Do You Remember When?

I remember when you bought a bottle of cream, it would go off after a couple of days.
Also buying icecream in a small block wrapped in cardboard neopolitan was what Dad always bought.
I remember sitting down for sunday roast with the family when i was very young.
Using a bottle with holes punched in the lid to shake on the clothes to make it easier to iron them.
We never had canned dog & cat food it was always raw meat
 

"Making out" Any body remember "Pitching Woo"
 

Pappy,I thought them white gym shorts was cute,still do. Well to be honest anything that showed/s that much leg was/is cute.
 
I remember the ugly gym uniforms, omg! Grade 9 and we had only 5 mins to change into them and out of them. My friend and i would leave our slips on and tuck them under the elastic of the bloomers, hoping the slip would not come down! needless to say, we got caught a few times! To make it worse, we had to run around the block in these ugly uniforms!
I also remember my mom getting free glasses in that washing detergent, and i, too, used to eat the kool-aid powder right from the package....
Was fun going down memory lane, i remember when , thanks for a great post!
 
We had the free milk in the U.K. as well, it was delivered in crates and left outside and in the winter time it would have lumps of ice in it.
 
Ice? Looxyerry!!!

Our milk was always warm because it was delivered early and stood in the sun for about 3 hours.
I drank it nevertheless but some kids jacked up.
 
Before the Submarine Racing there was the local Sydney term of "watching the luminous sharks in the Leichhardt Canal"

(It was an open, usually dry, stormwater drain and popular nocturnal parking spot.)

That warmly fermenting, freely mandatory milk! aaaghhhh. Ranked with child abuse I reckon. We didn't have the option, it was drink it or front up at the principal's office.
We had to drink it standing out on the asphalt where any 'spilled' would show up and had to hand in an empty bottle before being dismissed!

It did give me an early lesson in free enterprise though. There was a big fat kid who would drink it for you for a penny if you could do a switch without the teacher spotting you. Sadly most of us couldn't afford his services, 5pc a week was half our Saturday movie money!
 
Diwundrin said:
Before the Submarine Racing there was the local Sydney term of "watching the luminous sharks in the Leichhardt Canal"

(It was an open, usually dry, stormwater drain and popular nocturnal parking spot.)
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... because romance in the Outback is SO much better in a sewer. :playful:

I take it the folks that named that spot weren't professional slogan writers ...
 
I was raised in Leichhardt in the 1940s to 1950s. It was a tough, working class area where mainly the not-so-rich people lived.
These days, it's expensive and trendy.... even the most tiny & modest house costs over one million dollars.

BTW Diwundrin, it was Hawthorne Canal and I spent much of my youth there.


 
Fill in the blanks :)
01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.
02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The ____ ___________ Show.
03. 'Get your kicks, __ _________ _______.'
04. 'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.'
05. 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.'
06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____________.'
07. Nestle's makes the very best . .. . . _______________.'
08. Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.
09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.
10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________ ________... '
11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________.
13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to ___________________.
14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __________ ______________.
16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?
17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!
18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ Knows!
19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard smash". It's name was the ______ ______!
20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as it's Logo/Representative. What was the boy's name? ________

(does anyone remember playing horsechestnuts?)
 
1. Silver bullet
2. Ed Sullivan
3. On Route 66
4. The innocent
5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
6. Limbo
7. Chocolate
8. Louis Armstrong
9. Timex
10. Freddie the Freeloader; God Bless
11. Draft Cards!
12. Beatle, Bug
13. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper
14. Sputnik
15. Hula Hoop
16. Luck Strike Means Fine Tobacco
17. It's Howdy Doody Time
18. Shadow
19. Monster Mash
20. Speedy

Wow, I flew through those and think I nailed it!

But, have no memory of playing Horsechestnuts...
 
Horsechestnuts...
We never heard of "conkers", which looks to be the common name..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6IpVZZlR9s&noredirect=1

We lived in a mostly English community in Rhode island, and guess that's where the game came from...
Jimmy Peacock was the legendary Horsechestnuts champion at Fairlawn Elementary, with a 20'er (kingers)... We learned his secret after the fall season game was over... he baked the nut, and then shellacked it. A big tree in the schoolyard provided the ammunition. Circa 1945.
 
I can remember as a toddler aged 4 the ABC news theme tune,and today it is still played when the news comes on.
 

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