Reminders of your childhood

[horrie hastings]

I don’t know what happened to the original Milo bar

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Use to love these but haven't had one in years, good to know they are still around though.

 

[Incorrect]

Use to love these but haven't had one in years, good to know they are still around though.

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I f**king love chokito's...

 

[Generalzod]

Use to love these but haven't had one in years, good to know they are still around though.

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they are back

 

[horrie hastings]

they are back

Yep packaging just a bit different.

 

[Generalzod]

Polly Waffle making a come back

 

[Generalzod]

I remember these toys:

 

[horrie hastings]

Polly Waffle making a come back

Cant say the Polly Waffle was a favourite of mine.

 

[horrie hastings]

Had these two when i was very young.

 

[horrie hastings]

Mulberries
Just about every neighbourhood had a mulberry tree, beautiful fruit to eat , i remember my mother saying don't get the stains from them on your clothes as they don't wash out, funny though used to get the stains everywhere and sure enough they did wash out. , used to love picking them and eating them, its actually the season for them now, unfortunately there aren't any around my area although i do know of a few good bushes not to far away if i want to drive.

 

[counterpuncher]

Mulberries
Just about every neighbourhood had a mulberry tree, beautiful fruit to eat , i remember my mother saying don't get the stains from them on your clothes as they don't wash out, funny though used to get the stains everywhere and sure enough they did wash out. , used to love picking them and eating them, its actually the season for them now, unfortunately there aren't any around my area although i do know of a few good bushes not to far away if i want to drive.

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One of my old neighbours once had a fantastic mulberry tree in the front yard. A few years back there was apparently a bit of a craze among schoolkids for raising pet silkworms (which eat the mulberry leaves) and almost every low hanging branch over the footpath was soon completely stripped.
Eventually he had the kids (and their parents!) just randomly wandering into his front yard to help themselves to leaves without any thought of asking permission to trash his tree... he got rid of it soon after for some murraya bushes.
Shame really, they are definitely dwindling in number.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I once read this magazine religiously.

Stupidly, I gave away all my old issues ages ago. Now having to try and track down the 1990-1993 issues to sate my dose of nostalgia.

 

[horrie hastings]

One of my old neighbours once had a fantastic mulberry tree in the front yard. A few years back there was apparently a bit of a craze among schoolkids for raising pet silkworms (which eat the mulberry leaves) and almost every low hanging branch over the footpath was soon completely stripped.
Eventually he had the kids (and their parents!) just randomly wandering into his front yard to help themselves to leaves without any thought of asking permission to trash his tree... he got rid of it soon after for some murraya bushes.
Shame really, they are definitely dwindling in number.

One of my aunties who lived in Botany gave me some of her mulberry leaves from her tree when we had silk worms at school, in my aunties back yard i was more interested in her loquat tree which bore beautiful fruit, another fruit that i love fresh.

You are right, the mulberry trees are definately dwindling in numbers, when i first moved to St Peters the local school had a huge mulberry tree which i used to fill up a couple of ice cream tubs full of fruit, they eventually chopped it down, i found another tree about a block away from where i live a few years ago but the fruit is so dry so i only ever pick a few from the tree which dips over the foot path. Otherwise if i'm prepared to drive there is a bountiful bush right near where i used to work at Waterloo another couple in Erskinville, one which has white fruit and a huge wild one in Tempe.

Another aunty we used to visit at Long Jetty had a great tree in her back yard back in the late 60s, over the years the tree still bore fruit but only high up so by the late 70s and early 80s you needed a ladder and a rake to get them, this aunty also had a cape gooseberry bush in her back yard, another great fruit, i bought a pack of seeds at Bunnings last year so i am going to try and grow them as my memory of them as a kid were just so beautiful and sweet.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

"Late Night Shopping". Thursday nights usually at a Westfield near you, late night shopping was a revolution when it came to be - I'm thinking around the early 80's??? Someone else may know better than I. But now everything is open til late so the term has long since passed.

Or so I thought.

I was reminded of it recently by my darling. She said to me a few months ago "It's late night shopping tonight"... I almost fell over and couldn't stop laughing, and she couldnt understand why I was beside myself and taking the absolute piss. But... in Adelaide, late night shopping on a Thursday still exists. Other nights the main stores shut at 5 or 6.. And I love it.

 

[horrie hastings]

I used to piss my self laughing when this cartoon came up on The Bugs Bunny Show.

 

[horrie hastings]

"Late Night Shopping". Thursday nights usually at a Westfield near you, late night shopping was a revolution when it came to be - I'm thinking around the early 80's??? Someone else may know better than I. But now everything is open til late so the term has long since passed.

Or so I thought.

I was reminded of it recently by my darling. She said to me a few months ago "It's late night shopping tonight"... I almost fell over and couldn't stop laughing, and she couldnt understand why I was beside myself and taking the absolute piss. But... in Adelaide, late night shopping on a Thursday still exists. Other nights the main stores shut at 5 or 6.. And I love it.

I still remember when the stores used to shut at 12pm on Saturday and most didn't open on the Sunday.
Not long after Marrickville Metro opened i used to go over to a butcher there and they used to bomb out the meat on the Saturday, so many bargains to be had, boy how things are changed.

 

[Generalzod]

I still remember when the stores used to shut at 12pm on Saturday and most didn't open on the Sunday.
Not long after Marrickville Metro opened i used to go over to a butcher there and they used to bomb out the meat on the Saturday, so many bargains to be had, boy how things are changed.

My dear mother used to work opposite Marrickville Metro an at lunchtime go and get a coffee at some coffee shop she always used to say nobody goes into Marrickville Metro like a ghost town, now you can’t even get a parking lot and it’s getting an extension.

 

[horrie hastings]

"Late Night Shopping". Thursday nights usually at a Westfield near you, late night shopping was a revolution when it came to be - I'm thinking around the early 80's??? Someone else may know better than I. But now everything is open til late so the term has long since passed.

Late night shopping actually started Dec 16th 1971 in the CBD in Sydney, not sure when it actually spread out the suburban centres though.

 

[Generalzod]

Late night shopping actually started Dec 16th 1971 in the CBD in Sydney, not sure when it actually spread out the suburban centres though.

I remember when the shops at Mascot where shut at 12:00, and the only thing open was the milk bars..

 

[horrie hastings]

My dear mother used to work opposite Marrickville Metro an at lunchtime go and get a coffee at some coffee shop she always used to say nobody goes into Marrickville Metro like a ghost town, now you can’t even get a parking lot and it’s getting an extension.

I lived around the corner back in 1989 and the place was like a ghost town then, it had an Angus & Coote jeweller there which closed to lack of business, there was a great pie shop there, it was still there when i moved back into the area in 1997. I remember the centre only took off once a Franklins supermarket moved in, this was just the basic Franklins way before Franklins Big fresh came into being, but once Franklins opened the centre started to get busy.
K Mart has always been there and it had a Coles supermarket of sorts in there, it ran from inside K Mart along where Woolworths is now but you could only get in through K Mart, it was a spectacular failure.
God i miss that pie shop.

 

[Generalzod]

I lived around the corner back in 1989 and the place was like a ghost town then, it had an Angus & Coote jeweller there which closed to lack of business, there was a great pie shop there, it was still there when i moved back into the area in 1997. I remember the centre only took off once a Franklins supermarket moved in, this was just the basic Franklins way before Franklins Big fresh came into being, but once Franklins opened the centre started to get busy.
K Mart has always been there and it had a Coles supermarket of sorts in there, it ran from inside K Mart along where Woolworths is now but you could only get in through K Mart, it was a spectacular failure.
God i miss that pie shop.

Yep I remember that about Coles and Kmart....