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).
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). 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. And greeting Supernova 1987A.
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
The 60's was in the British army in Germany Trying to look like the Beatles with Army shorts back and sides hair cuts
the Seventies was Cloud land in Brisbane before Bejelkie Joh had it Bull Dosed in the middle of the night
Cheers
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?
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
It turned out they would sometimes only use 3, or even less
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. 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. 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.
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?
I got lost a lot, stood up a lot, and had to find my own way home in the dark a lot.
I forgot about that! Thanks for refreshing my memory- it will be my next snack for sure.
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Originally Posted by supernova1965
and then this picture seems to sum it all up.
Aaah, the good old hose fights and wrestle with sprinkler. No one seem to do that anymore . 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.
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
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!
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 .
lets all sing ... ... ... "on the fourteenth of February 1966 ... "
That's when the world started to change for me.
"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.
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......
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?). 
And greeting Supernova 1987A.
70s were all about the beegees and glitter T-shirts.
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
. 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.
