Reminders of your childhood

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Back in the 80's one of these type of stores was a license to print money, then technology intervened!.

Technology, specifically the internet.

 

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I could watch that on a 10 hour loop, no joke...

The thing I loved about the single deckers was you could stand in the open doorway, catch the breeze and smell the air-brakes hissing. There was the prehistoric whine of the motors too. It's a pity there are fewer and fewer trains where you can open the windows at all. The modern ones feel like riding around in a giant childrens' toy, you're sealed off from the outside world and there's barely a sound. It's a sanitised experience. I can't imagine kids these days enjoying catching the train as much as I did when I was young, that's for sure!

Kids these days are in another world glued to their phone screens like they are just about everywhere else they go! No life whatsoever!

 

[Reflector]

The Oscars and Waratahs are nice comfortable trains but the old silver trains still running and the Tangaras on the suburban network are terrible,. Used to love the old Tulloch double decker trains, they had the sideway seat when you came up the stairs, if a train came in and had the Tulloch carriages I made sure iI hopped on them instead of the crummy silver double deckers, the Tulloch carriages were retired in 2004.

The last time I rode in a Tulloch was early 2004 down to Campbelltown. The old style windows were great, you could stick your head right outside.

 

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The last time I rode in a Tulloch was early 2004 down to Campbelltown. The old style windows were great, you could stick your head right outside.

 

[counterpuncher]

I could watch that on a 10 hour loop, no joke...

The thing I loved about the single deckers was you could stand in the open doorway, catch the breeze and smell the air-brakes hissing.

I may be weird but I used to love that smell! Bloody intoxicating.

The detonators on the rails were more of a thing back then as well, used to scare the shit out of you especially if you were in the front carriage... was like a shotgun blast. I remember the police coming to primary school to do safety presentations in the 80's and showing some pretty graphic photos of kids missing fingers etc. from stuffing around with them.

 

[Parra]

The things that you just forget about until a reminder like this. I remember the slate grey they painted those and how they stood out when compared to the stainless steel bodied carriages. Easy to prop the doors open with your foot as well.

 

[Parra]

A sound blast from the past today.

I was listening to 702 in the car (AM radio) and they played Sunnboys Alone With You. That instant reminder of pop music on an AM radio. Takes you straight back to the era in a way that stereo or digital sound can't do.

It was all we heard - AM radio or mix tapes from AM radio played on something like this with one speaker.

 

[madunit]

 

[Parra]

How data used to be saved. These days everyone saves their data on their phone of stupid cloud.

Dual 5.25" was the go at one stage

Any these were all the rage as well:

 

[El Diablo]

do they still do Little Athletics these days?

everyone i knew in primary school did it in the 80's

 

[Parra]

Yes. Bastards still burn the tracks in as well. It's almost finals time before they have grown out. Then summer comes around and they burn in another running track.

 

[Parra]

Anyone else used to make a few bucks pushing one of these around?

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Anyone else used to make a few bucks pushing one of these around?

My older brother used to push a barrow of Suns around Arncliffe for all the old diggers in the afternoon.

Some of the middle-eastern toughs would track him down by the whistle he had to blow and try and roll him for his leather pouch of 20c pieces.

He always went alright the big fella and it was going to take more than a few rumbles to hang the whistle up.

The paper route was a front for him to get access to all the stick mags that would get thrown out at the end of the month. He’d sell them off at school and that’s where the real gravy was.

He’d also lift a few chocolates for us in the way out too.




You could keep those foul Choo-Choo Bars though. Blurrrk!
Only thing they were good for was licking and sticking somewhere inconvenient I.e the bottom of someone’s shoe etc.

Notice the racially insensitive train driver.

 

[El Diablo]

Anyone else used to make a few bucks pushing one of these around?

i remember my old man doing phone book deliveries many moons ago

 

[Incorrect]

I may be weird but I used to love that smell! Bloody intoxicating.

Same here.... Wish I could make it in to an aftershave !!!!

 

[horrie hastings]

The things that you just forget about until a reminder like this. I remember the slate grey they painted those and how they stood out when compared to the stainless steel bodied carriages. Easy to prop the doors open with your foot as well.

I liked the slate grey they painted them and also the blue and white they painted too. Used to love the tullochs oddly enough even in the last years of service they were much more comfortable than the silver trains.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

The Imperial Leather commercial



The Flake commercial

 

[horrie hastings]

The last time I rode in a Tulloch was early 2004 down to Campbelltown. The old style windows were great, you could stick your head right outside.

They were the best trains, still miss them. Have to admit I have gotten used to the comfort of the latest trains but when they introduced the new time table we started getting the horrible old silver trains back on our line, quite often the un air conditioned ones. Some of the silver ones they have painted and tarted up on the inside so it looks like they will be around for a while yet.

 

[horrie hastings]

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The a Imperial Leather commercial

Simon Tahiti looks nice

 

[El Diablo]

oh my goodness the chips