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.

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.

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.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@purple_haize wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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

 

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

 

For the laundry she used sunlight soap.

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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.

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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.

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 ?  !!!

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.

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.

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.