Thanks OP. You've just reminded me how old I am!

Yes and it has been exhausting "living the past" in 3 days.  However, there have been some good memories of people, places and times past.

DEB

Another one.  "Which twin has the Toni?"  

I think the OP , which I traced back 13 years , sums  the thread up. Memories are just that, remember them, but I would never  return to  the life  that was imagined as "good".

We have this thread at least twice a year, and most of the time those who  yearn for the past remember it from being a child with no responsibilities then, which I do understand.

nɥºɾ

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@grapes_collector wrote:

Thanks OP. You've just reminded me how old I am!

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Nothing to thank me for, just a bit of lighthearted fun away from all the dreary doomsday political threads.

I have been smiling at all the contributions. Nobody has to worry about age. Everyone has memories, some good, some funny and some indifferent, no matter how long ago.

I am not reliving my life or wish times were still the same as back then, although I think I am the oldest poster here. I will be 77 soon and am still on my honeymoon.

Erica

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:

The mention of "Bex"  brings back lots of memories of my mum taking them all the time...pretty sure she was addicted to those powders!!:-(

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A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down was the panacea for all ills

And Dr MacKenzie's Menthoids. "Aye, take Menthoids: M*E*N*T*H*O* I* D*S " (with an upward inflexion on the S.

Does anyone remember when shoppers had to pay to use the toilets in department stores?

I rebelled and said once, I have just spent $x in your shop so I will not pay to go to the toilet.  She did not stop me.

Old Wynyard station back in the 50s... Haven't seen it for years, what's it like now?

Trams going over the bridge and down to Benelong point tram depot where the Opera House is now.

"Spend a penny"   They were on Train Stations too.  But usually, where you spent the penny they were clean not like a lot of conveniences today.

That reminds me, the Men's Toilet in Martin Place and the Red Cross Tea Room on the edge of Hyde Park.

DEB 

I can just remember trams.  But spent lots of  hours on the "red rattlers", where many a garment was knitted, or played card games on brief cases on our laps.  To get a seat home to Parramatta, we travelled from the City to Milson's Point and then westward.  

There were also green and yellow double decker buses with conductors and the GPO was a post office.

When everyone walked on the left of the path with the only obstacle being  the orange-clad Hare Krishnas..

DEB