Someone posted this phrase in another topic, so I thought I would steal it and open up a topic for general discussion
How good was getting up to change channels on the TV for instance ?
I'm sure everyone can add their experiences both pro and con to this topic ?
dingojim said
02:24 PM Mar 15, 2013
The good old days were when products came in aluminium,not plastic, tubes so that with a little sleight of hand you could watch one army mate trying to lather up for a shave using condensed milk while another brushed his teeth with shaving cream.
GaryKelly said
02:53 PM Mar 15, 2013
I have a great fondness for the "good old days" but I wouldn't wanna go back there. One of the highlights of my childhood was a crystal set made by my dad. I thought it was pure magic! I can even remember hearing my first broadcast... it was Ray Conniff and his orchestra with Besame Mucho on radio 2KY.
Gerty Dancer said
03:43 PM Mar 15, 2013
The best thing about the good old days is that we were young! In reality, life is much better now.
pauline said
03:47 PM Mar 15, 2013
Totally agree Gerty...........when you are young you don't appreciate it, every day is precious now though I do feel we still take it for granted, I suppose that's life.
jules47 said
05:28 PM Mar 15, 2013
The good old days - no computers, 78 rpm records, wood stove, outside dunny!!!!!! No thanks - I like it right here!!
Santa said
07:22 PM Mar 15, 2013
I realise full well you cant turn the clock back, however my take on times past.
Your home may have been invaded by ants or mice, not people weilding baseball bats and machettes.
Your first car or motorbike was quite modest, not a beast capable of doing over 200 kmh.
Drugs were something you read about but had no experience with.
Kids were encouraged to play actively at school and weekends, not discouraged for fear of litigation.
You knew your local retailers and trades people by name.
Pubs closed at 6pm then 10pm all very civilized, now they're open until all hours of the morning and if you look the wrong way at someone your likely to cop a glass in the face.
People were generally more active (a matter of have to be) now we sit on our backside pushing remote buttons and eating ourselves to death.
Families indulged in family activities and were not spread all over the house isolated within their own electronic world, we even ate meals together seated around a table and discussed the days events.
Kids respected their elders and did not expect to call everyone (grandparents included) by their first name from the time they learned to talk.
I could go on, I'm sure you get the picture, there certainly is a lot to like about modern society but there's a lot to despise about it as well.
Please feel free to add to the list.
pauline said
07:28 PM Mar 15, 2013
I remember that well JC............your pay went from roughly 10 pound a week to 20 dollars and we all thought we were way better off, though I imagine we are compared to a lot of places, love this country still, though have to agree it is different nowadays.
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:29:03 PM
Dougwe said
07:45 PM Mar 15, 2013
Just remembered I might be up your temporary part of the world Pauline on Tuesday.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:46:47 PM
pauline said
07:53 PM Mar 15, 2013
Do you mean Pakenham Doug ?
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:53:42 PM
Scotty01 said
08:09 PM Mar 15, 2013
Makes me wonder if just maybe we did half decent job when raising our kids. Due to an injury I am parked up in my daughters driveway for a period. Her and her partener ( no they are not married) have 2 teenage kids between them. At dinner time EVERY night the tv goes off, the phones are left on the kitchen bench and they all sit at a real table to have the meal together.All 4 of them participate in a roster to cook the meal. The kids share the clean up duties after. Both kids are still at school but also hold part time jobs. Makes me proud every night when I sit down with them. It is very much like it was in my home in the good ole days!
Santa said
08:37 PM Mar 15, 2013
Scotty01 wrote:
Makes me wonder if just maybe we did half decent job when raising our kids. Due to an injury I am parked up in my daughters driveway for a period. Her and her partener ( no they are not married) have 2 teenage kids between them. At dinner time EVERY night the tv goes off, the phones are left on the kitchen bench and they all sit at a real table to have the meal together.All 4 of them participate in a roster to cook the meal. The kids share the clean up duties after. Both kids are still at school but also hold part time jobs. Makes me proud every night when I sit down with them. It is very much like it was in my home in the good ole days!
I can understand your pride Scotty, unusual behaviour in this day and age.
Congratulations on a job well done.
GaryKelly said
08:55 PM Mar 15, 2013
Good points you raise, Santa and Scotty. We always sat at the table for dinner as well, but listened to Tarzan, Hop Harrigan and Yes What on the radio hehe. Then came telly and we watched that while we ate dinner around the table. Obviously, we weren't a very talkative lot.
Gerty Dancer said
09:31 PM Mar 15, 2013
As kids, we had to listen to the ABC News while eating dinner... any attempt at conversation would be met with SHHH! My kids ate with us around the table, TV and radio off, sometimes music on.
extreme potato said
10:30 PM Mar 15, 2013
Recently I bought a CD of radio ads from the 30s till now. Listening to that, I was reminded of Dad filling the insect pump with Moretein from a bottle and then walking around the house pumping the spray everywhere. It was so much more up- market that the fly papers that hung from the kitchen ceiling in my grandmother's farm. But the carefully cut-up newspaper squares in the lav were part of my childhood until we got an inside loo when I was about 10. I have often wondered whether we were permanently smeared with newsprint. I missed having reading matter when we got rolls of toilet paper.
justcruisin01 said
12:02 AM Mar 16, 2013
jules47 wrote:
The good old days - no computers, 78 rpm records, wood stove, outside dunny!!!!!! No thanks - I like it right here!!
Are you sure jules ??, My guess is that it now takes all night to do what you used to do all night. LOL.
The good old days - no computers, 78 rpm records, wood stove, outside dunny!!!!!! No thanks - I like it right here!!
Are you sure jules ??, My guess is that it now takes all night to do what you used to do all night. LOL.
JC.
Slow and steady will get the job done.
Gerty Dancer said
12:12 AM Mar 16, 2013
extreme potato wrote:
Recently I bought a CD of radio ads from the 30s till now. Listening to that, I was reminded of Dad filling the insect pump with Moretein from a bottle and then walking around the house pumping the spray everywhere. It was so much more up- market that the fly papers that hung from the kitchen ceiling in my grandmother's farm. But the carefully cut-up newspaper squares in the lav were part of my childhood until we got an inside loo when I was about 10. I have often wondered whether we were permanently smeared with newsprint. I missed having reading matter when we got rolls of toilet paper.
EP, that was DDT you were getting sprayed with!!!!
Birdy1710 said
12:22 AM Mar 16, 2013
remember when you bearly had time to go to the loo in an add break on tv.now you can go to the loo
make a coffee and almost drink it in the add break
Cheers Dave
Dougwe said
12:40 AM Mar 16, 2013
Melbourne, I think 6.30pm, fish and chips in news paper, sitting on lounge room floor in front on B&W TV watching Zig and Zag.
Playing footy or cricket ON the road out front at all hours.
Cracker night with a big Bon fire.
The dunny truck paying a visit each week, the man would come down the driveway with the can on his head.
Weekly visit to Grocery shop and carry PAPER bags home for Mum.
Hiding in the bushes at the local Drive- in Movie.
Hiding in the bushes at the local golf course, rushing out as the balls came near, knock 'em off and then sell them on the next hole later.
Coles and Woolworths Variety shops, not supermarkets.
Coles cafe in Melbourne for lunch with mum as a treat on our birthday.
Baker Boy Bread in wax paper, yum, the bread that is.
pauline said
01:07 AM Mar 16, 2013
Doug, that's not what I did at the drive in............maybe too much information.
JRH said
01:10 AM Mar 16, 2013
pauline wrote:
Doug, that's not what I did at the drive in............maybe too much information.
I watched the movie LOL
pauline said
01:14 AM Mar 16, 2013
That's exactly what I meant..........what else !
JRH said
01:21 AM Mar 16, 2013
pauline wrote:
That's exactly what I meant..........what else !
Couldn't afford to waste the entry fee so we watched the movie. And I am sure that is exactly what you did Pauline.
pauline said
01:31 AM Mar 16, 2013
I"m sure............I think.
JRH said
01:33 AM Mar 16, 2013
pauline wrote:
I"m sure............I think.
That's mainly my problem, I think and then I get into strife. I think!
pauline said
01:41 AM Mar 16, 2013
ahhhhhhh yes, they REALLY were the good old days
JRH said
01:49 AM Mar 16, 2013
pauline wrote:
ahhhhhhh yes, they REALLY were the good old days
They certainly were!!!!!!!!!!!!
pauline said
02:09 AM Mar 16, 2013
I suppose every generation feels the same...........we remember when we were young and full of hope for our future.
JRH said
02:11 AM Mar 16, 2013
pauline wrote:
I suppose every generation feels the same...........we remember when we were young and full of hope for our future.
Yes we were young and bulletproof and we were never going to die. Now to put the cat amongst the pigeons, at least we had some decent music back then, not the head banging racket of today.
Someone posted this phrase in another topic, so I thought I would steal it and open up a topic for general discussion
How good was getting up to change channels on the TV for instance ?
I'm sure everyone can add their experiences both pro and con to this topic ?
I realise full well you cant turn the clock back, however my take on times past.
Your home may have been invaded by ants or mice, not people weilding baseball bats and machettes.
Your first car or motorbike was quite modest, not a beast capable of doing over 200 kmh.
Drugs were something you read about but had no experience with.
Kids were encouraged to play actively at school and weekends, not discouraged for fear of litigation.
You knew your local retailers and trades people by name.
Pubs closed at 6pm then 10pm all very civilized, now they're open until all hours of the morning and if you look the wrong way at someone your likely to cop a glass in the face.
People were generally more active (a matter of have to be) now we sit on our backside pushing remote buttons and eating ourselves to death.
Families indulged in family activities and were not spread all over the house isolated within their own electronic world, we even ate meals together seated around a table and discussed the days events.
Kids respected their elders and did not expect to call everyone (grandparents included) by their first name from the time they learned to talk.
I could go on, I'm sure you get the picture, there certainly is a lot to like about modern society but there's a lot to despise about it as well.
Please feel free to add to the list.
I remember that well JC............your pay went from roughly 10 pound a week to 20 dollars and we all thought we were way better off, though I imagine we are compared to a lot of places, love this country still, though have to agree it is different nowadays.
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:29:03 PM
Just remembered I might be up your temporary part of the world Pauline on Tuesday.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:46:47 PM
Do you mean Pakenham Doug ?
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:53:42 PM
Makes me wonder if just maybe we did half decent job when raising our kids. Due to an injury I am parked up in my daughters driveway for a period. Her and her partener ( no they are not married) have 2 teenage kids between them. At dinner time EVERY night the tv goes off, the phones are left on the kitchen bench and they all sit at a real table to have the meal together.All 4 of them participate in a roster to cook the meal. The kids share the clean up duties after. Both kids are still at school but also hold part time jobs. Makes me proud every night when I sit down with them. It is very much like it was in my home in the good ole days!
I can understand your pride Scotty, unusual behaviour in this day and age.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Recently I bought a CD of radio ads from the 30s till now. Listening to that, I was reminded of Dad filling the insect pump with Moretein from a bottle and then walking around the house pumping the spray everywhere. It was so much more up- market that the fly papers that hung from the kitchen ceiling in my grandmother's farm. But the carefully cut-up newspaper squares in the lav were part of my childhood until we got an inside loo when I was about 10. I have often wondered whether we were permanently smeared with newsprint. I missed having reading matter when we got rolls of toilet paper.
Are you sure jules ??, My guess is that it now takes all night to do what you used to do all night. LOL.
Slow and steady will get the job done.
EP, that was DDT you were getting sprayed with!!!!
remember when you bearly had time to go to the loo in an add break on tv.now you can go to the loo
make a coffee and almost drink it in the add break
Cheers Dave
Playing footy or cricket ON the road out front at all hours.
Cracker night with a big Bon fire.
The dunny truck paying a visit each week, the man would come down the driveway with the can on his head.
Weekly visit to Grocery shop and carry PAPER bags home for Mum.
Hiding in the bushes at the local Drive- in Movie.
Hiding in the bushes at the local golf course, rushing out as the balls came near, knock 'em off and then sell them on the next hole later.
Coles and Woolworths Variety shops, not supermarkets.
Coles cafe in Melbourne for lunch with mum as a treat on our birthday.
Baker Boy Bread in wax paper, yum, the bread that is.
I watched the movie LOL
Couldn't afford to waste the entry fee so we watched the movie.
And I am sure that is exactly what you did Pauline.
That's mainly my problem, I think and then I get into strife. I think!
ahhhhhhh yes, they REALLY were the good old days
They certainly were!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes we were young and bulletproof and we were never going to die. Now to put the cat amongst the pigeons, at least we had some decent music back then, not the head banging racket of today.