My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house and hebrought me an old lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.
Boy, I am old!!
How many of you remember:-
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turning indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 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 2 channels (if you were fortunate) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulbs 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers 15 78 records 16 cylinder records
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 13-16 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along! Especially to all youre really OLD friends - I just did!
(PS. I used a large type face so you can read it easily)
K.J.
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I feel really ancient because I remember standing at the shop window watching T V when it first came out in black and White, I also remember when the planes landing at Mascot airport were DC3,s and riding my bike with mates on the main runway between take offs and landings and we definitely weren't terrorists just kids having fun.
I also remember when our neighbour mr Braithweight flew the first 707 into mascot we went out to the airport just to watch it land.
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Happily doing both to the Max.
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We were the first family in the street to get a pop up toaster and every kid in the street and their parents came to watch it cook toast on the first Sunday morning. It saved heaps of money because my mother would burn half a loaf of bread before we got toast we could actually eat from the side opening model. That was the only gadget ever that actually improved her cooking skills, she was and still is the world's worst cook.
Mascot Airport used to have the best smorgasbord, we had a few quite a few family outings to watch the planes take off and land. afterwards dinner at the smorgasbord. It was dad's way of getting something nice to eat. Probably why I love planes.
As a retired Airline Pilot BG, you must have seen a huge change in technology.
Don't remember the cylinder records, but do remember using a very early Dictaphone that cut a sleeve type vinyl record as it recorded your voice. I always wished I had kept one when AGL was moving to new offices and threw them out but I did get my dad to buy an old Qld Maple desk from the moving sale and he used it in his office for 25 years. When I inherited it I had it French polished and I use it as a dinning table. Love it.
TVs, watching that test pattern and waiting, swearing we could see colours.
Thanks for the large type, I took my glasses off. Good thread.
I had a 19 year old Cambodian refugee working for me in about 2002 and her job was to check invoices for phone, internet services, and other IT services/ supplies for about 350+ staff spread over heaps of locations. She was one of the best employees ever to work for/with me and had a very good understanding of what was required of her to vet some of the outrageous invoices foisted on us.
However she normally didn't go out of the office to remote locations for work and if she did she took a pool car (small buzz type), BUT one day I needed her go somewhere urgent so gave her the keys to my work ute.
About half an hour later she came back and said she couldn't move the ute. A bit of questioning and she said she couldn't release the handbrake to reverse out of the underground car park. We went to the ute and it turns out she couldn't FIND the handbrake as it was under the dash Tojo ute version and she had never seen a handbrake that was not between the front seats.
We had a good laugh and she went bright red and apologised for the delay etc and off she went.
How we assume things eh - I never would have thought of that in 100 years.
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Why is it so? Professor Julius Sumner Miller, a profound influence on my life, who explained science to us on TV in the 60's.
I used to go to the house across the back lane and use their toilet.
It had a pull chain flush.
Ours had a pan and was situated at the back of the yard so the nightcart man could change the pans.
I used to line up at the green grocer's shop once a week to snaffle the green tissue papers that were wrapped around apples. We used it as toilet paper, otherwise a page from the Woman's Weekly (the little Pommy one) was on offer.
I remember watching the Oxford and Cambridge boat race on a neighbor's 9 inch tv that had a magnifier screen fitted. Not sure how old I was but it was before the death of King George the V1 and I watched his funeral on the same TV.
We had a bath in the kitchen and it had a board over it so that it could be used as a table during the week.
A small loaf of brown bread called Hovis cost four pence farthing and I still remember the ration books.
We did have flushing toilets but they were outside and you had to be desperate to go in the winter!
All the above is secret as I tell everyone that I am only 36
David
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David
2014 Colorado Dual cab with canopy and boat loader
23 foot Western Homestead
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got
I thought posting this tread might bring out some memories in most people, seems I was right there.
Now that I look back, there are a few things from my Younger days that I also recall,
1/ We could buy a single cone ice-cream for 1 Penny, a double cone was a bit stiff at 2 Pence,
2/ When I bought my first car ( an 1926 Essex Super 6 ) Standard Petrol cost 1shilling and threepence a Gallon,Super fuel ( if one could afford it) cost double at 2 Bob & 6 Pence.
As a young bloke back in Kiwi-land, a long way back in around 1953, I recall push Biking down to our local Air Field to see a Lancaster Bomber that was stored in one of the Hangers, it had been there since the war, This Bomber was later sold to a local Farmer, it was flown onto his Property and remained sitting there near the Highway for many years, and drew crowds of interested People every weekend .
On one visit to Christchurch ( my first ) I recall seeing Paddocks full of Army Vehicles, left there after the War, they were all Auctioned off and many Bren Gun Carriers were bought by Farmers and used to clear the land.
The memories keep coming, Who can recall going into the local Milk Bar and playing the Duke Boxes,Rock on Elvis
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 2nd of August 2015 04:40:04 AM
Licorice blocks 4 for a penny ,mum cutting a block of home made ice cream out of the aluminium tray and wrapping it halfway round the ice cream for me. Dad lighting his pipe at 6.30 each night and having his 1 glass of Abbotts Stout . Jungle Jim was on tele at 6 pm.I was allowed to watch Whirlybirds then bedtime . Dad was a backyard mechanic and we always had 2-4 cars out back and try as I might I was too small to insert the crank handle thru the bumperbar hole onto the motor and turn it over !! Ahhh .....good times.Cheers
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Westy. Some people I know are like slinkies. They look really funny when you push them downstairs !
Remember Rose Bay in Sydney watching the Sunderland Flying Boats landing and taking off.
Also remember all of the first post, Mum heating cast iron, irons on the wood stove to press my and Dad's pants, storm lanterns before we had electricity, kerosene fridge, bath day on Sunday, me first, then Mum, then Dad to save tank water, memories.
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Cheers Peter and Sue
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