Postage Stamp Chat Board & Stamp Bulletin Board Forum
 

In 1949 when I started school.

We had an ice box, the ice man delivered ice every week.
We never heard of TV, we had an old radio. We would stay out till dark playing. We could walk to the movie theater on the weekends and never fear that anyone would bother you. Mother stayed home and Dad worked, we had one used car. As I got older I remember gas was 16¢ a gal.

Were those the good old days? I'm not sure, I'm having a good old time now. My children will look back in 50 years or so and recall their good times. Time will always change.

_________________
I buy too much, can't sell enough - but the information here is priceless.

Oh dear, I feel like maybe one of the youngest posters here!!

Allanswood, you cracked me up with that compact disc was a medical problem! Young kids now wouldn't know that would they?

I remember when a kid in Canada, we had milk deliveries but not by horse...by truck! Any home delivery is unheard of now I think!

Had to be quick in the winter! As soon as you heard the milkie...run to get the milk in...the glass bottles would explode if the milk froze! and it was near on frozen anyway so didn't take long! AND, then you'd have to go and shovel the driveway so Dad could go to work!

We kids used to sit around the radio on a winter morning...just to hear what schools were closed down for the day because of frozen pipes! Only ever happened a few times

Things were different here in Australia! Much different!

My husband still had the "outdoor loo" when I met him...and that was in 1970! Complete with redbacks!! ( and just in case anyone is wondering, we're both the same age...well except for me...I'm younger!)

I remember TV in Canada before I started school. He only had radio...but has many great memories of The Lone Ranger and other programmes that the kids raced home after school so they didn't miss an episode! I only remember Play School...and that was many years before you had it here in Australia!

I remember my Mom doing the laundry with those revolutionary washing machines with the rollers on top? Hubbies Mom was still using the old copper when I first ever met her!!!

If there were three things today that I would have to choose right now!!!! to keep, I think, quickly, it would have to be, my washing machine (a copper scares me! too much work!), my airconditioner ( I hate it when it gets over 28 degrees!) and my computer! I hate not being able to SB at least once a day! And although I prefer a phone call to facebook, I'll check it out if I have to!

What would your three preferences be?

Anne

PS and it's not set in concrete çause if anyone comes up with something cooler!!! we are allowed to change our mind!!!

_________________
I am having fun collecting WW and Indian States.

You had an ice box.
I still remember the "Coolgardie Safe" made of metal with air holes,
on top of which was placed a dish of water with hessian strips leading from the water down the sides of the box.
The evaporation kept the contents cool, and the legs were in tins of water to keep the ants away.
Bedding was two poles with hessian bags slung between them, like a hammock.
Billy tea being slung around in the air to settle the tea leaves, and damper with Golden Syrup.
Always a Eucalyptus tang to the tea, from the falling gum leaves.

Back in my day (it's not THAT long ago! ):

Phones had 1 ringtone - ring!
You didn't own an Apple, you ate one; Blackberry was the fruit off a prohibited plant and a plain paper fax was sooo cool.
My computer ran on DOS 2.0 and you looked out of Windows, (now it's just a pane).

And.... I measured in yards, feet and inches. (Still do, can't picture millimetres!)

_________________
Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
Member of the S.T.A.M.P Club for Slightly Twisted And Mad Philatelists - Motto: "Bring back the lick!"

Back in my day

Coal was delivered from a Horse drawn cart . (1 cwt bag a week)> My grandad had a shovel which I had to use to collect the poo for the garden .

Back then central heating was for posh folk and Americans ! we had a coal fire in the living room -----no heating in the bedroom > We had ice inside the windows on a winter morning . Nobody lingered in the bath room !

Oh the agony of Chillblains!!

_________________
whatever it is -------it's better than a poke in eye with a wet umbrella !

I remember for ages after we went metric buying 3inch x 3 inch fenceposts 1.80m long ( or was it a 6 foot post 75x75mm?)

_________________
whatever it is -------it's better than a poke in eye with a wet umbrella !

The winter of 2009 saw our master bedroom temperature get down to 2 degrees, which for indoors in this part of the world is VERY cold.

The joke was "hey, let's put our hands in the fridge to warm them up"

Cheers,

Robert

A newspaper clipping found last weekend.

_________________
Weaponsmith for the DemiGods from the plane of Silliness

I just found a sheet of these in the estate of a recently deceased collector ! a dreamer waiting till the market settled.

( now we are looking at wall paper!)

Sorry wallpaper is much more expensive !

_________________
whatever it is -------it's better than a poke in eye with a wet umbrella !

When we were young...
Bread was delivered 4 times a week from the Co-op and paid for from tokens obtained from the shop.
Milk was delivered 6 days a week (ours is still delivered 4 days per week, even now).
The coal man delivered monthly (no, he didn't sell much in the summer).
The "night-soil man" collected from my grandmother's outside toilet until 1967, or so, when she had a WC installed.
My other grandmother lived in a house without running water until she moved in 1970, so the bath was a big tin that was filled from a kettle - and the toilet was "down the garden". She had gas light until 1965.
We had no central heating until 1965, when we moved house. The old house had metal window frames and like others, we could scrape off the frost for much of the winter.
The winter of 1961 -2 was so bad that my grandfather came to stay for New Year, and the weather was so bad he was still with us a month later - and he literally lived across the road.
I can remember steam-powered lorries and steamrollers, threshing wheat in the fields, agricultural labourers hoeing by hand - and do you remember the rag-and-bone man, with his horse and cart?

Once upon a time, you actually had to stand up and go over to the TV to change Channels, or turn it on and off. And, in Australia at least, it used to start around lunch time, and close off with "The Epilogue" around 10:00PM.

Norm

_________________
Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

I tell ya...kids these days...with their gyms and their sports...their bottles of water and vegetarian diets...
Back in my day we had a 'food pyramid' alright...the 'unfiltered tobacco group', the 'smoked/cured meat group' , the 'pickle group' and the 'fermented/distilled grains group'...we would drop dead of a massive coronary at 43...AND WE LIKED IT!...And we didn't waste our time worrying about safety either!...if somebody got hit by a train...he'd walk it off...if you got shot or stabbed...rub some dirt on it and move on...you didn't see us dying all over the place! Now we gotta have all these new-fangled hospitals and doctors and pills!...and we made our own fun! we didn't have any fancy-schmancy computers or hula-hoops...we had plenty of dirt and rocks and sticks and dead cats to keep us busy!

-FK

_________________
" It's getting downright re-goddamn-diculous"
-John Wayne

What happened to skipping and hop scotch. What happened to marbles and what time is it MR Wolf.Listening to Dick Barton special agent, Archie Andrews the radio ventriloquist, Norman Evans over the garden wall. Forces play time, Whats on the table Mable???

Aggggghhhh Epilogue????That meant you went to sleep during the movie. What a bummer!

Back in my day we would walk 18 miles to school each day...in a blizzard...naked...weekends too!
The cops would shoot you on sight just for standing around loitering...they would beat you senseless for no good reason to give you a taste of what would happen if you broke the law in which case they would hang you and send send your family a bill for the rope.
Those were the good ole' days!

-FK

_________________
" It's getting downright re-goddamn-diculous"
-John Wayne

But you neglected to say that if you did not admit to our 'crimes' they would hang you up by your wrists and dangle you over a fire until your feet roasted and the skin peeled off.

Ahhhh, those were the days!!!!

Break a window...around the back for a clip over the ears and a swift kick up the 'where the sun don't shine'.

That was standard..no charges, no court, just instant PAIN and humiliation.

BRING BACK THE GUILLOTINE..headaches and migraines were an unknown ailment in those days.

On a more serious note, my mother (speaking about the 1920's in South Gippsland) would travel to school with her 3 brothers and sisters on a horse- all 5 miles each way.

I sometimes think the horse was smarter than the 4 of them.

I have photos of them and frankly I sympathise with the horse

I have said before and I re-iterate- that youngsters today would not understand what the older generation went through. No student loans, no internet, telephones were a novelty, TV was non-existent. Students actually had to search out and prepare notes on any and all subjects. No instant gratification.

As a previous poster said, apples and blackberries were fruit. Goggle was something like 'google'; webs were what spiders wove; virus's were what caused your headaches and chills etc

Ahhh what's the point. Not even my children understand what I am writing let alone my grand-children

Back in the day the inflation hit us so hard in Yugoslavia that my parents loans combined were worth around 5 Euros (10 Deutsch Mark), my entire family (all 4 of us) would wait early in the morning in line to buy 1 liter of milk each and 1 loaf of bread each. Back in those days it was cheaper to use paper money as wallpaper than to buy wallpaper . Back in those days my father made a wise choice to privatize (buy) the apartment by waiting a little bit till the value of the apartment which was fixed in Yugoslav Dinars was about 50 DM (25 Euros). Back in the day we would stop talking if we saw police officers in the near vicinity.....

the good old days...