[louarrivolo]

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Cinemas showed 2 movies, one the main feature and the other a second rater.

We stood for God save the king when the show started
Some sessions had community singing with words and music on the screen.

Toffee apples on a stick were popular, cigarettes (not for me) could be bought loose as well as in packets, potato

Chips had an enclosed sachet of salt if you wanted them salted.

We played marbles, top spinning, yo-yo, flicking cigarette pack covers towards a wall, with the winner closest to the wall collecting all the covers flicked.

There were street vendors with horses and carts selling things like freshly skinned rabbits, delivering bread or milk, wooden clothes props to elevate the clothesline (no rotary hoists), and your rubbish was collected by horse and smelly cart.

Toilet paper was a luxury, telephone book pages were a common substitute.

Empire Day (cracker night) was the time to light up your easily purchased fireworks, some powerful enough to burst a house letterbox.

Trams were fun except for the poor conductor who walked along the external running board (in the rain, too) of the moving tram collecting fares without falling off. Kind conductors let us kids change destination signs at the tram terminus.

Most men wore hats in public, and females always covered their heads in church, even with a handkerchief.

Males with long hair or beards were a rarity and a novelty, the norm was short back and sides haircut.

Coins were penny and halfpenny(coppers), threepence(tray), sixpence(zack), and shilling(12pence/bob or deener). 2shillings (2bob). Twenty shillings made a pound (quid), the equivalent of 2 dollars today.

If you can remember all or most of these things, you are about my age (86). Cheers!

 

[Jarred Santos]

Do you remember this?​

Cinemas showed 2 movies, one the main feature and the other a second rater.

We stood for God save the king when the show started
Some sessions had community singing with words and music on the screen.

Toffee apples on a stick were popular, cigarettes (not for me) could be bought loose as well as in packets, potato

Chips had an enclosed sachet of salt if you wanted them salted.

We played marbles, top spinning, yo-yo, flicking cigarette pack covers towards a wall, with the winner closest to the wall collecting all the covers flicked.

There were street vendors with horses and carts selling things like freshly skinned rabbits, delivering bread or milk, wooden clothes props to elevate the clothesline (no rotary hoists), and your rubbish was collected by horse and smelly cart.

Toilet paper was a luxury, telephone book pages were a common substitute.

Empire Day (cracker night) was the time to light up your easily purchased fireworks, some powerful enough to burst a house letterbox.

Trams were fun except for the poor conductor who walked along the external running board (in the rain, too) of the moving tram collecting fares without falling off. Kind conductors let us kids change destination signs at the tram terminus.

Most men wore hats in public, and females always covered their heads in church, even with a handkerchief.

Males with long hair or beards were a rarity and a novelty, the norm was short back and sides haircut.

Coins were penny and halfpenny(coppers), threepence(tray), sixpence(zack), and shilling(12pence/bob or deener). 2shillings (2bob). Twenty shillings made a pound (quid), the equivalent of 2 dollars today.

If you can remember all or most of these things, you are about my age (86). Cheers!

Wow, what a true blast from the past! Thank you @louarrivolo!

 

[Mindygirl12022]

Do you remember this?​

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Image Credit: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Cinemas showed 2 movies, one the main feature and the other a second rater.

We stood for God save the king when the show started
Some sessions had community singing with words and music on the screen.

Toffee apples on a stick were popular, cigarettes (not for me) could be bought loose as well as in packets, potato

Chips had an enclosed sachet of salt if you wanted them salted.

We played marbles, top spinning, yo-yo, flicking cigarette pack covers towards a wall, with the winner closest to the wall collecting all the covers flicked.

There were street vendors with horses and carts selling things like freshly skinned rabbits, delivering bread or milk, wooden clothes props to elevate the clothesline (no rotary hoists), and your rubbish was collected by horse and smelly cart.

Toilet paper was a luxury, telephone book pages were a common substitute.

Empire Day (cracker night) was the time to light up your easily purchased fireworks, some powerful enough to burst a house letterbox.

Trams were fun except for the poor conductor who walked along the external running board (in the rain, too) of the moving tram collecting fares without falling off. Kind conductors let us kids change destination signs at the tram terminus.

Most men wore hats in public, and females always covered their heads in church, even with a handkerchief.

Males with long hair or beards were a rarity and a novelty, the norm was short back and sides haircut.

Coins were penny and halfpenny(coppers), threepence(tray), sixpence(zack), and shilling(12pence/bob or deener). 2shillings (2bob). Twenty shillings made a pound (quid), the equivalent of 2 dollars today.

If you can remember all or most of these things, you are about my age (86). Cheers!

I remember the Cocoa Cola Yoyo craze, lots of kids then had the red and white yoyos. Cocoa Cola sent experts and they put on a stage show at I think The Regent theatre in Brisbane. We'd practiced but no way could compete with these experts, what they could do was mindblowing!

 

[starrysnan]

My brother and I had a great marble collection and there was a lot of rivalry in collecting the more unusual ones. We also had yoyos and got really good at all the tricks. We also played jacks or knuckle bones. One of my favourites was a hula hoop - I saw a young girl trying one out in Big W and that brought back lots of memories!

 

[Lesle]

Do you remember this?​

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Image Credit: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Cinemas showed 2 movies, one the main feature and the other a second rater.

We stood for God save the king when the show started
Some sessions had community singing with words and music on the screen.

Toffee apples on a stick were popular, cigarettes (not for me) could be bought loose as well as in packets, potato

Chips had an enclosed sachet of salt if you wanted them salted.

We played marbles, top spinning, yo-yo, flicking cigarette pack covers towards a wall, with the winner closest to the wall collecting all the covers flicked.

There were street vendors with horses and carts selling things like freshly skinned rabbits, delivering bread or milk, wooden clothes props to elevate the clothesline (no rotary hoists), and your rubbish was collected by horse and smelly cart.

Toilet paper was a luxury, telephone book pages were a common substitute.

Empire Day (cracker night) was the time to light up your easily purchased fireworks, some powerful enough to burst a house letterbox.

Trams were fun except for the poor conductor who walked along the external running board (in the rain, too) of the moving tram collecting fares without falling off. Kind conductors let us kids change destination signs at the tram terminus.

Most men wore hats in public, and females always covered their heads in church, even with a handkerchief.

Males with long hair or beards were a rarity and a novelty, the norm was short back and sides haircut.

Coins were penny and halfpenny(coppers), threepence(tray), sixpence(zack), and shilling(12pence/bob or deener). 2shillings (2bob). Twenty shillings made a pound (quid), the equivalent of 2 dollars today.

If you can remember all or most of these things, you are about my age (86). Cheers!

Most, I was born late 50’s, I remember the outback dunny and using newspapers occasionally Mum would buy a box of apples and they be wrapped in tissue paper. We were blessed to have them to use in the dunny . I also remember going to the grocery store with a shilling and getting a pound I’d spuds, a piece of pumpkin, a loaf of bread and a bag of lollies and going home with change (can’t do that today)