I Remember when I was a Boy

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Originally Posted by threedogs

, and you could have a "GAYTIME"

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Pretty sure you can still have one of those! Lol

Tap, crackle, pop

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Originally Posted by 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"

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

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.

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

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.

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!!!

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

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Originally Posted by 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"

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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bob dyers pick a box $64,ooo question

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by roofy

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

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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:

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

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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by threedogs

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

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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)

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

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

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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 :):):)

[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!!!

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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


Sent via my tapping thumbs

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.

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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

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

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Atleast he has real taste in music.

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

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

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....

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.

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

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!!!

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

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

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!