Thread: Remember this?

butch wax
cherry cokes
Mattel Fanner 50
Baseball cards clothespinned to my spokes

Scalextric and Meccano sets

Muffin the Mule

here comes Muffin

I had one, metal puppet thing

I saw one on an antique show go for $90

a lot of people had ART

flying ducks, The Green woman, repro Constables painted by numbers

i found an AMI Continental juke box in a new kings rd junk shop in the early 80s

its now perfectly restored and has pride of place in my parents conservatorry

on trips home i often see them dancing to buddy holley or elvis afwith

perfect party machine in a way that mactards etc will never understand
n with the restoration costs it was a good investment too
eve

the highlight of my childhood was "startrek enterprise"...

it moved and changed me...

Yep, remember most of them too.

Used to ride down to the park, leave the bike against a tree all day and catch yabbies for lunch and at the end of the day the bike would still be there.

Or we'd gift a lift down to the beach and fish for snapper or flathead off the pier.

Me Ma used to give me $1 and send me to the milkbar to buy some milk, bread and a pack of smokes for her.
No underage laws to worry about cos the shopkeeper knew they weren't for me.

Bloody great fun.

Had a combination tv and stereo cabinet in the 70's. Tv on the right and stereo under counter on right. the top lifted up and I think the sides dropped too. Anyone remember those?

Or tv's with remotes(?) connected by a lead?

Witchypoo and Worzel Gummidge.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Koojo

If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

14 of 14.

Also remember:

78 rpm records
Ice boxes, with block ice delivered to house.
Radio programs such as The Shadow, Dick Tracy, etc.
Pot belly wood burning stove.
No women allowed bars.
Mimeograph machines
Brownie camera

plus the baker doing rounds , greengrocers , brown paper bags and packers who took them to your vehicle , being allowed to listen to a record of my choice after dinner - pre TV .

Originally Posted by r1 pet

toasting with a 3 pronged fork in front of an open fire

Oh yeah, I remember them and roast chesnuts

making toast in the slow combustion stove fire was normal , electric was only 32v for lights , fridge was kero and could produce an ice cube sized tray of home made ice-cream , now there is a labour of love .

I nearly got quashed as a nipper by hiding in our coal bunker. Oops! It was quite an event for me ,what with all the various trades people coming to the house those days. Only the postman visits now really. Times sure have changed.

My first BMX
Black slip on plimsoles from clarks
NEON socks
Nightrider with the Hoff

I was 9 years old in 1963 when we emigrated from Manchester to Canada. It was like going into the future, I was amazed at how modern everything was.

coinslots on TV's in motels

My grandmothers ice house. Big blocks of ice in a house full of sawdust keeping milk and produce chilled.

Originally Posted by Koojo

'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

Wow! Just like today!

Originally Posted by steevee

I was 9 years old in 1963 when we emigrated from Manchester to Canada. It was like going into the future, I was amazed at how modern everything was.

still the same

Nodding dogs in the backs of cars.
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Hand cranking the ice cream maker in the summer for fresh peach ice cream.

Saving coca-cola caps to pay as entry fee for Saturday matinee spagetti westerns.

Drive in movies theaters

Five and dime shops

My parents taking my brothers and me to my uncles house once a week to watch Johnny Quest in color.

Taking the empty Corona bottles back to the shop to get the 3p deposit back.

Then going round the back of the shop and nicking the bottles back for another go round