I Remember.....

[Handyjack]

Friday's I was allowed to buy my lunch from the little shop over the road from school.


Eat the ice cream first which gave the pie time to cool to eating temperature. On the odd occasion (Winter) when the temperature was really cold the ice cream was given a miss and the 4 pence was spent on lollies. You always picked the chocolate bullets as they were 6 for a penny.

My first full time job was in a confectionery factory. Did jobs from washing buckets to sieving 100's & 1000's or moving buckets of chocolate bullets from the upstairs room they were made in to the downstairs packing machine. In latter years I was involved in coating the licorice with chocolate and yes I did eat more than a handfull. Worked there for over ten years ending up as a leading hand and having the key to the door.

[doug3030]

Holland St, Northgate East......1961-1968.....

Hi ex-neighbour - that would have been the same Con's corner store!

1962 - 1970 Melton Rd - Holland St was over our back fence.

Doug

[crowie]

Hi ex-neighbour - that would have been the same Con's corner store!

1962 - 1970 Melton Rd - Holland St was over our back fence.

Doug

Small world Doug.....In 1962 I was in grade 2 at Northgate State....Walked to school down past Megats Linseed factory so could have walked past your place.. I did piano lessons with Melany Macintosh's mum in the house opposite Holland St on Melton Road next to the nursery....
In with Con's corner stop was a chemist, a butcher, a fish&chip shop, a barber who gave good boys a small pack of Juicy Fruit gum, much to my mum's disgust & a haberdashery....
The family at the back of us had young adults, one of the boys had a hot FJ......

[Brosh]

[QUOTE=crowie;1867536]Thank you one and all for the great memories.....here's some of mine.........

The other thing was Christmas when all the grandkids got a thripence in there plum pudding with hot custard.

But the thrippence went back to Mum - we were given pennies in return.
and what about the carbide lights - we were never in the hunt to have electricity connected - we started off with a one jet light - then moved to a two jet - thought we were pretty flash. But the carbide lights ran out of go power (add water to calcium carbide and produce acetylene gas) after 3 hours or so - then we were back to kerosene lamps. sometimes if the water seal on the carbide lights wasn't quite up to the job then the lamp would start to flare all around the can - it was quickly carted outside I can tell you.

About the same time we moved from the icebox attached to the white elephant - no idea what their name was - saw two of them in the Winton museum - coils and tanks everywhere - you light a fire in the bottom and the tank in the ice box went cold - even saw ice on it once - (a big deal in tropical north Qld in my youth)
to the kerosene fridge - flash ah what!!!!!

More to come

Brosh

[Sawdust Maker]

Hah

a lot of this brings back memories

my first real job (and while I was at school) was as a milko
I remember catching the kid down the street pinching milk money (not connected with the job)

newspaper around the fish n chips (a real treat since we lived out of town)

and we used to by ice cream in big tubs - specially ordered in

Dad loved seafood - so oysters in glass tubes and blocks of frozen prawns

[doug3030]

Small world Doug.....In 1962 I was in grade 2 at Northgate State....Walked to school down past Megats Linseed factory so could have walked past your place.. I did piano lessons with Melany Macintosh's mum in the house opposite Holland St on Melton Road next to the nursery....

I started at Northgate SS in 1965. We lived directly across the street from the factory where the busses were made (Athol Hedges). There was a mattress factory diagonally across the road too. The nursery (Levy's) was on the corner of Allworth st, which was where the peanut/linseed factory was. If you walked around past Con's shop you would have walked past my place, but if you went the other way past the railway station you would not have.

In with Con's corner stop was a chemist, a butcher, a fish&chip shop, a barber who gave good boys a small pack of Juicy Fruit gum, much to my mum's disgust & a haberdashery....

...and a post office. Yeah, Jim Chapple, the barber and his little packets of four juicyfruit chewies - almost worth having to sit through a haircut.

My mum used to send me to Con's shop after school every day after school to get the Telegraph newspaper. Remember in Friday it had a green sheet in the middle, the racing guide. One Friday I got home with the paper and mum made me take it back and tell Con it did not have a green sheet in it. To this day I cannot work out whether it was an accident or if Con had nicked it and given that paper to me because he erroneously assumed my mum was so wholesome that she would not miss it. Either way he looked quite embarrassed.

The other side of our house from Con's was a new set of three shops, another butcher, a milk bar and a Four-Square.

It is indeed a small world

Cheers

Doug

[Handyjack]

Four-Square was a chain of independently run supermarkets. Had a couple near my home. Worked in one after school for a couple of years. The brand has long gone and in my case so has the store.

[crowie]

Four-Square was a chain of independently run supermarkets. Had a couple near my home. Worked in one after school for a couple of years. The brand has long gone and in my case so has the store.

Yes, I too worked at a Four Square grocery store too long ago; the boss used to watch how you packed the large brown paper grocery bags for the customers which we also had to take out to the cars for the ladies.....
Petrol stations were roostered on the weekends so you had to ensure the car was full before Saturday lunch time to drive around to a roostered station... Chemists too were roostered... All the shops shut at noon Saturday and Sunday only a few corner stores were open... Oh, how things have changed and I'm not always sure it's been for the better??

[crowie]

Does anyone remember the radio serial "YES WHAT" with Greenbottle, Bottomley, Stanford, and Dr Percy.....

I heard in the late mid1960's in Brisbane while at High School then again in the mid1970's in Sydney while in the Navy.... Very funny....

[Bob38S]

Yes, remember it very well and listened regularly when I was a kid.

As fate,( for want of a better term) would have it I became good mates with the son of the gent (Jack Craig-Gardiner) who played Greenbottle. We had many great laughs and good times until he passed away prematurely.

[Bob38S]

For those interested, they are on Utube, there are heaps. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf4cmpGLEuY

PS. Corporal punishment was the norm, I don't wish to get into the pros/cons, just enjoy it for what it was - a clever comedy, if you like, a boys version of St Trinians.

[Redbog]

For the 4 Square nostalgiasts, I was in a gorgeous little town in Northland in NZ call Mangonui. There is a wooden, 4 Square supermarket, built out over the water on piles, still trading hot and strong. I would recommend the town to anyone going to the shakey isles, it's a great place, fishing, history, great people, scenic. And here's a picture! The 4 Square store is on the right out over the water across from the pub ( 100+ years old).

Cheers, RedbogIMG_0969.jpg

[Chesand]

Does anyone remember the radio serial "YES WHAT" with Greenbottle, Bottomley, Stanford, and Dr Percy.....

I heard in the late mid1960's in Brisbane while at High School then again in the mid1970's in Sydney while in the Navy.... Very funny....

Yes, I remember it. On at tea-time or thereabouts.

[popawisky]

The horse powered night cart. Collecting well
Horse powered bottleo Collecting bottles
Kids putting penny bungers ( bombs ) through the back flap of the dunny.

Pete

[Bob38S]

Aaah yes, cracker night, November 5 from memory, everyone had a bonfire, lots of eats and bangs as well as skyrockets.

Once again, the nanny state stepped in and banned what was a lot of fun, due to the inappropriate actions of a few.

Was a celebration of Guy Fawkes - regarded by many as the only person to enter parliament with honourable intentions.