Flashback Of Retro Memories.

[Suzy]

Hi everyone, :hi:


Just following on Warren’s current thread on 90’s being retro, I thought it would be fun to start a thread on what we thought was memorable and fun in our day (be it 60’s,70’s 80’s etc). :D

The 70’s for me was pining over John Travolta, and Eric from the Bay City Rollers, saving up bubble gum cards of ABBA and walking a million miles to get to school (Albion to Windsor) and enjoying a “Fresco” ice block or a bag of mixed lollies (at 1c ea) after. And like every other eight year old kid in ’73, raced home to watch Skippy.

The 80’s for me were much about Princess Di. Those high necked shirts nearly choked me, and of course I had to have a wedding dress like hers too (didn’t I).:rolleyes: Disco’s were discos with massive dance floors, and who could forget the revolving dance floor at Imagers in Brisbane. I loved Australian music which ruled the charts, and I hated that silly Rubiks cube that I could never figure out (anyone get it?).

Not getting Halley's comet in Dad's Tasco 70mm reflector.:mad2: And greeting Supernova 1987A.:D

[multiweb]

Used to watch skippy also in early 70s in France. Very famous wallaby world-wide. :) 70s were all about the beegees and glitter T-shirts.

[astroron]

The 50's for me was standing on the street corner in Liverpool UK singing Elvis's 'Blue Sued Shoe's and and Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole lot of shakin goin on" and getting chased by the Coppers and whacked with their night Sticks for doing it:shrug:
The 60's was in the British army in Germany Trying to look like the Beatles with Army shorts back and sides hair cuts:rolleyes: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
the Seventies was Cloud land in Brisbane before Bejelkie Joh had it Bull Dosed in the middle of the night:mad2:
Cheers

[Draconis]

the 90's back seems like a different world now, a time when you had to arrange to meet your mates down the pub with a phone and then had to TRUST them to meet you there, you couldnt text if you were late. How did we get through life like that? ;)

[Kevnool]

Just runnin amok in school.
Did not like the teachers they were the worst.
The cane hurt like there was no tomorrow.

Cheers Kev.

[GeoffW1]

Even if this did mislead the entire world into thinking kangaroos could communicate by chattering and squeaking :lol:

Retro eh?

I can recall trudging to primary school up the main street of Chatswood

http://www.busaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=57101

in 1958, and passing a music store playing "The Flying Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE

He used to be in Rawhide too, alongside a very young Clint Eastwood.

I had a 45RPM record of the 1955 recording of "Yellow Rose of Texas" by Mitch Miller, that knocked Bill Haley off the No 1 spot then. It was also the year James Dean died.

The 1960's for me was about being in a band, and spending hours trying to figure out the chords in all the Beatles and Rolling stones tunes :question:
It turned out they would sometimes only use 3, or even less :lol:

Cheers

[supernova1965]

Well in one of my firsts schools we moved around a fair bit on the Hardie Ferodo 500 all the boys and some of the girls would bring their toy cars and let them go at the top of the entry path that was on the top of a hill. So there were like a hundred toy cars all rolling down the walkway at the same time.:rofl: And collecting coke bottles and getting 20c for them and buying Eucalyptus lollies for 5 for a cent. Going to the corner store buying a bottle of milk and drinking a little out then getting the shopkeeper to top it up with choclate flavour. And buttered hamburger bun with crisp chips on it, our cinema had canvas 2 seater chairs I remember taking a girl to see Death ship there so we could sit close in the scary scenes. And cruising around with the guys talking on the CB radio I was the Cassonova Kid I have no idea why as I was most assuradly not that but you all remember what it was like:P. Oh and I could ride my bike real fast I could get from Wynnum to Hemmant in 15 minitues. and then this picture seems to sum it all up.

[Suzy]

I got lost a lot, stood up a lot, and had to find my own way home in the dark a lot. :mad2:

[Suzy]

I forgot about that! Thanks for refreshing my memory- it will be my next snack for sure. :thumbsup:
Aaah, the good old hose fights and wrestle with sprinkler. No one seem to do that anymore :shrug:. And tying someone up to the Hills hoist and pegging them with food. Whoa, I just said hoist and pegging and the context is relevent on both levels. I'm a natural comedian. :lol::rofl:

[erick]

70s - I had some great platform shoes. Not quite as colourful as these, but one pair was a lovely deep burgundy, with highlights of red and green!

[Ric]

The 70's for me were V8 Torana's & Kawasaki 900's

Real toys

[Draconis]

standout 80's memories for me were -

hours spent loading up games on the Commodore 64, waiting for ages for the title page to appear only for it flashing up '''runtime error'' or something similar :mad2:

A weird craze for coca cola yo-yo's, every kid seemed to have them.

Basing the games we played in the street on the tv programmes of the time....Airwolf, The A-Team, Streethawk, The Fall Guy...all the classics. Bit hard for kids of today to do that when everything is a reality program dancing on ice or a cooking show!:D

[GeoffW1]

Yeah,

The old-time lolly shops. How many of you had one of those up the road?

The one on the way home from school in my suburb, Northbridge, sold big slabs of honeycomb, and chocolate (by the pound !!!) There was also every type of lolly sold singly, or so many for a penny. You could get yards of liquorice strap. The old guy there was everlastingly patient with the little children, but he had no time for teenagers: "Make up yer MIND! I 'avn't got all DAY. ;)"

This type of shop was still there in Oatley, in Rosa St, until about 1990, when old Fran could no longer manage. Wherever you are now Fran, we remember :hi:.

Cheers

[Allan_L]

Ahh! The sevenies.
Platform shoes, high waister pants, body shirts. Trying to look Cool!

I got married in '78 in a Sky Blue suit (rental luckily).

And what about the Sixties:
lets all sing ... ... ... "on the fourteenth of February 1966 ... "
That's when the world started to change for me.

[erick]

"One penny, one cent; two penny, two cents; three penny, two cents; four penny, three cents; five penny, four cents; six penny, five cents; seven penny, six cents; eight penny, seven cents; nine penny, eight cents; ten penny, eight cents; eleven penny, nine cents; twelve penny, ten cents" - I can still hear us all reciting that at school.

[M110]

70s as kid I loved The Banana Splits show, and blue plastic tarps with a sprikler and some washing up liquid, made awesome waterslides.

[jjjnettie]

I grew up in the 70's.
TV....Origami, Dr Who, Why is it So, GTK, The Banana Splits (uh oh congo, it's danger island next) Gilligans Island, Get Smart, Count Down
I remember Mum giving me a dollar to go to the shops to buy milk, bread and smokes and coming home with change.
Wrap round skirts, Indian bedspreads, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Ice skating at Toombul, Brit Rock, Psychodelia, Glam, Punk Rock, New Wave, Oz Rock, Cloud Land, Friday and Saturday nights at the pub listening to live music from some of the best bands in Australia....
Too many memories......:)

[supernova1965]

And how can this thread go on without this guy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcZyW-6-5o

[erick]

Indeed Warren, and Why is it so? - because we LIKE it!

[jjjnettie]

What I want to know is WHY is it that there isn't a similar show for todays kids?

[erick]

Similar, but different?:-

http://www.abc.net.au/science/drkarl/default.htm

The good old Julius would scare the kiddies these days? :scared:

ps. Here is the best of Big Julie! http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/whyisitso/

[Suzy]

I just missed out on Cloudland before they ripped it down.:sadeyes: My brothers went there, and it was the coolest place in town and a place to aspire to go to when you got older.

Allan, my biggest memory of guys fashion had to be those body shirts and blue suits (and grey suits). :lol: And the guys jeans were sooooo tight :eyepop:

Nettie, I used to go ice skating at Toombul also (every Wed afternoon at one point for sport for school). Could never get the hang of it though.:rolleyes: I wouldn't let go of the wall :rolleyes:. So I just stood there or sat there and froze the whole afternoon :rolleyes:.

[that_guy]

Yeah, I remember the good ol' days :P back in the year 2000 :lol:

[michaellxv]

In my day we had good stuff like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYoHGiNxp2E&feature=related

[supernova1965]

How could I forget these guys never missed an episode:thumbsup:

[renormalised]

The hair would be enough, let alone that voice!!!:):P

[ballaratdragons]

and nowdays he wouldn't get away with the way he physically pushed kids, or dragged them by the arm saying things like "are you listening, boy?" :lol:
I remember seeing him knock on a kids forehead one day, whilst saying "hello, hello" when the kid didn't have an answer to his question :P

[Suzy]

And what about this show?! The theme song was just as famous as the show itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJq7krWLxk
It was afternoon tea time after school watching this before getting into homework (in those days we had time to watch some tv, whereas nowadays school work takes over childrens lives :rolleyes:.



I don't think there was a kid around that didn't love that show, me included. Why don't they do shows like that anymore:shrug:. Has Googling taken over :question:.

[multiweb]

T'was a tough gig to live up to Lassie. :) I liked more the fact the boy could wistle with leaves. Alas no eucalyptus where I was. Bloody hard to get any sound out of a cherry tree leaf. :P

[tlgerdes]

Great brittish comedy, The Goodies! The Two Ronnies, Monty Python.

Strap-on Roller Skates, (Thin) Skateboards.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Star Wars! :fight:

"Santa Never Made It Into Darwin!"

[Omaroo]

My brother Steven actually owns one of the Banana Splits (Fleagle, if I remember right) actual Amphicat 6-wheel ATV's that they ran around in. He had it brought back here several years ago and restored it.

"One banana, two banana, three banana, four.... tra la laaaa, tra la laaaa..."

Here they are... memories! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8RVkaIM9c

[that_guy]

:lol: the comments on your youtube link chris :rofl:

[cybereye]

My main memories...

60's - Nuns in primary school and bombing the jelly-blubbers at the baths in Brighton-le-Sands. Coca-cola yo-yos. Balmain winning in 1969.
70's - Getting the cane from the Brothers and starting Uni. Growing my hair long.
80's - Moving around Australia with work.
90's - Getting married
00's - Becoming a father - twice! Wests Tigers winning in 2005.
10's - Clear nights with the scope (this is a dream as it hasn't really happened so far!!)

Cheers,
Mario

[Screwdriverone]

Ahh the memories....

Scanlen footy cards .... loved the smell they had from the pink bubble gum strip inside. Mick Cronin was the most valuable....

Star Wars figures, running around the school primary playground going peeew peew peew, rroooooaarrrrrr (tie fighter noise)

Wall Ball

Choose Life T-shirts, Hypercolour, Hanes were the best.

Footy socks at school

Beta Hi-fi video recorder running into a 68cm CRT TV through STEREO speakers was the ONLY Home theatre system around.

Apple Lingo 128 Kb RAM (5/1/4 inch floppy) Computer which ran MS - DOS!

BMX bikes were cool

$2 used to buy you a 3 course meal down at the local hot food shop.

I'll stop now, before I get all misty.....

Cheers

Chris

[Omaroo]

BMX?...pfffft.

The one and only.... :thumbsup:

[erick]

Some years earlier - Dragster! Only the kids with rich parents could afford one. I wanted one, but no chance :sadeyes:

[Omaroo]

In our neighbourhood, kids that already had dragsters got the choppers... like their fathers with the daily and "sunday" driver. :lol:

[Suzy]

I had one of those :eyepop:. A hand me down from my brother. Except mine was royal blue and I had a pretty little basket with flowers on it. I used to cycle down everyday to meet my dad at the train station after work, and the bread and milk would go in there. He'd have to push me all the way up the hill everytime though. :lol: Going down was a scream! Ah, the memories of seeing a pic of that bike again! :)

My parents weren't rich though. How much were they back then?

[erick]

A MASSIVE amount more that what I could earn at $3 total for 3hr work on a Sat morning in the Menswear/Boyswear Dept of the store. I sort of recall them being >$100! ?

[supernova1965]

I just remembered this show H.R. PUFFNSTUFF

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063907/

With Jimmy and his talking flute I think it was. By the way all these programs look totally stupid with the exception of Julius Sumner Miller and the Curiosity show if you go back and watch them now:P. What were the names of the two in Curiosity show I can almost remember:question:

[jjjnettie]

Julius was very influenced by Einstein, with whom he worked with.
The hair is a dead giveaway. :rofl:
http://www.juliussumnermiller.org/background.htm

[jjjnettie]

The one I rode to school had a smaller front wheel than that. :)
Don't ever let my kids know this but we'd do more than double on our pushies.
You could carry one person sitting on the handle bars, one sitting on the cross bar and one sitting behind you on the seat.

Did anyone else have a "Scratch and Smell" T-Shirt?
Pineapple was my favourite, the banana one smelt like old banana skins after sitting in a school bag for a week.

[supernova1965]

Yes I did have a scratch and smell T-Shirt I think it was Strawberry

and the bike JJJ was it anything like my bike in this picture

[jjjnettie]

Is that you on yours Warren?
I'm pretty sure mine had a 10" or 12" front wheel. It had super long forks too. The seat was your traditional chopper seat with sissy bar. Loved the BIG handle bars.
I think Mum picked it up quite cheap second hand. It was a deep yellow colour. sigh......
memories

[supernova1965]

Yes that is me on it and it was a deep yellow colour too. And it took many chunks of skin from my ankles too which is why I remember it so well OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi all you youngsters. I have lots of memories but I will pick one year.
1940

1. I was in kindergarten then 1st class. Got my first and second kisses from some of the girls in my class. In the playground (just around the corner of a fence out of sight of any teachers). Not that I think they would have cared.

2. Air raid bags. These were a must have and contained a bandage, sticking plaster, a piece of barley sugar and packet of chewing gum. They were quite useless. I don't know what pollies invented them but we were allowed to eat the contents at the end of the month when they were renewed. They disappeared in 1941 when chewing gum disappeared off the lolly shop shelf. Air raid shelters were dug in the school playground by working B's of parents.

3. I got a Cyclops scooter for XMAS the second smallest in their inventry. It at least only had 2 wheels. Not sure of the price because Santa tore the price tickets off. I think it was about 5/6

4. There were no school tuck shops. You brought your lunch from home. Bread was stale after 24 hours so cut lunches were not very appetising. If you were lucky you got 3d to buy lunch. A pie cost 1d. fish & chips 3d. You always saved a penny to buy some lollies if you could.

I could go on. We had a class reunion in the mid 1980's. Managed to locate about 80% of the 1st class of 1941. Oh! our favourite radio serial was First Light Fraser. We were dumbfounded when his girl friend Kay was killed off by the Germans.

Barry

[supernova1965]

Did anyone else get the rubber seals from 44 gallon drums and wear them on their wrists it was the in thing in the 70's in Wynnum

[supernova1965]

A poem about one memorable XMAS of my youth written by my wife pam

[jjjnettie]

I can so relate, those damn cottle pins (?) sticking out. Couch.

[Omaroo]

Interesting that you mention Puffnstuff Warren, because it was delivered by the same people who did the Banana Splits. I couldn't stand it back then, stoopid flute.... :lol:

[jjjnettie]

:lol: I can make my kids cry if I put the theme music to either show on.
Some would call it cruel and unusual punishment.
But I think we owe it to ourselves to torture our children with songs of our youth. My Mum did it to me, her Mum did it to her etc etc.

[tlgerdes]

Funny, I had that theme running through my head yesterday.:screwy:

"H.R. Pufnstuf, Can't do a little cause he can't do enough."

[Allan_L]

WOW! I thought it was just me and i was unusually clumsy with huge scars on both (inside) ankles.

WOW! We should compare scars some day ! :)

[Suzy]

Tell Pam she did a great job. Loved her poem. :thumbsup:

Regarding HR Puff'n'stuff, it was one of my favourite shows. That witch used to really scare me though. :face:

I had to throw this in.... another trip down an 80's memory lane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJDzhvB1pg


And if you're a Brisbane-er, you will remember this fondly...
(have a look at that city skyline it's half the size it is today :eyepop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rRQxpyQ2X0

[jjjnettie]

Hey it's the twins from Simon Townsends Wonder World!!
That second link didn't work for me Suzy.

[M54]

60's...
Two in ones.
Going down the shop for mum to buy a pound of broken biscuits and buying a comic to read on the way home.
Making mud pies and tree houses.
Pogo sticks.
A local boy made me a billycart for 5 shillings and I asked him to paint 'Jupiter' on the side. He miss spelled it so I had a billycart named Jupter.:lol:

Then came Apollo....................how exciting it all was!

[Suzy]

Apologies. Now fixed. :thumbsup:

That is Gayle & Gillian Blakeney, who were on Neighbours also.

[jjjnettie]

LOLOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJOqD0EbGG8&feature=related

[M54]

:lol::lol::lol:

Warren, that jogged my memory...
When I was about 9 or 10 I thought I would try the same thing and stealthily approached the pressies in the dark. I felt a little container with a lid, which I thought needed investigating. I quietly pryed the lid off and there was a loud pinging sound and a springy wormy thing came flying out across the room.:scared3::sad: (A kind of jack in the box).
After I recovered my wits.......I very sheepishly crawled back to bed.

[astroron]

Suzy, Loved that "Love you Brisbane" video by Kim Durant, Brought back some good memories:):thanx:
Cheers

[Liz]

Aah, the 70s for me .... boys,school music, boys (no astronomy)...... Sherbet, and Bay City Rollers, ahh :cool::love: ..... had a pair of shoes like the ones that Eric had pictured ... part time job Target where I wore those 6" platforms (what was the name - slickers?? staggers?? think they were jeans, also loved my treads) am already 5'7" so was walking arounf over the 6' mark like a giant Amazon woman! :D

[Suzy]

:lol::lol::lol:That would have taught you lesson. :rofl:


:eyepop:I thought our special song was for Brisbane only.:rolleyes: Every state probably had one. :rolleyes:


Liz, they were Jeans. I used to wear the black cap sleeve t-shirt with the silver Staggers logo- my favourite top, lived in it, and was very cool to be seeing wearing anything Staggers.

[jjjnettie]

Oh Liz, I loved my Staggers Jeans. So tight I had to lie down to do the damn things up. (no muffin top in those days) Then you spent the day staggering around from oxygen deprivation. LOL
My favourite jeans before that were high waisted 12" flares. omg, I have a photo of me in them somewhere.

http://www.staggersjeans.com.au/

[jjjnettie]

Dolly Magazine.......I think I still have the first issue lying around in a box in the garage.

[Nortilus]

The days before internet and video games when kids would actually play outside.
My friend and I would destroy the backyard by making huge mud puddles and having mud fights...

[AstralTraveller]

Ah memories; a bit of a grab bag

Having a corner store 5 doors away - lollies to the left as you entered.

Using the shed roof as a fort in our cowboys and indians games. Jumping off and finding it hurt. Working out it didn't if you landed properly.

The mulberry tree that drew kids from all over the neighbourhood. "Take your school uniform off before you go out there!" Nanna making mulberry pies. Mulberries and icecream. Home made ginger beer.

Outside toilets. Crying myself to sleep because they chopped down the willow tree to put in the sewerage.

On Saturdays Dad did overtime and Mum worked at the TAB so we were babysat by Grandma. We had no music at home but they had an old gramophone and my uncles (Mum was the eldest of 6) had left some records there. I used to play the same few things over and over.
Purple People Eater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE
Wot a mouth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h5MbndXTS0
Elvis in Hawaii, Elvis in Germany. And my favourite - a Beatles ep (Long Tall Sally, Boys, Mr Postman and ?Love Me Do?). It left an impression - music has been my constant companion.

Going for hikes up to Brokers Nose with my mates. Out in the bush at the age of 10.

Later on having the freedom of a bicycle. No dragster or chopper for me - I wanted something that got me as far from home as quickly as possible. "Be home for dinner." Arriving late and finding a dried dinner being kept warm on a saucepan of water. "If it's no good that's your own fault." I can't understand kids who want their parents to take them places. The bike was freedom and independance and being where your parents didn't know you were.

Cracker night - mayhem.

Working mowing lawns and delivering papers to save up foir things my parents couldn't afford to buy me. I got the parts for my first scope that way, and Dad built the rest. Also bought a bass from that money. An Ibanez copy of a Rickenbacker, because Chris Squire from Yes played a Rick.

Later again, the revolution in listening that was JJ. Nude radio.

Moving out of home to share a dive with two mates. Bad food, bad hygeine and good times. Loud music, Fred Dagg on the radio each morning, mates dropping in at 2am, Steve's gravity-defying porcupine ashtray, a mate having sex in our shower (*******!! I was jealous), coppers wanting to see rent receipts because the neighbours said we were squatters, dart board on the door with a picture of Sherbert on it - who can inflict the most painful injury to Darryl.

Meeting my true love. Going everywhere with her. Going parking. The s**t hitting the fan when I became the first in my family tree to 'live in sin'.

Life sounds so good in hindsight. Much of it was. Often we didn't know how good it was. I've left out the painful bits, it's better that way.

[GeoffW1]

Hi,

I know that smell also :lol: and how did I become familiar with it ? :rofl:

Cheers

[Liz]

yes, hear what ya saying. :D

[QUOTE=AstralTraveller;687907] , dart board on the door with a picture of Sherbert on it - who can inflict the most painful injury to Darryl.

QUOTE]

noooooooooooo :sadeyes:

[AstralTraveller]

[QUOTE=Liz;687928]


Yep. No children from him. Not that we had it in for them in particular. Dragon, LRB, Blabba or any other pop schmuck would have been equally amusing.

[Suzy]

To Nettie and all you girls who loved Dolly. I've got a special edition poster showing past covers, so I popped it on my fridge and took photos.
I liked the way that the same models graced the pages regularly, as they felt like they were buddies. I have still got a lot of those magazine covers stuck in my head after all these years for some reason.

I've given a few sample here, but you will find all of them here on my facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29070&id=100001642093870&l=1611919fb1

[GrahamL]

How good was presenting a coke bottle to a shop owner and getting
big bag of lollies in return... even better when he put them in a crate out back , a few days later you go find them again.. and again :D
Who says kids in the 70s didn't understand the mechanics of recycling :)

Cloudland !!.. what a venue that was Ron

Festival Hall, there was a really old doorman on one of the side exits , he was a cool old fella who management wanted to be rid of because of his age, so gave him every crap job going, pack of fags or a little cash , a friend and I saw a lot of music ;)

Mullberries... :)

Telling two big fat cops sitting in there car watching a guy get beat on by two others they should get off there lazy clackers and do something
which they did.. they dragged me off to the watchouse and gave my 16 yo smart mouth a good slapping,, QLD cops rocked back then :)

[jjjnettie]

Festival Hall!
Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Joan Armatrading....
And don't forget the Boxing!!!!

[Omaroo]

You guys had Festival Hall, we had the Hordern Pavilion. What happened to the good 'ol loud as hell rock venues?

[supernova1965]

When we lived in Darwin after Cyclone Tracey(My dad was helping to rebuild) the house we were provided to live in was completely un touched and surrounded by houses that were stumps and floors and one place had a stove sitting on the floor:question:. When my parents went to the Dog races the racetrack gave kids 2c a glass to collect them and bring them to the bar. One party we had at the house we lived was shot at for making too much noise. And another party Kristine and I went to sleep and woke up on a Japanese Freight ship and the school we went to had one of the Angle Iron power poles it was tied up in a pretsel shape. And Howard springs had a huge Groper in it that was as big as me when I was 9 and I remember this game that you would put a penny in the top and you had to get the penny past all the holes and out the bottem and yes it was a penny go figure:confused2: in 1974.

[FlashDrive]

The 70's ..... Young and free I was ( or so I thought ) ....1972 ... joined the RAAF at age 17 ... bought my first car ... Holden KingsWood 186 engine.... 3 on the tree .. buckets seats....Rego cost $65.00 a year ... it had a 16 gallon tank ( about 65 liters ) cost $8.00 to fill up from empty.
If you put $2.00 worth of petrol in it .... it would give you a 1/4 of a tank of fuel. ... car payment was $45.00 a month.

Skyhooks reined on the music charts along with Abba and Bay City Rollers, The Sweet , Creedence Clearwater Revival .. etc. ..etc.

Who remembers .....COUNTDOWN on TV ....by the ever popular MOLLEY MELDRUM .... ( such an ego ).
I used to smoke then .... a packet of Escort cigarettes was 35 cents.
A 10 ounce glass of beer was 24 cents ..... you could get " blind" on $5.00 ( 20 beers )

I could go on... but ... I prefer to end with .... I REMEMBER WHEN ... !!! :D

[supernova1965]

Now I can mention ABBA as I am not the first to do it:P:D

[Trixie]

I got a dragster... only it cost 20 dollars and it was 10 years out of fashion! BMX bikes were in by then!
We didnt have scratch and sniff t-shirts but we did have scratch and sniff stickers. Hypercolour t-shirts and enforcer pants were the things I remember.

Before that it was roller skates and bubblegum jeans (which my mum broke my heart by forbidding as she said they were "common")

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop: Eric LMAO :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[ballaratdragons]

Who can remember the uproar when 'The Little Red Schoolbook' came out in the early 70's?

Hippies at the Railway Station gave us free copies. It was banned within weeks of release.
It was a real I opener for most people that they could print this stuff, and showed where we were heading as far as the 'Modern' times.

Here it is: http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn4512714
Zoom is at bottom left corner of each page.

[jjjnettie]

Yep, I had a copy of "the little red school book".
Eye opening indeed.

[ballaratdragons]

My Mum used to search my school bag to see if I had a copy :lol:
Parents hated it.

Mine was hidden under the house :D

[erick]

:sadeyes: I was a hip, groovy sort of guy! (In my mind :D. Note "was" :rolleyes:)

[Kevnool]

So many music threads on IIS lets find more.
Cheers Kev.