I MUST BE 'POSITIVELY ANCIENT"......

GaryKelly · Guru

RE: I MUST BE 'POSITIVELY ANCIENT"......

Rip and Rosie · Guru

On Saturday, for 2/- we could get into the pictures, buy a coke and packet of chips at half time, cash in your empty bottle after it was all over, and when you got your money back, get an ice cream to eat on the way home, or if it was raining, all the kids from our street threw their bottle money in together and got a taxi home!
If the other kids wouldn't put in, we got the big white double decker bus to the "bottom stop" (cost more to go to the "top stop") and we would run the rest of the way.

Solo Steve · Senior Member

Hey Cupie, I remember the Waltons Man, he came around on Saturdays with his little book. When Mum was broke she told me

to answer the door and say that she was out. Next week I had to tell him she was sick. I wonder if she ever

paid off that layby?

-- Edited by Solo Steve on Saturday 12th of October 2013 09:36:55 PM

cultana · Senior Member

Seems we still remember all the good things, and no doubt some of the other, hence our faculties have not fully diminished and are not as old as the young generation believe.

On a small remembering trip, anyone remember making little paddle boats out of a piece of wood, cotton reel and a rubber band?
One of the joys of making your own things the modern youth dont know about.

Yes my mind says I am 28, but my body keeps remanding me I have passed the 60 mark sometime ago.

gunnago · Senior Member

Don't forget the drink bottles 3pence each return waited for tourist to leave and take to the kiosk at beach I am ancient and loving it the memories go on

jules47 · The Happy Helper

"Recall getting into trouble from eating the soft bread out of the middle of the 'double' loaf & then closing it up, as I walked the 100yds home."

Cupie - that bought back a memory - the bread - sent to the shops with a friend to buy bread - we ate the complete middle out of it on the way home - told mum that was how we got it - she made us walk all the way back for another loaf!!!!!!

Baz421 · Guru

Cloak wrote:
I remember fly spray was a pump thing, seemed to work better than these pressure pack ones. I wonder if you can still get them?

Yep you can still get the pumps,,, but you have go overseas now to get the DDT to put in it. Remember DDT it killed EVERTHING in its path,,, even humans, and sometimes VERY SLOWLY

herbie · Guru

Our aim every weekend was to see who could make the best sling shot.

The other thing I remember was taking months to build a bon fire for guy fox night and the whole small town would turn up to enjoy the fun. think you would get locked up now if you had a bon fire and crackers.

We also used to go into the grocers and get sixpence worth of broken bisutes on the way home from school.

Also we used to get a shilling to put in the plate in church,but it never used to make it into the plate as on the way home we would pool all our money and get a feed of chips.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

We used to raid the local rubbish tip for "good" stuff - hit the jackpot when we found several boxes of choc coated peanuts - put them in the billy cart and sold them at threepence a box - got back to our house, offered them to the parents - "where did you get these" - we said from the tip - they made us go back to all the people we had sold to, give them back their money and get the peanuts back - reckoned they could have been laced with rat poison - never heard of anyone dying though, and some people had eaten theirs!!

No tips are - recycling centres, and you can't scrounge any more!!!! Got some great stuff at the tip - even found my aunt's wedding photos there - thrown out by ex husband!!!!

jules47 · The Happy Helper

This is a great topic - shows how "ancient" some of us are, doesn't it???? Our kids, and more, our grandkids, just would not believe the things we did, or had!!!!!

-- Edited by jules47 on Sunday 13th of October 2013 05:07:35 PM

Haji-Baba · Senior Member

Copper 1 What a good post.

I don't think you got it quite right, Why not bold lettering and Double Spaced.

Great memories and I can relate to most of them. Probably a couple you may have missed.

Kerosene homemade bar soap. Kero was used for a lot of things, antiseptic was one, it worked. Shellite was another.

The old kero pump for filling lamps. Kero came in a 4 gallon tin. Honey came in a 40 pound tin, same size as kero and had to be decanted before winter, before it went candy.

Syrup and Treacle same size tins. Molasses in a 44 gallon drum.

Farm made Bacon and Ham, smoked with corn cobs. Home made Jams and Preserves. Walking round the Brigalow Scrub
with Grannie searching for Turkey nests with eggs. Keeping the foxes out of the hen house with the old 12 gauge greener.

Our weekly dose of castor oil Saturday morning, I just took mine it was easier, my brother fought like hell.

My horse with a gut ache and two men giving him a dose of castor oil, the full bottle, with a broom handle across his jaw to keep his mouth open. He was never game to get crook again.

The manner in which various goods were "posted" out to farmers in empty cream cans from the Butter Factory. Bread, meat, boots and all manner of goods. Many came back in the full can of cream not having been found by the ****ie.

Cheese, any size up to 40 pounds, any colour and age from the butter factory. Make your own ice at the factory.

My favorite desert, bread and mollasses covered in fresh cream, eaten with a knife and fork. Decadent I know.

Home made butter in the old wooden or glass churn, and the butter milk always caused a fight.

Dad sharpening his axe on the old sandstone wheel about 2 feet in diameter, me winding the handle. Keep going.

Eating our own Chooks, Turkeys, Mutton, Pork, and Beef.

Home made wine and honeymeade.

Gas producers to run your petrol car during the second world war. Gas was made from charcoal.

Some one mentioned kero fridges, the time for making home made icecream, recipies, and the days waiting for it to set in the little freezer at the top.

Party line phone, two shorts and a long, hello, Cabandilla???

Xmas pudding, threepences, sixpences and a one shilling coin in one helping, and we didn't get sick or poisioned.

Grannies ginger beer, probably get a 50% return from the bottles she made, others exploded.

A proper Barbeque, a piece of netting wire stretched over a forky log, fire under, mutton chops turned over by hitting the bottom of the wire from underneath, when the chops were black they were cooked, eat them that's all there is. . Never mind the galvanising sticking to the chops. Dripping fat kept the fire going.

I wonder, are we better of today with all the mod cons, better food?, safer cars, more people, better doctors, better education
I do really wonder some times.

Have fun Haji-Baba

sandsmere · Guru

Remember all those things and more .

45rpm and 33 rpm records ????? What about the old 78s ?????

Milk in bottles ??? I had to milk the bloody cow before school , and then again before tea. Then separate the cream and wash the separator .

Didn't have to lock up when you went out though . Didn't have to bolt if a stranger looked at you .

The changes are just amazing in the last 60 years .

barina · Guru

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I remember most of them Oh Dear!!!!!!

But do you know what ? they were great times, we did not know we had it tough everyone was the same where I lived and you just got on with it, with no thought that things should be any different was way to busy to worry about things and we had nothing. My dear Mother was a rock I realise now and never let the misery in her life drag her down.

Delta18 · Guru

Rip and Rosie wrote:
Oh yes, going to the corner shop with a couple of pennies or a thripence and looking through the glass case at the lollies in their boxes, all lined up. Making that decision of what to pick and get the best deal for your money. Out we'd come clutching that little while paper bag that Mrs Thomspon had closed by holding the top corners and swinging it around!
For your pennies you could get your choice of cobbers, bulletts, musk sticks, chocolate buttons................

.. but not bananas.. I hated them.

-- Edited by Rip and Rosie on Saturday 12th of October 2013 01:10:17 PM

Oh yes, Bullets, 8 for a penny, remember that well!

Choc Freckles, chocolate buttons covered with Hundreds & Thousands (smartie poo)

I too remember them all except the outside thunderbox, we were dignified with inside loo with a chain pull.

EllenajoeL · Senior Member

Hmmmm....I've, last week, joined the BIG FVE OH club......and yet I can remember pretty well ALL of these.....

I'm hope that means my memory is still accessible wink but Im SURE it means that changes are coming (at 'us') faster than in previous times.

confuse

Great posts BTW...thank you

Baz421 · Guru

jules47 wrote:
We used to raid the local rubbish tip for "good" stuff - hit the jackpot when we found several boxes of choc coated peanuts - put them in the billy cart and sold them at threepence a box - got back to our house, offered them to the parents - "where did you get these" - we said from the tip - they made us go back to all the people we had sold to, give them back their money and get the peanuts back - reckoned they could have been laced with rat poison - never heard of anyone dying though, and some people had eaten theirs!!

No tips are - recycling centres, and you can't scrounge any more!!!! Got some great stuff at the tip - even found my aunt's wedding photos there - thrown out by ex husband!!!!

Yes Jules agree,,, we used to ride our bikes about 4 miles to the dump,,, it was bulldozed to about 10-15 feet high AND WE CRAWLED THROUGH OLD CARS, BUILDING MATERIALS ETC LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMETHING TO HAVE FUN WITH.

Broken glass, sharp steel, rats and snakes we were there,,, never had a problem as cuts, scratches and bashed heads were the "norm" for kids in those days.

I still draw blood through wounds today with no recollection (and not Altimers either) of how I did it.