Reminders of your childhood

[Silent Knight]

I remember as an early teenager I went over to my mate’s place and he had this picture of Tania Zaetta on his wall:

I had funny feelings in my groin area that day and never missed an episode of Who Dares Win as long as it aired.

 

[Parra]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[roofromoz]

You never went to Cash a Can?

I had fond memories of crushing all the empties on our driveway in imaginative ways. Fave was to stand on the can with one foot then quickly touch both sides so that the can crushed flat. Chucked em in a garbo bag and there would be a bloke at the trailer on the weekend that used to weigh them and give you money.

Now its all automated but the cans and plastic bottles have to be intact. No fun.

Remember it well. Would collect boxes of them, go to the one that the Lions Club ran behind Duffy Bros in Wenty.

 

[myrrh ken]

Caramel were the best. I remember these originally came in a white paper and foil wrapper.

 

[Yorrick Hunt]

The 2nd track on the single

Haha. Classic. The guy driving the car was a teacher at my primary school in Sydney.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I remember as an early teenager I went over to my mate’s place and he had this picture of Tania Zaetta on his wall:

I had funny feelings in my groin area that day and never missed an episode of Who Dares Win as long as it aired.

My old man owned a panel beating business and fixed her car up once. One of his apprentices was caught sniffing the drivers seat. Sacked him. No kidding.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

 

[Yorrick Hunt]

Why is it so?

 

[Parra]

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[The Silverdale Phantom]

Xmas cattledog too!

The days when you could buy and wrap up a bug zapper for the misses, put it under the tree and then almost certainly get lucky on Christmas night.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

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Why is it so?

Then he did those chocolate ads that the Saints hated!

I ate copious amounts of the stuff but never won any scholarships.

 

[horrie hastings]

Some Department stores which have long gone.
Waltons, McDowells, Farmers, Grace Brothers and Mark Foys.

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember going to Buckinghams when i was really young and can remember when it burnt down in 1968, you could see the smoke from where we lived at Paddington and my aunty and uncle lived about a block and half away from the fire and told us the smell from the smoke was bad when it happened, my parents still have the news clipping from when it happened.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Some Department stores which have long gone.
Waltons, McDowells, Farmers, Grace Brothers and Mark Foys.

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Real customer service. No spin.

“ We are with you during co-vid” say the banks.

ffs give us a break.

 

[horrie hastings]

Grace Brothers Bondi Junction

 

[horrie hastings]

Used to love these signs, one was on Elizabeth St near Central and the McWilliams wines sign was at Central station.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

We had to embark on a ship once going os for a year and the bloody thing opened right on cue. Years later in the early 90’s I broke down on the temporary roads around the Anzac. Actually had to stop in the Anzac bridge bay overheating for awhile this year.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Some Department stores which have long gone.
Waltons, McDowells, Farmers, Grace Brothers and Mark Foys.

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Fosseys
Flemings
Franklins
Jewel
Keith Lord (the building is still there on the princes highway)
Electronic Sales & Rentals
Tony Packard Holden
BBC Hardware
Simons carpets

a few long gone businesses that spring to mind..

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Caramel were the best. I remember these originally came in a white paper and foil wrapper.

My mum used to pack my recess, I always had the spacefood sticks with burger rings. You couldn't go wrong.

If I was really good, did I homework, I had the Yogi mix

Im pretty sure I had choc vanilla chips.