[Jarred Santos]

Paddy’s Markets Super Vendor​

Image Credit: Facebook/National Archives of Australia

Today’s blast from the past was taken in Sydney sometime in 1975. It shows a vendor ‘with superhuman strength’ pulling a trolley stacked with crates like it weighed next to nothing. Was it something in the air back then? He sure seems like a sturdy fella, eh?

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[novezar]

During the 1940-50's, prior to the sewage being connected in suburbia Sydney, we had the "HUMDINGERS". They were the "DUNNY TRUCKS" & drivers who collected & replaced the pans from the little house at the back. They carried the full pans on their shoulders. A bit of a "SMELLY JOB" you could say.

 

[Jarred Santos]

During the 1940-50's, prior to the sewage being connected in suburbia Sydney, we had the "HUMDINGERS". They were the "DUNNY TRUCKS" & drivers who collected & replaced the pans from the little house at the back. They carried the full pans on their shoulders. A bit of a "SMELLY JOB" you could say.

I do hope those pots were sealed tight when they carried them

Pardon the language, but while I've heard of chips on shoulders, I haven't of s***s on shoulders!