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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #125 on: December 22, 2015, 09:49:41 PM »
When you would get to Bribie via the Cooper out of BNE?.... 

 The Bribie bridge opening in the 1960s ....   had a toll to be paid  (on the mainland end). ...

  The guys working the toll booth lived in a little cement block dwelling nearby the bridge. ...

That shed is still there... (boarded up though)....

Rentons Hardware at Bongaree; super crusty white bread baked on the Island; the movie theater with canvas seats; the fish & chip shop beside the jetty with the huge Croc on the awning....  Surfside Restaurant at Worrim run by Hal and Jerry....

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #126 on: December 22, 2015, 11:04:42 PM »
You were 19 and had the responsibillity  of looking after 10 blokes and had the use millions of dollars worth of machinery supplied by the department of defence  ;D
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #127 on: December 22, 2015, 11:37:25 PM »
Quote from: plusnq on December 22, 2015, 04:19:50 PM
Accidentally swallowing the sixpence in the Christmas pudding

  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #128 on: December 23, 2015, 02:35:21 AM »
Pounds, shillings and pence, we changed over on the 14th of February 1966.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #129 on: December 23, 2015, 04:07:13 AM »
Quote from: Rocky and Bullwinkle on December 23, 2015, 02:35:21 AM
Pounds, shillings and pence, we changed over on the 14th of February 1966.

Some of my family didn't change over until years after that.  :-[
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #130 on: December 23, 2015, 05:09:00 AM »
Quote from: tracker on December 22, 2015, 11:37:25 PM
  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #131 on: December 23, 2015, 06:29:50 AM »
Ohh yeah that feeling of crunching a thrippeny bit in a steamed christmas pudding has stayed with me all these years
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #132 on: December 23, 2015, 06:58:42 AM »
Quote from: tracker on December 22, 2015, 11:37:25 PM
  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

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And I've worked hard to maintain that position ever since  ;D  ;D ;D
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #133 on: December 23, 2015, 11:06:28 PM »
When free camping was anywhere
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #134 on: December 24, 2015, 03:20:50 AM »
Quote from: denidoug on December 23, 2015, 11:06:28 PM
When free camping was anywhere

    Gezzzzzzz.....Wouldn't that be fantastic to see that again........( dreaming )


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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #135 on: December 24, 2015, 04:36:47 AM »
                            Young People today don't realise how Tuff we did it
                                      & Just how lucky they are
                                         Lucky Lucky Lucky


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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #136 on: December 24, 2015, 06:38:44 AM »
Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #137 on: December 24, 2015, 07:33:45 AM »

Quote from: Trailer Bloke on December 24, 2015, 06:38:44 AM
Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.

Manners are sorely missing these days, although my kids are great with please, thank you and you're welcome...

Makes me smile every time someone says, what lovely manners.

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #138 on: December 24, 2015, 02:23:49 PM »
Quote from: BaseCamp on December 22, 2015, 09:49:41 PM
When you would get to Bribie via the Cooper out of BNE?.... 

 The Bribie bridge opening in the 1960s ....   had a toll to be paid  (on the mainland end). ...

  The guys working the toll booth lived in a little cement block dwelling nearby the bridge. ...

That shed is still there... (boarded up though)....

Rentons Hardware at Bongaree; super crusty white bread baked on the Island; the movie theater with canvas seats; the fish & chip shop beside the jetty with the huge Croc on the awning....  Surfside Restaurant at Worrim run by Hal and Jerry....

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Enrights had the Woorim News, Honey was the boat builder just before you got to Woorim & Ian Fairweather lived somewhere around that area. My grandfather was one of his few friends. "Pie" Thomsons home made pies.
I remember queueing up for the opening of the bridge. My sister & I were a bit disappointed that the barge had been replaced.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #139 on: December 24, 2015, 04:44:05 PM »
When you could launch your boat at Mordialloc creek and the fee was 2 bottles of Abbots Lager for Jack Pompei.
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #140 on: December 24, 2015, 08:25:09 PM »
When I could drink more than a 3/4s of a bottle of Rum, and not be smashed!  :'(

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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #141 on: December 24, 2015, 09:14:53 PM »
Quote from: Kangaron on December 24, 2015, 04:44:05 PM
When you could launch your boat at Mordialloc creek and the fee was 2 bottles of Abbots Lager for Jack Pompei.
When we we're kids we caught bream and gars off Jack's landing
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #142 on: December 24, 2015, 09:56:20 PM »
You would go down to the creek flats with your brothers and sisters with dad and select a real chrismas tree, bring it back and set it up on the verandah in a bucket full of water and river rock, decorated with crepe paper and a few  rolls of twisted coloured foil and home made ornaments ..lit by a few tea light candles ..
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #143 on: December 25, 2015, 06:37:56 AM »
When you'd leave a few tallies or even a six pack out for the garbo's to have just before Xmas...your way of saying thanks for the job they did all year
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #144 on: December 25, 2015, 07:01:20 AM »
Missed our garbo this morning, but still do this, Some of the younger drivers give you bit of a funny look when your standing  at the bins holding a  present .
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #145 on: December 25, 2015, 08:52:40 PM »
When the Outhouse waste used to be collected?
Burly gents swinging it up on their shoulder!
Crasy Shit!
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #146 on: December 25, 2015, 08:53:56 PM »
When I could drink more than a 3/4s of a bottle of Rum, and not be smashed!  :'(


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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #147 on: December 26, 2015, 10:06:30 AM »
Quote from: Trailer Bloke on December 24, 2015, 06:38:44 AM
Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.

At the cinema watching Star Wars the other day - walked into the loos as a young kid (7/8 approx) was walking out - he held the door open for me, I said thanks to him, and blow me own if he didn't smile and say 'you're welcome'! I almost fell over! I cannot for the life of me remember when I have seen a young kid so polite! A big tick to his parents, good job!
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #148 on: December 26, 2015, 12:33:01 PM »
You could go to the Boxing day test with a rubbish bin full of ice, and everyone took a slab.  :cheers:
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Re: Do you remember when
« Reply #149 on: December 26, 2015, 02:47:00 PM »
Quote from: jwb on December 25, 2015, 08:52:40 PM
When the Outhouse waste used to be collected?
Burly gents swinging it up on their shoulder!
Crasy Shit!

And watching it slop over his shoulder when it was a bit too full... would have to have been one of the nastiest jobs around eh...
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