I Remember When

[fillum]

I remember when...

- we'd receive a little brown envelope each week for our toil (more fun than being paid into the bank, but considerably more dangerous for a young bloke)
- anything "Made in Japan" was considered rubbish (except of course Shintaro Akikusa)
- the Poms were good at sport
- rugby league was entertaining
- the highest tech in footware for general sport was the 'sandshoe'
- Dick Smith was making a fortune importing foreign-made electronics
- 'sophisticated' beverages included brown muscat and 'Blackberry Nip'

and maybe the biggest change:
- to be famous you had to have actually done something




Cheers.

[WhoDo]

Most of all this stuff I also remember as I grew up in the 60's under ten years of age and the 70's for my teens. Much of it was a great space in time, but I wouldn't swap many of the mod cons for what we used to have to do.

I remember my father driving us all to Fingal Head (near Tweed Heads) for a annual 2-3 weeks holiday at Christmas. That was wonderful!

Yep, same generation as me only in my case the destination was Yamba! It was great for fishing then and unspoiled. We had to borrow the rich uncle's car for the holidays to get there and back and I remember once dad smashed the front mudguard on a pub verandah post that was too close to the edge of the gutter. Took some explaining too. I don't think dad enjoyed the rest of that holiday too much and we got our own car the year after.

[mikew09]

Haha - I did not realise how many fond memories this thread would bring to light - I am very glad I started it.

I remember holidaying at Augusta in the West when you just found a place in the scrub but regularlars always seemed to have there tent place left
I remember traveling down in my pops Comer Ute his bond wood boat on the back and this rolled up canvas tent in the back with a kero fridge and metho lamps etc
I remember using the cane wood rods my pop made to fish with and when the fibre rods were the new modern alternative and Javis Walker was all the rage, and
I remember the yr the family that always camped next to us rolled up with their brand new Valiant Series with that big spare type boot impresion and all those curvy panels and we all stood around looking at it and my dad and pop talking about the mod cons in it - I think it was a push button radio :-)
oh, and I remember there was still fish in the ocean to catch and you could guarantee a feed that night and now and then me and pop would go out the tip and shoot a rabbit or two for dinner :-)

[William]

I remember when at the Saturday Matinee the usherette ( Her name was Mary) Used to hit you over the head with the BIG silver torch if you were playing up , That included rolling Jaffa's down the aisle's , Letting off Crackers in the toilet with a Cigarette delay timer , The Toilets were down the front next to the screen , Eating "White nights" and "Panda" potato chips

[mikew09]

Oh yea - when no one was allowed to even whisper and if there was a noise the usher would be flicking the touch light at you and you would be ducking for cover. haha and
the usher would guide you to your seats if the lights had been dimmed, and
I remember walking home from the cinema with my family - about 45 mins walk and in those days we walked everywhere and using the car to go somewhere was like a luxury.

[shelly1170]

I remember starting school, carrying my brown Globite and sitting on little wooden chairs at desks that still had holes for the inkwell!
I remember the arrival of the roller disco, and seeing my first mirror ball.
I remember remember rotary dial telephones in PMG green
I remember Telecom
I remember when channel 0/28 arrived (later to become SBS)
I remember going out to play in the morning and my mum standing at the door hollering my name to come home for dinner hours later

[I @ M]

It's the thread title and those darned ... things that follow it causing a problem, Andrew. It's doing it to me as well.

Duly reported Waz, I'm not sure what the problem is.

[WhoDo]

I remember starting school, carrying my brown Globite

Oh, yes, the brown Globite school port! My dad used to sell them which is probably just as well. I remember getting on the school bus and nonchalantly placing my bag in the luggage bay next to the driver. As he drove off I laughed at seeing someone's Globite had gone under the wheels of the bus ... until I realised it was mine!!!

[WhoDo]

Duly reported Waz, I'm not sure what the problem is.

Just edit the thread title to remove the "...." from the end and all will be well, Andrew. Kym sussed this one out a while back but obviously the software still baulks at the dots!

[I @ M]

Just edit the thread title to remove the "...."

Done, didn't recall that cure.

[ameerat42]

Ta, Andrew. (And yes, I remember when it was polite to say so. Now a grunt will often do, or a non-committal Cheers, often as a closing accompaniment to Chief.)

[Kym]

I remember when the Internet did not have the web and only serious geeks used it (was waaaay better then)

Punch cards and computers? YUP! http://www.users.on.net/~farnik/wiki...RetroComputing

I remember when I watched Doctor Who - first run episodes on the ABC with William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, and Tom Baker

I remember when Star Trek had only one captain, James Tiberius Kirk

[Kym]

I remember when NZ was more prosperous than Australia

Which //lel universe was that?

[mikew09]

Hmm - better keep tht in mind for future posts - ta

[ricstew]

Dear oh dear we still put coins in the Chrissy puddin.....you can buy special ones from the PO. Who ever finds the silver ( or one with the most value ) is the lucky one.....everyone else gets to clear the table!

[ving]

1C cobbers... oh yeah!

[WhoDo]

1C cobbers... oh yeah!

You are a youngun' aren't ya! In my day Cobbers were 4-a-penny which meant if you had a spare farthing you could buy one! That's right, a quarter of a penny!!!

[Art Vandelay]

Some fond memories in previous posts.

I remember my first weekend job at the servo in a small country town at about 15 or 16. We used to fill up the fuel, check the oil, wash the windscreen.....oh how things have changed.
I also remember every boy in our town getting their own .22 when they turned about 12 and weekends were spent wandering the bush & local creeks. No nintendo & facebook crap back then. lol.

[mudman]

ha! ya can remember punched cards. i remember using paper tapes when i was a mainframe operator, and having to press certain buttons in a certain sequence to ipl the system

[WhoDo]

I remember when business accounts and invoices were prepared using a thing called a Comptometer - no electronic whizbangs back then! The girls in the Comp pool were also a hot topic among the young bloods, too!