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Who Remembers?

this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:25:28 GMT

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:26:25 GMT

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:29:35 GMT

Don't hesitate.......post your memories

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:30:52 GMT

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serendipityricho — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:19:09 GMT

Remember all that and much further back.

Cant post pics--but will be lurking..............................................Richo.

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curmu-curmu — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:00:51 GMT

@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

Yep! Rob's Carousel Restaurant at Albert Park in Melbourne - where'd they'd bring out your order and place it in trays on your windows - such a cool thing in those days!

And, trips down to see rellies in Rosebud, whilst riding in our schmick '53 Ford Customline, laying on the rear parcel shelf! Seatbelts? Not even heard of back then!

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lloydslights — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:15:11 GMT

Gawd, I'd forgotten about my little sister sleeping on the "parcel shelf".

Come to think of it, why is it called a parcel shelf? Didn't the boot/trunk hold enough for the purchases of the day?

Remember standing on the hump in the back to see over the bench seat, and seeing kids sitting in the back of utes facing backwards.

DEB

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:24:23 GMT

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curmu-curmu — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:24:47 GMT

Gawd! Don't we cringe every time we remember what we got away with years ago?

I can also remember my cousin - a farm boy, owning an old FJ ute. Like all good farmboys, at 10 he could drive a car, a tractor and a motorbike!

We bolted seats onto the rear of the ute, welded up and fitted a roll cage, so when we hooned around and paddock-bashed, and rolled the car, we'd be safe!

Dirty, bruised, shaken up, but safe from serious injury. Or strapped to the metal tractor seat welded onto the bonnet, to shoot bunnies and foxes with a .22, spotlighting at night!

Ah - the rites of passage of a Australian youth!

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:27:05 GMT

In the 60's, this was THE place to cruise through....................Jack's Burgers and Fries

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curmu-curmu — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:30:55 GMT

Let's face it. We're too blood y old - dinosaurs!

But try telling today's youth about all the 'fun' we had, and they won't believe you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

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lloydslights — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:47:26 GMT

And we used to meet up without the use of a mobile phone!

DEB

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poddster — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:03:30 GMT

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punch*drunk — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:12:00 GMT

I'm not quite as old as you guys but all those car photos reminded me of this, one of my favorite family photos despite the lack of quality.

Taken in Footscray in the early 1950's I think.

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lloydslights — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:05:38 GMT

Love it, love it, love it, Punchie

DEB

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lloydslights — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:22:38 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww&list=RDFA3Royf9_zM&index=7

Are you ready boots?

DEB

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mbselections00 — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:33:28 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:
Gawd, I'd forgotten about my little sister sleeping on the "parcel shelf".

Come to think of it, why is it called a parcel shelf? Didn't the boot/trunk hold enough for the purchases of the day?

Remember standing on the hump in the back to see over the bench seat, and seeing kids sitting in the back of utes facing backwards.

DEB

Lol, my auntie had a VW and 3 of us used to squeeze into that 'parcel ?' space behind the back seat when there wasn't room for all of us.

And it was nothing in those days was it to sit up against the back window in the ute - we used to love it !

And in later years when I owned a panel van we'd to go to the drive in movies with a heap of mates hiding in the back (Shame on us). Oh yes, those were the days. Did things we'd never allow our kids to do these days

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tasfleur — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:33:37 GMT

What a magnificent and happy thread .....

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mbselections00 — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:36:47 GMT

Oh yes, I remember mum used to be utterly disgusted in that fashion of long boots & hot pants in the middle of winter ! But I do recall we wore a jacket as well (Not a long one though !)

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lloydslights — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:08:05 GMT

And pantsuits, pedal pushers and culottes (Simplicity pattern)(before the age of being allowed to drive-ins)

DEB