Re: Who remembers what?

lloydslights · ‎01-02-2014

And "Charlie is away from school today, SIR, because he has to help his Dad pick cabbages for market" .

When we respected anybody of higher authority or age.

Alongside us at our school were children in leg-irons, Maltese, Chinese, Italian, the Mission Farm aboriginals, I never witnessed bullying.

The tunnel ball, captain ball, football, softball all made of leather that was polished with Kiwi.

spotweldersfriend · ‎01-02-2014

Jumpo pogo sticks:-)

boris1gary · ‎01-02-2014

Primary school there were swimming lessons for all kids in school, where i lived anyway - free. There was also a dentist right next to the school - attached kind of and like it or not we all had to visit regularly - free and this was a Public School.

**meep** · ‎01-02-2014

I remember as a child using a washing machine like this one: (the same model)

spotweldersfriend · ‎01-02-2014

Favourite shows: Bandstand,Six O'Clock Rock,The Twilight Zone and The Marx Brothers movies:-)

lloydslights · ‎01-02-2014

My 'pa had the 1/4 acre. Mowed it with the qualcast pushmower, trimmed the edges with hand shears, dug the soil a spade depth, dug up the spuds with the fork. (I am fortunate to have all 4 of those items and used 3 of them the other day. Guess which one I didn't use.

He won a Sydney Morning Herald gardening competition back in the 50's. 20 years later the developers came. Not a blade of grass on the whole site now.

lind9650 · ‎01-02-2014

The dunny man used to come on Friday nights to exchange the dunny can. Pitty if you just sat down, or if the can was overflowing. ((( Poor man.)))

No Supermarkets or self service. Meat we got from the Butcher, fruit and veg from the Greengrocer, bread from the Baker and everything else from the corner store, and no plastic bags.

The kids used to go fishing in the creek with string on a stick and safety pins for hooks. Most of the time they came home with a jar full of tadpoles and tried to hide the jars under their beds.

*crikey*mate* · ‎01-02-2014

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.

.........................................

I have my grandma's one of these. I hadn't thought about it for ages, but your post made me, so thank you.

From memory, she used to sprinkle all the clothes with water from the bottle, then roll them up in the basket for a while and then do the ironing, That was in ther early 70's and she did have a plug in iron then, so not sure why she still used the bottle, but she did, and I'll stop now, but thinking of my grandma makes me happy.

Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.

purple_haize · ‎01-02-2014

We had 3 meals a day and for snacks we had piece cake that mum made or piece of fruit................there was nothing in the way of junk food.

I use to go to the lolly shop and buy 1penny worth of mixed lollies and got a bag full

There wasnt many cars around and most families only had one car.

Walking was the done thing in those day, didnt matter how far away we were going, still walked.

Most people had morning tea and afternoon tea.

My grandmother made all my clothes and she use to cut the patterns out of newspaper

Plenty of motor bikes with side cars on them around..

spotweldersfriend · ‎01-02-2014

..and W.C.Fields of course:-)