---

@the_hawk* wrote:

---

@love*today wrote:
I also vaguely remember when Kmart had a big eatery in the middle of their store.

---

Kmart even had guns and ammo before people become crazy

---

Used to buy our air rifle slugs there well into the 70s.

Dad used to go and see a "Man about a dog" - I was hoping for a new puppy everytime.

Even in more recent days, shops closed at 5.30 most nights, Thursday and/or Friday being the exception. Saturday morning trading too. Even servos closed at 8pm, a few with coin op after hours pumps for the stragglers who were out too late.
In fact, just about everything closed for the night, people used to use the nights for sleeping, and the weekends for gardening or relaxing, not shopping, shopping and more shopping.
Even the street lights went to sleep at 1am.

---

@lloydslights wrote:

Hey, settle down.  My mum used to be a marching girl.  Boy could she twirl a baton.

 

DEB

---

I was a marching girl.  As in precision marching, not batton twirling.

I started in NZ, where it was much bigger, then joined another team when I came to Australia.  It was hard.  During the season, we trained 4 nights a week then competed on weekends.  I have hundreds of medals to show for it , including several state titles and one national one.

Gosh, you must have been good!  All those medals.  

I recently had to move house and drastically downsized (it had been the old family home).  The medals, ribbons and trophies from my family's dancing, athletics, swimming, netball, softball, cricket, soccer, shooting, gymkhana, squash and chess (yes we were competitive) all went to the roadside pickup.  

The memories are still with me though, of the events in which I participated and how young and fit and eager and disciplined I USED to be.

DEB

Also, I think the banks opened at 10am and closed at 3pm. And only family businesses opened on a Public Holiday.

 For the life of me, I can't see why shops are open on Sundays, after all, there is only so much money a family can spend.  Just because the shops are open, doesn't mean there is more money in peoples pockets

DEB

extended shopping hours were supposed to increase jobs (or so the arguement from retailer's went), surprise, surprise they didn't, most big retailers pressured existing staff (often women) into working longer hours (often for same money), or cut full time jobs and employed lots and lots on severely decreased hours - starting at 3 - 4hours a week.