Reminders of your childhood

[Sans Souci Sainter]

All great pics @Fire

Gotta say the slip and slide - an absolute classic, always fraught with crashes into fences, grass burns, and general carnage.

And sneaking a peek at the old mans' stash of grot - or ones you'd by off the school scallywag who worked at the local newsagent, flogging them for $2 a pop...

happy days..

Hahah. Sounds like you could’ve been a customer of my older brother.

Not a Sydney Tech boy, by chance?

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Hahah. Sounds like you could’ve been a customer of my older brother.

Not a Sydney Tech boy, by chance?

Haha - nah i'm a graduate of another fine educational establishment - Heathcote High School.

The magazine of choice in the Heathcote circles was Ribald...

 

[Lambretta]

Raleigh Grifter

Scalextric

Massey Ferguson tractor

Kenny Dalglish

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

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You've captured the 3 essential childhood food-groups here.

Lollies
Devon and Sauce Sandwich
Coola (nothing better to drink)

Nothing else needed.

 

[horrie hastings]

You've captured the 3 essential childhood food-groups here.

Lollies
Devon and Sauce Sandwich
Coola (nothing better to drink)

Nothing else needed.

Used to go to a family friends place for BBQs at Casula when we were kids and they always had a styrofoam cooler jug full of Coola, it was bloody delicious when you were a kid.
Good to see sunny boys there too, used to love them especially when you got one that said you won a free one inside the packaging.

 

[horrie hastings]

Had this game when I was young, you used to fly around the world from Sydney and go to exotic destinations then have to get back to Sydney, you had to have an exact score to land back in Sydney so often back tracked between Nandi and Auckland, it was a bit like the holding patterns when you fly into Sydney these days, lol

 

[Parra]

You've captured the 3 essential childhood food-groups here.

Lollies
Devon and Sauce Sandwich
Coola (nothing better to drink)

Nothing else needed.

Sounds like me packing for a morning of fishing

 

[Willie Ray]

eating a chiko roll...wagging school to hit the beach with your surf mat...
watching the footy on the family's black and white tele.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

I'm cracking 60 so some of my earliest memories were hearing the Beatles on the Transistor radio, buying the little 7" 45 records from Festival and having Grand Dad around for the Sunday roast.

 

[Life's Good]

eating a chiko roll...wagging school to hit the beach with your surf mat...
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Haha, the old dial turn TV. We had neighbors who bought a new TV in the early 80’s & back then it was a big deal so I went over to take a look. I’ll never forget my astonishment when I realised you could stay seated & change the channel with a WIRED remote control!

 

[Life's Good]

You've captured the 3 essential childhood food-groups here.

Lollies
Devon and Sauce Sandwich
Coola (nothing better to drink)

Nothing else needed.

The devon & sauce sandwich is a classic. I’ve now become a bit more sophisticated & along with a slice of cheese enjoy it toasted in the sandwich press.


Fantastic thread by the way.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

The pretend candy cigarettes called "androtops" ( the old school term for ciggies that rhymes with "bags) sigh.( the PC would have a triple melt down if these were still around. .

Behold:

There's no red end anymore though

 

[Life's Good]

Behold:

There's no red end anymore though

Alas, political correctness caught up with everything

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Alas, political correctness caught up with everything

I'll chalk this one up to medical research and common sense though.

 

[Life's Good]

I'll chalk this one up to medical research and common sense though.

Agreed on the smoking part. I was more posting about the change in name from ‘androtops’ to ‘Fads’.

 

[The Rosco]

Sounds like me packing for a morning of fishing

I have a confession. Just got back from a mornings fishin.
Ham and tomato sauce roll. Salt and vinegar kettle chips. A packet of Allens snakes. And GI cordial.
Thats all I took.
I'm gonna buy some devon tomorrow. A fresh Viet bakery roll with devon and sauce. It's about time.

 

[Leigh Howlett]

eating a chiko roll...wagging school to hit the beach with your surf mat...
watching the footy on the family's black and white tele.View attachment 24476 View attachment 24477 View attachment 24478

Remember the Chiko Roll posters, a hot chick sitting on a hot motorcycle!, BTW Chiko Rolls are made in my home town by the same Multinational company the better half works for..........

 

[Pommy]

Raleigh Grifter

Scalextric

Massey Ferguson tractor

Kenny Dalglish

Kenny Dalglish pretty much ruined my childhood, destroyed the best football team to never win a trophy.