anyone else for that matter.

Still remember my old man's wooden ruler that had a metal edge, that thing could draw blood

[threedogs]

I remember the Milkman with his horse and cart. and if you were really lucky the horse would drop his apples
outside your place. Quick as a flash mum would grab the dust pan and shovel it up for the VEGIE patch.

Pic is how to make suds

[mudski]

Actually I remember when i was a boy a doctor telling me I would be in a wheelchair by the time I'm 30 .(Spinal Bifidi in two vertebrae). I'm 38 as of last week and I'm still standing. Well, not today though. Had to dope up on Diazapam and brufen. I bent over this morning and picked up one of my kids toys and that stuffed my day. But I'm still standing....

[ova50]

I remember sometimes mum would have to take me to the Dr for some illness or whatever, and the Doctor would be having a cigarette and have an ash tray full of butts while talking to you.

Threedogs: Gotta laugh at the barber one. Thing is its so damm true, Our barber used to give you a small pack of juicy fruit chewing gum. It had maybe 4 pieces in it.

[threedogs]

I remember not so much me but my Nan or mum and dad must have used these as a kid.
these 3 ice chests are dated 1856, 1900 , 1930 I love em
Or early refridgerator

Feel your pain Mudski, easy on the meds if poss

[Bloodyaussie]

Faarrkk we are a bunch of "Grumpy old men"......... I remember the cops in Sydney had Valiant Chargers with a single blue light in the middle of the roof!!!

[threedogs]

Getting my sons to read through this over the weekend.
This is what mums roast came out of,,,,roast mmmmm,
Use this one most sundays , cooks great
Aussie in the early days we used to get up beside the police cars
and out drag them, Triumph and first model honda 4s lol

[NissanGQ4.2]

Another acid flashback......damn those drugs had side effects I never new about at the time *L*

I remember when furniture and other products where made of high quality and lasted 20 odd years, these days they seem to expire the day after warranty runs out

[89gqpatrol4x4]

I remember getting home from school getting changed, jumping on my push bike and telling mum I'd be home by dark.
I remember exploring the bushland behind our house, making forts and cubby houses.
I remember going to the shop and buying fags and thinking how cool we were to be pretending to smoke a cigie!
I remember making spud guns/pipe guns out of pvc pipe a bbq ignitor and a can of deoderant, what a noise, what a flame!

[threedogs]

Sorry have to post again, bought this last weekend for $50
Has racist stamp on the back dated 1 AUG 1944.
this is made of solid Oak not one piece of ply. Missus wanted it
for mop bucket and vacuum cleaner storage. All my mates are saying way too good
for out side and put in my man land. Awesome piece of early Aust History.
But I've got heaps, cause thats what I collect. Check back boards on this 1/2 in thick oak

[Bloodyaussie]

Fail fail fail fail

[threedogs]

Sorry but this is my thang, wheres big fella to help me out, sheees aussie
cut me some slack please. I like all this old stuff cause you can't get anything these days that will last.
And this is how you cleaned your boots

[Bloodyaussie]

I love it... my wife also loves stuff like that!!

[Winnie]

I'm feeling alone on this forum lol.

[taslucas]

I'm feeling alone on this forum lol.

Me too mate..... Lol
Although I do remember the 80s in full colour;-)

Tap, crackle, pop

[threedogs]

Come on you you GEN "X"ers let fly, feel like a giggle

[Winnie]

Dunno nothing about those!

[threedogs]

Don't tell me you're gen "Y" ???

[the ferret]

Seriously??? you did stuff like that??? You naughty naughty boy LMAO!!!

Ha ha yes I did lol.
But one time it wasn't me and I got the blame, off to the Headmaster's office and he was gunna cane me, I told him I hadn't done it and if he hit me with that cane ,I would break it over his scone, that earned me another 6 cuts of the cane, he grabbed my hand and swished the cane, ouch, but before he could take another swing I ripped it off him and belted him over the head and he was last seen racing down the corridor with me after him.
I met him 50 years later and wasn't game to tell him my real name LOL.
So, that's why they called me Ferret, I was a shirt of a kid and always into mischief lol.
Cheers, the ferret.

[nissannewby]

I remember when I was a boy.....hang on Im only 23 :p. However I do remember when I was about 8 yrs old much like 89 we would get home from school and ride our pushies around the suburbs until dark and then same again on the weekends, we would ride to local bmx tracks or any skate parks, dirt jumps then ride home. We had no gadgets just our bikes and only had maybe 6 channels on a analogue TV.

We could go to the shop with $2 and get a $1 worth of lollies and a can of coke and get change. And I can remember fuel being less than 50c a litre.

I know I am apart of this generation but we are not made like they use to be. The wiser, older blokes in this thread would work us under the table and still out do us on the piss and get up the next mroning and do it again.

[89gqpatrol4x4]

I'm feeling alone on this forum lol.

I ONLY remember colour tv
I ONLY remember petrol in liters
I DONT remember the 70's ( wasn't born)

[nissannewby]

Don't tell me you're gen "Y" ???

Gen "Y" was from 1990 I believe cos I know im certainly not in it

[growler2058]

I remember getting my first car in 1987 an LJ Torana it was 14 years old and i was 16. It was the ducks nuts
I remember 6 weeks later having to climb up and out the passengers side door :)

[ova50]

To Gen X and Y:

Surely you guys & girls have something to contribute.

Everyone has a "I remember" to tell.

Sure some of us may be over the hill, but we still enjoy a good laugh and reminiscing.

No rules here, you can even pretend.

I remember... when I was a boy:
Specials at supermarkets often had a limit of 2. Dad would bundle us kids (me, my brother and two sisters) into the car, drive half way across the city, and then have each of us take it in turns to go through the register to buy two cans or packets of something that was on special.

[mudski]

I'm feeling alone on this forum lol.

You a young'in Winnie? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Its really great how people here of such a broad age range can get together and have a good time.


I remember when I was a boy.....hang on Im only 23 :p. However I do remember when I was about 8 yrs old much like 89 we would get home from school and ride our pushies around the suburbs until dark and then same again on the weekends, we would ride to local bmx tracks or any skate parks, dirt jumps then ride home. We had no gadgets just our bikes and only had maybe 6 channels on a analogue TV.

We could go to the shop with $2 and get a $1 worth of lollies and a can of coke and get change. And I can remember fuel being less than 50c a litre.

I know I am apart of this generation but we are not made like they use to be. The wiser, older blokes in this thread would work us under the table and still out do us on the piss and get up the next mroning and do it again.
Hehe, I remember when LG+PG first came out and I was one of the first to have a straight gas system fitted to my car. 650cfm custom made gas carby. Gas was a whole 8cents per litre! Or was it 6...

[threedogs]

I remember a bloke mum and dad called POOSEY BILL,
apparently he'd empty the toilet cans before we got septic tanks
thus the term flatter than a S^&T carters hat

[Bigrig]

Plenty of Gen x'ers on here boss - I'm one of them!! lol

[2TROLLFAM]

I remember driving my sperm donors brand new hilux 10klms to the shop every Sunday to get the paper & waving to the local cops .... 4yrs before I was due to get my license


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[mudski]

Sorry i just stopped at sperm donor. ROFLMAO!!!!

[2TROLLFAM]

Sorry i just stopped at sperm donor. ROFLMAO!!!!

HAHAHAHAHA ya flipping goose - made me splurk my drink. Now got fizzy up my nose


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[Bloodyaussie]

He he !!! Yeah thats all my old man was....... He had one use!!!!

[89gqpatrol4x4]

I remember our first computer the commodor 64! WOW what a machine it hooked to the tv as it didn't have a moniter and it had a 9 dot printer. The discks were big cartridges and you could play pong on it. Next came the 2.86 with 2 meg of ram HA HA

[Bloodyaussie]

Yeah I remember loading cassettes for 50 years and then getting an era and having to load the buggers all over again!!!!! what joy

[89gqpatrol4x4]

I also remember our first gaming console the atari 2600! Pong, pack man, and who could forget space invaders Fantastic!

[ova50]

I remember a bloke mum and dad called POOSEY BILL,
apparently he'd empty the toilet cans before we got septic tanks
thus the term flatter than a S^&T carters hat

I remember when I was a boy my dad would get angry because of something stupid me or my brother had done. Yelling at us, he would say, "you two are useless, you wouldnt even get a job on the shit cart".

Now the funny thing was, that when I was in my late 20s I found myself out of work, and I took a job driving septic waste tankers in the Hornsby district Sydney.

The day I got the job I rang my dad up that night and said " hey dad, remember when you you use to say that I would never get a job on a shit truck, guess what, you were wrong, they took me!!!!!!"

My dad had a good sense of humour and had a good laugh about it.
.

89GQpatrol4x4 I was lousey at space invaders, Asteroids was my forte.

[threedogs]

Remember being INK monitor , weren't allowed to use ball point pens till 4th grade.
not even gunna comment on the Sperm donor thing being adopted an all. LOL

[2TROLLFAM]

I remember going to Bingo with my Mum ... My brother & I would be washed, in our PJ's dragging our pillows & blankies. When we got tired we climbed under the table and went to sleep on mums feet (like good little puppy dogs)


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[89gqpatrol4x4]

I remember getting picked up by my dad in the middle of the night as a 5 year old and put in the car to go to the aiport to come to Australia to live.

[MC97GQ]

Well after watching the idiot box for 5 mins, time to have a rant,

When I was a kid, NO BIG BROTHER, NO SURVIVOR, NO GLEE, NO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND's NEXT TOP MODEL, NO BEAUTY AND THE GEEK, NO BLOODY REALITY TV PERIOD.

I am happy to live MY life, I AM SURE AS SHITE DO NOT NEED TO LIVE SOMEONE ELSE'S.

Sorry for the rant but am I over it.

[Bigrig]

Here's one - I remember when it was still acceptable for kids to have shandys at the RSL - half beer, half lemonade ... well, don't know if it was acceptable, but we did it anyway!!! lol

[89gqpatrol4x4]

Here's one - I remember when it was still acceptable for kids to have shandys at the RSL - half beer, half lemonade ... well, don't know if it was acceptable, but we did it anyway!!! lol

The good old shandy. Thats all we were allowed untill we were 18

[growler2058]

I remember when i was a boy..........carbon paper and an early photo copier thing at mums work it had a handle and a big roller and everything came out with blue ink an i liked the smell of it...................could explain alot

[2TROLLFAM]

I remember when i was a boy..........carbon paper and an early photo copier thing at mums work it had a handle and a big roller and everything came out with blue ink an i liked the smell of it...................could explain alot

Yes it does explain a lot!! ;)~


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[mudski]

HAHAHAHAHA ya flipping goose - made me splurk my drink. Now got fizzy up my nose


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And the words from the great Mrs.Brown "Keeping a man happy is easy. All you have to do is keep their stomach full and their testicles empty!".

So true. On the stomach bit that, err, is...

[ova50]

I remember when i was a boy..........carbon paper and an early photo copier thing at mums work it had a handle and a big roller and everything came out with blue ink an i liked the smell of it...................could explain alot

I think they were called a gestetner printer.
Schools often had them and some offices.

[growler2058]

I think they were called a gestetner printer.
Schools often had them and some offices.

I can smell it now and can hear mum squwaking at me cause i was covered in blue ink hahahahahhahahahaha

[threedogs]

Used to be a service tech on then X 2 on the fluid Growler
Fordigraph was another fluid duplicater Gestetner were ink duplicators

[Dhuck]

I remember when I was a boy that there is a cr@p load of stuff on here that relates in a big way. Then I turned late teens and everything from there till about 11 years ago is a blur. But I did like Mary Jane more than a lot and acid was great stuff and not deadly.

[MC97GQ]

Here's one - I remember when it was still acceptable for kids to have shandys at the RSL - half beer, half lemonade ... well, don't know if it was acceptable, but we did it anyway!!! lol

Here's one to think about,

Fire engines, I remember the old man in the pub getting snakes hissed, me sitting in the car and once in a blue moon he would come out with a Fire engine and a packet of Smiths crisps. God help me if I had the audacity to dare to ask what time we were going home. Seems a little wrong now but it was the norm back then.

[Winnie]

You a young'in Winnie? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Its really great how people here of such a broad age range can get together and have a good time.


Don't tell me you're gen "Y" ???

Mate I'm only 19, BUT I'm almost 20!

I remember when I used to come home from school, I'd jump on the motorbike and ride it until the sun started to go down even if it was crappy weather. That was only about 10 years ago but all kids do when they come home now is get on facebook and talk crap. McDonalds was like the greatest treat over and only had it about twice a year, now it's what you get when you're pissed at 3am and nothing else is open.

[DX grunt]

I remember when I was a boy.....

A box of matches was 2 cents, a packet of PK or Juicy Fruit was 5 cents, when we got our first colour tv, a Western Wagon Wheel was 5c, we had a black Vanguard.

My very first day at school I had to get on the bus, but ran away. The teacher came to my house and talked to me.

Caught a few rabbits with nets and ferrets (sorry Rod)

Platform shoes and purple flares!!!

How could ANYBODY forget my English teacher. PML

Enough memories for the moment. lol.

[the ferret]

Well I remember when I was about 10, we used to visit my Nanna, down the road was a deli with a lane behind it with a picket fence.
The Deli owner was a sorry old sod, and he would stack all the big Coke bottles against the fence.
Being enterprising lads, we would slide a picket sideways, grab 4 or 5 big Coke bottles and take them around to the shop, where they would give you sixpence a bottle.
We would do this several times a day, the old sod never woke up to us, he'd be dead now for sure, hope he has forgiven us.
I loved going to visit Nanna lol
Cheers, the ferret.

[growler2058]

Oh poo ya reminded me when Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken came out our way nanna and poppa used to get it for me. It was better back then I think it was deep fried in real lard mmmmmmm lard


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[DX grunt]

Mate I'm only 19, BUT I'm almost 20!

Get it right....You're turning 20. lol

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy:
Ummm, well the pics tell all.

[growler2058]

I remember nanna used to save all the drippings from the roast and put it on bread for a snack
And for a dessert snack bread butter and sugar hahahhahaa good ol nan
Or boiled rice with milk n sugar


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[the ferret]

Get it right....You're turning 20. lol

Ha ha I had a vanguard UTE, Pr1k of a thing it was too.
Cheers, the ferret.

[growler2058]

I remember when I was a boy:
Ummm, well the pics tell all.

Oh no I remember all of them as well hahahhahaa bloody hell daisy duke what happened


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[Winnie]

A couple years ago Mum was telling me how when they had left over rice when she was a kid that her mum put it in a bowl with milk and sugar and sometimes banana too. Well she made it for us to try and I spat it out pretty quick lol wasn't too nice.

[Dhuck]

I remember when I used to go stay with my poppy (he was a sheriffs officer) we would go out rabbit hunting (serving summons's) in his 68 Beetle that he had purchased new. Butcher shops had saw dust on the ground and as a young fella I used to rake the fat out of it and get paid lamb chops and lamb shanks as they could not sell them quick enough. What is the price of lamb now?

[ova50]

A couple years ago Mum was telling me how when they had left over rice when she was a kid that her mum put it in a bowl with milk and sugar and sometimes banana too. Well she made it for us to try and I spat it out pretty quick lol wasn't too nice.

My dad loved that for breakfast. YuKKKKK!!!!

[Dhuck]

A couple years ago Mum was telling me how when they had left over rice when she was a kid that her mum put it in a bowl with milk and sugar and sometimes banana too. Well she made it for us to try and I spat it out pretty quick lol wasn't too nice.

That used to be known as rice pudding as far as I remember. Whats wrong with it? It was great..............

[Bigrig]

That used to be known as rice pudding as far as I remember. Whats wrong with it? It was great..............

X2 ..... lol

[ova50]

Oh no I remember all of them as well hahahhahaa bloody hell daisy duke what happened

The wife just said that she thinks she not only had an accident with the ugly stick, she then had to go and run through the whole forest. :jawdrop:

[2TROLLFAM]

The wife just said that she thinks she not only had an accident with the ugly stick, she then had to go and run through the whole forest. :jawdrop:

I'm with ya wife on that one!! SCAREY
Wonder what Marcia Brady looks like now LOL

I remember Sean Connery being a sexy YOUNG man on the tv screen


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[ova50]

Here you go, no bad for 56.

[2TROLLFAM]

Here you go, no bad for 56.

WOW she's still looking good


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[mudnut]

I remember the last Guy Fawkes night my old town celebrated. Everyone in the neighbourhood piled all of their of rubbish on the only vacant ground. The fire was huge! While everyone was looking at the flames, a few of the older kids tied strings of crackers to some victims shoes. They lit them all at the same time. I remember some screaming people trying to run ...

[threedogs]

I remember when I was a kid the time was a quarter to six not five forty five.

[Winnie]

I remember when I was a kid the time was a quarter to six not five forty five.

It still is!
I remember when I was a kid the town I live in still used to hold the Potato Festival every year and it was awesome! Now insurance is too dear and the town can't afford it.

DIAL-A-TAP

[Sir Roofy]

It still is!
I remember when I was a kid the town I live in still used to hold the Potato Festival every year and it was awesome! Now insurance is too dear and the town can't afford it.

DIAL-A-TAP

havnt you only got one shop left up there mate and a pub ,only for the s bend you would miss thorpy

[Winnie]

havnt you only got one shop left up there mate and a pub ,only for the s bend you would miss thorpy

Milk bar, bakery and pub that's it.

DIAL-A-TAP

[Sir Roofy]

Milk bar, bakery and pub that's it.

DIAL-A-TAP

wheres the bakery

[Winnie]

Main drag next to the old supermarket. Been there about 6 months now, best pies ever gotta give them a try.

DIAL-A-TAP

[Sir Roofy]

Main drag next to the old supermarket. Been there about 6 months now, best pies ever gotta give them a try.

DIAL-A-TAP

havnt been up for a while better try one shortly

[choppie]

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

Love the ute Ferret LMFAO

[chester]

Milk bar, bakery and pub that's it.

DIAL-A-TAPAnd Everyone in Thorpy is related.Does Grahem Linn still have the Pub.


I remember when i was a boy the local copper would give you a clip under the ear a foot in the arse and send you home.

[choppie]

I can remember the old man would give us kids 2 bob (shillings/ 20c) to go to the movies on Friday nights,
1 shilling to get in, 6 pence for an ice cream at 1/2 time and 3 pence for a bag of lollies & still have 3 pence left.
He used to get drunk on 10/- for those that remember. Bloody history and good times.:cheers::Yahoo!:

[the ferret]

Love the ute Ferret LMFAO

Yeah, she was a tipper too, I used ta fill the tray with water from the tank and ride it through the house just after Mum had pollished the floors lol.:devilred::devilred:

[Winnie]

And Everyone in Thorpy is related.Does Grahem Linn still have the Pub.


I remember when i was a boy the local copper would give you a clip under the ear a foot in the arse and send you home.

As far as I know mate the pub has been in the Bantock family forever.

DIAL-A-TAP

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy:

I really thought that a money tree was real. May dad woulds always be saying " When I get a chance I'll go out back and pluck ten bob off the money tree".
(we had a few vacant blocks behind us, I spent quite a bit of time looking for this darn money tree, without any success.)

Another one, which I still quite dont get, is his reference to a Blue Arse Fly. He would often say, " A blokes been running around like a blue arse fly".

What the hell is a blue arse fly anyway.?

Im also a quarter to six guy. Five forty five ( damm metric system)

[Stropp]

well thats how busy the blue arsed fly was, so busy you never seen one lol, lots of things that bring a smile to the dial in these posts.

[threedogs]

Tad off thread but "not enough room to swing a cat" comes from
Pirate days below deck as no enough room to swing the cat o nine tails
Not sure on the fly one will check the butts of my local ones. LOL

[ova50]

well thats how busy the blue arsed fly was, so busy you never seen one lol, lots of things that bring a smile to the dial in these posts.

Another common saying dad had, and was usually after he or someone had done something. Eg, he would be washing out a paint brush and when he was finished he would say
"There you go, Bobs your Uncle"

I always thought that I had some Uncle, name Bob somewhere, cause dad always mentioned him.

It funny looking back on life, I have had a good laugh at what I remember and what others have said.

[TPC]

"Bobs your Uncle"
That always confused me because I have an Uncle Bob but didnt know why everyone else new.

[Steve4wdin]

Some of the things I have read in this thread have almost brought a tear to my eye for either memories or just plain ol laughter. Thanks everyone it has been a great read.I was brought up on a sugarcane farm so didn`t really get upto a lot of mischief. I learnt to drive a tractor at age six. Stood beside my Dad on back off tractor planting the cane with a neighbour driving.
I remember a saying from Dad was spoil the rod and spare the child.I remember working to get .20c pocket money for the week. I remember being told to listen and respect my elders, as they have been there and done it." Son, you can learn from these people"

[chester]

As far as I know mate the pub has been in the Bantock family forever.

DIAL-A-TAPI think they sold off the bistro side of it but i could be wrong.

[Winnie]

Oh nah he leases the bistro, changed over many many times, people in there now though have been there for ages and are also the people who run the bakery. Soldier boy gets up in the morning to bake bread and stuff, then knocks off and goes and cooks meals at the pub. Top bloke!

[Dhuck]

Some of the things I have read in this thread have almost brought a tear to my eye for either memories or just plain ol laughter. Thanks everyone it has been a great read.I was brought up on a sugarcane farm so didn`t really get upto a lot of mischief. I learnt to drive a tractor at age six. Stood beside my Dad on back off tractor planting the cane with a neighbour driving.
I remember a saying from Dad was spoil the rod and spare the child.I remember working to get .20c pocket money for the week. I remember being told to listen and respect my elders, as they have been there and done it." Son, you can learn from these people"

Why can't the generation of today get this. I have been working like a blue arse fly trying to understand, but as bob is your uncle I can't figure it out. Might have to go get a maggot bag and dead horse.

[pearcey]

I remember Pat Mathuman my first love cost me 40 p to take her to the movings pictures on Saturday arvo
10 p to get in 30p fore lollies and ice cream for the cuddle and kiss in the back row

[wildgu6]

I remember Pat Mathuman my first love cost me 40 p to take her to the movings pictures on Saturday arvo
10 p to get in 30p fore lollies and ice cream for the cuddle and kiss in the back row

You sneeky bugga you. bloody expensive kiss though lol

[pearcey]

You sneeky bugga you. bloody expensive kiss though lol

Yea mate and I remember Carol Osbourne what a pin up chick.
year 5 couldn`t get a look in

[threedogs]

I remember going to the footy a Windy hill {ESSENDON} and the beer was warm and the pies were cold, hey hang on
they still are.

[MC97GQ]

"Bobs your Uncle"
That always confused me because I have an Uncle Bob but didnt know why everyone else new.

Another one was Bob's your aunty's husband. And I too have an Uncle Bob, the old mans twin brother.

[2TROLLFAM]

I remember when I was little and my uncle got REALLY mad he'd rub his head and mutter "oh my beads & tweeds" over and over again ... to this day I'm still like WTF!?!

Yet he's the first to say the "other" naughty words in general conversation LOL


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[ova50]

I remember when I was little and my uncle got REALLY mad he'd rub his head and mutter "oh my beads & tweeds" over and over again ... to this day I'm still like WTF!?!

Yet he's the first to say the "other" naughty words in general conversation LOL


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Was he perhaps a hippie that wore tweed???? :Yahoo!:

[2TROLLFAM]

Got no idea but when he started with that stuff us kids bolted for the hills LOL cuz generally following was a huge arse strap with one of our names on it!!


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[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy:

My Mum would have the radio on in the morning usually around 8 O'clock.
Birthdates would be announced. If you were 18 and your date came up, you were conscripted for National Service.
Chances were that you may end up in the war in Vietnam.

RIP to those who lost their lives. not forgotten

On a lighter note:
I remember most nights the tv news would report on the war.
They would talk about Guerrilla Warfare in the jungle, and the Vietcong.

Now being that I was probably about 7 or 8 years of age, I had this mental picture of real Gorrillas running through the jungle carrying machine guns and attacking us humans.

[threedogs]

I don't remember these hand post drills but I have to take my hat off to the older metal workers. I clamped a piece of 8mm steel with a 10mm hole
in it my intention was to quickly drill it out to 12mm. OMG This drill even has auto fed, you'll need shoulders like basketballs to work this tool.
after 10 min all I did was counter sink the hole, they were right men were men back then, will use it though as have the anvil, furnace ,etc.
Plus I have an even older one but missing a few bits, we're only talking 1920ish . Take my hat off to all of them

[dads tractor]

. Take my hat off to all of them The days of iron wills and wooden ships me thinks

[threedogs]

Thought I would dig this out for new members.
I remember going to parties and seeing the record player stacked 15 records high on 45 rpm
then as night rolled on change speed from 33 1/3 or 78 rpm'
this was called non stop hits for the time lol

[TPC]

As a kid my parents ran a fish and chip shop on South Rd Reynella called "The Hop Inn".
I would help out by getting the potato sacks and putting the potatoes in the rumbler that would toss the potatoes around in a cast iron tub to remove the skin.
Would then chop each potato into chips with a hand operated chip slicer, they were then partially cooked before getting the final cooking as they were bought.
They tasted way better than any chips you get now and you could stuff yourself for 10c.

[jack]

I used to do exactly the same TPC, the spuds came in large hessian bags then. Potato cakes were hand sliced from the larger spuds. Everything was cooked twice. The old man made the first electric chips cutter using a Hoover washing machine motor, worked a treat. At primary school we could buy sixpence worth of fish and chips.

[threedogs]

I remember Dad had grocery type store in our back yard, we used to bag up the sugar, etc.
Lolly heaven having milkbar in back yard. Biscuits came in those big square tins. Mum
told me when she was little they would buy a pennies worth of broken biscuits

[The BigFella]

remember when it was cool to buy 10c (minimum) chips and just tear one end of the paper so you could keep them hot for the trip (walk) home.
and when visiting my Nan in Seven Hills (Sydney) the taxi ride although 10x minutes in length only cost 40c, those were the days!

[The BigFella]

Below is an extract from a book I wrote a few years back for my kids, if the mods think it not suitable then please delete.
Over the coming weeks I will post up some more extracts, that is if you enjoy the read,,,,,


“Disobedient Sheep Dogs
And
You Bloody Kids”

By Glenn Forrest
2006-04-29

G’day,
This compilation is some of my earliest memories, from my first two wheeled bike, through my teenage years and well into my adult life.
These memories are by no way totally factual, for a young bloke’s perception may differ from the facts.
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!”
Nor are they in any chronological order due to my jotting them down as the memories flooded back.
So have a read, have a chuckle and who knows you may even shed a tear or two. Above all I hope you enjoy the journey, it was fun the first time, and just as enjoyable this second time round. I would like to thank my family for their patience and tolerance through my childhood and teenage years
To my Uncle Chicka, a very big thank you for giving me guidance and teaching me the finer skills or “bush craft” which I still enjoy today.
Dad, thanks mate for teaching me life skills I use each and every day, giving me a childhood I enjoyed then, and appreciate now!.
And mum, thanks for teaching me strength and survival, for no matter what level of diversity you face, if you believe you can, you will!
“I had the best childhood, ever!”

[The BigFella]

"My first Two wheeled bike."

My first bike was red and blue with pedals on the front wheel, from riding in Aunty Yvonne’s hallway to racing down the steep driveway at the Tumbarumba property dad worked on.
Playing with Kevin Wake at “The Glen”, the property owned by the Morton family where dad was a station hand was full of fun and adventure.
On one occasion while Kevin’s dad was separating honey we nicked what seemed like kilos of honey comb. Well I can also remember lying on the hearth in front of the slow combustion stove in mum’s kitchen with the biggest pain in the stomach you could ever imagine.
Kevin and I would play for hours under the tall pines, in the pine nettles building “forts” and “hides” to trap and capture the enemy of the day!

We lived with Uncle Terry and Aunty Yvonne for a while when I was very young, I remember dad had a broken arm and was off work for a while.
I can still remember their daughter Sharon, boy was she a pain.
Sharon would go out of her way to entrap me in what ever scheme she was dreaming up at that particular moment, often ending up with me in trouble with Yvonne and mum. Not the ideal situation to place a young bloke in, hey! So I would just try and stay clear of what ever scheme they were dreaming up.
“keep ya nose clean” was the order of the day!

[TPC]

Keep them coming BigFella.

[The BigFella]

"Broken wheels and a blood scarred forehead!"

I remember we were driving from Tumbarumba to Sydney when we had a head on collision with a HR Holden being driven by a bloke who was pissed, he had just come from the Yass rodeo and had obviously had a skin full. As we stood and looked at the surrounding carnage, there was smoke and steam flowing out of the upside down car, a stranger that had stopped to assist was carrying me on their hip. “Why is our car broken?” I asked while dad was sitting on the ground beside the right hand front wheel with blood streaming down his forehead. I told dad our car was broken ‘cause” the wheels were all crooked and the glass was broken all over the place”.
This led to my first ride in an ambulance, the glass between the front and back area of the ambulance was cracked and I remember telling the driver he had to get it fixed.

“Unfortunately the driver of the HR died instantly,
I guess he left behind a family, I have often wandered how that family would have coped after loosing their dad?”

The hospital staff separated me from mum and I remember making my way in to mum’s room and slipping into mum’s bed with her. The cranky old nurse came and took me back to my room, but I would crawl, slide, and ultimately end up in mum’s bed again. I won, the nurse gave in after several attempts and left me to sleep with mum. My dad still has the scars today.

I was about 3yrs old at this stage,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[threedogs]

Similar but not as tragic, travelling with Dad in the 38 Chev and homemade 6x4 trailer rear seat removed to fit more gear in.
We were around Gin Gin driving slowly on a dirt road, un beknown to us Gypsies were rifling our trailer taking the back seat and a suit case
Probably why I hate theives as I had to sit in the back of that Chev all the way to QLD and back to Melb on the Hump

[The BigFella]

"Bare feet, Horse back and Electric Fences!"

“The Glen”, Tumbarumba was a great place to grow up, the slow combustion stove in the kitchen was at least 10 feet long, (I was only 4yrs old) o.k. it was four feet long and had an open fire at the other end with a huge cast iron oven that would hang over the flame and slowly cook.
Dad had to do his stock work on horse back, now and then he would need to carry equipment so he would harness up “Bonnie” and the two of them would trundle off over the paddocks.
One day I went with dad and watched in ore as he setup an electric fence to keep the cattle from pushing the fence over, I could see dad was getting very frustrated with the fence with no kick or boot from the wire when tentatively touched (at arms length I might add) when dad said “come over here son and touch this wire, it wont hurt” CRACK!! and I was on my backside about 3mtr away stunned for the experience, you see dad was wearing rubber gun boots and these insulated him from the shock.
I would often travel with dad in the sulky with “Bonnie” up front we would feed the stock and check the water troughs.
It was a very sad morning when after a storm we found “Bonnie” had been struck by a falling tree and was killed in the storm.
Mr and Mrs Morton owned the property we lived on and mum would clean their main homestead. I remember having to stay outside in the yard as mum was cleaning. Mrs Morton was a hard woman. The main homestead had an in ground pool and dad would take us for a swim in the warmer months while the Morton’s were away on vacation. I guess they were from the “high side of town”!
Mum always seemed to have “potty lambs” around and I can remember feeding these lambs with a big feed bucket designed with multiple teats round the rim and hoses that reached to the bottom of the bucket. I used to recon they could “spin their tales so fast, they would take off,,” they really enjoyed these feeds, nearly as much as I did!

[The BigFella]

"Mongrels, School buses and utmost respect!"

David was the only son of Mr & Mrs Morton and boy was he a mongrel.
He would often place me high atop a pony belonging to his sister Margo. Slap on the horses rump and I was off, flat out across the paddock no bridle or saddle.
The trip would often only last a few minutes as I was no horse rider, I can remember thinking as I slid down the horse’s girth “I’m never going to have one of these for me” another time I sat next to David on the bus trip home from school, this trip often took about 35 minutes and as I was only a little tacker I sort safety in the presence of someone I new.
I was just about to get off the bus this afternoon when David said “instead of saying goodbye, tell the driver to get @#$#ed.
I thought no more of my farewell to the bus driver the previous day as I walked down the driveway and waited for the bus to arrive the very next morning. “Hello” was my greeting and the driver followed with “you can sit behind me for the trip into town young fella”.
As I sat proudly and quietly behind the driver, I had no idea what was in stall for me.
Just as I was about to get off the bus the driver asked me to stand aside and wait for the other kids to get off first, as he shut the door I started to get a bit scared.
Do you know what you are doing here young fellow?
“No” was all I could offer as we started to make our way down to the police station.
I was petrified and had no idea what I had done.
As I sat patiently and wondered what was in stall he stopped the bus and asked did I know what I had said the afternoon before?
I had no idea and professed this to him over and over again, he then told me it was very rude what I had said and asked who had told me to say such a thing?
Of cause I told him it was David Morton, he then drove me back to school.
Isn’t it funny how these early dealings shape the very person we are today?
My respect for elders was entrenched from that day forward.
“Good Morning Mr Smith”, “Good Afternoon Mrs Brown” were my trade mark greetings for my entire growing years.
Even today when ever I greet an older person, that trip down to the Tumbarumba Police station is vivid in my mind.

[hekarewe]

when i was a kid i used to stand in a basen in the rain under the down pipe and enjoy the pure fun of it

when i was a kid i used to walk the main goverment road on the island and not have to worry about cars

when i was a kid it was 8 hrs by sea to thee corner shop for an ice cream,,,,,, oh yeah to hot for ice creams but 2 hrs in the boat got us to church on sunday LOL

this also proves that Hekarewe used to be a cute little fella

[threedogs]

Looks like great memories there Hekarewe

[hekarewe]

Looks like great memories there Hekarewe

the best hard life for boy growing up on an island in PNG

heres few more pig hunting with the natives

an average nightly sun set from the front door

and the veiw from the front of the house with me and dad heading over to the village in the family "car" native dungout canoe lol

[hekarewe]

heres a few more for you

who can remember the old kero fridges i used o love to mess with it so it make pritty patterens on the wall with the soot drove mum mad

and the old laundry copper the smell of pamolive soap bars melting as the cloths are boiled and stirred by the house girl

going out just at sunset to start the old 3 cyclinder lister diesel geni then going out a few hours later to switch it off and go to bed

so many things that kids of today just have no concept of at all

[threedogs]

Not kero fridges but remember ice man coming around I reco Antique Iceboxes ATM
Bush job out in the Simmo on Gen power, and nightly sunsets so similar

[The BigFella]

“And they say the young don’t take notice!”

The Broadhurst family lived on an adjoining property and we came to know them as Uncle Les and Aunty Maureen along with Brian, Dianne and Judith.
After they moved we spent many weekends at their little property at Jingellic on the border of Victoria and NSW.
Fishing for trout and playing tennis were favoured past times.
Uncle Les would milk his old cow every morning and if you were lucky enough to join him, he would get us to sample the warm milk straight from the udder.
“Just how Mother Nature intended!”
I remember Uncle Les would have tomato on toast for breakfast, with pepper and a little salt.
I remember one time we met the Broadhurst’ family down at Windang in the Illawarra for a few days in the school holidays. Spent some good times chasing crabs and little fish in the rock pools. The girls would often challenge us at tennis and sheep stations were placed on the line, or so it would seem. It’s unfortunate how our families grew apart for the reasons of general family life I guess.

[The BigFella]

“The day mankind walked on the moon!”

We sat on the floor eyes glued to the black and white television in the corner as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface for the first time.
My first day at school was at Seven Hills in Sydney. Nan had the envious job of taking me for my first day.
As we walked the long trip down Lucas rd to the little school at the bottom of the hill, I can remember being scared as heck. The week before Nan had taken me down the street to have my hair cut for school, “make it nice and short” were Nan’s orders as she walked out side to go next door to the paper shop.
When Nan walked back in I heard for the first time those words that we all remember Nan for, “oh’ shit!” was all she said.
The barber had taken Nan’s orders literally and had shaved my head with a number 1 comb, straight off with the clippers.
Nan was stricken, she was so worried mum and dad was going to be mad. All I can remember mum saying was “it’ll grow back, don’t worry about it!”
Yvonne st Seven Hills was another address I enjoyed alongside my trusty companion Mate, a Jack Russell Terrier, or that’s what he was suppose to be. He stood about the height of a kelpie with long shaggy hair and the markings of a terrier.
Combine that with the attitude of a heeler and you have one heck of a dog. Mate would growl and bark, often bit anyone who he felt was a tad too close to “his mate”, me! Dad’s brother Richard was as scared as heck when ever he came around because Mate had chased him over the fence on more than one occasion, I guess Mate was a good judge of character.

I didn’t want to leave Mate at Stockinbingal when we went back to Sydney, but dad just said we couldn’t take him.
I remember on a visit back to Stock I rode for days searching, from “Corby’s lane” to “Stock hill” from “Morton’s Hill” to “Emu Chase” all the while looking for Mate I called on every farm house, searched every shearing shed and explored every wood heap.

I remember talking with Pop about how we moved back to Sydney and how he looked after Mate.
“Son, Mate didn’t like being tied up anymore than you like living in Sydney.”
“He just ran away, son” was all pop said.
So off I rode in search of my best Mate, only to find out many years later that Pop had to shoot Mate after he became aggressive and started to bite everyone.

“A dog that bites has no place in the country”
Or so they say!

“A man without a dog, is a man without a soul”

[threedogs]

I remember the solar eclipse , spooky kind of feeling, dogs barking ,birds roosting.
Weird how animals sense this stuff, like the Tsunami, not one animal injured
go Figure

[The BigFella]

its like they (animals) have that sixth sense that gives them prior warning?

[lorrieandjas]

“The day mankind walked on the moon!”

We sat on the floor eyes glued to the black and white television in the corner as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface for the first time.
My first day at school was at Seven Hills in Sydney. Nan had the envious job of taking me for my first day.
As we walked the long trip down Lucas rd to the little school at the bottom of the hill, I can remember being scared as heck. The week before Nan had taken me down the street to have my hair cut for school, “make it nice and short” were Nan’s orders as she walked out side to go next door to the paper shop.
When Nan walked back in I heard for the first time those words that we all remember Nan for, “oh’ shit!” was all she said.
The barber had taken Nan’s orders literally and had shaved my head with a number 1 comb, straight off with the clippers.
Nan was stricken, she was so worried mum and dad was going to be mad. All I can remember mum saying was “it’ll grow back, don’t worry about it!”
Yvonne st Seven Hills was another address I enjoyed alongside my trusty companion Mate, a Jack Russell Terrier, or that’s what he was suppose to be. He stood about the height of a kelpie with long shaggy hair and the markings of a terrier.
Combine that with the attitude of a heeler and you have one heck of a dog. Mate would growl and bark, often bit anyone who he felt was a tad too close to “his mate”, me! Dad’s brother Richard was as scared as heck when ever he came around because Mate had chased him over the fence on more than one occasion, I guess Mate was a good judge of character.

I didn’t want to leave Mate at Stockinbingal when we went back to Sydney, but dad just said we couldn’t take him.
I remember on a visit back to Stock I rode for days searching, from “Corby’s lane” to “Stock hill” from “Morton’s Hill” to “Emu Chase” all the while looking for Mate I called on every farm house, searched every shearing shed and explored every wood heap.

I remember talking with Pop about how we moved back to Sydney and how he looked after Mate.
“Son, Mate didn’t like being tied up anymore than you like living in Sydney.”
“He just ran away, son” was all pop said.
So off I rode in search of my best Mate, only to find out many years later that Pop had to shoot Mate after he became aggressive and started to bite everyone.

“A dog that bites has no place in the country”
Or so they say!

“A man without a dog, is a man without a soul”

Slight hijack - but mate small world! My first school was the Meadows in Seven Hills!

Jas

[jack]

Thanks ova50 for starting this thread, and also BigFella for finally convincing me to start writing my life story - something I've said I'd do for many years.
I'd always though I had a pretty normal life. Left a country still recovering from a world war because it was under communist threat. After 5 weeks on a converted merchant ship arrived in this far flung land. Spent time in Bonegilla migrant camp, armed guards on the gate cause people to do a runner as they thought it was a concentration camp.
Had a great life growing up in country Vic, remember finding a skull near the tip which my mate took home. Playing with sweating gelignite - I didn't know it was dangerous. Married - kids, divorced, remarried - grandkids. Being a murder suspect!
Got to be some chapters there.

[The BigFella]

Mate go for it,,, you will be gob smacked what you remember when you start the process.
It was an awesome journey when I wrote mine. These extracts are only from the book I wrote for the kids.
I have another worts and all that takes me from age 15 through to mid 30's. This makes for interesting reading, so I have been told anyway,,,,,,,

[The BigFella]

Slight hijack - but mate small world! My first school was the Meadows in Seven Hills!

Jas

Are you serious, man what year were you there. I know I know, not nearly as far back as me!

We lived at 25 Best rd Seven hills, thats after living at 25 Zambezi Rd.
Some awesome memories there my friend and some not so good ones as well, but thats what life's all about. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!

[lorrieandjas]

Are you serious, man what year were you there. I know I know, not nearly as far back as me!

We lived at 25 Best rd Seven hills, thats after living at 25 Zambezi Rd.
Some awesome memories there my friend and some not so good ones as well, but thats what life's all about. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!

Hey mate - was there in 1980. Used to ride from Toongabbie to Seven Hills up Best Rd all the time! Went to Grantham High as well. I was on Ross St.

Jas

[The BigFella]

Hey mate - was there in 1980. Used to ride from Toongabbie to Seven Hills up Best Rd all the time! Went to Grantham High as well. I was on Ross St.

Jas

Let me see, in 1980 I had been left school for 18 months. My dad had his nervous breakdown and I was working odd jobs around the district.
From memory we left Best rd in 1974, phukk that makes me sound old!
Mind you, I dont feel old, nor do I act old! Or so Ive been told,,,,,,,,,
We moved back to the bush after this stint in the big smoke!
You can read about that in the next extract,,,,,lol,,,,,

[lorrieandjas]

Let me see, in 1980 I had been left school for 18 months. My dad had his nervous breakdown and I was working odd jobs around the district.
From memory we left Best rd in 1974, phukk that makes me sound old!
Mind you, I dont feel old, nor do I act old! Or so Ive been told,,,,,,,,,

Well in '74 I was just born so we were there at different times for sure! Went back there a couple of years ago and how the place has changed!

Jas

[The BigFella]

"The Smell of times gone bye!"

As Anne and I walked through a product pavilion at the Murrumbateman Field Days one year I was taken on a journey, back to the summer of 1968.
We were getting ready to leave Aunty Flora’s to travel back to Tumbarumba after Christmas Lunch.
My cousin Michael was chasing me down the road when you guessed it, over I went sprawled out on the bitumen after an ankle tap, he was another individual that gained great pleasure from seeing me bleed! Why, once he placed Drawing Pins or tacks all around his bedroom, called me in from the lounge room and when I was inside his room turned off the light, slammed the door shut and chased me around the room! Needless to say when Dad told me I had to stay with Uncle Chicka and Aunty Flora I wasn’t very happy! Anyway, following my “trip” down the road it was straight inside washed the gravel out and Aunty dabbed the graze with “Rawleys” the same ointment that I could smell on display in front of us.
I asked the lady what it was.
She informed me it was “Anti-septic salve” and told me the recipe had not differed from those early days.
We still use this Rawleys ointment today for our own kids! I have fond memories each time I take the lid off!
In 1969 I was joined by my brother Paul, I can still remember hiding in the grass as Kevin Wake and I watched dad drive back and forth along the road between our properties. Dad was looking for us because Mum was having Paul in hospital as we hid! Pretty normal behaviour for a 5yr old boy in training to be an elite solder!
After school mum would often ask me to entertain or sing nursery rhymes to Paul so she could get some house work done, mum would call me her little saviour! Paul and I were never very close until later years due I guess to our age difference.
Later in life we became close mates and I still cherish his friendship today!
Nana and Pa Sherriff often called Paul “Ned Kelly” as he was always either in trouble or trouble was very close behind him.
If there was a puddle to get wet Paul was in it!
If there were stones to be thrown Paul was throwing them! He always managed to find some trouble no matter where we were.
Paul was lucky enough to be given a slug gun for Christmas one year, not all that unusual in the bush.
Well Mum and Dad were livid when they learned that Paul and one of his mates had shot out the windows of an old truck parked in some bloke’s back yard. Paul didn’t do the shooting but he was there. So he only had the slug gun for a week or two, then it was taken off him.

[threedogs]

Rawleys" Man and beast" fixed most things.
There was a guy in Essendon who drove his Rawleys van around untill only just recently.
was an old Vanguard But maybe Drew boy may know more.
Me I'm more an Ungvita type of guy and swear buy it to heal any cut

[taslucas]

Not sure if he's posted it already, but stealing a line from Benny that he told me in Melbourne last week (from an old fella at his work) ...

"Back in 64, men were men ... and women liked it that way"!

Love it!!!


Scotty (Bigrig)

Or a similar saying that an old work mate used to say;
"back when men were made of steel and ships were made of wood"

FanTapstic!

[threedogs]

Deep, Lucas very Deep.
Think there's something in there for all of us mmmm!!
Back in 64 We were seen and not heard, just like on the Sullivans

[TPC]

When I was a boy every chance I got I would grab a bucket, a net, a roll of string or wool and a bit of meat (usually a lamb chop stolen from the freezer) and would walk a couple of miles to my favorite yabbi hole in the creek. I would tie the meat on the string and toss it in, when I felt a yabbi I would slowly pull it in and scoop it up with the net when it was close enough. After a few hours I would go home with a bucket full of yabbies and cook them up. Way better than playing video games.

[mudnut]

Reminds me of the one time we had the dog, a whippet, with us when we went yabbying. We had a couple of big black yabbies in the bucket, and our dog stuck his nose in. He yelped and jerked his head out. He had a yabby hooked onto the bit between the nostrils. The poor dog was screaming and charging around the paddock, and the yabby hung on. The dog was so fast, we couldn't catch him. I remember the dog hated buckets after that.

[Tank]

I remember when I was 5 and the old man walked out on us. I remember 2 meals a day being normal , sasauges and potatoes being a feast for several years before mum could get a job.
I remember my best mate dying from Septicaemia and being taken aside by the neighbour and being told that blokes didn't cry that's what the women did and I should be strong for his mother and family.
Best of all I remember getting my 72 Kingswood with the big 186 and the 3 on the tree and being given the talk about big powerful cars and speed :smileyvault-cute-bi, the disapproving look of one girls parents who wouldn't let me take their daughter out in it and I also remember cruising with my wife in it way back when we only cared about the then and now and finding somewhere to go:)
I remember life as kid being hard but fun and it built character and made you into someone.
I now work with teenagers every week and feel for what they don't know they are missing out on and the way as a society we are ruining them

[TPC]

I remember when I was about 6 or 7 my dad came home with a brand new HQ Kingswood Station Wagon, I thought we must be rich as it was the best car on the street.
I remember our family (parents and 5 kids) piling into the Kingswood with luggage and driving from Reynella SA where we lived to Murrambeena in Vic to visit my Grandparents, was a trip we made lots.

[Tank]

Yep mine was a silver grey station wagon with ruby red interior, man I loved that car and wish I still had it. We sold it not long before we got married as Fiona couldn't work the clutch, cause we couldn't get the seat close enough for her to get enough push on that pedal

[jack]

Our first car was a Ford Prefect, dad used to go for driving lessons with just me as the passenger around the bush tracks. It was the best car ever and I recall the registration was GMV-464. Getting his licence consisted of driving to the local one man Police station in Creswick with a mate, the copper said yep you're right I know you've been practicing. I recall a trip we did to Daylesford to buy two goats. Home we came with mum, dad, and five children in the back seat - with two goats standing in front of us.
Had a look at a Prefect a few years ago - can't believe we fitted all that in there.

[threedogs]

@ Apollofish What were the goats for ?? milk or meat
Dying to take a leg to camp next to roast
Dads rego on 38 Chev GNK 870
then FC wagon HAR 264
Remember cleaning windows with Bon ami great stuff

[jack]

TD they were for pets at the time, we had a couple of house cows and some sheep and pigs for meat. We had lots of chooks, ducks and a massive vegie garden, there was always something to do. We used to get mill ends from the local saw mill (pre wood chip days) and my brother and I would spend a hour on each end of the bushman saw cutting them into firewood. We used to separate the milk and churn butter all by hand. Hard word was a normal part of growing up in the early sixties.
But I can recommend goat, I've eaten it quite a few times just make sure you get a young doe and not a billy.
Funny how we remember licence plates from when we were young, now I have to think what the Nissan rego is. Before dad got his car he used to ride his bike to Ballarat and back for work, even afternoon and night shift (and still milked two house cows twice a day).

[threedogs]

Yeah did all the farm things as my Grandpas brother had farm down Phillip is way. As a skinny kid trying the press the wool bales not good
Climbing the cypress trees and breaking starling eggs for the skinny sheep dogs. Getting the dead birds out of water tank etc Would do it all at the drop of a hat.
That and working out in the simmo relying on only what you had made getting a luxury more worth while. A luxury like maybe Shampoo lol

[Avo]

I remember when I was a boy,and heaps of hair..

[Stropp]

I remember when I was a boy,and heaps of hair..

Ha so did I

[OldMav]

Well I just read 22 pages of bliss so much that prompted memories, you do remember the most oddest thing. Lol one of the oddest things I remember is the smells, like the smell of the kero fridge pilot light burning when you walk into the kitchen late at night or the smell of soap being boiled in the copper, washing cloths, or the smell of starched collars on your shirts. Really this sh#t does make me feel old. Anyway to continue one of my earliest memories is visiting the dentist in a converted wooden railway carriage in the middle of our Queensland summer the drill was driven by rubber bands and some sort of electric motor which did about 5 revs a minute and very much slower by the end of the day. And the smell of ether was rank, mmm I think some of the things of the good old days might be best not remembered. Some might remember push bikes for kids were damn expensive so many of us rode 28" bikes as kids, with left leg through the bars, and there was no way a young boy would be seen dead riding a low bar bike or girls bike haha funny thing those things were damn heavy I remember I could not lift one yet my slug gun was always strapped to the top bar and we would ride those things for hours without flinching. Oh I remember the 70's mostly I had hair 3/4 down my back lol so cool back then but was very glad when Gough won and abolished nasho my birthday had come up but deferred for UNI there was no way I was going to fail any exams lol..

[mudnut]

All this talk about cars has stirred the memory bank. Dad bought home a secondhand XA falcon station wagon which had a 250 six and a factory fitted diff that made the car pull better than a V8, but it seemed to run out of of puff at anything above 70 miles an hour. Dad used the car for work, and would have to clean out all his gear every time we went anywhere. He eventually bought a new XB panelvan for work. The XA would be loaded with two adults, 4 kids, the luggage in the back, the camping gear on the roof rack, a heavy 15ft fibreglass Swiftcraft runabout ( V4 115hp). The boat was also loaded with scuba gear, two tanks of fuel and whatever couldn't fit in the car. Fully loaded, the XA would still overtake with ease. We had it for over 12-14 years. My brother, sister and I learned to drive in it and it was great on the streets as it went like a bullet. Something went wrong with the gear selector and Dad took the car off the road and stored it at a mate's farm. We cut a large hole in the roof and used it as a spotlighting vehicle for a couple of years. A mouse plague went through the area and one day we went to use it, but found the mice had eaten every last piece of rubber, vinyl and wiring insulation on the thing. I remember the bottom radiator hose spring was still hanging between the block and radiator.

[threedogs]

Hair over rated IMO,,, all that money spent during the 70s-80s for what, for what.
I only went as a school kid to get the chewing gum AHH the old PK, and juicey fruit

[Limmy]

I remember when I was a boy.... I would go shopping with $1 and come out with Bread , Milk , Eggs , Butter ..

can't do that these days.... Too much security cameras

[taslucas]

I remember when I was a boy.... I would go shopping with $1 and come out with Bread , Milk , Eggs , Butter ..

can't do that these days.... Too much security cameras

So what your saying is you were a thief limmy?
Lmao ;)

[threedogs]

Nah he shops at "Not Quite Right"

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy.
If you ordered a ham, cheese and mustard sandwich, thats what you got.
Not like the other day, when the dill at the counter made 3 sandwiches.
One with ham, One with cheese, and the other....... yep, mustard. :icon_bonk:

[threedogs]

or you go to Macca's drive through place your order with a
chocolate thick shake and they reply "what flavour sir" AAAARRrrGGGGhhhhhhh
Blue heaven used to be a flavour

[93patrol]

I remember when I was a boy of 6 my mum sent me down the deli to buy her a pack of smokes for $3.50 and the guy behind the counter didn't blink an eye at selling them to me

[Avo]

I still remember my dad driving us around and collecting cooldrink bottles for our pocket money,delivery the community news paper in Kenwick(WA-perth)and I remember the kenwick rd fish and chip shop......funny story I now live 400km from that shop hadn't been there since about 1980'ish.a month or so back a friend come around who had visited perth and bought pickled oninons(from said fish and chip shop)brought them around as I love my pickled onions and I said I hadn't had pickled onions like that for ages-even went so far as to saying I remember as a kid our fish and chip shop ones use to taste excatley like this...that's when they said 'that's where there from..the kenwick rd fish and chip shop

[threedogs]

remember as a kid getting Dad to drill a hole in the tortoise shell so we could tie a piece of cord through it.
Didn't stop the lawn mower from finding the tortoise though R.I.P.

[MEGOMONSTER]

Hassling my old man to have a luck of the footy.
Now dads are hassling kids for a kick of the footy.
Lol

[@GUte]

Going to our local forest to get chased by the older kids on motorbikes. We called the area "the chase". Now it's an estate called the chase and street name Chase Road.

Warrandyte? Nth Warrandyte?

[Bush Ranger]

I remember when looking for a petrol station that was on roster if you needed fuel after 6pm. Perth air port was the only 24 hour petrol station that I knew of.

[threedogs]

racing icy pole sticks down the gutter when its raining.
Plastic sandles were great for picking up other PPls marbles at school.

[SonOf]

Sitting for hours in front of the radio recording the songs you liked while missing the adds so you could have a great road trip mix tape

[threedogs]

yeah the old road mix tape, still do it now but on a 4gb Micro SD card with over 40 hours of music
Best in the day was a 90min tape with both sides recorded, then the CD player chewed it up lol

[Bush Ranger]

racing icy pole sticks down the gutter when its raining.
Plastic sandles were great for picking up other PPls marbles at school.

Remember making boomerangs and other shapes out of pop sticks.

[threedogs]

I got my first knife when I was about 12 ,boy did that open up a new world.
Now I could carve points on my home made spears and swords, miss that knife
from memory it was a twin blade stockman, it is some where in the teatrees down Kilcunda
Typical bunny knife of the time

[TPC]

I got my first knife when I was about 12 ,boy did that open up a new world.
Now I could carve points on my home made spears and swords, miss that knife
from memory it was a twin blade stockman, it is some where in the teatrees down Kilcunda
Typical bunny knife of the time

A Buck Stockman is what I have in my pocket now.

[OldMav]

42021

Here is an oldie had it at least 40+ years blade is getting a bit thin. It a Sliver Spur Kershaw. I never liked the stockman type to damn heavy and wont fit in a fog pocket. I brought it as a older boy so I could value something quality and not loose it.

[Winnie]

That blade has been sharpened just once or twice.... lol

[Dhuck]

I remember when I was a boy, some mongrel took a little bit of skin from me. lol

[ova50]

I remember when I was a boy, some mongrel took a little bit of skin from me. lol

PML.:smiley_thumbs_up:

[SonOf]

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.

[threedogs]

when I was a boy the noise from Essendon Airport was deafening, this was before Tullamarine or Melbourne airport were built.
when I was a boy I used to walk to Windy Hill and watch Essendon play sitting in the Peppercorn trees near the score board.
When I was a boy my footy team did not know what peptides were.

[Bob]

I remember when I ???????
Bloody Hell what is this thread about ?

[threedogs]

I bloody knew it lol

[jack]

BUMP - some good reading here for some of the newer members.

[threedogs]

when I was a boy I'm sure there weren't as many murders as there are today.
Seems to be two every week lately.

[Winnie]

when I was a boy I'm sure there weren't as many murders as there are today.
Seems to be two every week lately.

I'm sure they were they just weren't plastered all over the internet, radio, TV... For everybody to see and get depressed about it.

[Hodge]

When I was young... The whole streets' worth of kids would play outside till dark... not any more. Homes, even cars weren't locked up like a fort knox back then. Nobody gave a fark what color or religion somebody was. Things have changed in so many ways now... mostly for worse unfortunately.
Sometimes I wonder what sort of world my little son will be growing up in, or even when hes up on his own feet and has his own kids.

[Bob]

When I was a Boy

We had no Electricity in our House
We had a Chip Heater to heat the Water for a Bath
Our Telephone was on a Party Line and everbody on that Line could listen in
We used to earn more money in a Weekend Rabbiting than Dad earnt in a Week
The Test Cricket was broadcast via Cables from England and the sound of the Bat was made by hitting a Coconut with a Pencil. True
We used to buy Sugar and Flour in Bulk
We grew all of our own vegetables and slaughtered our own Sheep.
Chicken was so expensive that we only had it at Christmas
When Power eventually arrived the Power Cable was run down the outside of the walls internally in Conduit.
I learnt to drive at an early Age in a Willeys Jeep on the Farm. (Had to stand up to Drive it)
I remember Queen Elizabeth coming to Bendigo in 1956 (I was 14 Years old)
I earnt 11 Pounds ($22) a fortnight in my first job in the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd (Does not exist anymore)
My duties among other things were to split the Wood for the Fire in the Bank, Fill the Inkwells (No Biro's)
I started in the Bank when I was 14 Years old and within 12 months was transferred to Bairnsdale which was over 200 miles from Home

[jack]

That's why I thought I'd bump this thread, in our old age we can re-read this and it will be like a whole new story to us.

[threedogs]

Bob did you run into a bloke called Moses, had a big boat,
and I mean big probably 30 cubits by 50 cubits by 120 cubits . lol
I know you'll see me on the weekend , young up start eh

[threedogs]

And yes you could have a "gay Time" years ago then about 15c each I think
went well with Polly Waffles in the swimming pool