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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    I remember: When most of the stuphph you had prescribed by the doctor was
    actually fabricated by the chemist.
    When the pharmacist was called the chemist.
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    I remember doing all that during my apprenticeship before pharmacy became a full time uni course.

    A chemist was the only one legally allowed to use the term 'chemist' without a qualifying adjective such as 'industrial'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    I remember the milk cart, the ice cart, the night cart, bread being delivered and two mail deliveries a day and one on Saturday.
    My father delivered bread by horse and cart before WW2 and ice during and just after WW2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rsser View Post
    And what was BP colloquially known as .... ?
    Boo Port for the (senior) South Australians cos COR stood for Come On Redlegs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    I remember the milk cart, the ice cart, the night cart, bread being delivered and two mail deliveries a day and one on Saturday.
    Milk cart?? You got to be kidding. It came in the big milk urns straight from the dairy. The bloke brought it around in the back of his unrefrigerated ute, and no canopy either in them days.
    Bread cam in a bread cart the baker got out at the start of the street and the horse just ambled slowly along as the guy got the bread out of the back put in his basket and delivered it to the houses.

    Anyone remember the Watkins door to door salesman?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cultana View Post
    Milk cart?? You got to be kidding. It came in the big milk urns straight from the dairy. The bloke brought it around in the back of his unrefrigerated ute, and no canopy either in them days.
    Bread cam in a bread cart the baker got out at the start of the street and the horse just ambled slowly along as the guy got the bread out of the back put in his basket and delivered it to the houses.

    Anyone remember the Watkins door to door salesman?
    I remember the Rawleigh's salesman. He had a built up boot on one foot.

    We had "the Egg Man" who delivered eggs , carried in the back of his Ford Customline ute.

    The local General Store had a man walk the streets once a week with a docket book and pencil to take orders which were later delivered in their little Thames Trader truck.

    We had alocal SP bookie. The Police never bothered him.

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    you know you're getting old when you can recite this word for word
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo"]YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen[/ame]

    what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?

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    When your Dad gave you a zack to spend and it burned a hole in your pocket.

    These days it'd just wear one in.
    Cheers, Ern

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsser View Post
    When your Dad gave you a zack to spend and it burned a hole in your pocket.

    These days it'd just wear one in.
    When you know what a zack is

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbur View Post
    When you know what a zack is
    Or a dina, a bob, a quid, a halfpenny, a trez bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Or a dina, a bob, a quid, a halfpenny, a trez bit.
    Which one was a 'dina'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cava View Post
    Which one was a 'dina'?
    Same as a bob from memory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Or a dina, a bob, a quid, a halfpenny, a trez bit.
    Still got some threepences, halfpennies and a couple of pennies.

    Not to mention things were sold in shops as 10 guineas or 10g.

    Also we had real coins that meant there was no rounding up/down.
    I suspect there is now more rounding up than down in shops.

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    ...We used to have a travelling salesman called Maurie Funk who sold ladies stockings call in on us occasionally. Dad used them to strain paint which had skinned up.

    ...My father spilling the contents of the night pan over the back yard when he hooked it on the prop up clothesline which wasn't propped up. Another time he tipped it over the back of the ute.

    ...My earliest memory of fuel purchase is from one of those bowser/pumps with the large glass bowl on top. You, the customer, had to manually pump a handle to get the petrol from a tank directly below into a large glass bowl of 4 or 5 gallons then let that drain into your car. If you wanted a full tank then you did this two or three times. All this right at the backdoor of the local supermarket.

    ...touched on this in another thread. As a small kid helping dad by clearing away the cut wood away from the blade of the old swingsaw. THAT was something I wish I had video of, a swingsaw in action.

    Young blokes of terday, no idea.

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    Aha, but can you remember what fuel company it was?
    To easy because they sponsored Pick A Box


    That said, you know your getting old when you remember the Dogs and Saints last flags and milk bottles at morning play time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vk3ru View Post
    Same as a bob from memory.
    Thanks.

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