Reminders of your childhood

[horrie hastings]

And i can still remember when this bridge was part of two way traffic.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[myrrh ken]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

Takes me back to primary school at St Francis Paddington.

 

[Parra]

I can remember the smell of these

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

For when you are serious about your pencil sharpening.

 

[myrrh ken]

I'm annoyed that some heathen has put extra red ones in with some of the others in that pic.

I remember the satisfaction of packing them up and having them all squared away.

 

[Parra]

 

[Parra]

 

[myrrh ken]

 

[myrrh ken]

Good for games of calculator cricket.

I can't remember the buttons. But you could randomly generate a decimal.

0.6 and below were runs, above 0.7 was out

Also good for the ol upside down "5318008" etc

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I remember when drinking from one of these as a kid (or any other bottled beverage) and seeing the 5 cent refund, I wondered why it was only ever in South Australia? Why not NSW.... or anywhere else...

I live here now, and there are bottle recyclers everywhere... a quick drive up the road with a load to get a refund of $10 or so.. and yet I still wonder why only in South Australia....

For me it’s now as ingrained as going to the shops to buy milk and bread. Drop your bottles off, make money...

 

[myrrh ken]

I liked opening the small one only and drinking from that to make it last longer

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember when drinking from one of these as a kid (or any other bottled beverage) and seeing the 5 cent refund, I wondered why it was only ever in South Australia? Why not NSW.... or anywhere else...

I live here now, and there are bottle recyclers everywhere... a quick drive up the road with a load to get a refund of $10 or so.. and yet I still wonder why only in South Australia....

For me it’s now as ingrained as going to the shops to buy milk and bread. Drop your bottles off, make money...

When I was growing up in Paddington back in the late 60s you would get refunds back on your soft drink bottles, you would just take them to the corner shop and get your money back. We lived near the Dunbar Hotel then and there was a brand of Lemonade they sold called Blue Bow, you couldn't refunds on those and of course we would find plenty of those being so close to the pub.

 

[horrie hastings]

Blue Bow Lemonade.

Tooths & Co made it so it was only available at pubs.

 

[myrrh ken]