I Remember When

[mudman]

i remember the little news reel theatre beside the state theatre in market st Sydney where you could sit and watch the news all day, (they repeated same ones over and over)

[phild]

I remember days when the phone didn't even have a dial, you lifted the handset and asked the operator for the number (1960's).
I remember milk being delivered in to a tin billy, which we left at the front gate.
I remember when the iceman (from a local company called Benders I think) brought huge blocks of ice to the ice chest, refrigerators were expensive and we didnt have one (1950's).
I rememmber the man coming to empty the dunny (night cart) although it only came during the day. It was only for a while, we had a regular toilet but the sewage infrastructure wasn't finished, so we had an outside toilet with a thuderbox (around 1958).
I can remember the smell of plucking chooks and the chaos that ensued when the chooks ran about with their heads cut off.
I remember those dinky little spud guns (early 60's)

[ameerat42]

Ahh! Yes! Ah remember when this thread started...

[mikew09]

I remember when you didn't need a computer to be part of the world, my laptop just died and now my new lens money has to go on the replacement. :-)

[Bennymiata]

Oh yea - I remember when we were paid in cash and used a punch card to book into work.

And a customer of mine that had over 1600 employees, and every Friday at 1:30pm, the 17 year old office girl would walk across a busy 6 lane road road (the offices were on the other side of the road to the factory) with a large box containing the cash wages of every single employee - by herself. and she never had a problem.

Imagine doing that today!

[bobt]

I remember the days before KY was invented and a jar of Vicks Vapor Rub could be mistaken in the dark for a jar of vaseline (you don't make that mistake twice!)

I remember when you could carry a camera without being mistaken for a pervert or a terrorist

I remember when I could chase a girl, catch a girl and then not have a clue what came next!

[graemelee]

Good ones Who Do

[mikew09]

I remember when I felt like I would live for ever and anyone over 30 was old.
I remember when a house was built they would frame it and leave it stand for a couple of months so the hardwood would set
I really remember the leather home made fly swotter my nan had that we would cope if we were late home - ouch.
I remember when Marino sheep were king and farmer would carry a price ram in the back of there car
I remember when farming was a good life and fields of wheat were a plenty and a drought was only 2 yrs long.

[mrsgrumblebum]

I remeber quite a few from most of everybody's posts and most I don't.
I remember when Sunday was roast dinner night
I remember having to be in before the street lights came on or look out you were in big trouble
I remember at school if you were sent to the headmasters office you were in deep doo doo especially when you got home
I remember our next door neighbor knocking on our door to pass on a phone message as we didn't have a phone and if it was in the middle of the night it was considered an emergency.

[WhoDo]

I remember when Sunday was roast dinner night.

AND .. it was usually roast leg of lamb because chicken and beef were too expensive back then! How times change, eh?

[Wilky]

I remember when my first mortgage was cheap at 13+% interest and it only cost me a $1000 deposit.

[peterking]

Someone said they remembered Telecom. I remember the Postmaster General. (PMG)
I remember when your appointment was at 10 o'clock you were shown into the office at 10 o'clock.
I remember the local cop knocking on the front door wanting to talk to my mum and me!
I remember being sent out of the house after lunch on Sunday and being told not to be home until 6 for dinner.
I remember everyone sitting around the dinner table and mum saying Grace before each meal.
I remember having to ask permission to leave the table at the end of each meal.
I remember having to address my teachers as Mister, Miss, Sir or M'am.

[Xenedis]

I remember when life was simpler.

I remember a time when the devices intended to make our life simpler didn't make it more complicated.

[Wilky]

Hahahaha "Someone said they remembered Telecom. I remember the Postmaster General. (PMG)"

My old man worked for the PMG in Launceston and as a kid I would go down into the bowels of the building and watch all the relays (there were thousands of them) clicking in and out. It was really noisy and like something out of a science fiction movie. Hmmmmm fond memories there.

[mikew09]

I remember when life was simpler.

I remember a time when the devices intended to make our life simpler didn't make it more complicated.

Oh Yea, those days you would FINISH work for the day and you were done.

[mikew09]

Hahahaha "Someone said they remembered Telecom. I remember the Postmaster General. (PMG)"

My old man worked for the PMG in Launceston and as a kid I would go down into the bowels of the building and watch all the relays (there were thousands of them) clicking in and out. It was really noisy and like something out of a science fiction movie. Hmmmmm fond memories there.

Yep, was the same in the west. My uncle worked for the PMG too. Generally there was a phone box on on every block and a bank of them at the post office and you would have to book a long distance call and specify how long it was and sometime the operator would not let you enxtend. I remember the new style Big black phones had A and B buttons, press A when someone answered and your coin would be accepted and if not press this really noisey B button and your money would fall out the bottom. After a few yrs the PMG had to put flaps on the out coin tray because kids would still paper up the hole and come back the next day and pull it out to collect the coins that people though they had lost.

No one damaged vandalized phones or phone boxes in those days, the worst thing that might happen was some would scratch something like MW Loves JP in the paint on the inside.

[Steve Axford]

I remember when we worked with asbestos dust and were told it was good for us.
I remember when the tobacco companies were all powerful and managed to prove to us that smoking wasn't harmful.

[CosmoGirl]

I remember when you could go to the local corner store and get lollies for 1 cent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[I @ M]

I remember when you could go to the local corner store and get lollies for 1 cent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You must be young.

We used to get them for a penny.

[Xenedis]

I remember when you could go to the local corner store and get lollies for 1 cent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember when the corner store wasn't called Seven Eleven.