Nostalgia

[tiger_one]

Not for much longer:

 

[Odessa]

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I loved the Cool Shark

 

[Odessa]

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Cronulla?

 

[tiger_one]

 

[TCL]

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I used to get a pie, finger bun and drink for under $1 and I had money to buy a bag of lollies or pack of footy cards from the milk bar on the walk home

 

[Todd Packer]

I used to get a pie, finger bun and drink for under $1 and I had money to buy a bag of lollies or pack of footy cards from the milk bar on the walk home

5 cents of mixed lollies was a small bag full.

 

[Todd Packer]

But cigarettes were expensive. As a 7 year old I'd go to the corner shop to buy my parents cigarettes. You'd get served without any questions and I think a pack was about 40 cents.

 

[hank37w]

Remember cigarettes in packets of 10 and dodgy shop keepers that would sell them individually.

 

[Merlot]

fire crackers,cigarettes,rifles easily taken from shelves in k mart,

 

[Halbrowne61]

Cronulla?

Methinks Homebush or Granville ?

 

[Halbrowne61]

But cigarettes were expensive. As a 7 year old I'd go to the corner shop to buy my parents cigarettes. You'd get served without any questions and I think a pack was about 40 cents.

Yep TP , used to buy my Dads Benson and Hedges Gold 20s for 40 cents ( plus he threw in 5 cents for a lolly bag). Those were the days my friend …..

 

[coivtny]

But cigarettes were expensive. As a 7 year old I'd go to the corner shop to buy my parents cigarettes. You'd get served without any questions and I think a pack was about 40 cents.

When my mother first sent me to buy her smokes I was about 7 (1958) and a packet of Rothmans 20s were 3/3 or about 32 cents in today’s money. The smokes got her in the end.

 

[Halbrowne61]

When my mother first sent me to buy her smokes I was about 7 (1958) and a packet of Rothmans 20s were 3/3 or about 32 cents in today’s money. The smokes got her in the end.

Yep TP , used to buy my Dads Benson and Hedges Gold 20s for 40 cents ( plus he threw in 5 cents for a lolly bag). Those were the days my friend …..

Yeah my Dad died of Emphysema but he was going through about 60-80 a day for years.

 

[TCL]

But cigarettes were expensive. As a 7 year old I'd go to the corner shop to buy my parents cigarettes. You'd get served without any questions and I think a pack was about 40 cents.

Not just cigarettes, I used to ride my bike up to the bottle shop and buy my dad long necks of KB

 

[hank37w]

Walking down the road to go to a mates place in suburban Sydney with a slug gun in open view and no one batted an eye lid.

Today you would be surrounded by the tactical Response Group with a helicopter hovering over head, streets blocked off and news crews descending on the area.

Talk about a totally different world within your own life time.

 

[tiger_one]

Physical education, old-school times, aka tug-of-war:

 

[tiger_one]

Guess who just turned 97 years young:

 

[hank37w]

Wow, still looks like he's up for a good laugh.

I always wondered, who the hell would want to be 97 years old?

Then It dawned on me that if you were 96 and were enjoying life, then why not.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

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A finger burner?

 

[tiger_one]

A finger burner?

Ouch!!