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I found a picture of the door to door fizzy pop delivery truck.....

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JimW we had those clackers too, but Conkers ( Horse chestnuts were those that dropped from the tree, and we'd bake them or soak them in vinegar to make them really hard, thread string thorough them and then bash or opponents conker until one broke)... and that could include our fingers!! Now grown ups play it and I've just discovered there's a world championship for it...:D

 
hollydolly said:
JimW we had those clackers too, but Conkers ( Horse chestnuts were those that dropped from the tree, and we'd bake them or soak them in vinegar to make them really hard, thread string thorough them and then bash or opponents conker until one broke)... and that could include our fingers!! Now grown ups play it and I've just discovered there's a world championship for it...:D

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It's funny some of the things people will compete at. That's interesting about soaking chestnuts in vinegar to harden them, I didn't know that. We used to have a lot of chestnut trees in our area when I was a kid, but there was a disease (chestnut blight I believe), that infected a good amount of the trees here and the state cut most of them down. We used to have chestnut fights, throwing them at each other. I remember the pain and the bruises vividly, lol.
 

The pics of the clothes line with clothes pins brought back vivid memories. My mom had a washer and dryer, but she always hung up he laundry on the clothes line. They had to get fresh air! That was OK when it was nice, sunny and warm. But my mom hung her stuff out to dry in the dead of winter. And guess whose job it was to take in the frozen laundry and throw it in the dryer? ME. I had to wrestle the frozen stuff from the line. Then I had to "break" it to fold it. They were 99% ice. Then I had to scruntch it up to fit into the dryer door. All so the laundry would smell fresh. AHHHHH!
 
This thread reminded me of when my Dad bought my Mom a dishwasher which was funny, because my Mom didn't wash the dishes. That was me and My sisters chore. My Dad bought it so he didn't have to hear me and my sister arguing about who would wash and who would dry. I laugh when I think that my poor Mom really believed the dishwasher was for her.
 
Who remembers their first time at the cinema? I do it was in the small picture theatre in my home town on the outskirts of Sydney. An old weatherboard building that had seen better days. I dont recall the first film I ever saw but I do recall watching the Looney Toons cartoons and the adventure serials.. Jet Jackson was one. I usually had to work for my allowance that gave me entrance to that old picture theatre of my youth.
 
Yes I remember, I was 10 years old...I was in a foster home and the 'aunties' would take us to the cinema on a Saturday morning. so we were taken to see the Beatles ''Help''.. not something we kids wanted to particularly see , but the Aunties, obviously did... so that was my first memory of the ''pictures''
 
Kris148 said:
Who remembers their first time at the cinema? I do it was in the small picture theatre in my home town on the outskirts of Sydney. An old weatherboard building that had seen better days. I dont recall the first film I ever saw but I do recall watching the Looney Toons cartoons and the adventure serials.. Jet Jackson was one. I usually had to work for my allowance that gave me entrance to that old picture theatre of my youth.
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I'll never forget my first visit to this amazing movie palace when I was a little kid.

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It's been lovingly restored and is still in use today.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
The pics of the clothes line with clothes pins brought back vivid memories. My mom had a washer and dryer, but she always hung up he laundry on the clothes line. They had to get fresh air! That was OK when it was nice, sunny and warm. But my mom hung her stuff out to dry in the dead of winter. And guess whose job it was to take in the frozen laundry and throw it in the dryer? ME. I had to wrestle the frozen stuff from the line. Then I had to "break" it to fold it. They were 99% ice. Then I had to scruntch it up to fit into the dryer door. All so the laundry would smell fresh. AHHHHH!
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Oh yes I remember having to bring the frozen washing in from the line.!! frozen shirts , frozen sheets,, trying to get them onto the pulley in the kitchen to dry out.....

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Even tho' most people have a dryer these days, pulleys have become really fashionable again, and people use them to hang their saucepans from... we'd have laughed ourselves silly at the idea when we were kids, if we'd been told that 50 years later they'll still be in use..and for POTS!!!:D
 
hollydolly said:
JimW we had those clackers too, but Conkers ( Horse chestnuts were those that dropped from the tree, and we'd bake them or soak them in vinegar to make them really hard, thread string thorough them and then bash or opponents conker until one broke)... and that could include our fingers!! Now grown ups play it and I've just discovered there's a world championship for it...:D

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Hey! Thats pretty neat! Never saw that before. Thanks for posting this.
 
hollydolly said:
Yes I used to love tomato ketchup sandwiches on white bread when I was a kid, and even when I was first married... we were so poor we couldn't afford fillings ..but I didn't mind.

I can't eat ketchup now tho'..
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Haaahhaa. No ill bet you dont eat them now. Your right though, that comes from the depression years i think.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I remember at least one of the local grocery chains used to provide specially marked book cover grocery bags at back to school time and yes we used them!
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 If the teacher regarded it as a sloppy job he asked me to redo it until it was to his satisfaction. Reminds me of when we were on detention at boarding school and told to polish then re polish the hall floors until you could see your face in it. Those masons were hard task masters.
 
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