I Remember.....

[Rodgera]

I remember carbon paper.
I remember the smell of the mimeograph.
I remember the fading "dot"=C2=9D when you turned off the television.
I remember illegally copying music by holding a tape recorder up to an AM radio. (and that you
used to have to push the "record" and "play" buttons at the same time to get it to record).
I remember opening a can of Spam with a key (and tuna fish too).
I remember when milk was delivered to your door in pint & quart sized glass bottles.
I remember opening a bank account with one dollar.
I remember some relatives not having an indoor toilet.
I remember leaded gasoline.
You could only get watermelon in the summer.
I remember adjusting roller skates with a skate key.
I remember phone booths.
I remember when you returned empty soda bottles,
they sent them back to the factory to be cleaned
and refilled; and you got your deposit back.

[Sturdee]

I remember opening a bank account with one dollar.

In my days it was pounds, shillings and pence and you could open a school bank account with one shilling.


Peter.

[Opelblues2]

I remember when it was 28 cents a litre for fuel.
I remember driving a 5.4lt v8 Torona a the age of 17
I remember buying 6 pack of underwear for less than two dollars "needed for the above"

[chrisb691]

I remember using a Mortine spray pump.

[nine fingers]

I remember as a kid collecting beer bottles and getting half a penny each from the marine merchant. Maybe. about 1945. 46 John.

[Talltree]

I remember collecting newspapers to sell to the local Butcher, Greengrocer or Fish and Chip Shop depending on who was giving the best price..

[joe greiner]

I have a pack of carbon paper on a shelf above my computer. I use it for precision fitting parts, like "blueprinting" in the mechanical arts, in which ink (not necessarily blue) is smeared on the part to be mated, then transferred (or "printed") onto the new part; scrape off the "print" for mating. Repeat as needed.

Cheers,
Joe

[_fly_]

I remember getting a clip around the ears if I spoke back.

[Allan at Wallan]

I remember:
* Ink and blotter paper at school.
* Having to add up values without the aid of a calculator.
* Spending hours hitting a tennis ball against the garage door.
* Listening to "Blue Hills" on radio before the advent of television.
* Meeting friends face to face instead of via mobile phones etc.
* Listening to music on the gramaphone before they invented CDs etc.
* Watching the Queen and Prince Phillip travel through Yarra Junction by train.
* Having candles and kerosene lamps to read by before electricity came to our area.
* My parents only being able to purchase certain goods with ration tickets after WW2.
* Vaccinations at school with needles that seemed the size of crowbars.
* Practising my billy cart with trailer skills reversing between the gum trees.
* Only getting "the strap" once at school - for laughing in class.
* Amusing myself by skimming flat stones across ponds.
* Learning at a very early age to respect others.


I could go on - the list is endless.

Allan

[chrisb691]

Hands up all who have spent a farthing. (I know Alan has )

[Chesand]

Hands up all who have spent a farthing. (I know Alan has )

Now, now, we are not quite that old.
Half-penny was the smallest coin value wise and three penny piece was smallest in size but would buy a single scoop ice cream.

[KBs PensNmore]

I remember when it was 28 cents a litre for fuel.

I can remember my first brand new bike,
I can remember petrol at 2 shillings a gallon,
I can remember going to the picture theatre with 2 shillings, for admission, getting a coke and lollies.
I can remember my first wage packet, $12.60 a week, and costing $8.00 for fuel to get to work 20 mile round trip each day,(6 day week), board $2.00, the rest for keeping the car running, a Morris Oxford series MO. A red one with lay down seats, but no girlfriend .
Kryn

[rwbuild]

I can remember my first brand new bike,
I can remember petrol at 2 shillings a gallon,
I can remember going to the picture theatre with 2 shillings, for admission, getting a coke and lollies.
I can remember my first wage packet, $12.60 a week, and costing $8.00 for fuel to get to work 20 mile round trip each day,(6 day week), board $2.00, the rest for keeping the car running, a Morris Oxford series MO. A red one with lay down seats, but no girlfriend .
Kryn

Go the big Morri

My first car was my Grandmothers old MO Oxford, black, turn indicators in the centre post between front and back doors (never worked), pull up sun shade for rear window ..........aaaahhhhh the memories, I killed that car but what fun!!!

[fenderbelly]

Now, now, we are not quite that old.
Half-penny was the smallest coin value wise and three penny piece was smallest in size but would buy a single scoop ice cream.

I still have a silver threepenny piece and can remember seeing farthings but not if I had used them

[fenderbelly]

I can remember my first brand new bike,
I can remember petrol at 2 shillings a gallon,
I can remember going to the picture theatre with 2 shillings, for admission, getting a coke and lollies.
I can remember my first wage packet, $12.60 a week, and costing $8.00 for fuel to get to work 20 mile round trip each day,(6 day week), board $2.00, the rest for keeping the car running, a Morris Oxford series MO. A red one with lay down seats, but no girlfriend .
Kryn

My first pay packet was one pound nineteen and eleven pence