I Remember when I was a Boy

[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 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

[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

[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)