Thread: Those were the days

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Taking most of the day to get from bexley to cornwall in dads sunbeam rapier. Toilet stops, food stops, breakdowns. We take for granted car reliability now. You had to have more than a passing mechanical understanding to commit to a long journey in the 60's

yep travel rugs thermos flasks de rigeur, AA and RAC boxes and repairmen with sidecars (missed a trick should have cooked squid )

Looks like a job for bycycle repairman.


As sand through the hour glass, theese are the days of our lives.



Tony Orlando and the next Dawn.

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Remember bitconnect.

Originally Posted by jabir

Wimpey was gross (now), but great (then); lugging home a gallon of paraffin and an ounce of dark shag; no yellow lines; anyone with a ball was king of the street; weekly bath; getting beat up for drawing moustache and beard on big sis' Cliff poster; discovering an easy pinball to. rack up and sell credits...

You are my long lost brother lol.

Any Aussies remember Ben Ean mosell?

Ah Chateau Box... Lindemans always fair drop at its price

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Originally Posted by Club Soda

Qualcast

My brother still uses one of those.

To cut the bits his ride on mower can’t get to.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Any Aussies remember Ben Ean mosell?

Sure Do it was shit.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Mum's side of the family all hail from south wales and have similar memories which i grew up with. Going to the Golf clubs for a beer once the pubs closed 2pm sharp

i was a butcher boy delivering meat orders in ponty,on one of those fking big iron bikes with a big wicker basket on the front.toms family all lived at if i remember,
22 wood road treforest,i cant forget having to push my bike half way up the graig hill.
remember the sat.morning matinee at the paladeium taff street,LAUREL & HARDY,BUD ABBOT & LOU COSTELLO,CHARLIE CHAPLIN,BEN TURPIN,PATHE NEWS,THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO,ROY ROGERS AND AT THE END IT WAS ALWAYS ZORO.
a tanners worth of chips and a 30minute walk home.

Saturday morning matinees were a real treat, loved them and miss the cinema as it was in the 60's.

Hated sterilised milk with a passion; God awful stuff that ensured I hated going up North for years to come...that and outside bloody toilets.

Getting dressed in bed with jack frost on the windows...thank goodness for central heating...

i will never forget 21-10-1966.i was on day shift down the lady windsor pit ynysybwl,all of us was at the coal face when the fireman called out everyone back to the surface.
we thought there must be a build up of methane gas,as we were told collect your things you wont be coming back.
once on the surface we were loaded into the back of coal board lorries and taken to what i can only describe as a sight from hell.
I cant post anymore as I can still see what we encountered. THE ABERFAN DISASTER.

Saturday morning matinees were a real treat, loved them and miss the cinema as it was in the 60's.

Hated sterilised milk with a passion; God awful stuff that ensured I hated going up North for years to come...that and outside bloody toilets.

Getting dressed in bed with jack frost on the windows...thank goodness for central heating...

Pinky & Perky...had us all in stitches.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Any Aussies remember Ben Ean mosell?

And Bodega.
Before those it was Starwine. Pink or yellow.

Originally Posted by david44

Winding down car window with a handle to adjust the mirror

I do that is my truck. Suzuki Carry. But it does have power steering and A/C

^68^

What would we have done without Saturday morning movies! And cheap, too, one pays a tanner to go in and opens the emergency exit by the bogs for the tribe.

Originally Posted by david44

" By the late 60s and early 70s dinner parties had become very popular, featuring the new fashionable ‘foreign’ dishes like Spaghetti Bolognese, often accompanied by wine. Before the 1960s wine was only drunk by the upper classes, everyone else drank beer, stout, pale ale and port and lemon. Now Blue Nun, Chianti and Mateus Rose were the wines of choice. Many spaghetti novices spent their evenings chasing their food around the plate attempting to catch it in the fork and spoon provided, whilst trying to avoid splattering themselves with thick tomato sauce."

Friends would give parents little nets of exotic spirits so undrinable not even dad would open, miniatures of sticky liquers.

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"Pre-dinner drinks were often accompanied by cubes of tinned pineapple and cheddar cheese on sticks, stuck into a melon or grapefruit to look like a hedgehog – the height of 60s sophistication!Also at this time, chains of restaurants such as the Berni Inns began to appear in every British town and city, serving the classic 1970s favourites of Melon or Prawn Cocktail, Mixed Grill or Steak, and Black Forest Gateau or Lemon Meringue Pie for dessert.

I remember most of that from when my parents threw parties but being Sydnyites, everyone knew how to eat spaghetti and it was commonplace not exotic ^^^ yeah Moselle in a cask, and chianti in a woven straw covered bottle, and another one, Cold Duck (I think). Sherry in half gallon flagons. The Seekers and Hair the Musical on vinyl. My mum's hair for these special occassions resembled a blond Marge Simpson's.
My dad smoking ready-rubbed tobacco, Erinmore in a yellow tin and for his pipe, Douwe Egberts in a blue pouch (which is still sold). Those early 70's in Sydney, takeaway food was basically take your own containers to the back of the Chinese restaurant.
Cars that you could fix just about anything on without having a degree in automotive electronics or needing specialised tools.
Slide rules in maths class, and for me I was at school just as they'd phased out the plastic pens with a nib that you dipped in the inkwell on the desk. My brother was two years ahead of me and he had those, and of course the desks still had the inkwells.

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Originally Posted by Switch

You are my long lost brother lol.

Sharing the weekly bath water!

Fishlocker at school sportsdays


Go Fish

Originally Posted by jabir

^68^

What would we have done without Saturday morning movies! And cheap, too, one pays a tanner to go in and opens the emergency exit by the bogs for the tribe.

You are defo my long lost brother.

Essoldo Regal or Gayity? We didn’t have 3 screens in those days we had 3 full on cinemas in our little town.