Do you remember when

[edz]

You made things from scrounged stuff, like the old fence paling rifles for war games or river oak branch and corrugated iron boats  cut to shape with a tomahawk [ still got all my fingers and toes ] borrowed from the wood heap, a few vegimite  jars from the rubbish pit with a bit of petrol or kero in them and a rag wick for molotov grenades and a few crackers ..  . Just imaginations and not a store  bought toy or plaything to be seen ...   Ahhh the memories

[Bird]

Home made billy-carts!


Banana seats on pushys, 3 speed between ya balls! Sissy bars!

[Snapman007]

Dibs on the dragster, way cool.👍

[edz]

My boss has got 3 or 4 of these Dragsters, one in totaly restored to original condition and another being done atm ..
First time I ever rode a bike with hand brakes was on one of these in a metalic Orange color, wasnt mine and put us down a steep hill into a 4 strand barbed wire fence, blood n scratches torn clothes and all the kid who owned it cried about was that I'd scratched his new bike ... Go figure .

[Bird]

Dibs on the dragster, way cool.👍

There were a stack of them at an old school car show few years back... $500 each they were sellin for in Shit condition.. needless to say none sold!

[Snapman007]

In good original condition they'd be top buying at $500.

Definetly worth more unrestored, to me anyway.

[Footy Shorts Shane]

In good original condition they'd be top buying at $500.

Definetly worth more unrestored, to me anyway.

There's a Bennett on eBay now for $350

[speewa158]

Can still buy them....

Yep

[stabicraft]

I remember camping the OLD way
A marquee tent 15'x15', heavy canvas and tent poles made of wood.
So heavy that the tent was a roof and walls separate to be able to carry it.
No floor, had to bring carpet with you.
No rooms just hanging sheets across the poles to define rooms.
No zippers, everything was tied up and laced "just right"
Gas fridges that weighed more than one strong man could carry.
Camp beds made of canvas that scheeched all night when you moved.

In all a simple camping trip would require two or more trips with a trailer to get everything set up.

And when it rained, it leaked..........from everywhere.
The floor flooded as it was not sealed and you had to dig trenches to keep the water out.
I remember waking one night when My hand was out of the blankets and it touched water.
The lake flooded and we had 12 inches of water through the tent.

Such fun

[gronk]

Home made billy-carts!


Banana seats on pushys, 3 speed between ya balls! Sissy bars!

Any 1/2 decent kid of my era wouldn't be seen dead with one of those things under his ar*e.....50yrs ago it was a cobbled together mismatch type of roadbike ( ah ha, a mountain bike !! ).......even had another roughie made from parts scrounged from the dump for use as a river bike ( for riding and jumping into the river ).

[Bird]

Remember when your job felt safe??

[gronk]

Remember when your job felt safe??

I remember when I HAD a job !!   

[denidoug]

Pay packet with cash and pay slip

[Jeepers Creepers]

When sex was safe and drag racing was dangerous.

[gronk]

When sex was safe

Umm......has something changed ??

[speewa158]

Pay packet with cash and pay slip

                      Weekly                           

[cancan]

I remember pre decimal as a I kid and putting 8c worth of petrol in my motorbike...also remember putting in $98 petrol in the car this week and thinking it must be just below half a tank and that oil is the lowest its been in years

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[Garfish]

A house cost under $100k..   

[Paul (SA)]

 Friday night was always takeaway night. Dad would come home from the pub via the local fish and chip shop with a five dollar chicken and two dollars worth of chips. It was enough to feed the whole family of five.

[gronk]

A house cost under $100k..

You must be young.......my 1st block of land was $4900 and the 3 bed house I had built was $35,000....I could have bought a 2,000 m2 block, but didn't because they wanted an extra $300..

[Hewy54]

When we moved to Adelaide in 1962 we nearly had a family fallout. My grandmother was disgusted that my folks had moved from Pt Lincoln paying $2 per week for a railways house and moved to Salisbury to a new house where their repayments were nearly $10 per week.
Our first house cost us $30500 in 1979.
We must all remember it is all relative. My first job paid 87.5c per hour, but this would buy9litres of petrol. A juniors wage nowadays of $12 per hour will still buy 9 litres of petrol.
A house costing $30000 in 1979 took 5 years wages to buy.
My latest house at $420000 was about 6 years pay, but a bigger house with many more features.

[DCP]

G`day All
First and only house we bought (still live it )in 1974 cost me $ 27000.
First wage packet, apprentice, in 1962 was 5 quid a week ($10 a week for you young guys)
Back in the day we only had a meat safe and things were kept cold in an ice chest, wood stove for cooking and log fire for heating. cloths washing was done in a wood fired copper and a double concrete trough. No AC or even fans just open the windows and on hot nights sleep outside.
In school we all faced forward used pens with nibs and good old Indian Ink, we hand an assembly in the morning and sang the national anthem. Played brandy and red rover all over at lunch time which involved the whole school. Biggest thing was we learnt  respect. Jobs at home were setting the table , washing the dishes and on the week end mow the lawn with a gut buster motorless reel type  lawn mower. Hi light of the week was always the Sunday roast with  my cousins, either at our place or theirs, there were 5 boys in their family so footy ,cricket, basket ball and baseball were played till we dropped. Then after dinner it was time to gather around the dinning table and play card games until the Sunday wireless (radio) serial started then it was silence until it finished .
Great memories thanks for the thread
Beers and Cheers DCP 

[rockrat]

I loved cracker night when I was a kid. I would hand pick the ones I wanted at the shop and keep them in a suitcase under the bed.  Used to sneak a few out, wrap them in tape and turn them into burgers.  And bugger me, dad always knew when I had snuck some out.  He acted angry but I actually think he wished I'd invite him along.

[Fizzie]

I could have bought a 2,000 m2 block, but didn't because they wanted an extra $300..

we nearly had a family fallout. My grandmother was disgusted ... their repayments were nearly $10 per week.

My Mum often told us that just after WW2, she had a chance to buy land off Bauer St in Southport at 10 quid an acre, but her Dad wouldn't let her "waste her money" on useless swamp that would never be any use for anything. That was the block that they later built Sundale Shopping Centre on ... 

[xcvator]

Going to the flicks on Saturday arvo, mum would give you a bob, a zac to get in, a tray to spend ( a bag of lollies and an icy pole) and asked for the change when you got home.

Riding my bike 10klm's with 8 or 10 rabbit traps hanging off of it in the afternoon and setting the trap line, going back on the bike at 9 or 10 pm to check the traps, then again in the morning, and bring both the bunnies and the traps home, clean and deliver the rabbits, then go to school, all for 5/- a pair ( top money then )

When Springvale junction only had a stop sign and a copper after 4pm on Sundays

When it took 2 days to get from Yallourn to Eden for our holidays.

When dim sims weren't invented

When you actually used your hand and arm to make traffic signals

When my mum and dad asked wtf did you buy a block of land out here for, when my sister and brother in law showed them where they had bought a block of land with a war service loan for 10 pounds .Only open drains, no made roads, nearest shop was 3 klm's away, dunny in the back yard. Where was it, Inga Street East Burwood, closer to the cbd than the geographical centre of Melbourne now.

Playing "kick the can" hidie in summer time

When every one carried a knife. Cleaning  rabbits, fish, finger nails, or cutting through a snake bite, you just had one.

Sitting in the "finger stalls" at the pictures when you were older

Being able to eat fish no matter where you caught them

When there wern't any carp in the rivers or lakes

When the trout fishing season opening was a big deal