When I was a lot younger

[stoyve]

My Friend Flicka,
Land of the Giants,
Kung Fu,
Yogi Bear,
Hong Kong Fooey,
Super Chicken,
Batman and Robin, erfect:

 

[Mackka]

The Honeymooners - Jackie Gleeson and Art Carney
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bandstand
Car 54=Where are you
The Flintstones
I dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
Father knows Best
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Outer Limits
Jetsons
The Flying Nun
Rex Hunt Fishing Adventurers
Dennis the Menace
Rifleman

 

[limpalot]

Charlie Drake
The Plank
Sid James
Monty Python

 

[Goldchaser1]

meep meep......

 

[StoneTheCrows]

The Adams family
Quick Draw McGraw

Yer right smoky - feeling a bit older the longer this thread gets :awful:

 

[Flowerpot]

We an around with bare feet all summer school holidays and drank water straight from the tank or hose or garden tap, there was no such thing as bottled water.

 

[Mackka]

Mork and Mindy
My Favourite Martian

 

[stoyve]

Golden Fleece service stations.
Dickens supermarkets,
Patersons Department Store.
Brashs music .

 

[7.62marksman]

Coles store

Yes his last name was cole and he had a road side shop at a place Cathcart down towards the vic border about 100 people in the town

 

[Tathradj]

And it is still there.
Across the road was the last manual telephone exchange to be
in operation in Australia.

 

[7.62marksman]

Thats true and coles tried to take the owner to court years ago for using what they said was their name glad to say they failed

 

[xcvator]

I can remember having some "little golden books", 1 was about aeroplanes , it had 2 levels and a spiral staircase, that would have been about 1952/53, just a bit prophetic

 

[madtuna]

The magic faraway tree.
Mr pink whistle

 

[Simmo]

Like an f1-11....... whoooshh....
Over me head....

 

[Goldfreak]

Perhaps its changed from needing who we let in to keeping the endless growth going growths sake even if services cant keep up. We used to get all the market gardener immigrants but now we mainly get real estate investors whos kids go to private schools with the grandkids of the market gardener immigrants. Used to work on a pick your own chessnut farm. The old Italians and Greeks would be up on the hill in the hail and rain carrying 60kg sacks while grandkids wait down the bottom playing video games in the car.

 

[Goldfreak]

F111s I remember them, are they still in service ?

 

[Sweeper]

Noddy and big ears before they got banned :brokenh: Same author wrote Mr Pink Whistle
Money in the Christmas pud until decimal currency poisoned the idea 8.(

 

[Mackka]

Encyclopaedia Brittanica
Funk and Wagnel
Readers DigestBooks
Meccano Sets

I remember my Dad finding a bicycle wheel without spokes and I used to belt it up and down our dirt road with a stick for hours.
Lims Chinese Restaurant Wollongong
Marcus Clarkes
Steam Train turntable at Wallarawang
Mackka

 

[Solid Luck]

Buying crackers at the local milk bar.
1 cent penny bangers. Man, those were mini dynamite.

 

[Mackka]

Tom thumbs
Catherine Wheels
Choo Choo bars
Musk sticks
Toffee Apples