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Who remembers what?

lind9650 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:22:38 GMT

A young lad asked me the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'
'We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.’
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
'It was a place called home,'' I explained.
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the table to eat dinner. If I didn't like what was on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood, but I’d figured he couldn’t handle it:

For example . . . . .

1. Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the state let alone country, or had a credit card.

2. My parents never drove me to school. We walked or rode a bicycle [you were really lucky to have one) that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed - slow.

3. We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course black and white, and the stations went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the National Anthem and Epilogue. Transmission commenced at around 6:00 am with a locally produced news or farm show, featuring local people.

4. Pizzas were not around, and when introduced they were not ‘home’ delivered. But milk was.

5. Newspapers were delivered by young boys earning a few bob a week – a bob was the equivalent of 10 cents. My brother delivered newspapers, six days a week at 6:00 every morning.

6. Film stars kissed with their mouths shut and parents slept in ‘Single’ beds - at least they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without sex, profanity, violence or almost anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children and / or grandchildren.
Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

1. My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.
In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.
I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea.
She thought they had tried to make it into a salt shaker or something.
I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with water because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

2. Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car

3. Ignition switches on the dashboard.

4. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

5. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.

6. Using hand signals predating indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember NOT the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet [lollies] cigarettes

2. Coffee shops with juke boxes

3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles

4. Party lines on the telephone

5. Newsreels before the movie

6. The Sun; The Argus; The Herald; Newsday

7. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.

8. Originally there were only 3 TV channels [Channel 0 later 10 was the fourth)
But some people were lucky to receive 2 channels – lots of ‘snowing, ghosting, etc

9. Peashooters

10. 78 rpm - 16 1/3 rpm records - 33 rpm records - 45 rpm records

11. The introduction of vinyl and the LP [Long Play]records

12. Hi-fi's

13. Metal ice trays with levers

14. Blue flashbulb

15. Cork popguns

16. Wash tub wringers

17. Ice chests – and ice being delivered from a horse drawn cart later replaced by a little truck

18. School children being allowed to go home for lunch or the local shopping strip for chips & potato cakes or a hamburger wrapped in last weeks newspaper.

If you remembered -

0 - 5 You're still young
6 -10 You are getting older

11- 15      Don't tell your age
16 -18      You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best of my life.

PS.        I used a large type face so you could read it easily

Re: Who remembers what?

kengillard — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:29:44 GMT

you forgot the copper boiler for the washing and the wooden stirrer.

I'm ancient...I know that....

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:39:23 GMT

I remember them all.......so I am ancient

Re: Who remembers what?

polksaladallie — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:42:04 GMT

Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

Re: Who remembers what?

lloydslights — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:45:35 GMT

You made xmas swag/decorations from the milk bottle tops.

You could buy: pack saos, 1/2lb butter; milk; bread; packet of tea for under 10/- ($1)

pack of cigs for 1/5d

when keyboards had Pound signs, and fraction keys.

DEB

Re: Who remembers what?

lloydslights — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:48:09 GMT

Sunlight soap for almost all washing - if you were well off maybe a real egg and vinegar rinse for the hair.

Bluebags for that "WHITE LOOK" in the laundry.

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:49:30 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

My mother use to wash my hair with johnsons shampoo back in the late 40's.

For the laundry she used sunlight soap.

Re: Who remembers what?

lind9650 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:54:56 GMT

@kengillard wrote:
you forgot the copper boiler for the washing and the wooden stirrer.

I'm ancient...I know that....

Ahhh, Gillie, yep the copper and the potstick. My brother even got the potstick cracked on his backside.

And the good old Sunlight soap that was used for everything that needed cleaning. LOL, and I even had a washboard until I could afford one of those wringer - washing machines.

But I am ancient, so memory is not as fast.

Erica

Re: Who remembers what?

polksaladallie — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:58:05 GMT

@purple_haize wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

My mother use to wash my hair with johnsons shampoo back in the late 40's.

For the laundry she used sunlight soap.

I wonder what was in the shampoo. Because detergent wasn't here until the 60s. Our hair was washed with bar soap, and I think there was vinegar in the rinse to remove the soap residue.

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:58:58 GMT

Mum had the copper and the stick, I can still see it in my mind.

Then she got a wringer and remember the wash troughs were made out of cement, I think it was. Mum had the was board as will then she got a washing machine with a wringer on it.

We use to have the iceman call a couple of times a week, to put the ice in the icechest, they were huge blocks of ice.

Re: Who remembers what?

the_hawk* — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:58:59 GMT

you all forgat the clothes iron that was heated on the wood stove.

the baker delivering with a horse and cart and the horse knew the round and stoped and started with no driver or instruction.

not only milk in bottles, how about the billy.

Re: Who remembers what?

ca04 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:59:35 GMT

A chinaman with a horse & cart delivering fresh vegies.

Cranking a handle on the phone to get the person at the

exchange to ask to be commected to the number you wanted.

30 MPH (48KPH) speed limits in towns.

Re: Who remembers what?

lloydslights — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:00:07 GMT

And outside toilets, held up by a vine, with cute newspaper/telephone book sheets held on a rusty nail.

When Mum caught up with the news, that had wrapped the peas she was shelling.

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:00:50 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
@purple_haize wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:
Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

My mother use to wash my hair with johnsons shampoo back in the late 40's.

For the laundry she used sunlight soap.
I wonder what was in the shampoo. Because detergent wasn't here until the 60s. Our hair was washed with bar soap, and I think there was vinegar in the rinse to remove the soap residue.

I was born in Adelaide, so have no idea about the shampoo, only that it was in a bottle.........could have been an Adelaide thing.

Re: Who remembers what?

joybar246 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:02:10 GMT

I remember fresh milk delivered to your billy can, which was waiting at the front door & be quick in the summer time to take it indoors, put in the ice chest straight away, otherwise it would curdle.

Loaves of bread, freshly baked, delivered to your front door, by the baker, from his van & made so that he could break it in half, if you wanted only half a loaf - no sliced bread then & no plastic wrapping.

Talking late 1940's & we hardly ever had a sick day - germs, what were they ? !!!

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:03:33 GMT

We had our milk in a billy can, the milkman use to come every day.

In Adelaide the rubbish men use to come to the back of the house to empty the bins.

The baker, the bottle man (collected old bottles) the milkman all had horse drawn carts.

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:06:22 GMT

We always had an indoor toilet.

Mum use to go to the grocer and buy all the broken biscuits, it was cheaper.

Butcher shops had saw dust on the floor and the carcasses of meat hanging behind the counter.

Re: Who remembers what?

spotweldersfriend — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:08:50 GMT

Wooden fences.Not that ugly colourbond. Garages made of brick.Hire purchase where the company rep.would call in to collect payment. Rental TV's with coin boxes.Milk with cream on the top in glass bottles.Toys in cereal packets.Collectable cards from the Shell service stations.Federal matches in wooden boxes.Free tennis courts.Weekends off for most workers.Privately owned burger shops.Home delivery of bread.No ID needed to open a bank account or board a plane. Free milk at primary school. Free entry to swimming pools.Cinemas in small towns.

Re: Who remembers what?

spotweldersfriend — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:10:57 GMT

Oh and very little obesity.

Re: Who remembers what?

purple_haize — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:15:27 GMT

Gas meter boxes..........had to pay for the gas, if the stove wouldnt light, had to go put coins in meter box.

Had to have a radio licence.