FORUM MEMBERS OVER 49

[sheer64]

I used to use old car ball bearings from Heffernans servo on the corner of Byron st & Parra rd at Croydon…mum & dad had what is now the upholstery shop next to Korean BBQ...nice and hilly around there...not good getting your thumbs run over by metal wheels

Hey Ink I did an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the old Golden Fleece service station on Parramatta rd, Ashfield. Just up from the old Peek Freans biscuit factory.

 

[innsaneink]

I vaguely rememeber it.
There was one in Summer Hill too crnr Sloane st I think

 

[TCL]

Billy carts were cool we used the bearings as well. They made a massive racket going down the road and you would end up with a numb bum.
Our local servo used to hand out foam surf boards with every full tank purchased. We used to take a train to Bondi junction and then a bus to the beach try to surf and come home with massive chest and nipple rash! Of course we would end up snapping them and leaving them behind.

 

[Tim Sheens]

A sheet of Masonite, a piece of rope and a steep grassy hill made for a lot of fun and were better for the skin than the binllycarts. Open slather with reasonably dangerous explosives that were called firecrackers was another highlight. Also liked my Cyclops scooter with the large pump up white tyres and later crazy chopper style bicycles.

A long HOT soaking bath in the cooler months helps with my aches and pains, both the fresh and enduring ones.

 

[westTAHger]

A couple of push bikes I had over the years, **had back pedal brakes.** :master: Liked them better than cable brakes, because as we all would have encountered, when you needed to use the cable type brakes, the cable would either stretch & brake or the round end of cable which slotted into your brake lever on the handlebars, would slip out.

 

[eyewonder]

every generation has its treasured memories and every childhood has theirs but hers are some things i miss;

choo choo bars
poly waffles
toscas
sunnyboys
2 shillings or 20c worth of mixed lollies
half day off school for cracker night- empire day
getting to the footie at 12.00 and watching third grade,reserve and first grade and buying a pie with sauce for 20cents
catching red rattler trains

and the absolute elation when the black and white television repairman pulled into your drive and fixed your tele

 

[Basil_Tiger]

….... and who can forget the old Saturday match of the day at the Cricket ground. Sorry I am getting carried away, they were days when I had a team that most years was in contention for most of the year.
Like most old people, I spend a lot of time thinking about the past!!!!!

Great memories of the SCG on a Saturday,when the Tigers were playing we met at the Capt. Cook pub at Midday,filled up, then off to the ground.After the game off to the Golden Sheaf and kicked on from there,great times.

 

[Muffstar]

I used buy a slug gun and pellets at the local barber shop in Blacktown when I was a kid. You could wonder the streets with it and no battered an eye lid. Nowadays god knows what would happen.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

A couple of push bikes I had over the years, **had back pedal brakes.** :master: Liked them better than cable brakes, because as we all would have encountered, when you needed to use the cable type brakes, the cable would either stretch & brake or the round end of cable which slotted into your brake lever on the handlebars, would slip out.

What about fixed-wheel bikes when you would charge down a steep hill and just get your legs as far outta the way of the wildly spinning pedals as you could before they snapped your legs in half!
Attaching cardboard with clothes pegs to your spokes to get the vague roar of a motorbike.
Playing marbles (doogs).
Playing with those little green plastic army men.
Freeza's.
Cartoons on the ABC during the summer school holidays.
Building BMX tracks through the local bushland.
Twinpole icypoles/iceblocks that you snapped into two.
Atari.
Pinnies or those sit-down tabletop games like Space Invaders or 1942\. (20c per game). Now I take my son into these video game parlours and you can spend 50 bucks in 30 minutes!

Fantastic bloody times! Look back and feel very fortunate to have grown up in times before the total electronic/computer saturation of today.

 

[Tim Sheens]

I used buy a slug gun and pellets at the local barber shop in Blacktown when I was a kid. You could wonder the streets with it and no battered an eye lid. Nowadays god knows what would happen.

Crazy that we were allowed to have them, as a mate of mine took out the eye of another guy when I was about ten and they have both lived with the consequences of that day.

 

[TCL]

A couple of push bikes I had over the years, **had back pedal brakes.** :master: Liked them better than cable brakes, because as we all would have encountered, when you needed to use the cable type brakes, the cable would either stretch & brake or the round end of cable which slotted into your brake lever on the handlebars, would slip out.

Yep and you could do crazy skids with the back pedal brakes until you finally wore through the rubber down to thread and then bang!

Before my bmx I had a hand me down that had the bench seat and the gear lever on the frame. I guess I'm lucky I didn't do permanent damage.

 

[TCL]

A sheet of Masonite, a piece of rope and a steep grassy hill made for a lot of fun and were better for the skin than the binllycarts. Open slather with reasonably dangerous explosives that were called firecrackers was another highlight. Also liked my Cyclops scooter with the large pump up white tyres and later crazy chopper style bicycles.

A long HOT soaking bath in the cooler months helps with my aches and pains, both the fresh and enduring ones.

Yes cracker night were the best. You would buy the shooters and fire them at your mates and piss your self laughing if you hit them. Throwdowns were also heaps of fun!

 

[TCL]

every generation has its treasured memories and every childhood has theirs but hers are some things i miss;

choo choo bars
poly waffles
toscas
sunnyboys
2 shillings or 20c worth of mixed lollies
half day off school for cracker night- empire day
getting to the footie at 12.00 and watching third grade,reserve and first grade and buying a pie with sauce for 20cents
catching red rattler trains

and the absolute elation when the black and white television repairman pulled into your drive and fixed your tele

Pie sauce and a Choo Choo bar for the walk home from Ryde pools!
Poly waffles - oh crunch ah.

 

[Basil_Tiger]

Sunnyboy ice blocks are gone,strange they didn't wait until after Summer.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/sunnyboy-ice-blocks-are-no-longer-being-made-and-we-only-have-ourselves-to-blame/news-story/75a333e369d61a83b9e1988e77d41812

 

[Tim Sheens]

Sunnyboy ice blocks are gone,strange they didn't wait until after Summer.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/sunnyboy-ice-blocks-are-no-longer-being-made-and-we-only-have-ourselves-to-blame/news-story/75a333e369d61a83b9e1988e77d41812

Had a Razz Rasberry in my hand about an hour ago when I rearranged the freezer upon returning from shopping. Think there is an orange one in there as well, so will make sure that I enjoy sucking my final points and remember childhood juy, as the plastic sticks never quite cut it.

Shopping during a Grand Final is a first for me, but the way that the storm play and a great dislike of some of their players, particularly the captain has me not wanting to watch the biggest game of the year. I played and been watching league since I could catch a ball, but really having trouble enjoying what the game has developed into over the past decade, particularly the decline of the role for the skillful smaller player in the land of the giants that is the game today.

 

[happy_tiger]

A couple of push bikes I had over the years, **had back pedal brakes.** :master: Liked them better than cable brakes, because as we all would have encountered, when you needed to use the cable type brakes, the cable would either stretch & brake or the round end of cable which slotted into your brake lever on the handlebars, would slip out.

What about fixed-wheel bikes when you would charge down a steep hill and just get your legs as far outta the way of the wildly spinning pedals as you could before they snapped your legs in half!
Attaching cardboard with clothes pegs to your spokes to get the vague roar of a motorbike.
Playing marbles (doogs).
Playing with those little green plastic army men.
Freeza's.
Cartoons on the ABC during the summer school holidays.
Building BMX tracks through the local bushland.
Twinpole icypoles/iceblocks that you snapped into two.
Atari.
Pinnies or those sit-down tabletop games like Space Invaders or 1942\. (20c per game). Now I take my son into these video game parlours and you can spend 50 bucks in 30 minutes!

Fantastic bloody times! Look back and feel very fortunate to have grown up in times before the total electronic/computer saturation of today.

You could get free credits on space invaders /galaga if you rubbed your shoes on the carpet , lifted them off the ground and then put your school locker key into the coin slot

The ice cream I missed the most were the jelly tips

 

[innsaneink]

Shuffling on the carpet up to a spacey machine with a 2 bob piece also worked…. Just tap it on the metal door of the coin slots

 

[Fade_To_Black]

A couple of push bikes I had over the years, **had back pedal brakes.** :master: Liked them better than cable brakes, because as we all would have encountered, when you needed to use the cable type brakes, the cable would either stretch & brake or the round end of cable which slotted into your brake lever on the handlebars, would slip out.

What about fixed-wheel bikes when you would charge down a steep hill and just get your legs as far outta the way of the wildly spinning pedals as you could before they snapped your legs in half!
Attaching cardboard with clothes pegs to your spokes to get the vague roar of a motorbike.
Playing marbles (doogs).
Playing with those little green plastic army men.
Freeza's.
Cartoons on the ABC during the summer school holidays.
Building BMX tracks through the local bushland.
Twinpole icypoles/iceblocks that you snapped into two.
Atari.
Pinnies or those sit-down tabletop games like Space Invaders or 1942\. (20c per game). Now I take my son into these video game parlours and you can spend 50 bucks in 30 minutes!

Fantastic bloody times! Look back and feel very fortunate to have grown up in times before the total electronic/computer saturation of today.

You could get free credits on space invaders /galaga if you rubbed your shoes on the carpet , lifted them off the ground and then put your school locker key into the coin slot

The ice cream I missed the most were the jelly tips

My missus got some Bulla icecreams from the supermarket the other day that are the same as jelly tips.

 

[claws]

Razz, Sunny boys & Glugs are still available at Coles.

As a TAFE Teacher, I always tell the apprentices employer that I have taught their apprentice everything that they don't know, generally, because they do not listen. Statistically, the average person requires 33 practice attempts to master a task. I think spousal relationships require more. Go Weststigers!

 

[westTAHger]

Still a big fan of Weston's Wagon wheels and redskins.
Don't mind the occasional Chiko Roll or Chiko Fishcake, or having some toast with devon and tomato sauce on it.