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Old farts
December 16 2009
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RHP User
16 years ago
What about standing for the Queen at the pictures... and if you're really old... standing for her dad? What about pounds, shillings and pence? What about miles per hour and imperial weights? What about thunder-boxes down the backyard and the dunny cart man? What about the time before the pill when there were really large families? What about the occasional horse and cart... transporting the baker and the milkman? What about a time before home air-conditioners and sleeping under the stars or at the beach to gain relief? What about the time before public or backyard pools... learning to swim in the river? What about female pads being sold in a brown paper bag... before the invention of the tampon? What about the era before the bikini? What about writing with a simple pen and ink before the invention of the biro? What about slide rules before the calculator? What about a time when everyone wore a wrist watch that you had to wind? What about the old ice box for those who could not afford a fridge... and the truck that delivered ice daily? Some even had Coolgardie Coolers... to keep the butter from melting... a primitive evaporative cooler. What about TAA, ANA and MMA passenger propeller planes before the invention of the jet... without pressurised cabins? A time when aircraft used the Maylands aerodrome before Guildford, or as it is now called Perth, airport was build. The old wooden causeway over the swan river. Washing the cloths in a boiling copper. Having lots of bush in suburbia riddled with insects and birds with the occasional snake. Using the bush to build tree cubby houses, play cowboys and indians and if there was a swamp, build corrugated iron canoes. Drive in and garden theatres in most suburbs and towns. The caravans that provided burgers and hotdogs with a fire to sit around. Trams for those who live outside Melbourne. Steam trains and Trolly buses. Guys walking around with shovels to scoop up the horse shit in the city. The old wine saloons full of wino derelicts before they became trendy flogging alcoholic apple cider and then disappeared. Policeman on each city corner directing traffic before the advent of traffic lights. Most of the kids at school were barefooted. A time when bicycles also had number plates. Dresses that never went above the knee... unless you were a 1920's flapper doing the Charleston. A time before rock and roll when couples touched as they danced. Local hall dances where the females lined up one side and the blokes the other... having segregated conversations. Crank handles on cars... Hand operated wind screen wipers. A time before the hills hoist when everyone had a cloths line propped up by poles in the backyard. Steam rollers with real steam engines were used to make roads. A time before electric power tools. Radios and TVs contained valves which needed to warm up. A time before transistor radios, tape recorders, ipods, mobile phones and bought music came on a breakable 75rpm disc. The windup gramophone. The bottle-oh who made a living dealing in empty bottles. When Roe Street in Perth was as famous as Hay Street in Kalgoorlie. Off-course SP bookmakers before the introduction of the TAB. Buying 2/6d lottery tickets before the advent of Lotto. When casinos were underground. When the pub shut at 6pm. When absolutely everyone smoked and restaurants and everywhere were smoke filled. When Hay Street, Perth was a drag strip and yahoos blasted their Klaxon or air horns whilst cruising looking for a pickup... which were a plenty. A common sport during the early back and white TV era... when youths escaped the house. A time when the city was riddled with picture theatres before the advent of the suburban megaplex cinemas. To have actually met and known people who were born before 1900... and to have had them list all the things they remember from their younger days. No radios, no aircraft, no automobiles, no electricity, no scheme water, to name a few..... Sex has always been popular... though not always openly talked about. There was definitely no Internet or RHP.... Miss Honey will remember swimming in Kent Street Weir... but she may not remember when the Carousel Shopping Centre was Boans Waverly next to the old corner pub.... and even before that a state primary school. A time when the Bentley Drive-In was popular, and even before that when it was a dairy farm. A time when her old district was rural and populated by lots of trotting trainers... one of which became the mayor and owned a vast stretch of the now business district. He also established the greyhound track. Some still maintain a rural thread... like your most attractive and kind hearted friend with the alpacas.
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RHP User
16 years ago
Nice one Mars... Yes 1.Candy cigarettes No 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Yes 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles (we were getting glass delivery here only 15 yrs ago)No 4. Party lines on the telephone Yes 5.Newsreels before the movie Yes 6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) No 7.Peashooters No 8. Howdy Doody Yes (and 78 RPMs) 9. 45 RPM records Yes 10.Hi-fi's Yes 11. Metal ice trays with lever Yes 12. Blue flashbulb Yes 13.Cork popguns No 14. Studebakers Yes 15. Wash tub wringersWhew... that makes 10 yes' @ 7-10 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered...One more and I woulda been @ 11-15 =You're older than dirt!Lol @ eunuch... or is that Methuselah? Mrs P wonders if you are using reverse psychology to attract...Hugs... Mrs P... I think
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RHP User
16 years ago
Am getting all teary eyed and sentimental now, they were the good old days, life was great for a kid back then, simple and fun, of course i have probably forgotten all the bad bits. So thanks Mars, Eunuch, Mrs P, and Trish, think i will just mellow out and think some about being a kid in the sixties!Cheers Nev who only had an old cyclops scooter!
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RHP User
16 years ago
What about the super flying fun show ( i think thats what it was called maybe it didn't air where you grew up) with Miss Marilyn ( I think) and my favorite cartoon MARINE BOY...lol....that might have been in the seventies.....doh i can't remember anything very well anymore! Cheers Nev
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RHP User
16 years ago
honestly im reading all these posts and talk about laugh!..... This is the best post i have read!....cant add to much of anything really as all of the above is familiar only to me in stories my mum and dad would talk about....but then iv always loved those stories! Good one!
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RHP User
16 years ago
Oh my goodness i must be OOOOOld..lmao.. can recall the above mentioned from the late 50's onwards How about copper boilers...wood burning ovens...fountain pens and ink wells.we used to make our own fun..making bow and arrows from the willow tree at my granssling shots and billy carts Another show we had was play school...lolThankx for reminding me...lmao...Yet can remember what did 5min ago at tmes.xoxoheymumma refusing to get any older
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RHP User
16 years ago
Mrs P's "Blast from the Past" entry above raises many valid points. How come we have allowed the vocal majority to dictate to the silent majority? Apathy I guess. There has been a lot of progress over the years but the idea of trespassing and tripping and then successfully winning damages mystifies me???? Too often the truth is misrepresented and if we don't tow the line the bleeding hearts will hound us into submission. I was surprised to read how the movie "Rabbit Proof Fence" distorted history... it's a current story worth searching for. There I was thinking it was a well researched account that substantiated the case of the lost generation. It seems that never letting the truth get in the way of an interesting movie is alive and well in the film industry. This then depreciates the worthy case for an otherwise just cause. Misinformation becomes treated as fact and then forms a foundation for further twisting. How often is this happening with stories? How often do the media get things wrong?
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RHP User
16 years ago
Oh sooooo many memories... so many things from our childhood... Who can remember the old "John and Betty" books we read at school... Or the bottles of milk at recess.... Then there was visiting your mates place.. only a 2 "mile" walk across the paddocks... or the dam making, snake chasing.. no tv, facebook, DS's... so many good memories... and still in this modern world there are so many good ones to come too... may we all have many good ones in the future..
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RHP User
16 years ago
Each summer a local radio station held Miss Beach Girl Quests at a different beach each week, then moved onto finals and Grand Final at Glenelg beach. In the 60's when it was safe to sleep on the local jetty fishing for a few days without going home. Or on really hot nights drag bedding out onto front lawn and sleep out there. Then run inside at first sun up so you did not get eaten by mossies. Puting on the GOOD clothes to go to the pictures in town or shopping in the city and it was a family event Wood chip water heater for showers - stoke the fire or no hot water. Yes Nev - The Flying Nun with Sally Field - The Munsters and Adams Family Early TV shows apart from I Love Lucy, 77 Sunset Strip, The Green Hornet, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres Nice one Mars... < have to agree - what a great way to remember a good time in our lives.Yes 1.Candy cigarettes No 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Yes 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles No 4. Party lines on the telephone Yes 5.Newsreels before the movie Yes 6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. Yes 7.Peashooters No 8. Howdy Doody Yes (and 78 RPMs) 9. 45 RPM records Yes 10.Hi-fi's Yes 11. Metal ice trays with lever Yes 12. Blue flashbulb Yes 13.Cork popguns Yes 14. Studebakers Yes 15. Wash tub wringers Thanks again, J & S
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RHP User
16 years ago
I remember being at a wedding many years ago in my 20s and they played the queens song. All were supposed to stand. I didnt..the only one. I was a rebel and still are. I also worked as a milko when I was at school...like most guys we all had jobs. The thing is the milk was delivered on a horse and cart...with poo as well. 3 of us on the cart going down the dark streets..those were the days. Mars
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RHP User
16 years ago
Hi Peachy et al I am older than dirt YES 1.Candy cigarettes No 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Yes 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles and I even delivered them when I was a spool boy on a horse and cart ffs YES 4. Party lines on the telephone on my uncles farm Yes 5.Newsreels before the movie Yes 6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]) YES 7.Peashooters No 8. Howdy Doody Yes (and 78 RPMs) 9. 45 RPM records Yes 10.Hi-fi's Yes 11. Metal ice trays with lever Yes 12. Blue flashbulb Yes 13.Cork popguns YES 14. Studebakers Yes 15. Wash tub wringers Mars
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RHP User
16 years ago
Remember visiting the old dairy before the days of automated machine pumping. I'm normally a milk lover... but on this day the farmer was hand milking a bucket for the dinner table. The next thing the cow starts shitting and it splashes everywhere as if the thing had been given an enema. It was a certainty that peripheral poo ended up in the bucket. But unperturbed the farmer continued on till he had enough, then delivered it unboiled, unpasteurised and unharmoginized to the dinner table courtesy of a large jug... at cow body temperature. I instead drank black tea made from the rainwater tank. So there was no escaping it... tea brewed with bird dropping... or if you wanted it white... poo infested moo juice. At least the tea was made from boiled water....
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RHP User
16 years ago
Ya big sook, lol, not a country boy then? Cheers Nev & woo hoo its Fri arvo again and no work this weekend, i am so getting on the Vodka tonight!and lots of loud music!
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RHP User
16 years ago
I'm so fucking old I cant remember the question let alone the answer. Ignorance is bliss. Hugs Gaz
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RHP User
16 years ago
How about a thruppence or a sixpence in the plumb pudding at Christmas time - you didn't know that your mother pushed it into your pudding just before it was served, and how you would go back for 2nds and even 3rds (looking for more coins) and making yourself sick. Trying to sneek into the local pool by having you friend pay one admission and you ducking under the window to try to get in for free - that way you had extra money for more sweets. But if you were unlucky enough, then you had to go with your Aunt! Being cheeky enough at the age of 16 to flirt with the "man" (who was really a boy about a year or 2 older than you), to get a free icecream, or the next days entry. (And no I have not stopped yet, instead of icecreams, I now go for sex). Having a yelling match with your mother about the hem of your school uniform being so short you look like a tart (it was always about 2 inches [yes inches] above your knee), and her ripping the neatly sewn hem down that took you nearly all evening in secret to sew up, so it fell below your knees and you just knew that you looked so undesirable! Using the latest slang words in your every sentance if you could manage it: like dag, daggy, shut up, dobber, fags, ping off & FRUITCAKE! That was the biggy, and when your mother found out what it meant, you got a soap mouthwash for free. Taking your little brother and sister out side and giving them a puff of your "smoke" because it was so cool. Then telling them that if they dobbed on you they would also cop the punishment because they smoked too. You had to earn pocket money usually between 20 and 50 cents, and how you really had to earn it, by doing the dishes every meal time for a whole week! Sometimes during the school holidays though you could earn a buck for doing the house work while your mother was at work. Trying to negotiate with your mother during the worst of your bad behaviour for her NOT to tell your father when he got home. Having to learn your spelling words every night for a test the next morning at school in anticipation of the big spelling and dictation test on Friday. Seeing the latest 20 Gratest Hits LP in the shop window for the usual $3.99. Knowing it would take you forever to save up for it, and by the time you did the shop would have already sold out and you would have to wait for the next one to be released in 6 months time. Volunteering to work in the Library at school, because you knew in the winter time you were assured that you would be warm during recess, lunch break and when it rained. Cents for Service once a year raising money for the Girl Guides, meant spending a week touring the town and knocking on doors asking if you can do odd jobs in return for money. You had to wear your Girl Guide uniform and have your official service card record to be signed by the home owner. There was never any impropper behaviour by the adults then and your parents had no problems letting you roam the streets by your self. (mmmmmmm if only we knew then what we would be doing now!) Losing your virginity in the back seat of a car! Then going "parking" after going out with your date. My favourite parking place was the cemetary car park - no one ever went there, they all went to the same place - down by the river! Making your Debut when you were in year 11 or in our time it was called 5th Form. God, how this brings back so many memories of growing up. Having a conversation with my now 19 year old daughter, we were talking about having to walk home from school in the rain and how if you didn't have a yellow raincoat, you got wet. (Yellow raincoats were just soooooo uncool). Her response was "why not call nana to pick you up?" When told that nana worked and the closest phone was just as far away from your house in the opposite direction, she wanted to know "so why didn't you take your mobile with you?" How ignorant kids are today. Anyway, that is some of my "old time memories" - and I am not older than dirt yet. Mrs F
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RHP User
16 years ago
omg we must be older than dirt! amazing and omg do people still remember these things? we all thought we had it so good and life was so easy. . . i remember many things but dont think about them at all. this post has made me do this. thank you guys. who remembers the floods? cloudland? the beehive cinema? the water hyacinth that clogged brisbane river? life without toll roads? mobile phones that were so heavy you couldnt carry them? The Happy Day concerts in the botanical gardens? and yes, i remember delivering papers every morining on my treadly, milk in glass bottles and bread deliveries, still warm from tip top bakeries............
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RHP User
16 years ago
like heymumma and so many of you I can remember everything...and also 5 mins ago.....guess the senility hasn't set in yet. Its a shame our kids are only going to remember computer games and texting all bloody weekend. I guess the best thing is that we can remember seizing the day and loving life with nothing more than a stick and a shit load of imagination. Its so much better than.....um ....playstaion and text bullying. I feel a bit sorry for our kids Suncoast
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RHP User
16 years ago
hmmm reading previous comments on memories of old yes playing and staying out late in the evening when you knew you would be called for tea,usually the old man would say too the wife 'they'll be home when the're hungry?',then when you got home a crack over the earhole fer staying out so long ,and for punishment mow the lawns(hated it )especially as it was an old push mower with wicked blades (no safety or OHS in those days)and if you were extra naughty you would be handed the small shears to do the edging around the pathway just down the one side save the other side for the next time you became a miscreant (which by the way for most boys seeking adventure always found something too do either before school or after school hmmm.then when the milk run was introduced remember getting up at 5.30 as a 7yo (wern't supposed to do it but found a mate who was doing the milk run he was legal me well runnin barefoot infront of a 8 crate some times 9 or 10 crates carrier delivering milk after that have some breaky ,off to do battle at school with finding the biggest kid in class too sit behind so you could doze off you could be out too it hoping the teacher didn't direct a question at you as you only got better round about little break time when monitors were asked too go out and get the milk 1/2 pints (government subsidies then ) after school play and adventure time ,oh where has all that gone huh.when TV rased its black and white head ,heading down too the local electrical shop as they were the only ones too have tvs then as u had too(if you bought a tv had too buy a licence too go same as the wireless)sic radio/ oh and you took your own seat too sit on glewed your face too the thick glass and watched (RinTinTin) F'Troop Or cartoons for kids,when that was over start looking for opportunities too get up to mischieve(mind you we mere males never did it right always blamed someone else when we were caught doing something naughty by the local bobby who too save the paperwork gave you a good kick up the backside (if he was good you didn't try too get caught by him ever but boys allways prevailed when would we learn)hey punishment was mereted out by boys got the shoe or electric cord girls got the small mixing stick for the washing,oh we boys used too gett that around the legs it stung) or if it was by the old boy his shaving strop soaked in water for 10 minutes .SEX well that was another thing hey it was fun hehind the old school building of down the back by the creek where no one would see or know what was going on as you were supposed too be good church going morman latter day saints,hmmmm didn't we set that record asque,just afew small memories they pop up now and then when a record of the day is played on the radio by the local radio station.oh how all of this today what we encourage children too do and not do but we did regardless shucks time gets too us more later cheers Frank
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RHP User
16 years ago
I'm only a young fellow, but can I add - 1. Jelly Tips 2. Double Decker buses on the Sunshine Coast. I used to catch one to school... haha. Not as good as the ones the other guys have mentioned, but it shows how quickly things change. I read on ninemsn today that the Ford Falcon looks like being discontinued in the name of progress! After 60 years of production! Who'd have thought hey?? (Maybe the Holden fans..lol)
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