my favourite books were the Just william series and then Biggles. Told you I was a tomboy! Once tried to sell my little sister for half a crown at a street stall to raise funds for CORSO and another time I was caught trying to teach her to fly off our garage roof using an umbrella aka Mary Poppins.
I can't for the life of me believe how big this thread has got either! I remember books such as 'William' series, Chalet School, Abbey, Famous Five, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Biggles, Jolly Roger, Jennings, oooh the list goes on! Mum banned the "William" books from me and the "Naughtiest Girl", as I would emulate the main character in them! Didn't stop me from cadging from other kids in school and reading them at their houses, piece by piece - or the library. Took me ages! Where there was a will there was a way!
TV shows Rin Tin Tin, Rawhide, Bonanza...our ponies became schizophrenic as they changed names according to the program of choice. Actually, my cats and rat suffer from the same as they are renamed on a regular basis by my grandson on a regular basis.
saw the Guns of Navarone and the Dambusters and all the John Wayne movies so many times that I could recite it. My parents loved the old stuff. Boring !! and I used to get so annoyed when they would name all the actors.. hahahaa now I do the same.
My friend in Oklahoma is following this thread also. He told me that his childhood mirrored ours, so perhaps we werent so isolated in the 50's. He says he had the same toys, played the same games outside, etc Intersting as we always thought we were years behind as they had TV way before us *waves to Jim*
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recollections of growing up was getting up 5am, catching my horse and rounding up the cows for morning milking, while still in pj's. All this before I got myself of to school..
I was born 1957 & brought up in Hamilton. Ah! those were the days. I can remember always getting the strap at school ( 6 of the best each hand) that teacher cut the worn end off & gave it to me at the end of the year. Guy Fawkes we used to have cracker fights with tom thumbs. Out playing down the gully at the back of my grandparants place. Late night shopping on friday night was a treat. Always remember the dental nurse & how the drill used to get hot & the smell of meths. The doc came to see you at home with his leather bag. The long hot summer days, when you were little swimming in the nude with out a care in the world. Racing our home made trolly down the hill & rolling it over at bottom to stop. great fun.
Yep I too was the schools nightmare.. miss benge was a young student teacher..she quit.. all my fault, I was so proud...detentions comin out of my ears. I assaulted a prefect and they finally expelled me. I left b4 I turned 15. I was a tuff nut alright
we did the same thing
Used to visit my grandmother in Morrinsville in the late 1950's and the ummmm forget what you called them, having a senior moment (senior day more like).. the man that empties the toilets. Sanitation cart ? Night watchman ? cant remember. Gawd wot a smelly job thatwould have been.
and my great grandfather built coffins and he had to measure the bodies and always used to tell horror stories of dead bodies sitting up and hitting him on the head when he tried to straighten them during the 'plague' years AArrrgggghhhhhh it so traumatised me, had nightmares for years.
Just imagine leaving doors unlocked or even. should I say it!! open in this day and age. I cant remeber where we did that sort of thing but we never had any fear of people murdering us or anything else horrible that they are doing these days....If its like this now, i Shudder to think what sort of society my grandchild will be in in 15 years time.. ohhhhh not worth thinking about
The game is called Magic Robot and there's a couple for sale on here at the moment. I'm just about to go and rummage in the cupboards and look for mine.
I have had a great time reading all the memories in here.Does anyone else remember collecting the Man from Uncle bubblegum cards.
these oldies from tv land....Squiddley Diddley,Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men,Felix the Cat,Clutch Cargo,Ookey Spookey,HR Puffinstuff or my fav,Banana Bunch.....???
I had a beauty cane doll pram with the tassles around the hood and beautifully sprung with the leather straps. My brother used to use it as a lawn mower!!who remembers the "MYSTERY DATE" game??I loved that game and also loved TWISTER.Yep, Mum's pikelets are still made in my house -cream of tartar is the trick, it makes them nice and light.Mum always wore an apron when at home doing the housework.Dad made us stilts out of wood,we thought we were pretty cool. We were very popular in our neighbourhood and at school because Dad was in the merchant navy and did the island run on the "Tofua" for many years. He used to bring home giant watermelons,big bunches of bananas that used to hang in the garage,boxes ofm oranges,pawapaw so we had quite exotic fruit.
Lassie was a favourite programme for me. We didn't have TV until 1966 so my mum and I used to walk to friends place a couple of blocks away each week to watch Lassie. Imagine doing that nowdays!! Used to go up the main street in Dunedin when TV first came here and watch it in the shop windows. I seem to remember watching boxing matches (don't know why cos was never interested in it) and there were crowds of people outside the shops
We hardly ever got to the movies when I was young - only remember two occasions - one was to see the Court Jester, the other I have no idea what, but what sticks in my mind was that 2 of my brothers took me; one of them gave me a parcel to hold and when we stood up at the end there was no parcel there and we never did find it :-( We also had an evening of watching some Charlie Chaplin silent movies in the church hall, which we really enjoyed!
Neither did we, except I did get to see the Sound of Music 3 times. Movies were really special treats. However, my father was a great taker of slides so we had endless slide evenings. When my daughter was about 5 I pursuaded, my then ailing father, to bring them all out...what a blast. She couldnt understand why we were laughing so hard. Unfortunately those are some of things that I lost, along with a number of other things I treasured, a number of years ago. Ah well, I do have wonderful memories :)
Get Smart I used to bike to my friends house in the evening once a week to watch Get Smart. We thought it was so cool. Anyone remember reading Famous Five and all those girls annuals. I still have mine.
I always wanted one of those but for the life of me I cant remember either. How much pocket money did everyone get and what chores did you have to do to earn it. I used to get 6 pence for making my bed and my younger sisters, cleaning out fireplaces and resetting them and then polishing school shoes for my 4 of us. I was also expected to help with the dishes and in the garden with which ever parent I was assigned to. Also got another 6 pence to bank with school banking.
...got 1 shilling a week. But i had to bank half of that with the school bank. To earn this I had to do dishes, make the bed and also I had to hang out the washing. Wasnt allowed to wash it cos it was done in the copper and that was a little to hard for me.I was the one that had to bike to the dairy if we ran short of milk or bread, My brother did nothing and got 3 pence haahah. Well my bank account went down rapidly once I was allowed access to it myself. I read the famous five and the girls annuals dont have anythong left of them tho. But I sold the Rupert books about 3 years ago, didnt get much but made someone happy i guess. I hd most of the series, I think they were run by the Herald or some big company like that. They were great with the hard covers on and all coloured pics
Oh yeah.... school banking... Too bad my mother worked in the Post Office, and would check up on me every week!
No pocket money...
(not with 8 children on a parson's stipend!) but my big brother paid me once to pick the fluff off his socks! Loved the famous five stories and my grandchildren are enjoying them now. Also the Abbey Girls and my brother's Saint books!
Dad use to give us a shilling a week pocket money But only if we spent half of it on mum... Good deal we thought. 1250
I was born 1957 & brought up in Hamilton. Ah! those were the days. I can remember always getting the strap at school ( 6 of the best each hand) that teacher cut the worn end off & gave it to me at the end of the year. Guy Fawkes we used to have cracker fights with tom thumbs. Out playing down the gully at the back of my grandparants place. Late night shopping on friday night was a treat. Always remember the dental nurse & how the drill used to get hot & the smell of meths. The doc came to see you at home with his leather bag. The long hot summer days, when you were little swimming in the nude with out a care in the world. Racing our home made trolly down the hill & rolling it over at bottom to stop. great fun.
Yep I too was the schools nightmare.. miss benge was a young student teacher..she quit.. all my fault, I was so proud...detentions comin out of my ears. I assaulted a prefect and they finally expelled me. I left b4 I turned 15. I was a tuff nut alright
we did the same thing
Used to visit my grandmother in Morrinsville in the late 1950's and the ummmm forget what you called them, having a senior moment (senior day more like).. the man that empties the toilets. Sanitation cart ? Night watchman ? cant remember. Gawd wot a smelly job thatwould have been.
and my great grandfather built coffins and he had to measure the bodies and always used to tell horror stories of dead bodies sitting up and hitting him on the head when he tried to straighten them during the 'plague' years AArrrgggghhhhhh it so traumatised me, had nightmares for years.
Just imagine leaving doors unlocked or even. should I say it!! open in this day and age. I cant remeber where we did that sort of thing but we never had any fear of people murdering us or anything else horrible that they are doing these days....If its like this now, i Shudder to think what sort of society my grandchild will be in in 15 years time.. ohhhhh not worth thinking about
The game is called Magic Robot and there's a couple for sale on here at the moment. I'm just about to go and rummage in the cupboards and look for mine.
I have had a great time reading all the memories in here.Does anyone else remember collecting the Man from Uncle bubblegum cards.
these oldies from tv land....Squiddley Diddley,Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men,Felix the Cat,Clutch Cargo,Ookey Spookey,HR Puffinstuff or my fav,Banana Bunch.....???
I had a beauty cane doll pram with the tassles around the hood and beautifully sprung with the leather straps. My brother used to use it as a lawn mower!!who remembers the "MYSTERY DATE" game??I loved that game and also loved TWISTER.Yep, Mum's pikelets are still made in my house -cream of tartar is the trick, it makes them nice and light.Mum always wore an apron when at home doing the housework.Dad made us stilts out of wood,we thought we were pretty cool. We were very popular in our neighbourhood and at school because Dad was in the merchant navy and did the island run on the "Tofua" for many years. He used to bring home giant watermelons,big bunches of bananas that used to hang in the garage,boxes ofm oranges,pawapaw so we had quite exotic fruit.
Lassie was a favourite programme for me. We didn't have TV until 1966 so my mum and I used to walk to friends place a couple of blocks away each week to watch Lassie. Imagine doing that nowdays!! Used to go up the main street in Dunedin when TV first came here and watch it in the shop windows. I seem to remember watching boxing matches (don't know why cos was never interested in it) and there were crowds of people outside the shops
We hardly ever got to the movies when I was young - only remember two occasions - one was to see the Court Jester, the other I have no idea what, but what sticks in my mind was that 2 of my brothers took me; one of them gave me a parcel to hold and when we stood up at the end there was no parcel there and we never did find it :-( We also had an evening of watching some Charlie Chaplin silent movies in the church hall, which we really enjoyed!
Neither did we, except I did get to see the Sound of Music 3 times. Movies were really special treats. However, my father was a great taker of slides so we had endless slide evenings. When my daughter was about 5 I pursuaded, my then ailing father, to bring them all out...what a blast. She couldnt understand why we were laughing so hard. Unfortunately those are some of things that I lost, along with a number of other things I treasured, a number of years ago. Ah well, I do have wonderful memories :)
Get Smart I used to bike to my friends house in the evening once a week to watch Get Smart. We thought it was so cool. Anyone remember reading Famous Five and all those girls annuals. I still have mine.
I always wanted one of those but for the life of me I cant remember either. How much pocket money did everyone get and what chores did you have to do to earn it. I used to get 6 pence for making my bed and my younger sisters, cleaning out fireplaces and resetting them and then polishing school shoes for my 4 of us. I was also expected to help with the dishes and in the garden with which ever parent I was assigned to. Also got another 6 pence to bank with school banking.
...got 1 shilling a week. But i had to bank half of that with the school bank. To earn this I had to do dishes, make the bed and also I had to hang out the washing. Wasnt allowed to wash it cos it was done in the copper and that was a little to hard for me.I was the one that had to bike to the dairy if we ran short of milk or bread, My brother did nothing and got 3 pence haahah. Well my bank account went down rapidly once I was allowed access to it myself. I read the famous five and the girls annuals dont have anythong left of them tho. But I sold the Rupert books about 3 years ago, didnt get much but made someone happy i guess. I hd most of the series, I think they were run by the Herald or some big company like that. They were great with the hard covers on and all coloured pics
Oh yeah.... school banking... Too bad my mother worked in the Post Office, and would check up on me every week!
No pocket money...
(not with 8 children on a parson's stipend!) but my big brother paid me once to pick the fluff off his socks! Loved the famous five stories and my grandchildren are enjoying them now. Also the Abbey Girls and my brother's Saint books!
Dad use to give us a shilling a week pocket money But only if we spent half of it on mum... Good deal we thought. 1250
Part 24
Good morning all. Good to catch up in the morning. I remember the Hong Kong jackets too. I had a red one that was my pride and joy AND it was reversible haha. Also my Mother got plastic bunches of flowers that lit up. They were very novel back then and I see you can now buy them at gifty shops. Someone mentioned weather last night which reminded me....Did anyone have the ornaments that changed colour according to the weather. Pink, mauve and blue I think. Also the we weathervane house where the man came out if it was going to be wet and the woman if fine? . I still have my first money box. A hard plastic pink bear with moving eyes. I had 2 black walkie talkie dolls and one white that made up a bridal party that sat on my bed LOL. My pride and joy. The bridesmaids were dressed in pink and I still have the dolls clothes. The dolls heads came apart from the body but are around somewhere. All my childhood treasures...
were the summers way back when, hotter, longer and generally nicer than today? Sunscreen was either unheard of or for sissys? I remember those figurines that changed colour..mine was a poodle. No digital clocks and to this day still prefer to read the time the analogue way. Spelling lists from that brown and yellow book of lists..our general knowledge seemed to be greater than today too. who had to learn all the kings and queens of England going right back to the magna carta? If we didnt knnow something we pointed in the general direction and told to get on and find out for ourselves. Conspiracy theories didnt exist as we believed what we read or we sought out information that proved that wrong.
I can remember conversation lollies and Hong Kong jackets I had one when I started work ot was so thick with duffle coat buttons on it..lacynz yes the golf course at Pine Song was neat went there for a champagne breakfast with the fire brigade...soldiermum what a neat idea to far away from me.. if guys do meet up I'm sure you will have a hardcase time and toooo many laughs...Where are all the old Titirangi, Laingholm people..... people....
Home made walkie talkies with two tins and a piece of string stretched between them and getting up early the morning after Guy Fawkes so we could go and look for the sticks from sky rockets and use them to make kites.
talking about general knowledge.. I learnt a lot from a game I had (hoping someone remembers it) with a wizard that you placed on magnetized mirror. He spun around and pointed at a question then you had to answer it. There were interchangeable sheets of questions. I spent many hours playing that and still recall some of the q's and a's now.
Browsing through antiques and collectables
brings back many memories of what we used/had as youngsters. I remember the butterwarmer. The metal lid with a hole for hot water that you placed over the butter to warm it up. I see a few of them on here... The black metal man that you put money on his hand and he feeds himself with it.
We used to have the magnetic robot quiz. I've actually got one here somewhere that I bought about 15 years ago. We also had a horse racing game called Escalado. It had a mat that was clamped to the table and painted lead horses.
this is a memory that I have shared with few. Now there will be doubters and I will not tell you how I did it..but remember the "how high/far can you pee" contests? A male domain. Well my best friend (waves to neil, who I havent seen for 40 years)laid down the challenge and I won. It was innocent fun, and no way would it happen today.
Can I have the name of the game please and I will see if I can source one somewhere, maybe from trademe. I recall a horse racing game too but it wasnt with lead horses. Will have to keep thinking about that one. I do remember a basketball game where you shot hoops from a flicker. I know you can get pocket versions now. 1200
were the summers way back when, hotter, longer and generally nicer than today? Sunscreen was either unheard of or for sissys? I remember those figurines that changed colour..mine was a poodle. No digital clocks and to this day still prefer to read the time the analogue way. Spelling lists from that brown and yellow book of lists..our general knowledge seemed to be greater than today too. who had to learn all the kings and queens of England going right back to the magna carta? If we didnt knnow something we pointed in the general direction and told to get on and find out for ourselves. Conspiracy theories didnt exist as we believed what we read or we sought out information that proved that wrong.
I can remember conversation lollies and Hong Kong jackets I had one when I started work ot was so thick with duffle coat buttons on it..lacynz yes the golf course at Pine Song was neat went there for a champagne breakfast with the fire brigade...soldiermum what a neat idea to far away from me.. if guys do meet up I'm sure you will have a hardcase time and toooo many laughs...Where are all the old Titirangi, Laingholm people..... people....
Home made walkie talkies with two tins and a piece of string stretched between them and getting up early the morning after Guy Fawkes so we could go and look for the sticks from sky rockets and use them to make kites.
talking about general knowledge.. I learnt a lot from a game I had (hoping someone remembers it) with a wizard that you placed on magnetized mirror. He spun around and pointed at a question then you had to answer it. There were interchangeable sheets of questions. I spent many hours playing that and still recall some of the q's and a's now.
Browsing through antiques and collectables
brings back many memories of what we used/had as youngsters. I remember the butterwarmer. The metal lid with a hole for hot water that you placed over the butter to warm it up. I see a few of them on here... The black metal man that you put money on his hand and he feeds himself with it.
We used to have the magnetic robot quiz. I've actually got one here somewhere that I bought about 15 years ago. We also had a horse racing game called Escalado. It had a mat that was clamped to the table and painted lead horses.
this is a memory that I have shared with few. Now there will be doubters and I will not tell you how I did it..but remember the "how high/far can you pee" contests? A male domain. Well my best friend (waves to neil, who I havent seen for 40 years)laid down the challenge and I won. It was innocent fun, and no way would it happen today.
Can I have the name of the game please and I will see if I can source one somewhere, maybe from trademe. I recall a horse racing game too but it wasnt with lead horses. Will have to keep thinking about that one. I do remember a basketball game where you shot hoops from a flicker. I know you can get pocket versions now. 1200
part 23
Hong Kong jackets Does anyone remember these. You couldn't buy these jackets here so mum and dad sent away to Hong Kong. You got back a lovely thick padded coat. Can't remember how much they cost - wouldn't have been much because we weren't well off. Also going fishing for flounder with an old knitting needle tied on to a long stick. Had to watch your toes!!
I get to shoot basketball hoops with my wee boy as well as play with all his cool toys as well...Have always said that I will grow old disgracefully and thus far I am aging badly.
Those Hong Kong Jackets You had to pay for them with British postal notes. You could only buy them us to five shillings so you had to buy a lot. Some one else may remember if you could buy more than one at a time.
I...remember the Hong kong jackets. We never brought one as we were to poor and my parents said there was other things more important in the house so that was it. If i remember a couple of friends got them and they really were great. Mum made our clothes and we had handme downs, so something new like that was nowhere to be seen in our house. I also remember making stilts with the cans and the string. Then we progressed to dad making stilts with a piece of wood and another piece slanted at the bottom for the feet to stand on. But poor dad didnt nail them on hard enough and i came to a sticky end down the road when one of the footings fell off and I ended up face down with a tooth through my lip. Ouch!!
someone mentioned cane dolls prams a long way back. They are worth quite a lot now as antiques. It shames me now to recall converting mine into a go cart. Awesome mover it was down our drive which had just enough slope to be able to hang a hard left into our backyard before crashing into the side of my father's surgery. Dont think my mother appreciated the wonderful recreation though!
Dunedin I have also noticed not a lot of Dn folk here. I have enjoyed reading it and it has brought back heaps of memories. I remember the baked bean stilts - think I used golden syrup cans - greatfun. Last year was a thread -shoreline - and had a lot of Dn places from 50's - 60's 70's - great reading
PUNCH & JUDY puppets.. they used to put concerts on from time to time
I grew up in Dunedin. Used to go to the town hall dances. At one stage my mother got a job there and I could get in free. It was up to me if I got a lift home with her or accepted a lift from someone I met.
I remember punch and judy. We made them at school. A piece of cloth and a tennis ball with a hole to put your finger through to make the head move.Then we would put cotton wool for the hair and draw eyes etc etc then i used to go home and wait till we had a family dinner and then I would get behind our couch and do a punch and judy half hour for everyone. Good god!!! imagine kids doing that this day and age.
Np...I was starting to confuse myself not that that is so hard to do these days. How's Feilding? I had a great aunt who had a farm on the hill. All built out long ago.
I never knew what it was like to be bored. We ever had any electronics, we didnt even have a swimming pool at home and must have been far down the queque for getting a TV as well. I used to play with the kids in the street on bikes, hop scotch on the footpath, hide and seek in the overgrown unused part of the intermediate school behind where we lived. Erect a home made sorta tent dad did for me and the girls used to bring in their dolls and their little kids tea sets and we used to make a pot of make believe tea and we would eat real biscuits and pretend we were ladies. ohhhhh how innocent we were back then 1150
I get to shoot basketball hoops with my wee boy as well as play with all his cool toys as well...Have always said that I will grow old disgracefully and thus far I am aging badly.
Those Hong Kong Jackets You had to pay for them with British postal notes. You could only buy them us to five shillings so you had to buy a lot. Some one else may remember if you could buy more than one at a time.
I...remember the Hong kong jackets. We never brought one as we were to poor and my parents said there was other things more important in the house so that was it. If i remember a couple of friends got them and they really were great. Mum made our clothes and we had handme downs, so something new like that was nowhere to be seen in our house. I also remember making stilts with the cans and the string. Then we progressed to dad making stilts with a piece of wood and another piece slanted at the bottom for the feet to stand on. But poor dad didnt nail them on hard enough and i came to a sticky end down the road when one of the footings fell off and I ended up face down with a tooth through my lip. Ouch!!
someone mentioned cane dolls prams a long way back. They are worth quite a lot now as antiques. It shames me now to recall converting mine into a go cart. Awesome mover it was down our drive which had just enough slope to be able to hang a hard left into our backyard before crashing into the side of my father's surgery. Dont think my mother appreciated the wonderful recreation though!
Dunedin I have also noticed not a lot of Dn folk here. I have enjoyed reading it and it has brought back heaps of memories. I remember the baked bean stilts - think I used golden syrup cans - greatfun. Last year was a thread -shoreline - and had a lot of Dn places from 50's - 60's 70's - great reading
PUNCH & JUDY puppets.. they used to put concerts on from time to time
I grew up in Dunedin. Used to go to the town hall dances. At one stage my mother got a job there and I could get in free. It was up to me if I got a lift home with her or accepted a lift from someone I met.
I remember punch and judy. We made them at school. A piece of cloth and a tennis ball with a hole to put your finger through to make the head move.Then we would put cotton wool for the hair and draw eyes etc etc then i used to go home and wait till we had a family dinner and then I would get behind our couch and do a punch and judy half hour for everyone. Good god!!! imagine kids doing that this day and age.
Np...I was starting to confuse myself not that that is so hard to do these days. How's Feilding? I had a great aunt who had a farm on the hill. All built out long ago.
I never knew what it was like to be bored. We ever had any electronics, we didnt even have a swimming pool at home and must have been far down the queque for getting a TV as well. I used to play with the kids in the street on bikes, hop scotch on the footpath, hide and seek in the overgrown unused part of the intermediate school behind where we lived. Erect a home made sorta tent dad did for me and the girls used to bring in their dolls and their little kids tea sets and we used to make a pot of make believe tea and we would eat real biscuits and pretend we were ladies. ohhhhh how innocent we were back then 1150
part 22
well a 1961 vintage here October 1961 which makes me just turned 45 -see profile!!not bad for an old chick!! Oh I remember the Geddes Dental ads. who remember "It takes a theif"? with Robert Wagner and "Jason King" and home made pikelets made on the solid element of the stove. Home made lemonade (which i still make) and home made gingerbeer with the exploding bottles!! We always had brunch on sunday with Mums beautiful corn fritters,fried bread,bacon,eggs etc. Sunday tea in the summertime was always boiled eggs and bread and butter and pikelets and jam.
yeeee haaaaa
we had the gingerbeer exploding bottles as well.. piklets to die for was how mum made them .i still do a mean piklet as well. so must of really watched her back those days. I also loved the rubbery hearts lollies and the blackberry and strawberry wine gums... blackballs and those imitation cigarettes with the red end to them. Thought I was soooooooo cool strutting round with one of them poking out of my mouth, I wonder if they are still around now?
do you remember the conversation lollys
Anyone remember G Fizz? It was white sherbet in a packet with a red lollipop. I worked at Aulsebrooks for a bit packing them into boxes. See where leaving school at not quite 15 gets ya? lol
My sister liked Princess magazine and I liked Turok: Son Of Stone about two Indians lost in a valley with prehistoric dinosaurs. I used to buy that comic every fortnight.
I beat the smoke scene. Read this. I always had to take my bro along so that he would be able to pimp on me should i meet boys, hahahah Well i was 1 step ahead of my parents. I took my bro along and he always wanted to sit in the front row. Me. of course wanted to snog in the back row, so i always checked what time we were having interval, and 5 mins prior to that I would hop about 5 rows from front.Lights came on. my bro would stand up and look for me and there i was sweet little innocent me. waiting for him with his ice cream money
Remember being 6 or 7 years old... and being allowed to go home because I had forgotten something, just imagine that happening today !!!
Sand saucers are great, cheap fun! You take an ordinary saucer, fill it with damp sand and stick lots of little flowers all over it. They always used to have sand saucer competitions at flower shows! Such fun!
any of you familiar with English sweets? probably with the U.K food and sweet shops now!! Not then so this was a real treat .I used to receive a card round about October from a kind man one of my dads ex school mates who adopted me as his niece because he had no children and on it he would say "darling there is a parcel on its way to you" OOH I used to wait for that it would take 10 minutes to get all the sticky tape off and inside were all sort of goodies sometimes slippers one time a little handbag with stickers on it but it was the sweets inside also various kinds including ...Rowntrees gums and pastilles Bassetts liquorice alsorts and wind gums fox's mints Lemon sherbetts smarties like mm's sherbet liquorice sticks and something that is now sadly off the worldwide market Callard and Bowsers dessert nougat.I did share them with my parents!!
SAND SAUCERS were sand heaped up on a saucer and you decorated them. flowers ferns & diddy bits. we had them at school gala's also had doll shows with a tin in front of your doll and people put a penny in 2 vote..
we used to get what my grandmother referred to as "care parcels from home" which also included real scottish shortbread. However because it came by surface mail and even in thse days the post office handlers werent gentle it was crumby and stale. Still think of those boiled sweets that came in tins too.
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yeeee haaaaa
we had the gingerbeer exploding bottles as well.. piklets to die for was how mum made them .i still do a mean piklet as well. so must of really watched her back those days. I also loved the rubbery hearts lollies and the blackberry and strawberry wine gums... blackballs and those imitation cigarettes with the red end to them. Thought I was soooooooo cool strutting round with one of them poking out of my mouth, I wonder if they are still around now?
do you remember the conversation lollys
Anyone remember G Fizz? It was white sherbet in a packet with a red lollipop. I worked at Aulsebrooks for a bit packing them into boxes. See where leaving school at not quite 15 gets ya? lol
My sister liked Princess magazine and I liked Turok: Son Of Stone about two Indians lost in a valley with prehistoric dinosaurs. I used to buy that comic every fortnight.
I beat the smoke scene. Read this. I always had to take my bro along so that he would be able to pimp on me should i meet boys, hahahah Well i was 1 step ahead of my parents. I took my bro along and he always wanted to sit in the front row. Me. of course wanted to snog in the back row, so i always checked what time we were having interval, and 5 mins prior to that I would hop about 5 rows from front.Lights came on. my bro would stand up and look for me and there i was sweet little innocent me. waiting for him with his ice cream money
Remember being 6 or 7 years old... and being allowed to go home because I had forgotten something, just imagine that happening today !!!
Sand saucers are great, cheap fun! You take an ordinary saucer, fill it with damp sand and stick lots of little flowers all over it. They always used to have sand saucer competitions at flower shows! Such fun!
any of you familiar with English sweets? probably with the U.K food and sweet shops now!! Not then so this was a real treat .I used to receive a card round about October from a kind man one of my dads ex school mates who adopted me as his niece because he had no children and on it he would say "darling there is a parcel on its way to you" OOH I used to wait for that it would take 10 minutes to get all the sticky tape off and inside were all sort of goodies sometimes slippers one time a little handbag with stickers on it but it was the sweets inside also various kinds including ...Rowntrees gums and pastilles Bassetts liquorice alsorts and wind gums fox's mints Lemon sherbetts smarties like mm's sherbet liquorice sticks and something that is now sadly off the worldwide market Callard and Bowsers dessert nougat.I did share them with my parents!!
SAND SAUCERS were sand heaped up on a saucer and you decorated them. flowers ferns & diddy bits. we had them at school gala's also had doll shows with a tin in front of your doll and people put a penny in 2 vote..
we used to get what my grandmother referred to as "care parcels from home" which also included real scottish shortbread. However because it came by surface mail and even in thse days the post office handlers werent gentle it was crumby and stale. Still think of those boiled sweets that came in tins too.
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we used to watch seven brides for seven brothers then go out the back of our neighbours and pretend we were lumberjacks,jumping off shed roofs into piles of newly mowen grass.getting stick insects and scaring each other with them,putting on gumboots to go to school so when we crossed the horse paddocks we didnt get sh!t on our feet,stubbed toes,bee stings,walking home from intermediate school so you could buy 3 potatoe fritters with the bus money, hiding when our dad had to dig a hole and empty the bucket that was our toilet on waiheke...the smell of jeyes fluid
DON'T FORGET... go to http://www.kiwiboomers.com/
Early 60, cool for a guy was measured by how how tight the bottom of his jeans were--- "like have you seen Jims 9inch bottoms" That was bad cool as in bodgie where as good cool would be Beach Boy style
alison durban and playing the 45 on my little player belting out i have loved me a man LOL.
the blue stuff you used to put in with nappies to make them look white (how did that work)my mum cooking up chips for all the neighbouring kids only if they helped peel the spuds first,those heart shaped ice creams,black cat bubble gum,broken bikkies,the free playground that they had down new lynn for the kids to play in,hot pants,minis,white boots,cook street market
pictures we use to go to the pictures at paeroa sit up stairs and throw jaffas down could here them roll right to te front and drop our ice creams on to kids heads go looking for mushrooms they were as big as dinner plates, also use to get fresh water crayfish things take them home light a fire inside bricks and cook them those were the days
What wasn't fun was the little shed down a brick path away from the house with the long drop in it, and having to use the potty at night and then empty in in the morning :-( My poor Dad had the unenviable job of having to empty the long drop. He must have really hated doing that.
I remember the tea coupons you used to get them in the packets of loose leaf tea."pettycoat Junction" "Greenacres" "Maxwell Smart" "The Black & White Minstrel Show" "Val Doonican" "roger Whittaker" Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men & Weeeeedd" home made dough made out of flour salt and water and kept in the fridhe in waxed paper.Empire bars,hokey pokey for three cents.bobbing for apples at parties,pin the tail on the donkey,the board games you got for Christmas like ludo,barrel of monkeys,pick up stix and my favourite -"Twister"
buying fresh crayfish in Birkenhead and having it wrapped in newspaper to carry home.The Edmonds Jelly advert with all the little ferris wheels filled with jelly and boats going round and round with wobbly jellies on them, Colgates "ring of confidense" ad and also the one for blue clinic shampoowith the two sisters and one had the really long blonde hair -just like me!!Homemade "chinese" that I used to gag on but had to sit and eat the lot or I couldnt get down from the table.
Candy floss and kewpie dolls on a cane from the Easter Show in Auckland.
Oh, those kewpie dolls were great, they had glitter for hair. Remember trolls -they were all the rage.
Wash you hair, too clean for dandruff too clean for dandruff, with....Blue Clinic Shampoo. I've marrying Marvin.. Marvin doesn't know it yet, but he's gonna ask me, cause I'm using Dove's 7 Day Beauty Plan...
Easter Show Days. back then the whole family would go along and we managed to have a great feed off all the free food samples that there was offering. Also we would come home with free detergent and many other samples from companies. Nowdays it costs so much to go in and you never get anything free. I remember playing the put the table tennis ball in the clowns motuh and coming home with a plastic comb as the prize. Riding the ferris wheel was the excitement of the rides, with the riding horse merry go round being the 2nd. Candy floss on sticks. dolls on can walking sticks, hot dogs dripping in sauce. I used to gather all the phamplets from every store and then throw them away once I got home.
Remembered today that my mother used to smoke with a long plastic thing with her du Maurier cigarette stuck in the end. Was so gross. Was it a filter ? all her friends had them. Was so funny
dont think it filtered sanything but it prevented your fingers from going brown. Buggar that the teeth stil went brown though.. Mum had an ashtray that had a little button in it and you had to push the button down to get rid of the ash
I did the samte thing at the show...grab all the freebees, After all if they were being given away they must be worth having, right? I also remember those ashtrays, they were made of bakelite I think. my grandad died when I was 9 and he was 84 then. He smoked a pkt of Matinee a day all of his adult life and died of something but it wasn't lung cancer...
Gene Pitney.....Loved him and saw him twice in concert. Was so sad when he died lasst year...Town Without Pity..
Dad used to smoke Capstan 10 cigs I remember geting hold of 1 and smoking out of the bathroom window, being caught by dad and he made me sit at the table and smoke one in front of him I had to inhale it as well. nearly choked to death on it. Seemingly he thought i wouldnt go on smoking again.l. hahahah i smoked from 13 till about 25...
Broke my denture Broke my denture woe is me what can I do ? Take it into Mr Geddes and he'll fix it just like new. What's the address what's the address hurry please and tell me do Top of Queen St., on he corner and the number's 492.
Great!!! I did that posting some time back here but couldnt remember the ending re the address hahahah now u have got it stuck in my mind here I am humming it now lol lol
anyone remember the show HAVE A SHOT!!! There is also the name John Maybury or something like that thta keeps popping into my head but i cant figure out what sort of show he was on
I'm a newbie to this thread, so guess I'll have to tell you my age first up.... before anyone will talk to me ... July '68 makes me nearly 40 I s'pose. I remember the plaster of Paris dogs that were the 'prizes' in the school lucky dips. Popsicle iceblocks being 3 cents each. Being able to walk home from primary school at lunch time & have a swim in the Para pool, even when I was all by myself. Disappearing into town on my bike with a friend during school holidays & not having to be home until 6pm. *sigh* all the things kids miss out on doing these days, huh. That's why we moved to the country while our kids are little.... at least they can enjoy being kids for a while longer than their urban cousins.
I had been working 6 months in an apprenticeship when you were born. I had already experienced getting drunk. Getting speeding tickets. Smoking pot.. and Ahem.. sex.. lol
RUBBA DUBBA ding ding, whose got the wedding ring or sumting like that.. used to tease kids that were boy/ girl friend. not sure of the words but
Im a 54er (but not 53 till Dec). my sister (haha shes on holiday so wont be on the MB) was born in 59 the year I walked over the harbour bridge for the opening. Went to the opening of the airport at Mangere. That was exciting for a kid. Wahooo. My partner is a 1950 boy and he remembers going to the opening of the airport as well.
My hubby is a 1951er As a teenager he had a Mk 1 Zephyr convertible that had a keg on the back seat with hoses that run to the front dashboard with little handles to put your glass under and fill up your beer. Imagine having that nowadays...you'd get hung for it..lol
July 1968...The Vietnam war was humming right along and I was in the forth form at Hagley High...I left in August when the school hols started even though my 15th birthday wasn't till Sept 30th. Truant officers never came looking for me, I caused so much trouble at school they were probably glad to see the back of me.
I remember my father getting done for Drunk In Charge. He did pub crawls whenever we went out, we never thought anything of it at the time.
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DON'T FORGET... go to http://www.kiwiboomers.com/
Early 60, cool for a guy was measured by how how tight the bottom of his jeans were--- "like have you seen Jims 9inch bottoms" That was bad cool as in bodgie where as good cool would be Beach Boy style
alison durban and playing the 45 on my little player belting out i have loved me a man LOL.
the blue stuff you used to put in with nappies to make them look white (how did that work)my mum cooking up chips for all the neighbouring kids only if they helped peel the spuds first,those heart shaped ice creams,black cat bubble gum,broken bikkies,the free playground that they had down new lynn for the kids to play in,hot pants,minis,white boots,cook street market
pictures we use to go to the pictures at paeroa sit up stairs and throw jaffas down could here them roll right to te front and drop our ice creams on to kids heads go looking for mushrooms they were as big as dinner plates, also use to get fresh water crayfish things take them home light a fire inside bricks and cook them those were the days
What wasn't fun was the little shed down a brick path away from the house with the long drop in it, and having to use the potty at night and then empty in in the morning :-( My poor Dad had the unenviable job of having to empty the long drop. He must have really hated doing that.
I remember the tea coupons you used to get them in the packets of loose leaf tea."pettycoat Junction" "Greenacres" "Maxwell Smart" "The Black & White Minstrel Show" "Val Doonican" "roger Whittaker" Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men & Weeeeedd" home made dough made out of flour salt and water and kept in the fridhe in waxed paper.Empire bars,hokey pokey for three cents.bobbing for apples at parties,pin the tail on the donkey,the board games you got for Christmas like ludo,barrel of monkeys,pick up stix and my favourite -"Twister"
buying fresh crayfish in Birkenhead and having it wrapped in newspaper to carry home.The Edmonds Jelly advert with all the little ferris wheels filled with jelly and boats going round and round with wobbly jellies on them, Colgates "ring of confidense" ad and also the one for blue clinic shampoowith the two sisters and one had the really long blonde hair -just like me!!Homemade "chinese" that I used to gag on but had to sit and eat the lot or I couldnt get down from the table.
Candy floss and kewpie dolls on a cane from the Easter Show in Auckland.
Oh, those kewpie dolls were great, they had glitter for hair. Remember trolls -they were all the rage.
Wash you hair, too clean for dandruff too clean for dandruff, with....Blue Clinic Shampoo. I've marrying Marvin.. Marvin doesn't know it yet, but he's gonna ask me, cause I'm using Dove's 7 Day Beauty Plan...
Easter Show Days. back then the whole family would go along and we managed to have a great feed off all the free food samples that there was offering. Also we would come home with free detergent and many other samples from companies. Nowdays it costs so much to go in and you never get anything free. I remember playing the put the table tennis ball in the clowns motuh and coming home with a plastic comb as the prize. Riding the ferris wheel was the excitement of the rides, with the riding horse merry go round being the 2nd. Candy floss on sticks. dolls on can walking sticks, hot dogs dripping in sauce. I used to gather all the phamplets from every store and then throw them away once I got home.
Remembered today that my mother used to smoke with a long plastic thing with her du Maurier cigarette stuck in the end. Was so gross. Was it a filter ? all her friends had them. Was so funny
dont think it filtered sanything but it prevented your fingers from going brown. Buggar that the teeth stil went brown though.. Mum had an ashtray that had a little button in it and you had to push the button down to get rid of the ash
I did the samte thing at the show...grab all the freebees, After all if they were being given away they must be worth having, right? I also remember those ashtrays, they were made of bakelite I think. my grandad died when I was 9 and he was 84 then. He smoked a pkt of Matinee a day all of his adult life and died of something but it wasn't lung cancer...
Gene Pitney.....Loved him and saw him twice in concert. Was so sad when he died lasst year...Town Without Pity..
Dad used to smoke Capstan 10 cigs I remember geting hold of 1 and smoking out of the bathroom window, being caught by dad and he made me sit at the table and smoke one in front of him I had to inhale it as well. nearly choked to death on it. Seemingly he thought i wouldnt go on smoking again.l. hahahah i smoked from 13 till about 25...
Broke my denture Broke my denture woe is me what can I do ? Take it into Mr Geddes and he'll fix it just like new. What's the address what's the address hurry please and tell me do Top of Queen St., on he corner and the number's 492.
Great!!! I did that posting some time back here but couldnt remember the ending re the address hahahah now u have got it stuck in my mind here I am humming it now lol lol
anyone remember the show HAVE A SHOT!!! There is also the name John Maybury or something like that thta keeps popping into my head but i cant figure out what sort of show he was on
I'm a newbie to this thread, so guess I'll have to tell you my age first up.... before anyone will talk to me ... July '68 makes me nearly 40 I s'pose. I remember the plaster of Paris dogs that were the 'prizes' in the school lucky dips. Popsicle iceblocks being 3 cents each. Being able to walk home from primary school at lunch time & have a swim in the Para pool, even when I was all by myself. Disappearing into town on my bike with a friend during school holidays & not having to be home until 6pm. *sigh* all the things kids miss out on doing these days, huh. That's why we moved to the country while our kids are little.... at least they can enjoy being kids for a while longer than their urban cousins.
I had been working 6 months in an apprenticeship when you were born. I had already experienced getting drunk. Getting speeding tickets. Smoking pot.. and Ahem.. sex.. lol
RUBBA DUBBA ding ding, whose got the wedding ring or sumting like that.. used to tease kids that were boy/ girl friend. not sure of the words but
Im a 54er (but not 53 till Dec). my sister (haha shes on holiday so wont be on the MB) was born in 59 the year I walked over the harbour bridge for the opening. Went to the opening of the airport at Mangere. That was exciting for a kid. Wahooo. My partner is a 1950 boy and he remembers going to the opening of the airport as well.
My hubby is a 1951er As a teenager he had a Mk 1 Zephyr convertible that had a keg on the back seat with hoses that run to the front dashboard with little handles to put your glass under and fill up your beer. Imagine having that nowadays...you'd get hung for it..lol
July 1968...The Vietnam war was humming right along and I was in the forth form at Hagley High...I left in August when the school hols started even though my 15th birthday wasn't till Sept 30th. Truant officers never came looking for me, I caused so much trouble at school they were probably glad to see the back of me.
I remember my father getting done for Drunk In Charge. He did pub crawls whenever we went out, we never thought anything of it at the time.
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Part 20
Adding some to those already here Laceynz I can remember those dance places mostly went to the Monaco. Can anyone remember the Coffee House in Titirangi as it was called, Mt Atkinson where everyone used to go for snuggles, once my brother and his friends opened the car door and took off with my bra, put it on the car aerial and went around Titirangi township being the time most were arriving back from town, did get it back Living out in the sticks used to have a vege man in a truck come around once a week, fresh warm bread only on Sundays. I started work as a dressmaker in 1965 and my wages for 40hrs was 4 pound 6 and 4 a week the wages are not much better now right down the bottom the lowest wages available….Dentist in Titirangi Mr plowman and he sure was…I went to Glen Eden Intermedite as a brand New School for the 1st 2 years it was open, no swimming pool there then..More to come
yeah the bistro was one of my hang outs too. I think it was about 1968 I hung out at the Sorrento. Remember the guy Robbie on the door.? We used to go to the dark room, lol my friend says it was on the left, but I say the right.
Robbie on the door he would have scared a few away with his looks. 1968 was the year I was going as well. The straight girls felt safer on the left with the trannys so that is where I used to hang out.
The trioka.. Hungrry Horse... Pi King..
El Matador El Cortez reataurants..Pine Song..The Fire Brigade Balls at Titirangi and Laingholm they were so good..I can remember the old steam trains in New Lynn filling up used to watch from the overhead walkway, the old Delta theater....I also had a lemon angora coloured bolero, my Nana made for me, had pink ballerina wallpaper and a mauve candle wick bedspread when changed my wall paper to mauve, that I paid for when I started work, and loved as did not have very much not much money those days..
trannies....I don't think we had them down in Chch...well if we did I don't remember seeing any...probably wouldn't have recognised one if I saw one...I'd heard about them over at Lyttelton but never went near the place in those days...lol
I used also go to the Physodelic Id and another I cannot remember somewhere around where the library is now---Purple Onion I think.
Bistro Bar People were scared to walk past because of it,s reputation. Truth said at the time "One of the most notorious pubs in the world and the place all seaman headed to on arrival in port. A great place but you had to be on your toes occasionally.
Wellington Vivian Street was the tranny centre of NZ with around this time Carmen and Georgina Beyer in attendence. Carmens Coffee Lounge being the centre.
And oh how words change tranny used to mean transistor radio, gay was happy and free, rubber was an eraser. No wonder I always cause laughter. I remember I did not know the alternative meaning to tranny and I told my daughter I was going to get my tranny to take on the picnic. They sniggered and giggled and I couldnt underwstand why.
Palmie North Yep Uncle Sam's had the best burger's to get when you are rather intoxinated.....lol. Sunday school..... yep made to go every sunday morning YUK. I have certificates that state I attended 100% and at the end of the year as a reward you got a bible... year after year. Except one time I got a story book (religous of course) QEC yeah I got suspended 3 weeks before the end of the year (3rd form) went back the next year (4th form) and after a few weeks got 'politly' asked to leave for good. That was my education..... hehehehe. I never got no leaving school cert either. I really was a good person..... honest I was. I was a rebel for a reason!.
Misty Blue Good God here I am again this morning after leaving off here @11pm last night, where have I jumped straight back to???? Yup here. yes Misty. I remember most of what you mentioned. I lived In Mt Roskill till I was 21 and got married we lived in Green Bay (titirangi) for the rest of the time till I moved down here to Kapiti Coast. I remember Titirangi area very well. We used to hire a bach in Wood bay with a long drop!!! OHH pooooooo smelly as
Coffee bars in 60's sitting around singing fold songs. Peter Paul and Mary, The Seekers. PN Coffee Bars that I remember were Sorrento (seemed to have the same reputation as the one in Wellington) Nicoberg owned by Vic Holmes(?) referred to as going to see Vic in the Nic.Toasted sandwiches, ham cheese and pineapple. There wwee several coffee bars/lounges trying to remember the opposite the Cossie Club in Cuba Street near Joe Sing Photography. Help think it was owned by the King family. The Old Dutch in the Square. The Broadway Milk Bar where the bodiges and widgies hung out owned at one stage by John Watson. Ah the memories. Really how innocent we were. Racing around the sqaure when it really was four squares after stock cars in our Minis and 1100's evading the cops.
remember when I was going to primary school we were encouraged to collect tea-coupons and give them to the school as a class by class effort each week. The class with the most coupons won a shield for the week. also there was a shield for the most well-behaved class. Ours never won, because it had rowdy boys in it - and me!
I remember the pinesong very well it got burnt down do u remember that. the gold range was there which was great fun, now they have put retirement places there. Shame really it was such a lovely spot. The El matador and the El trovador , the hungry horse in Elliot street, also Smith and Caugheys when we purchased something there they would send the money and a docket up on a rail thingie and then the office would send it back down with the change in it. lol...
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. Hey my 1st pay packet was 6 pounds for a 40 hour week as a junior typist in a saw sharpening company in Cook Street. that was lots of money in those days and it sure lasted a while
Ngaruawahia Music Festival First on was Corban Simpson and he said " It,s so F***ing hot" and took all his clothes off and did his whole stint starkers. What a way to start, uni sex showers, swimming in the nude in the river. Pat Bartlett saw it in the paper and complained and he was prosecuted about 12 months later.
SANDSAUCERS and doll shows at central normals gala days. anyone remember them.
I loved Bunny Walters & Craig Scott. My Mum went to rock & roll dances with Max Merritt - she's got heaps of pics of them together - just mates ahe she's. Actually she often got kicked out of dances for doing r&r apparently LOL
Max Cryer...I remember having him as my English teacher at Otahuhu College in the mid sixties
Tea coupons.....forgotten about them. This is bringing back many lost memories. Or well filed anyway. I was too young for the sorrento bar then, sorry guys. 68 was just starting high school. Purple onion was in cuba street I think. The place was in Willis St.
I knew a girl from Wellington who was a dancer
at the Purple Onion. I went into Carmen's years ago when my friend and I went up to the Nth Island and hitchhiked from Wellington to Whangarei.
Who remembers the little Wade ornaments in the Coalgate toothpaste boxes? Little animals that are worth a bit now.
Sunday Trading Dairies had to cover over part of the shop on Sundays. They could sell as many 3lb bags of sugar as they like but not a 6lb bag, paint was OK but paintbrushes were not, inspectors used to prowl around. No ad,s no papers no bread on a sunday.
my G/parents toilet was on the porch too, but my Poppy had put a door on the porch so it was just being in the house lol.The darn porch floor was old & splintery though - I slid on it and got about 40 splinters in my bum! I lay over Mum's knee for 2 hrs while she picked each one out! OWWWW!!!
Palmy I've not read all this thread yet. But will I was in Palmy from 60-63 and went to Freyberg high wanted to go to Tech but wasn't allowed to. I wasn't even meant to go into coffee bars because they were 'decident"(sp)I used to sneak in though and thought i was doing something realy bad.
nala I married an American and moved to Texas in the 1980's and they had a silly law there that was similar called the Blue Law...couldn't buy certain items on a Sunday, Didn't make any sense either.
The Day of the Triffidson the radio, scared the hell out of me, used to run flat-out at night putting the milk bottles out so as not to be caught by a triffid. You need a few years under your belt to remember that one.
I remember that joke LOL told my kids it a few yrs ago & they looked at me like I was a bit mental hahaha #846 always went to Hays roof, every Christmas, had to see Father Christmas & play on the big dragon slide LOL. My Mum worked with a lady who had survived the Ballentynes fire. She said all the doors were locked & the cashiers were all expected to save their tills!! The soles of their shoes were melting as they tried to get out the windows - absolutely HORRIBLE!!
anyone have Milk Biscuits at school? I remember when I was at Sommerfield Primary, we were the guinea pigs for a batch that had been produced to send to Africa for the starving children. They tasted REVOLTING & I remember thinking how awful to be a starving African child & having to eat those things!
bridgeway movie theatre in northcote where you had to stand for "god save the queen" before the movie & if it was your birthday you got a free packet of chips. used to rollerskate after school evry day and walked home @ about 6pm every nite completly safe & always bought a newspaper wrapped parcel of hot chips for 5c on the way. going for your gym badges @ school, bronze, silver then gold & my idols were "the chicks" and in love with craig scott LOL.
and the annual rice bowl appeal for Save the Children Fund. It was sposed to make us understand what it was like to subsist on that amount of food.
Mum and I went to see The Day Of The Triffids when we were camping at Kaikoura in the mid 60's, at the little local theatre there. We were camping around by the old wharf and had to walk about three miles to the pictures. Coming home we were pooing ourselves because there were no street lights around the bay and we were walking past all the Matagouri bushes. We were terrified...lol I bought that movie on TM last year...still gives me a chill.
some things wern't so great tho can remember as tho it was yesterday...i was 5yrs old in primmer one and got the strap for eating a "chew bar" in class. they were yummy jaw breaker choc bars. also i got the strap AGAIN in primmer 1 for forgetting my current affairs newspaper clipping 10 days in a row...shame.
Remember the musicals y Fair Lady ... Borgy and Bess ... etc.. Remember all the Westerns.. Rawhide.. gunsmoke etc and war movies were aplenty as well.. Love stories like no other.... Those were the days .. There was a song called that.. lol
I remember getting my first washing machine, It was the sort that the clothes would get caught around the wringer and the clip would pop open and it would just go round and round until you stopped it and dragged the offending article out, it also used to brake all the buttons off the shirts, boy it was a massive upgrade from that to the old twin tub...lol
i remember getting my first signet ring and all i did was went wow and couldnt stop looking at it on my finger, it was awesome , then i got my first watch when i was married the first time round, and i still have it to this day, it was a semi automatic calendar watch.
I never used to wear shoes around at home
and i always wore straight legged pants and a jersey with a top hat, it was the cool at that time.
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yeah the bistro was one of my hang outs too. I think it was about 1968 I hung out at the Sorrento. Remember the guy Robbie on the door.? We used to go to the dark room, lol my friend says it was on the left, but I say the right.
Robbie on the door he would have scared a few away with his looks. 1968 was the year I was going as well. The straight girls felt safer on the left with the trannys so that is where I used to hang out.
The trioka.. Hungrry Horse... Pi King..
El Matador El Cortez reataurants..Pine Song..The Fire Brigade Balls at Titirangi and Laingholm they were so good..I can remember the old steam trains in New Lynn filling up used to watch from the overhead walkway, the old Delta theater....I also had a lemon angora coloured bolero, my Nana made for me, had pink ballerina wallpaper and a mauve candle wick bedspread when changed my wall paper to mauve, that I paid for when I started work, and loved as did not have very much not much money those days..
trannies....I don't think we had them down in Chch...well if we did I don't remember seeing any...probably wouldn't have recognised one if I saw one...I'd heard about them over at Lyttelton but never went near the place in those days...lol
I used also go to the Physodelic Id and another I cannot remember somewhere around where the library is now---Purple Onion I think.
Bistro Bar People were scared to walk past because of it,s reputation. Truth said at the time "One of the most notorious pubs in the world and the place all seaman headed to on arrival in port. A great place but you had to be on your toes occasionally.
Wellington Vivian Street was the tranny centre of NZ with around this time Carmen and Georgina Beyer in attendence. Carmens Coffee Lounge being the centre.
And oh how words change tranny used to mean transistor radio, gay was happy and free, rubber was an eraser. No wonder I always cause laughter. I remember I did not know the alternative meaning to tranny and I told my daughter I was going to get my tranny to take on the picnic. They sniggered and giggled and I couldnt underwstand why.
Palmie North Yep Uncle Sam's had the best burger's to get when you are rather intoxinated.....lol. Sunday school..... yep made to go every sunday morning YUK. I have certificates that state I attended 100% and at the end of the year as a reward you got a bible... year after year. Except one time I got a story book (religous of course) QEC yeah I got suspended 3 weeks before the end of the year (3rd form) went back the next year (4th form) and after a few weeks got 'politly' asked to leave for good. That was my education..... hehehehe. I never got no leaving school cert either. I really was a good person..... honest I was. I was a rebel for a reason!.
Misty Blue Good God here I am again this morning after leaving off here @11pm last night, where have I jumped straight back to???? Yup here. yes Misty. I remember most of what you mentioned. I lived In Mt Roskill till I was 21 and got married we lived in Green Bay (titirangi) for the rest of the time till I moved down here to Kapiti Coast. I remember Titirangi area very well. We used to hire a bach in Wood bay with a long drop!!! OHH pooooooo smelly as
Coffee bars in 60's sitting around singing fold songs. Peter Paul and Mary, The Seekers. PN Coffee Bars that I remember were Sorrento (seemed to have the same reputation as the one in Wellington) Nicoberg owned by Vic Holmes(?) referred to as going to see Vic in the Nic.Toasted sandwiches, ham cheese and pineapple. There wwee several coffee bars/lounges trying to remember the opposite the Cossie Club in Cuba Street near Joe Sing Photography. Help think it was owned by the King family. The Old Dutch in the Square. The Broadway Milk Bar where the bodiges and widgies hung out owned at one stage by John Watson. Ah the memories. Really how innocent we were. Racing around the sqaure when it really was four squares after stock cars in our Minis and 1100's evading the cops.
remember when I was going to primary school we were encouraged to collect tea-coupons and give them to the school as a class by class effort each week. The class with the most coupons won a shield for the week. also there was a shield for the most well-behaved class. Ours never won, because it had rowdy boys in it - and me!
I remember the pinesong very well it got burnt down do u remember that. the gold range was there which was great fun, now they have put retirement places there. Shame really it was such a lovely spot. The El matador and the El trovador , the hungry horse in Elliot street, also Smith and Caugheys when we purchased something there they would send the money and a docket up on a rail thingie and then the office would send it back down with the change in it. lol...
okies
. Hey my 1st pay packet was 6 pounds for a 40 hour week as a junior typist in a saw sharpening company in Cook Street. that was lots of money in those days and it sure lasted a while
Ngaruawahia Music Festival First on was Corban Simpson and he said " It,s so F***ing hot" and took all his clothes off and did his whole stint starkers. What a way to start, uni sex showers, swimming in the nude in the river. Pat Bartlett saw it in the paper and complained and he was prosecuted about 12 months later.
SANDSAUCERS and doll shows at central normals gala days. anyone remember them.
I loved Bunny Walters & Craig Scott. My Mum went to rock & roll dances with Max Merritt - she's got heaps of pics of them together - just mates ahe she's. Actually she often got kicked out of dances for doing r&r apparently LOL
Max Cryer...I remember having him as my English teacher at Otahuhu College in the mid sixties
Tea coupons.....forgotten about them. This is bringing back many lost memories. Or well filed anyway. I was too young for the sorrento bar then, sorry guys. 68 was just starting high school. Purple onion was in cuba street I think. The place was in Willis St.
I knew a girl from Wellington who was a dancer
at the Purple Onion. I went into Carmen's years ago when my friend and I went up to the Nth Island and hitchhiked from Wellington to Whangarei.
Who remembers the little Wade ornaments in the Coalgate toothpaste boxes? Little animals that are worth a bit now.
Sunday Trading Dairies had to cover over part of the shop on Sundays. They could sell as many 3lb bags of sugar as they like but not a 6lb bag, paint was OK but paintbrushes were not, inspectors used to prowl around. No ad,s no papers no bread on a sunday.
my G/parents toilet was on the porch too, but my Poppy had put a door on the porch so it was just being in the house lol.The darn porch floor was old & splintery though - I slid on it and got about 40 splinters in my bum! I lay over Mum's knee for 2 hrs while she picked each one out! OWWWW!!!
Palmy I've not read all this thread yet. But will I was in Palmy from 60-63 and went to Freyberg high wanted to go to Tech but wasn't allowed to. I wasn't even meant to go into coffee bars because they were 'decident"(sp)I used to sneak in though and thought i was doing something realy bad.
nala I married an American and moved to Texas in the 1980's and they had a silly law there that was similar called the Blue Law...couldn't buy certain items on a Sunday, Didn't make any sense either.
The Day of the Triffidson the radio, scared the hell out of me, used to run flat-out at night putting the milk bottles out so as not to be caught by a triffid. You need a few years under your belt to remember that one.
I remember that joke LOL told my kids it a few yrs ago & they looked at me like I was a bit mental hahaha #846 always went to Hays roof, every Christmas, had to see Father Christmas & play on the big dragon slide LOL. My Mum worked with a lady who had survived the Ballentynes fire. She said all the doors were locked & the cashiers were all expected to save their tills!! The soles of their shoes were melting as they tried to get out the windows - absolutely HORRIBLE!!
anyone have Milk Biscuits at school? I remember when I was at Sommerfield Primary, we were the guinea pigs for a batch that had been produced to send to Africa for the starving children. They tasted REVOLTING & I remember thinking how awful to be a starving African child & having to eat those things!
bridgeway movie theatre in northcote where you had to stand for "god save the queen" before the movie & if it was your birthday you got a free packet of chips. used to rollerskate after school evry day and walked home @ about 6pm every nite completly safe & always bought a newspaper wrapped parcel of hot chips for 5c on the way. going for your gym badges @ school, bronze, silver then gold & my idols were "the chicks" and in love with craig scott LOL.
and the annual rice bowl appeal for Save the Children Fund. It was sposed to make us understand what it was like to subsist on that amount of food.
Mum and I went to see The Day Of The Triffids when we were camping at Kaikoura in the mid 60's, at the little local theatre there. We were camping around by the old wharf and had to walk about three miles to the pictures. Coming home we were pooing ourselves because there were no street lights around the bay and we were walking past all the Matagouri bushes. We were terrified...lol I bought that movie on TM last year...still gives me a chill.
some things wern't so great tho can remember as tho it was yesterday...i was 5yrs old in primmer one and got the strap for eating a "chew bar" in class. they were yummy jaw breaker choc bars. also i got the strap AGAIN in primmer 1 for forgetting my current affairs newspaper clipping 10 days in a row...shame.
Remember the musicals y Fair Lady ... Borgy and Bess ... etc.. Remember all the Westerns.. Rawhide.. gunsmoke etc and war movies were aplenty as well.. Love stories like no other.... Those were the days .. There was a song called that.. lol
I remember getting my first washing machine, It was the sort that the clothes would get caught around the wringer and the clip would pop open and it would just go round and round until you stopped it and dragged the offending article out, it also used to brake all the buttons off the shirts, boy it was a massive upgrade from that to the old twin tub...lol
i remember getting my first signet ring and all i did was went wow and couldnt stop looking at it on my finger, it was awesome , then i got my first watch when i was married the first time round, and i still have it to this day, it was a semi automatic calendar watch.
I never used to wear shoes around at home
and i always wore straight legged pants and a jersey with a top hat, it was the cool at that time.
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yep but home many of us lasted there thou..... hehehehehe. How many got suspended or expelled from QEC? No other high school would take kids if you got kicked out of QEC. lol.
think i got a lot of fillings at the murder house that i didnt need though... didnt we all. my favourite programme back then was puffinstuff.. that boy was sooo cute.
we used to play Hopscotch and elastic twist skipping, jungle-jim and for a short delicious time in a new school made a horrible mess in the classrooms because we dived onto gummy tree stumps covered in sawdust until we were forbidden to do so. secret game amongst a strictly trusted group of girls was divulging snippets from a hi-jacked copy of "The Perfumed Garden" found in the attic of one of one of my friends houses.
went to a primary school in Balmoral and there was heaps of rocks in the playground. I remember so clearly us girls used to take flour and mix it with water, also we took cotton wool so that we could fill the holes in the rocks and pretend we were dental nurses. OMG when I think back about that
nite
aucklanders remember. Beatle Inn. Oriental ballroom Shiralee and the Top Twenty and the monaco???
elastics yeah i was no good at that as i had glasses.. a very styly 'winged' pair i might add that dame edna would be jealous of... and i always tripped over the elastic.
I used to love playing dental nurses we would sit on a rotten log and drill holes in it and pretend they were teeth. So what did I do for my first job? Was a dental assistant. Reaction to first op when a guy had all his teeth out was very helpful I fainted and ended up amongst the oxygen cylinders.
Did anyone from Wellington hang out at the Sorrento coffee bar.
Knucklebones...I was good at that Especially catching flies haha. elastics on the footpath.. Leap frog.... Ah the memories I played dental nurses with corks and wax that was left over from my mothers indentations or whatever they were called when the dentist came home to fit mums new teeth LOL. I had lots of little drillers from the dental nurse. It was so fun and so girly
Got expelled from qec 5 days b4 xmas holidays. for swearing at george the cleaner, sexy jenkins the art teacher and I think the straw that broke the camels back was when The prefect told me to pull up my sox to my knees and when I wouldnt she bent over to do it for me and I kicked her in the mouth with my knee. I sat at the mongoane (sp) stream so that the folks didnt know.
i was born in 56 and remember when i started school and had to have a sleep on my mate in the afternoon. lol just reading akll these have bought great memors back to me.i sometimes said to my wife i wished we could have bought our kids up then. if i was good i could have marmite and chip rolls for my lunch so that did not happen a lot lol.
just remember going with my mum to get her hair permed.. they heated these big metal things and put in her hair.. wow they stunk.
night all
eh. same sort of playtime activity. hahahah darmooz, that perm stuff really stunk back in the good old days. God.. i really must close this laptop and go to bed i said i was about 15mins ago and here i still am.. lol
Astoria Ballroom in George st. Remember it well. Practically lived there. Worked out the back of the "ponderosa" making burgers for a while. That was just a few doors down from the ballroom. Remember the ole Opera House as well..
PN people the dances at Newbury Hall Only went to Balls at the Astoria. Who else remembers when Uncle Sam's first opened in Pioneer Highway. First hamburger "joing" in PN.
Uncle Sams....Use to get half a chicken and chips to eat on the way home after the pub. Had a girlfriend who worked there so spent a lot of time there.. lol
The Astoria had all the bigtime bands there most
weekends. The place really rocked.. Hot chicks everywhere. It was like heaven...
Dad built a double long drop. There was a seat for us and one for the bigger people. I remember some of the grafitti that one of my brothers had written in it..."Don't just sit there, don't be slow, be like Elvis, Go Man Go!". It was a sad day when my brothers pulled it down decades later.
elastic we were playing this game one day at school and this girl called lucy was playing and the elastic broke in her nickers so after that we all called her lucy elastic and that thick drink of milo and milk every morning yuk
I got a watch for my birthday and...being a good "Catholic girl" I'd turn my watch back a few hours when I'd go "out", so when I got home, I didn't feel guilty that I was late!
The Sorrento was in Ghuznee street, people look at me in horror when I say I hung out at the Sorrento, but by todays standards it was very tame. All we did was dance, no one even offered me any drugs. For some reason it had a bad reputation. It was owned by Johnny Koolman, he used to drive around Wellington in his gold cadillac .
us kids in the neighbour use to wrap up a piece of wood in a real parcel tie fishline to it and put it out on the road hid behind the bush a car would stop just up the road to come and get it and by the time they got out we had pulled it back in we never got caught that was fun out in the country
Another day to ponder over what has been and what is still to surface... Remember Sunday school? Does it still exist or have times changed. When I was a young fella back in '57/'58 I was in the lifeboys. Just like the marines. lol. Got to wear a white sailors cap but also got suckered into bible stuff. The sacrafices we had to make back then aye.. But the sailors cap looked so cool, even if it was 3 sizes too big for me. Remember the triang Toy factory in Auck. They had big rubbish bins outside full of toy parts and seconds etc. We did our xmas shopping there for free. haha
The Sorrento was my main hang-out Sat until about 4am. Started at the Bistro Bar---kicked out of there at 6pm closing time then hang around until 8 for the Sorrento to open. Smuggle in booze, Linda Koolman on the bar---trannys on the left sde--straights on the right and drugs if you knew who to ask. Police used to raid the place and smell the drinks. Have to wear hearing aids now because of the noise.
The serial at the movies was great... Kit Carson gets shot by Indians, falls off his horse, slips down a cliff and is hanging by a twig when the serial stops and a voice says 'don't miss next week's exciting episode of..KIT CARSON' and all us kids would go....OOOHHH...lol
We used to go to the Century picture theatre in St Albans...Chch. (it's been a Supervalue for years now) All around the walls were huge colour portraits of glamourous actors/actresses like Joan Fontaine, Jack Hawkins, Dirk Bogart. The Governor General Sir Bernard Ferguson and his wife and son came there one day...we all stood in a line and clapped them all the way to their waiting limo or whatever flash car it was. Till this day I've never understood why they came to a little suburban flicks show like that.Probably trying to get a feel of how us commoners entertain ourselves.
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think i got a lot of fillings at the murder house that i didnt need though... didnt we all. my favourite programme back then was puffinstuff.. that boy was sooo cute.
we used to play Hopscotch and elastic twist skipping, jungle-jim and for a short delicious time in a new school made a horrible mess in the classrooms because we dived onto gummy tree stumps covered in sawdust until we were forbidden to do so. secret game amongst a strictly trusted group of girls was divulging snippets from a hi-jacked copy of "The Perfumed Garden" found in the attic of one of one of my friends houses.
went to a primary school in Balmoral and there was heaps of rocks in the playground. I remember so clearly us girls used to take flour and mix it with water, also we took cotton wool so that we could fill the holes in the rocks and pretend we were dental nurses. OMG when I think back about that
nite
aucklanders remember. Beatle Inn. Oriental ballroom Shiralee and the Top Twenty and the monaco???
elastics yeah i was no good at that as i had glasses.. a very styly 'winged' pair i might add that dame edna would be jealous of... and i always tripped over the elastic.
I used to love playing dental nurses we would sit on a rotten log and drill holes in it and pretend they were teeth. So what did I do for my first job? Was a dental assistant. Reaction to first op when a guy had all his teeth out was very helpful I fainted and ended up amongst the oxygen cylinders.
Did anyone from Wellington hang out at the Sorrento coffee bar.
Knucklebones...I was good at that Especially catching flies haha. elastics on the footpath.. Leap frog.... Ah the memories I played dental nurses with corks and wax that was left over from my mothers indentations or whatever they were called when the dentist came home to fit mums new teeth LOL. I had lots of little drillers from the dental nurse. It was so fun and so girly
Got expelled from qec 5 days b4 xmas holidays. for swearing at george the cleaner, sexy jenkins the art teacher and I think the straw that broke the camels back was when The prefect told me to pull up my sox to my knees and when I wouldnt she bent over to do it for me and I kicked her in the mouth with my knee. I sat at the mongoane (sp) stream so that the folks didnt know.
i was born in 56 and remember when i started school and had to have a sleep on my mate in the afternoon. lol just reading akll these have bought great memors back to me.i sometimes said to my wife i wished we could have bought our kids up then. if i was good i could have marmite and chip rolls for my lunch so that did not happen a lot lol.
just remember going with my mum to get her hair permed.. they heated these big metal things and put in her hair.. wow they stunk.
night all
eh. same sort of playtime activity. hahahah darmooz, that perm stuff really stunk back in the good old days. God.. i really must close this laptop and go to bed i said i was about 15mins ago and here i still am.. lol
Astoria Ballroom in George st. Remember it well. Practically lived there. Worked out the back of the "ponderosa" making burgers for a while. That was just a few doors down from the ballroom. Remember the ole Opera House as well..
PN people the dances at Newbury Hall Only went to Balls at the Astoria. Who else remembers when Uncle Sam's first opened in Pioneer Highway. First hamburger "joing" in PN.
Uncle Sams....Use to get half a chicken and chips to eat on the way home after the pub. Had a girlfriend who worked there so spent a lot of time there.. lol
The Astoria had all the bigtime bands there most
weekends. The place really rocked.. Hot chicks everywhere. It was like heaven...
Dad built a double long drop. There was a seat for us and one for the bigger people. I remember some of the grafitti that one of my brothers had written in it..."Don't just sit there, don't be slow, be like Elvis, Go Man Go!". It was a sad day when my brothers pulled it down decades later.
elastic we were playing this game one day at school and this girl called lucy was playing and the elastic broke in her nickers so after that we all called her lucy elastic and that thick drink of milo and milk every morning yuk
I got a watch for my birthday and...being a good "Catholic girl" I'd turn my watch back a few hours when I'd go "out", so when I got home, I didn't feel guilty that I was late!
The Sorrento was in Ghuznee street, people look at me in horror when I say I hung out at the Sorrento, but by todays standards it was very tame. All we did was dance, no one even offered me any drugs. For some reason it had a bad reputation. It was owned by Johnny Koolman, he used to drive around Wellington in his gold cadillac .
us kids in the neighbour use to wrap up a piece of wood in a real parcel tie fishline to it and put it out on the road hid behind the bush a car would stop just up the road to come and get it and by the time they got out we had pulled it back in we never got caught that was fun out in the country
Another day to ponder over what has been and what is still to surface... Remember Sunday school? Does it still exist or have times changed. When I was a young fella back in '57/'58 I was in the lifeboys. Just like the marines. lol. Got to wear a white sailors cap but also got suckered into bible stuff. The sacrafices we had to make back then aye.. But the sailors cap looked so cool, even if it was 3 sizes too big for me. Remember the triang Toy factory in Auck. They had big rubbish bins outside full of toy parts and seconds etc. We did our xmas shopping there for free. haha
The Sorrento was my main hang-out Sat until about 4am. Started at the Bistro Bar---kicked out of there at 6pm closing time then hang around until 8 for the Sorrento to open. Smuggle in booze, Linda Koolman on the bar---trannys on the left sde--straights on the right and drugs if you knew who to ask. Police used to raid the place and smell the drinks. Have to wear hearing aids now because of the noise.
The serial at the movies was great... Kit Carson gets shot by Indians, falls off his horse, slips down a cliff and is hanging by a twig when the serial stops and a voice says 'don't miss next week's exciting episode of..KIT CARSON' and all us kids would go....OOOHHH...lol
We used to go to the Century picture theatre in St Albans...Chch. (it's been a Supervalue for years now) All around the walls were huge colour portraits of glamourous actors/actresses like Joan Fontaine, Jack Hawkins, Dirk Bogart. The Governor General Sir Bernard Ferguson and his wife and son came there one day...we all stood in a line and clapped them all the way to their waiting limo or whatever flash car it was. Till this day I've never understood why they came to a little suburban flicks show like that.Probably trying to get a feel of how us commoners entertain ourselves.
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remember 'Wipe it on ...windowlene. Wipe it off.....windowlene. Thats how to get your windows clean......blah blah. ' AND "pinky bars are right on top....Lets eat a pinky!' haha forgotten the middle bit but they stick in my mind. Suspenders and stockings that resembled carpet.....so uncomfortable. With witches britches to cover the gaps!
Remember shops like Butterfields who had a 'pay as you wear' deal. That was before they started calling it credit.
remember when a roast chicken was a treat on Christmas day.. school milk made you barf.. and..and the drinks - Cold Duck, Horses Neck, Blackberry Nip, Poulet Poulet. Hop beer (OMG a kid couls buy it at the dairy - ) oh and WHAT were supermarkets ??? we had the corner dairy 10 wine gums for a penny - thruppence for a movie and Icecream.... bread (wrapped in greaseproof or in a paper bag) milk (in glass bottles) and ice was cdelivered !!
It was 'Pinky bars are right on top, you're sure to like it cause it's got...marshmallow centre, chocolate too..pinky..it's the bar for you...
those pointed shoes awful and bad for the feet never wore them but liked the square top shoes
The first supermarket near us was called
Selfhelp. my sister's friend worked there and she'd show off a bit cause she got 2 pound 2/6 a week.
The old cars my dad had...I wish I had them now...Ford Prefects, Vauxhall Velox, Austin 10, Austin Cambridge.
I remember Mum slogging over the copper...That must have been awful in the summer! She had 8 children before she had a washing machine or a fridge! and we had home made icecream and it was a real treat! also in Springston we had a cow and we had so much cream and butter!! I love porridge with thick cream and soft brown sugar! and nowdays I have it with honey, molasses and ground seeds to get me healthy!!!!
parents used to wash clothes in the copper. Then there was a large concrete tub beside it where mum rinsed out things in We used to head off to town all dressed to kill for the big day out in Queen St, in my dads Standard 10
-Patent leather shoes Yup -finally got some RED ONES with crepe soles- I told Mum that they fir when they were way too small -they nearly killed my feet but I was going to have them come Hell or high water. I remember seeing "The Chicks" n a girlfriends t.v. who used to make pom poms using the two circles of cardboard with the hole in the middle?? and you wound the wool round through the hole and tied it off the cut around the edges and cut off the cardboard.Easter eggs in the lovely egg cups being pulled by a bunny or a duck??
katy i dont remember the train in nelson but i do remember biking home from school in upper moutere on my raleigh 20 and stopping to pick up bunches of peas off the road and sitting on the roadside eating them. they had dropped off the talleys trucks. eww and i so remember malt extract. still cant figure out why it was supposed to be good for you lol. mum was real mean and got the one with cod liver oil in it YUK!
My mother had a washing machine for about two months once till dad sold it to go to the pub. She washed all our things by hand the whole time we were growing up. I wish I'd helped her more but I was just a little kid and didn't realize how hard life was for her then.
we had a copper it was great the clothes were beautifully clean and my mother used to get so frustrated if the mangle caught the clothes . We had two concrete sinks.
Anyone remember riding the trams down symonds St Whats about this jingle. Broke me denture broke me denture tell me what can i do. Take it into Mr geddes and he'll fix it just like new
Cold duck. Expensive stuff it was at $1.00 a bottle. There was another called Brother Dominic which was equally as bad. We used to get threatened with being sent to the all saints orphanage...frightening prospect for us. Hugs to Crashe..you are a survivor.
You go downstairs and forget when you hit the bottom. You come back up then remember....and so it goes on. You ring someone on the phone and forget who you are asking for when they answer....now thats embarrassing. I do remember On the good ship Lollipop by Shirley Temple though. haha. And playing all my Mothers 68? records. The big thick ones.
closest school was Takaro, thats where all the kids from All Saints went to.... then I went to live back with my mother... after a few years in the orphanage. Remained at Takaro then onto Monrad Int
any other palmy people remember the train going bissecting main street? We lived on Ruahine between Church and Ferguson and I can remember the whistle of the limited as it left PN at about 10pm.
Ugh I used to ahve a desert spoon of cod liver oil every day but at least it was followed by same quantity of rose-hip syrup and what I am very grateful for now I had to take a nasty tasting flouride tablet each day.
id forgotten so many things till i read this. i remember mum washing in the copper too and dying the wool that she had spun in it as well. someone spilt cold duck on our carpet during a 70s party and it wouldnt come out for love or money. does anyone remember fiddlesticks i think they were called. i think they came with iceblocks? they were blue yellow and red plastic interlocking sticks.
I still do my Arithmetic the old way.. Adding, subtraction, division and multiplication. Arithmetic = A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Toffee In Church. Only way to remember how to spell it.
tobacco all the Fijian workers who used to go to Motueka and harvest the tobacco which continued into the 70's. Loved the smell of the leaves drying in the sheds when we did a school trip out there but I only ever had two puffs of one cigarette. Plenty of passive smoking though.
We used to live around the back of English park
in St Albans, Chch. We had a gang, about five or six of us girls. We made masks to wear so we could raid the neighbours fruit trees and no one would recognize us. Only trouble was, one of our gang had platinum blonde hair, the only girl with hair that colour so we got caught every time.
for some strange reason i loved the taste of flouride tablets and took a whole heap one day much to my mums disgust. i remember liking the taste of match heads too.. im amazed in hindsight that ive made it past forty lol.
I thought he ate turnips in church LOL...
Captain Pugwash, Gigantor, Thunderbirds, The original Dr Who and Lost In Space ?
oral mental arithmetic tests and reciting your times tables..bet most of us can do them still but wonder if any of the present generation can in their head. Pre calculator..the slide rule. still have mine somewhere.
mum used to grade tobacco and i used to go and hang out in the grading sheds after school... lol can you imagine taking your kids to sit in a closed room full of tobacco where everyone was smoking as well thesedays? the fijians were lovely.
I used to love Aspros They used to come in little pink packages all attached in white paper. Mum had to hide them cause I'd eat them like lollies..strange kid!
I also remember when we had a cough or cold we had to drink "dynamite", chemist in rangitikei st made it up. sure tasted like dynamite too.I went to central, intermediate normal and qec. john humphries was a wonderful memory from intermediate. so wish I could find him..lol
What games did you play at lunchtime?I remember cowboys and indians. all walking around with arms around each others shoulders in a line. Oranges and lemons.... 'We are the busy bees to do some work...' Bullrush....
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Remember shops like Butterfields who had a 'pay as you wear' deal. That was before they started calling it credit.
remember when a roast chicken was a treat on Christmas day.. school milk made you barf.. and..and the drinks - Cold Duck, Horses Neck, Blackberry Nip, Poulet Poulet. Hop beer (OMG a kid couls buy it at the dairy - ) oh and WHAT were supermarkets ??? we had the corner dairy 10 wine gums for a penny - thruppence for a movie and Icecream.... bread (wrapped in greaseproof or in a paper bag) milk (in glass bottles) and ice was cdelivered !!
It was 'Pinky bars are right on top, you're sure to like it cause it's got...marshmallow centre, chocolate too..pinky..it's the bar for you...
those pointed shoes awful and bad for the feet never wore them but liked the square top shoes
The first supermarket near us was called
Selfhelp. my sister's friend worked there and she'd show off a bit cause she got 2 pound 2/6 a week.
The old cars my dad had...I wish I had them now...Ford Prefects, Vauxhall Velox, Austin 10, Austin Cambridge.
I remember Mum slogging over the copper...That must have been awful in the summer! She had 8 children before she had a washing machine or a fridge! and we had home made icecream and it was a real treat! also in Springston we had a cow and we had so much cream and butter!! I love porridge with thick cream and soft brown sugar! and nowdays I have it with honey, molasses and ground seeds to get me healthy!!!!
parents used to wash clothes in the copper. Then there was a large concrete tub beside it where mum rinsed out things in We used to head off to town all dressed to kill for the big day out in Queen St, in my dads Standard 10
-Patent leather shoes Yup -finally got some RED ONES with crepe soles- I told Mum that they fir when they were way too small -they nearly killed my feet but I was going to have them come Hell or high water. I remember seeing "The Chicks" n a girlfriends t.v. who used to make pom poms using the two circles of cardboard with the hole in the middle?? and you wound the wool round through the hole and tied it off the cut around the edges and cut off the cardboard.Easter eggs in the lovely egg cups being pulled by a bunny or a duck??
katy i dont remember the train in nelson but i do remember biking home from school in upper moutere on my raleigh 20 and stopping to pick up bunches of peas off the road and sitting on the roadside eating them. they had dropped off the talleys trucks. eww and i so remember malt extract. still cant figure out why it was supposed to be good for you lol. mum was real mean and got the one with cod liver oil in it YUK!
My mother had a washing machine for about two months once till dad sold it to go to the pub. She washed all our things by hand the whole time we were growing up. I wish I'd helped her more but I was just a little kid and didn't realize how hard life was for her then.
we had a copper it was great the clothes were beautifully clean and my mother used to get so frustrated if the mangle caught the clothes . We had two concrete sinks.
Anyone remember riding the trams down symonds St Whats about this jingle. Broke me denture broke me denture tell me what can i do. Take it into Mr geddes and he'll fix it just like new
Cold duck. Expensive stuff it was at $1.00 a bottle. There was another called Brother Dominic which was equally as bad. We used to get threatened with being sent to the all saints orphanage...frightening prospect for us. Hugs to Crashe..you are a survivor.
You go downstairs and forget when you hit the bottom. You come back up then remember....and so it goes on. You ring someone on the phone and forget who you are asking for when they answer....now thats embarrassing. I do remember On the good ship Lollipop by Shirley Temple though. haha. And playing all my Mothers 68? records. The big thick ones.
closest school was Takaro, thats where all the kids from All Saints went to.... then I went to live back with my mother... after a few years in the orphanage. Remained at Takaro then onto Monrad Int
any other palmy people remember the train going bissecting main street? We lived on Ruahine between Church and Ferguson and I can remember the whistle of the limited as it left PN at about 10pm.
Ugh I used to ahve a desert spoon of cod liver oil every day but at least it was followed by same quantity of rose-hip syrup and what I am very grateful for now I had to take a nasty tasting flouride tablet each day.
id forgotten so many things till i read this. i remember mum washing in the copper too and dying the wool that she had spun in it as well. someone spilt cold duck on our carpet during a 70s party and it wouldnt come out for love or money. does anyone remember fiddlesticks i think they were called. i think they came with iceblocks? they were blue yellow and red plastic interlocking sticks.
I still do my Arithmetic the old way.. Adding, subtraction, division and multiplication. Arithmetic = A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Toffee In Church. Only way to remember how to spell it.
tobacco all the Fijian workers who used to go to Motueka and harvest the tobacco which continued into the 70's. Loved the smell of the leaves drying in the sheds when we did a school trip out there but I only ever had two puffs of one cigarette. Plenty of passive smoking though.
We used to live around the back of English park
in St Albans, Chch. We had a gang, about five or six of us girls. We made masks to wear so we could raid the neighbours fruit trees and no one would recognize us. Only trouble was, one of our gang had platinum blonde hair, the only girl with hair that colour so we got caught every time.
for some strange reason i loved the taste of flouride tablets and took a whole heap one day much to my mums disgust. i remember liking the taste of match heads too.. im amazed in hindsight that ive made it past forty lol.
I thought he ate turnips in church LOL...
Captain Pugwash, Gigantor, Thunderbirds, The original Dr Who and Lost In Space ?
oral mental arithmetic tests and reciting your times tables..bet most of us can do them still but wonder if any of the present generation can in their head. Pre calculator..the slide rule. still have mine somewhere.
mum used to grade tobacco and i used to go and hang out in the grading sheds after school... lol can you imagine taking your kids to sit in a closed room full of tobacco where everyone was smoking as well thesedays? the fijians were lovely.
I used to love Aspros They used to come in little pink packages all attached in white paper. Mum had to hide them cause I'd eat them like lollies..strange kid!
I also remember when we had a cough or cold we had to drink "dynamite", chemist in rangitikei st made it up. sure tasted like dynamite too.I went to central, intermediate normal and qec. john humphries was a wonderful memory from intermediate. so wish I could find him..lol
What games did you play at lunchtime?I remember cowboys and indians. all walking around with arms around each others shoulders in a line. Oranges and lemons.... 'We are the busy bees to do some work...' Bullrush....
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smocked dresses with as many of those stiff petticoats as possible..god they were scratchy though. And you couldnt play bullrush in 'em either.
I guess my mother triedbut thinking about it now I was a lost cause. Preferred shorts, t'shirts and barefeet in the summer and those godawful tartan trousers and gumboots in the winter.
had a uniform with the plastic brown sandals. But they had a covered foot with little slit openings down the side.. Stones were always getting down them and into the heel part of the sandal. Thought I was really cool setting off to school all totted up with me new plastics on me feet, long sleeve white blouse . tie . panama hat. my socks pulled up to my knees, and my brown schoolbag
I much prefer glass cream and milk bottles too pity they went out. Remember the school post office account called Squirrel Nutkin when I was there. Think I banked about 2/6d a week in it but I wasnt allowed to touch it except for good purchases not sweets or anything like that.Pocket money of 3d a day if I was good if not cancelled and it was written in the diary in red No PM this week!! plus I would get a smack with the back of a lightish hairbrush. Didnt do any harm at all.
never hurt me either. In fact I would say it made me appreciate my parents more. I was a very vocal girl (still am I am told) and my mouth got me into so much trouble both at school and home. If it was good enough for the teachers to smack me I guess it was just as good being my parent to give me the odd 1 or 2 whacks.. I hated detention though and remember being only about standard 4 with a new teacher and because I didnt have my swimming togs with me I was made to sit in class at lunchtime and write *I must bring my togs each day* 500 times I was crying by the time I finsihed that That was cruel I thought. I would rather have had the strap instead of writing out lines. Anyhow as I told the teacher the pool is so green my mum said I may get a disease hahaha. Didn't work, still got into trouble
detention remember being told to stand out in the middle of the quadrangle when I was talking through a music class. I didnt mind that but I was petrified the headmaster would see me and come over. I kept going over to the drinking fountain and pretending I was thirsty if I saw someone coming. Had never spoken to him nor did I ever. Actually he was the kindest possible man you could hope for but for some silly reason he scared me just the way he looked from the stage at asembley.
School rulers and blardy teachers. Had a teacher who would come up and hit your knuckles with the edge of the ruler.... never with the flat side of it... NO it was the sharp edge of it... HURT like crazy as he hit you real hard. Accused of yakking and whack...... half the time I didnt do a thing...... WHACK as he walked past. I stood up and told the pr*ck where to go..... some friggen blabbermouth went home and told their daddy who happened to know my stepdad.... who then told my mother..... got frogmarched back up to the school to the teacher to apologise. Like WTF for! I laughed and walked out again and my mother apologised for my behaviour. The pratt of a teacher never did it to me again.
I stashed away my halfpennies in our old couchI had my name and date of birth on a piece of paper in there. A few years ago in early "90's" I got a call and they asked if I still wanted them. So I still have them lol
Hated petticoats with tons of layers, felt so fluffy and poncy. shudder at the thought of wearing them. But.. do you remember the toilets with the chains ? My grandmother had one and had to climb on the toilet (cracked wooden seat) to reach it, then swing on it to get it to work. blardy thing was so tempermental. the came the handle flush, that always got stuck and toilets were always out on the porch. so cold and scary in the nite. I had a chamber under the bed and so many times wobbled off it and the pee went all over the carpet ! OMG
glaxo.....builds bonny babies bell tea coupons,i still have some.
all those lovely lovely cereal freebies cornflakes rice crispies and honey puffs and maybe shredded wheat which I like better than weetbix not sure which ones had them but I used to collect beautiful little vintage cars and other things like a tiny horse and carriage , stagecoach, paddle boat all these were then painted in the true colours they could have been but very fragile . I still have some put away in a box. There were plastic black horses and white ones and indians and cowboys that fitted into the saddle and rode them . There were lovely zoo and farm animals and again used to paint them up with special coloured plastic paint played imaginative games -circuses farms and zoos for hours just right for an only child.
Remember the old man working for the fire brigade with no breathing protection at fires & also wrapping asbestos around piping by hand... The old bugga's still alive.(Reckons you can't kill weeds)
hqad my 86yr old mum read some of these postings.She said she remembers when there was Stormonts bread place at the top of Grafton road and every lunch time the kids headed there for the cut offs from the sponges that stormonts made. They were given a bag each. mum said that used to go a long way in puddings for her fami;ly of 10
I remember getting wade whimseys in the toothpate packets!! Little pottery animals and various other figures.
Crashe that old building was definitely a children's home that later became the Catholic Convent then if I remember rightly it was bought by the Power Board for Offices. #653 I remember Miss Collins the sewing teacher. We went from St Josephs High School once a week for sewing with her. She was quite a "dumpy" lady with a broad scottish accent. Remember her telling us that things that were factory made were not worth the money and then she would relate the story of how she wanted to buy hubby shirt and saw a loose thread. She pulled it and the whole collar came off in her hand. #768 darmooz (ant read my writing)the Eldorado chocolates yummy you are so right. But I think you could only get them if you worked for a Govt Dept and they came from either Barraud and Abraham or Goldingham and Beckett. Has taken me about three hours to catch up on thread now disappearing to wtch Midsomer Murders on Prime.
remember the Bell Tea coupons and I have never drunk tea. #819 I loved those wee toys. Had forgotten all about them. Don't know what happened to all my toys from cereal packets.Might be worth a bit now, you'd think the fragile ones would anyway.
BIKING for miles... hand delivering telegrams.. real good wages working for the govt. auction rooms everywhere.
Who remembers .....travelling to the South Island on the over-night ferry, went heaps of times, always seasick !! remember going on the maori and the wahine, then all day bus or train trip to Dunedin to visit grandparents.
train in Nelson Does anyone remember riding on the train in Nelson? What was it like where did you travel to? We arrived there two years after the railway was closed down, shame!
Can't remember travelling.. through Nelson, just from lyttelton, always had breakfast there at the railway Station before getting on the train to Dunedin, took all day, stopped along the way to buy food, stopped at Oamaru can't remember where else, took ALL DAY, I remember that much.
**The Little Red School Book***remember that? All about sex and condoms.
STOCKINGS & suspender belts.. when the button broke I used a small coin to help hold them up... now we wear them to entertain the men.. roflmao
How about some jingles..... Boy Oh Boy A Lincoln Toy. I'm gonna wash you out dandruff, you've been in everyone's hair. The thicker the block the better tyhe choc.
Yep it was the "All Saints Orphanage" the big building on Pascal St in Palm North. It was recently sold off a few years ago. I was one of the many who lived in that place. My bro and I went back years later when the nuns were living there..... they were hesitant but aggreed to show us throu the place again as we had many memories of the place. Going back throu the dorms as older girls were separated from the younger girls... at the other end the younger boys were separated from older boys...... many families with young children were separated within the one big building and the family bond lost forever. many were from just a one child family left there as well. Yep they were the times back then never knowing who the hell was who.
that was the first dirty joke I learnt.. What did Mrs Lincoln say to Mr Lincoln when he pulled down his pants ? Boy oh boy a lincoln toy ! hahaha still remember it to this day.
Form I at Heaton Intermediate We went to Wellington on the Maori from Lyttelton. We all met at the Chch raliway station, caught the train over to the port and got on the ferry which took all night to get to Wellington. Once there we went to Todd Motor Factory in Lower Hutt? and saw all the Crysler Valiants being assembled then to the zoo. The tigers escaped a couple of weeks after we were there and they shot them. This was 1966.
I remember going to a shop in Christchurch...when I was primary school age, and when my mum paid for something the money was put in a metal can with a docket, put on a thing like a railway line above our heads and shot off somewhere, then returned with the change!!!!
Child of the 50's here that would be Ballantynes - all the staff wre black and you could sit at a seat at the counter and the staff bought what you wanted to you
I think the shop was called Drayton Jones or something like that. One of the cafes had one of those things as well. Do you remember when Miller's got the first moving stairs? it was really exciting to go there so we could ride up and down on them. Did you used to go up to Hay's roof?
Armstrongs, Calder Mackays, Galvins D.I.C My mother blacklisted Ballantynes after the fire of 47? We never went in there because she said they were negligent not having fire escapes.
crashe I guess you went to Central School then and onto Intermediate Normal?
God I can even remember when they hanged the last man in New Zealand(Wally Bolten),(and they reckon he was innocent in the end too)and whenever I was naughty, they would say "He,ll end up on a Rope that Boy"..hahahahaha..
Guess you proved them wrong! 850
I guess my mother triedbut thinking about it now I was a lost cause. Preferred shorts, t'shirts and barefeet in the summer and those godawful tartan trousers and gumboots in the winter.
had a uniform with the plastic brown sandals. But they had a covered foot with little slit openings down the side.. Stones were always getting down them and into the heel part of the sandal. Thought I was really cool setting off to school all totted up with me new plastics on me feet, long sleeve white blouse . tie . panama hat. my socks pulled up to my knees, and my brown schoolbag
I much prefer glass cream and milk bottles too pity they went out. Remember the school post office account called Squirrel Nutkin when I was there. Think I banked about 2/6d a week in it but I wasnt allowed to touch it except for good purchases not sweets or anything like that.Pocket money of 3d a day if I was good if not cancelled and it was written in the diary in red No PM this week!! plus I would get a smack with the back of a lightish hairbrush. Didnt do any harm at all.
never hurt me either. In fact I would say it made me appreciate my parents more. I was a very vocal girl (still am I am told) and my mouth got me into so much trouble both at school and home. If it was good enough for the teachers to smack me I guess it was just as good being my parent to give me the odd 1 or 2 whacks.. I hated detention though and remember being only about standard 4 with a new teacher and because I didnt have my swimming togs with me I was made to sit in class at lunchtime and write *I must bring my togs each day* 500 times I was crying by the time I finsihed that That was cruel I thought. I would rather have had the strap instead of writing out lines. Anyhow as I told the teacher the pool is so green my mum said I may get a disease hahaha. Didn't work, still got into trouble
detention remember being told to stand out in the middle of the quadrangle when I was talking through a music class. I didnt mind that but I was petrified the headmaster would see me and come over. I kept going over to the drinking fountain and pretending I was thirsty if I saw someone coming. Had never spoken to him nor did I ever. Actually he was the kindest possible man you could hope for but for some silly reason he scared me just the way he looked from the stage at asembley.
School rulers and blardy teachers. Had a teacher who would come up and hit your knuckles with the edge of the ruler.... never with the flat side of it... NO it was the sharp edge of it... HURT like crazy as he hit you real hard. Accused of yakking and whack...... half the time I didnt do a thing...... WHACK as he walked past. I stood up and told the pr*ck where to go..... some friggen blabbermouth went home and told their daddy who happened to know my stepdad.... who then told my mother..... got frogmarched back up to the school to the teacher to apologise. Like WTF for! I laughed and walked out again and my mother apologised for my behaviour. The pratt of a teacher never did it to me again.
I stashed away my halfpennies in our old couchI had my name and date of birth on a piece of paper in there. A few years ago in early "90's" I got a call and they asked if I still wanted them. So I still have them lol
Hated petticoats with tons of layers, felt so fluffy and poncy. shudder at the thought of wearing them. But.. do you remember the toilets with the chains ? My grandmother had one and had to climb on the toilet (cracked wooden seat) to reach it, then swing on it to get it to work. blardy thing was so tempermental. the came the handle flush, that always got stuck and toilets were always out on the porch. so cold and scary in the nite. I had a chamber under the bed and so many times wobbled off it and the pee went all over the carpet ! OMG
glaxo.....builds bonny babies bell tea coupons,i still have some.
all those lovely lovely cereal freebies cornflakes rice crispies and honey puffs and maybe shredded wheat which I like better than weetbix not sure which ones had them but I used to collect beautiful little vintage cars and other things like a tiny horse and carriage , stagecoach, paddle boat all these were then painted in the true colours they could have been but very fragile . I still have some put away in a box. There were plastic black horses and white ones and indians and cowboys that fitted into the saddle and rode them . There were lovely zoo and farm animals and again used to paint them up with special coloured plastic paint played imaginative games -circuses farms and zoos for hours just right for an only child.
Remember the old man working for the fire brigade with no breathing protection at fires & also wrapping asbestos around piping by hand... The old bugga's still alive.(Reckons you can't kill weeds)
hqad my 86yr old mum read some of these postings.She said she remembers when there was Stormonts bread place at the top of Grafton road and every lunch time the kids headed there for the cut offs from the sponges that stormonts made. They were given a bag each. mum said that used to go a long way in puddings for her fami;ly of 10
I remember getting wade whimseys in the toothpate packets!! Little pottery animals and various other figures.
Crashe that old building was definitely a children's home that later became the Catholic Convent then if I remember rightly it was bought by the Power Board for Offices. #653 I remember Miss Collins the sewing teacher. We went from St Josephs High School once a week for sewing with her. She was quite a "dumpy" lady with a broad scottish accent. Remember her telling us that things that were factory made were not worth the money and then she would relate the story of how she wanted to buy hubby shirt and saw a loose thread. She pulled it and the whole collar came off in her hand. #768 darmooz (ant read my writing)the Eldorado chocolates yummy you are so right. But I think you could only get them if you worked for a Govt Dept and they came from either Barraud and Abraham or Goldingham and Beckett. Has taken me about three hours to catch up on thread now disappearing to wtch Midsomer Murders on Prime.
remember the Bell Tea coupons and I have never drunk tea. #819 I loved those wee toys. Had forgotten all about them. Don't know what happened to all my toys from cereal packets.Might be worth a bit now, you'd think the fragile ones would anyway.
BIKING for miles... hand delivering telegrams.. real good wages working for the govt. auction rooms everywhere.
Who remembers .....travelling to the South Island on the over-night ferry, went heaps of times, always seasick !! remember going on the maori and the wahine, then all day bus or train trip to Dunedin to visit grandparents.
train in Nelson Does anyone remember riding on the train in Nelson? What was it like where did you travel to? We arrived there two years after the railway was closed down, shame!
Can't remember travelling.. through Nelson, just from lyttelton, always had breakfast there at the railway Station before getting on the train to Dunedin, took all day, stopped along the way to buy food, stopped at Oamaru can't remember where else, took ALL DAY, I remember that much.
**The Little Red School Book***remember that? All about sex and condoms.
STOCKINGS & suspender belts.. when the button broke I used a small coin to help hold them up... now we wear them to entertain the men.. roflmao
How about some jingles..... Boy Oh Boy A Lincoln Toy. I'm gonna wash you out dandruff, you've been in everyone's hair. The thicker the block the better tyhe choc.
Yep it was the "All Saints Orphanage" the big building on Pascal St in Palm North. It was recently sold off a few years ago. I was one of the many who lived in that place. My bro and I went back years later when the nuns were living there..... they were hesitant but aggreed to show us throu the place again as we had many memories of the place. Going back throu the dorms as older girls were separated from the younger girls... at the other end the younger boys were separated from older boys...... many families with young children were separated within the one big building and the family bond lost forever. many were from just a one child family left there as well. Yep they were the times back then never knowing who the hell was who.
that was the first dirty joke I learnt.. What did Mrs Lincoln say to Mr Lincoln when he pulled down his pants ? Boy oh boy a lincoln toy ! hahaha still remember it to this day.
Form I at Heaton Intermediate We went to Wellington on the Maori from Lyttelton. We all met at the Chch raliway station, caught the train over to the port and got on the ferry which took all night to get to Wellington. Once there we went to Todd Motor Factory in Lower Hutt? and saw all the Crysler Valiants being assembled then to the zoo. The tigers escaped a couple of weeks after we were there and they shot them. This was 1966.
I remember going to a shop in Christchurch...when I was primary school age, and when my mum paid for something the money was put in a metal can with a docket, put on a thing like a railway line above our heads and shot off somewhere, then returned with the change!!!!
Child of the 50's here that would be Ballantynes - all the staff wre black and you could sit at a seat at the counter and the staff bought what you wanted to you
I think the shop was called Drayton Jones or something like that. One of the cafes had one of those things as well. Do you remember when Miller's got the first moving stairs? it was really exciting to go there so we could ride up and down on them. Did you used to go up to Hay's roof?
Armstrongs, Calder Mackays, Galvins D.I.C My mother blacklisted Ballantynes after the fire of 47? We never went in there because she said they were negligent not having fire escapes.
crashe I guess you went to Central School then and onto Intermediate Normal?
God I can even remember when they hanged the last man in New Zealand(Wally Bolten),(and they reckon he was innocent in the end too)and whenever I was naughty, they would say "He,ll end up on a Rope that Boy"..hahahahaha..
Guess you proved them wrong! 850
part 16
Remember the Red, Blue, Green and Gold House that you had in sport, I knew red house was always in the lead at our school so I told them that I had to go into Red house cause my aunt and uncles had been in it when they went right thru their schooling so they let me in lolI remember having to get my school shoes resoled!! Not like the throw away ones now. Mum used to knit all our jumpers and make our clothes cause they were so dear to buy. Used to dress me up in goddam awful "twinsets" (knitted jumper cardy on top) and these yuck "pleated kilts" yuck. My daughters would "die if I did that to them" At 14 I asked Dad if I could get my ears pieced twice (1981) and told no cause I'd look like a "slut" He got such a shock when he came down at Xmas this year and both myself and 14 year old daughter had our navels done!!
No seatbelts back then either and drinking and driving with you kids piled in the back was totally acceptable. I rememebr Dad being "pulled up" and the cop saying "Have you been drinking tonight sir", with us all bouncing around in the back and Dad going "yes officer" "Oh well sir best you go straight home then!"
remember at Otara intermediate we had 20 mins to sit and eat lunch then had to do organized sport for 40 mins. That was our lunch hour.. I was a cycle monitor in them days so that got a few privileges to get out of a few things.. I guess nowadays I would be called a nark.. lol.. Hey wait on.. there are some who do call me that on here.. old habits aye... haha
Our bread was bought once a week those huge square loaves, the mnonly thing that kept it ewdible was that we mostly had spaghetti which at least put a bit of moisture in it. School milk I was one of the strange ones and loved it. Wo wonderful to go back in memmory
Anyone remember sargent dan the cremota man and being forced to eat porridge for breakfast
yes but we had scotch oats ! LOL I remember my mother had one pound a week for groceries, my father earned 5 pounds back then and they sold their house in 1965 for 5000 pounds (thats $10000) wow wonder what its worth now. and.. we always had to have a chubby loaf, hated it, had that huge round top and made the sandwiches look like door steps, I wanted a tank loaf and my friend mother could cut it really thin. Did you ever buy the bread and eat the middle out of it by the time you got home ?
Aunt Daisy. "Well, Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning. When I got up this morning the sun was shining right up my back passage". Road Services buses. Anyone travel Napier to Hastings (or vice verca) over the two bridges! You just had to sit in the back seat to get the full effect. The 'Fleapit', (did every town have one? Not its real name ~ but who remembers the real name?) on Saturday afternoons to watch the 'shorts' & the 'serial', before the main feature. Don't know how we ever heard the film, there was so much noise from all the kids.
Lil' Tuppence dolls 'mon girls from the 60's. Who remembers these dolls? They were the most popular dolls around. I got one in 1965 when I was 10 and if I close my eyes I can still conjure up that feeling of looking at her face for the first time. We were dirt poor and it was the first new doll I'd ever had. I don't have that same doll still but I've collected them (off TM) for about 3 yrs now.
A few I recall are fingernail and handkerchief inspection at primary school; placing a card in your window if you wanted the drycleaner to come in and collect your drycleaning and the Salvation Army, on the back of a truck, playing Christmas carols on Christmas morning.
I got to sit on the Nun's knee n the primmers so I could see the pictures first in the book she was reading the class because my mother had died [I was 5] so I got spoilt a bit.
Christmas puddings with threepences in them here would always be one sixpence and we scoffed down as much pudding as we could just to find it. Had to give them all back to mum anyway cause they usually came out of the weekly food money. We were poor cause dad was a boozer. Hair washed in soap and newspaper for toilet paper. Imagine having to do that today?
Mu brother was an icecream boy at the rystal palace in Chch. My auntie was an usherette at the Tivoli. She was a hot number, peroxided hair and a leopard skin coat, she had married and divorced three husbands in her life, pretty much unheard of in those days...lol
My brother shouted mum and I o see Johnny Devlin at a concert in Chch. I can remember bits of it, the teenagers got some excited they tore down the barriers in front of the stage. It was in either 1958/59. I was 4 or 5.
ELDERADO CHOCOLATES came in a huge box with if I remember rightly had 6 trays. wow they were real chocolates. yummy yummy
got the biggest package of fish and chips and a donut for a shilling for school lunch. Teacher who hounded a girl in my class all year, called her "chook" because her parents ran a poultry farm and was really cruel. I still feel bad that I didn't stick up for her but I was terrified of the man. First pay packet-$25.
CHICKEN licken and henny penny. riding in a side car to church.. looking for fizzy bottles on the railway lines in Pnth. then off to the restaraunt down by the cafe de paris.
Skippy,When the Boat Comes in,Naked City,Route 66 & Dr.Kildare..
Does anyone remember "Richard Diamond"The very first detective series on NZ TV.. Imagine watching it now... lol... My first pay packet was in Jan 1968 and it was a whole $12.50 for 42 hours... Apprentice carpenter.. Mates all went to Longburn freezing works and got $25.00 a week. I still beat them to buy a car tho... Drunken hoons they were...
Naked City...I loved the cop Adam in that I had a thing for older men cause I was only about 9 then. I wrote a letter to Tony Curtis at about that age....he never wrote back, it broke my heart...lol
Old TV shows..... Arrest and Trial, Untouchables, Maygrey(sp) Willian Tell, Guestwood Ho, National Velvet, Lorna Doone, Rin Tin Tin, McHale's Navy, Sir Francis Drake, Robin Hood.
Follyfoot Batman and Robin,Romper Room,Beauty and the Beast with Selwyn Toogood!
Selwyn Toogood Now there is a true Kiwi icon. "Should he/she take the money or the bag?"
remember the Dad and Dave on 1YA station?
Also rememember mum making all my clothes. No label thingies then. I had skirts with stiff petticoats under them. I would get on a bus to town with the family and you would know where I was cos the crinkle crinkle of the stiffness made such a racket. The more stiffness the petticoat had in it the better. heheh I halso matched my skirt with I think they called them choir boy blouses?? Maybe not quote the right name but something like that. I also had smocking stitch on many tops as well. All this dressed up for the BIG day out in town with the family, all set off with my plastic sandals hahaha. Off to K.Road for me Adams Bruce Ice Cream and mums Maderia cake. yum yum
Bunny Walters?
Bunny Walters I remember well...he was around Larry Morris era as well. I think both thoses singers ended up in a little strife if me memory serves me correct here
got picked out of postbag and had elected the bag got a portable tv set on the anniversary show after a gap of 10 years. Sold the set which was big bucks then and paid for a third of a trip to Egypt.
Has any woman on here suffered the emotional trauma of be denied patent leather shoes and those boleros that were knitted from angora wool...I sooo wanted those but nooo I was not allowed them even to go with my "party" dress which if truth be told I hated anyway. However, my youngest sister was allowed them. *goes off to corner to sulk*
you were famous for 5 minutes. Yep, I would have done the same and sold it to use for a trip to Egypt.
A tuppence doll, had none of these, but one of my friends definately had a whole drawerfull! Remember meccano (sp) and torro sets. Spinning tops, marbles...oh boy the fun I had with those - got as good as the lads!
Sorry i wasnt lucky enough to be denied patent shoes and bolero... wish I had been lol. but back then mum made all my clothes and basically did all the knitting for me. I didn't know any better so appreciated it. but now!! can u imagine kids if they haven't got **the** label hanging out??
Marbles Now I can remember in the playground playing this with the boys. I was a good chic so I was told at playing this. Always came to school with me hand made marble bag full of bonzos and steelos and went home with heaps from other kids hehehe
Yeah! recognised the handwriting and the way I'd laid out the stamps so i knew it was me before it was opened! Mum did even better she appreared on an earlier show and won a cruise in the Pacific Islands didnt take me took dad! My auntie appeared on the predecessor to Its In The Bag was a radio show maybe 1959 or early 60's where questions were awarded a certain amount of mileage. She was well down the list and Selwyn had virtually dismissed her but then she went for a grab question with maximum mileage . It was to do with flying saucers and the book had been discussed with my uncle the night before so she won a 10 day trip for two in the South Island !
inherited some marbles from an old friend of ours and has now started collecting them...have thought about making him a marble bag. Did you have seasonal games such as knucklebones, marbles, four square etc. It was amazing how everyone knew when it was time to switch.
Yes we had knuckle bones, hop scotch but I guess my main achievement in the games dept was the thrill of beating the boys at marbles. I kept many of them and when my boy was old enough to play we drew this big circle in chalk and i taught him my art of marble playing lol. I still have knuckle bones at home now, and sometimes my daughter who is 31 when I go visit her and we are bored we have a go at playing that lol.
getting smacked across the knuckles with a ruler if you got a spelling word wrong. we had to say the lords prayer everymorning. and LONG DIVISION yuk. my kids have calculators for school now.
I've just found........some old books, records & magazines. No year on the mags but one of the articles was when Liz Taylor married Nick Hilton Jr. Must have been "40's or 50's". Anyone remember Bill Wolfgram, the records I have are of him singing.
bullrush boys against girls. that was fun. and tackle rugby non of this nancy pancy touch stuff cause little jonny might get hurt
stiff petticoats remember those stiffened petticoats under little girls dresses the more the dress stuck out the better!
getting smacked across the knuckles for reading a comic book under the lid of my desk, while the teacher wanted us to do comprehension.
I had many smacks across the knuckles for many things. The nuns were real good at doing a bit of the old smacking bit. The strap was a classic as we would hold our hands out over her chair and when the strap came down quickly pull our hands away and the crack sound would be the strap hitting the chair back. I also got a whack across my back legs at singing, cos I was standing there miming the words and sister came along and WHACK!! hehehe never stopped me though.
read my 778 post, re the stiff petticoats. Cor Blimey!!!thought I was christmas I did lol
Geggs Jelly Oh we ate so much jelly reflected by four albums full of those beautiful bird cards and I still use them to this day for reference. Fortunately I was/am an only child so no fighting as to who got them.
One of my teachers in hindsight was particularly cruel. He made it clear that he didnt believe in strapping girls but if we were bad enough we had to choose a boy to take the punishment. In time we worked out for ourselves how evil that was and so we behaved.
Bullrush was so cool. We were brought up all as one really no mamby pamby stuff. If the girls got hurt and started to cry they would get laughed at and just carried on. wipe away a few tears and get back into the game with vengence. lol
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No seatbelts back then either and drinking and driving with you kids piled in the back was totally acceptable. I rememebr Dad being "pulled up" and the cop saying "Have you been drinking tonight sir", with us all bouncing around in the back and Dad going "yes officer" "Oh well sir best you go straight home then!"
remember at Otara intermediate we had 20 mins to sit and eat lunch then had to do organized sport for 40 mins. That was our lunch hour.. I was a cycle monitor in them days so that got a few privileges to get out of a few things.. I guess nowadays I would be called a nark.. lol.. Hey wait on.. there are some who do call me that on here.. old habits aye... haha
Our bread was bought once a week those huge square loaves, the mnonly thing that kept it ewdible was that we mostly had spaghetti which at least put a bit of moisture in it. School milk I was one of the strange ones and loved it. Wo wonderful to go back in memmory
Anyone remember sargent dan the cremota man and being forced to eat porridge for breakfast
yes but we had scotch oats ! LOL I remember my mother had one pound a week for groceries, my father earned 5 pounds back then and they sold their house in 1965 for 5000 pounds (thats $10000) wow wonder what its worth now. and.. we always had to have a chubby loaf, hated it, had that huge round top and made the sandwiches look like door steps, I wanted a tank loaf and my friend mother could cut it really thin. Did you ever buy the bread and eat the middle out of it by the time you got home ?
Aunt Daisy. "Well, Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning. When I got up this morning the sun was shining right up my back passage". Road Services buses. Anyone travel Napier to Hastings (or vice verca) over the two bridges! You just had to sit in the back seat to get the full effect. The 'Fleapit', (did every town have one? Not its real name ~ but who remembers the real name?) on Saturday afternoons to watch the 'shorts' & the 'serial', before the main feature. Don't know how we ever heard the film, there was so much noise from all the kids.
Lil' Tuppence dolls 'mon girls from the 60's. Who remembers these dolls? They were the most popular dolls around. I got one in 1965 when I was 10 and if I close my eyes I can still conjure up that feeling of looking at her face for the first time. We were dirt poor and it was the first new doll I'd ever had. I don't have that same doll still but I've collected them (off TM) for about 3 yrs now.
A few I recall are fingernail and handkerchief inspection at primary school; placing a card in your window if you wanted the drycleaner to come in and collect your drycleaning and the Salvation Army, on the back of a truck, playing Christmas carols on Christmas morning.
I got to sit on the Nun's knee n the primmers so I could see the pictures first in the book she was reading the class because my mother had died [I was 5] so I got spoilt a bit.
Christmas puddings with threepences in them here would always be one sixpence and we scoffed down as much pudding as we could just to find it. Had to give them all back to mum anyway cause they usually came out of the weekly food money. We were poor cause dad was a boozer. Hair washed in soap and newspaper for toilet paper. Imagine having to do that today?
Mu brother was an icecream boy at the rystal palace in Chch. My auntie was an usherette at the Tivoli. She was a hot number, peroxided hair and a leopard skin coat, she had married and divorced three husbands in her life, pretty much unheard of in those days...lol
My brother shouted mum and I o see Johnny Devlin at a concert in Chch. I can remember bits of it, the teenagers got some excited they tore down the barriers in front of the stage. It was in either 1958/59. I was 4 or 5.
ELDERADO CHOCOLATES came in a huge box with if I remember rightly had 6 trays. wow they were real chocolates. yummy yummy
got the biggest package of fish and chips and a donut for a shilling for school lunch. Teacher who hounded a girl in my class all year, called her "chook" because her parents ran a poultry farm and was really cruel. I still feel bad that I didn't stick up for her but I was terrified of the man. First pay packet-$25.
CHICKEN licken and henny penny. riding in a side car to church.. looking for fizzy bottles on the railway lines in Pnth. then off to the restaraunt down by the cafe de paris.
Skippy,When the Boat Comes in,Naked City,Route 66 & Dr.Kildare..
Does anyone remember "Richard Diamond"The very first detective series on NZ TV.. Imagine watching it now... lol... My first pay packet was in Jan 1968 and it was a whole $12.50 for 42 hours... Apprentice carpenter.. Mates all went to Longburn freezing works and got $25.00 a week. I still beat them to buy a car tho... Drunken hoons they were...
Naked City...I loved the cop Adam in that I had a thing for older men cause I was only about 9 then. I wrote a letter to Tony Curtis at about that age....he never wrote back, it broke my heart...lol
Old TV shows..... Arrest and Trial, Untouchables, Maygrey(sp) Willian Tell, Guestwood Ho, National Velvet, Lorna Doone, Rin Tin Tin, McHale's Navy, Sir Francis Drake, Robin Hood.
Follyfoot Batman and Robin,Romper Room,Beauty and the Beast with Selwyn Toogood!
Selwyn Toogood Now there is a true Kiwi icon. "Should he/she take the money or the bag?"
remember the Dad and Dave on 1YA station?
Also rememember mum making all my clothes. No label thingies then. I had skirts with stiff petticoats under them. I would get on a bus to town with the family and you would know where I was cos the crinkle crinkle of the stiffness made such a racket. The more stiffness the petticoat had in it the better. heheh I halso matched my skirt with I think they called them choir boy blouses?? Maybe not quote the right name but something like that. I also had smocking stitch on many tops as well. All this dressed up for the BIG day out in town with the family, all set off with my plastic sandals hahaha. Off to K.Road for me Adams Bruce Ice Cream and mums Maderia cake. yum yum
Bunny Walters?
Bunny Walters I remember well...he was around Larry Morris era as well. I think both thoses singers ended up in a little strife if me memory serves me correct here
got picked out of postbag and had elected the bag got a portable tv set on the anniversary show after a gap of 10 years. Sold the set which was big bucks then and paid for a third of a trip to Egypt.
Has any woman on here suffered the emotional trauma of be denied patent leather shoes and those boleros that were knitted from angora wool...I sooo wanted those but nooo I was not allowed them even to go with my "party" dress which if truth be told I hated anyway. However, my youngest sister was allowed them. *goes off to corner to sulk*
you were famous for 5 minutes. Yep, I would have done the same and sold it to use for a trip to Egypt.
A tuppence doll, had none of these, but one of my friends definately had a whole drawerfull! Remember meccano (sp) and torro sets. Spinning tops, marbles...oh boy the fun I had with those - got as good as the lads!
Sorry i wasnt lucky enough to be denied patent shoes and bolero... wish I had been lol. but back then mum made all my clothes and basically did all the knitting for me. I didn't know any better so appreciated it. but now!! can u imagine kids if they haven't got **the** label hanging out??
Marbles Now I can remember in the playground playing this with the boys. I was a good chic so I was told at playing this. Always came to school with me hand made marble bag full of bonzos and steelos and went home with heaps from other kids hehehe
Yeah! recognised the handwriting and the way I'd laid out the stamps so i knew it was me before it was opened! Mum did even better she appreared on an earlier show and won a cruise in the Pacific Islands didnt take me took dad! My auntie appeared on the predecessor to Its In The Bag was a radio show maybe 1959 or early 60's where questions were awarded a certain amount of mileage. She was well down the list and Selwyn had virtually dismissed her but then she went for a grab question with maximum mileage . It was to do with flying saucers and the book had been discussed with my uncle the night before so she won a 10 day trip for two in the South Island !
inherited some marbles from an old friend of ours and has now started collecting them...have thought about making him a marble bag. Did you have seasonal games such as knucklebones, marbles, four square etc. It was amazing how everyone knew when it was time to switch.
Yes we had knuckle bones, hop scotch but I guess my main achievement in the games dept was the thrill of beating the boys at marbles. I kept many of them and when my boy was old enough to play we drew this big circle in chalk and i taught him my art of marble playing lol. I still have knuckle bones at home now, and sometimes my daughter who is 31 when I go visit her and we are bored we have a go at playing that lol.
getting smacked across the knuckles with a ruler if you got a spelling word wrong. we had to say the lords prayer everymorning. and LONG DIVISION yuk. my kids have calculators for school now.
I've just found........some old books, records & magazines. No year on the mags but one of the articles was when Liz Taylor married Nick Hilton Jr. Must have been "40's or 50's". Anyone remember Bill Wolfgram, the records I have are of him singing.
bullrush boys against girls. that was fun. and tackle rugby non of this nancy pancy touch stuff cause little jonny might get hurt
stiff petticoats remember those stiffened petticoats under little girls dresses the more the dress stuck out the better!
getting smacked across the knuckles for reading a comic book under the lid of my desk, while the teacher wanted us to do comprehension.
I had many smacks across the knuckles for many things. The nuns were real good at doing a bit of the old smacking bit. The strap was a classic as we would hold our hands out over her chair and when the strap came down quickly pull our hands away and the crack sound would be the strap hitting the chair back. I also got a whack across my back legs at singing, cos I was standing there miming the words and sister came along and WHACK!! hehehe never stopped me though.
read my 778 post, re the stiff petticoats. Cor Blimey!!!thought I was christmas I did lol
Geggs Jelly Oh we ate so much jelly reflected by four albums full of those beautiful bird cards and I still use them to this day for reference. Fortunately I was/am an only child so no fighting as to who got them.
One of my teachers in hindsight was particularly cruel. He made it clear that he didnt believe in strapping girls but if we were bad enough we had to choose a boy to take the punishment. In time we worked out for ourselves how evil that was and so we behaved.
Bullrush was so cool. We were brought up all as one really no mamby pamby stuff. If the girls got hurt and started to cry they would get laughed at and just carried on. wipe away a few tears and get back into the game with vengence. lol
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And those obligatory studio photos that *every* Mum and Dad seemingly had of their kids perched in a row from tallest to smallest. These took pride of place on the living room walls, it seemed. with me, it was only one person, because I was an only child...Ha!
it looked like cardboard from where I stood, kept thinking it would get blown away in the wind! Yeah, I suppose they would be damned heavy too, haven't seen any since the '70s, but sure remember the colourful effects they had on otherwise drab houses.
I bought Dromorne linen - still have some too although hubby doesn't like the frilly pillowcases
I so wanted a Raleigh 20 but I got a girls' Healing Lowline instead - remember them? And I wanted a Chopper - I fell in love with a guy who rode one and thought Choppers were THE coolest things out! I remember buying bread with a white paper wrapper around it, and eating the middle... and aniseed balls and wheels, and chocolate peppermint frogs! I remember my mother buying a WHOLE BOX of them and we ate them in about a week! Hanging on the clothesline as it spun around, catching skinks, those were the days - guess I'll have to ask for the book for my birthday!
Porcha Faces Life, Stop Light lollies (bag fulls for farthing), Aunt Daisy and the light up her back passage. Ahhh those were the days
we had both - ducks on the lounge wall & a butterfly by the front door hehehe - Most of the adults in our house smoked & there were ashtrays on stands with little round shelves halfway down. The a/tray had a button in the centre which you pushed down & the ash would disappear under a lid thing - used to get a clip round the ear for pushing the thing constantly LOL kept breaking them.
lol - did you never play that game? And yes, I remember the ashtrays very well - our neighbour had one where you spun the top and the butt and ash would disappear into the bottom.
and the dunlop fieldmaster tyre ashtrays i've still got mine.
... my mother used to beg me let my skirt down 2 inches, (days of the mini), and I was a married woman, well, between husbands!!!
I wanted a raliegh 20 but ended up with a blue lowline that my Nan got at Smiths Auctions - she practically LIVED there LOL was alwyas buying boxes of stuff without really having a clue as to what was inside - must be where I get my clutterish ways hehehe
remember the tyre ashtrays too! Neighbour had one of them as well... Dad only had a huckary old tin one and a huckary, lopsided clay one I made in Standard 1.
LOL - I've still got the lopsided ashtrays I made my mum - & I don't even smoke LOL Not sure how I ended up with them.
Hi to all the QEC students.... Actually it was QETC when I was there. A rebel without a cause I was... Always in trouble.. Doc Spurdle.. lol. was always in his office.. Percy Coleman was the expert with the cane... Became friends later on when I painted his house roof for him.. Tony Hunt was our form teacher.. maths teacher.. See him in Foxton every time we go thru there now..
The "I'll show you mine -if you show me yours" one. Always done behind the dental clinic, with another kid as a lookout (bribed with lollies, money or a ride on my flash raleigh 20), or on weekends done in the toi-toi - ow! Sore bum!
I still have a heap of the old True Romance magazines from late 60s early 70s here. I remember Shirley Flight air hostess books.
"leader of the Pack" "teen Angel"
have *stacks* of those old romance mags too! Bought some from here and saved the rest from my 20's when 2nd hand bookshops were my main stop! My partner said they were becoming a fire-hazard and has stored most of them in a heavy steel cupboard!
I remember being into Holly Hobbie .. my Mum even dressed me as one when I was about 6! But then she also had a paisley pink/orange jumpsuit thing and I had a matching minime one. Choppers were cool. Reileigh 20s were also. Bartabullet sandshoes, the jeans with the white stripe down the side, feather earrings and waistcoats. Bullrush, spot light, making huts. Spending all day in the sun and the beach, leaving home at 8:30am and returning at 5pm without any problems happening. Really sad when you think about today's life!!
I think about the mid fifties to the mid seventies nd all the changes we went thru. Man on the moon. Veitnam war. Decimal currency. Womans libbers lol. sex drugs and rock n roll. Car ownership .. etc.. I remember wailking across the brand new harbour bridge in 1959. I remember our brand new TV in 1960. TV started at 6pm and ened at 8pm.. Rest od time was just a test pattern that we sat and watched for hours. I remember going to see the beatles in Auckland... Ridinging in a brand new PA Vauxhall. cool.. lol
but if anyone has old photos from this era could they put them up please? I have, but I'm a complete dummy and wouldn't know the first thing about 'how to'. Right, now I'm off to bed, truely... Night everyone!
We have a museum here in Mangakino That has thousands of photos and memoriabilia from the 50's and 60's... Especially with regards the damn construction etc. Well worth the visit. Our local library has a collection of old local newspapers for the 50's and 60's also.. Intersting looking the price of things then..
Wow Mangakino has a mueseum?
Funny that I still have my whole collection of Famous Five & I also have my "Dan Dan The Cremoata Man" plate lol
6 O cklock ClosingJuggs of Beer 35 Cents and Petrol 39 Cents
I used to sneak those True Romance mags into my bedroom. I was so naive back then. They never went "all the way" and I often wondered what happended LOL I was thinking the other day about our birthday parties, remember the traffic light sandwiches ? lamingtons, rainbow cakes, and all the food and drink seemed to have copious amounts of food colouring. Were we hyperactive because of it ? Not sure, was always outside playing.
My favourite Christmases were the ones when I was a kid. My uncle would dress up as Father Christmas (not Santa) & give us all our pressies. We always got a wee wooden crate of jaffas made to look like a miniature crate of oranges & a big shiny apple. And usually only 1 or 2 pressies - not 10 or 20 like some kids seem to get these days. We'd eat a big roast dinner sitting outside - my grandparents, their siblings, all their kids and all my cousins & me - so many ppl LOL it was such FUN!
One of my earliest memories is the smell of my father's car. It was a british racing green Jowett Javelin and it smelt divine. I was about four.
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it looked like cardboard from where I stood, kept thinking it would get blown away in the wind! Yeah, I suppose they would be damned heavy too, haven't seen any since the '70s, but sure remember the colourful effects they had on otherwise drab houses.
I bought Dromorne linen - still have some too although hubby doesn't like the frilly pillowcases
I so wanted a Raleigh 20 but I got a girls' Healing Lowline instead - remember them? And I wanted a Chopper - I fell in love with a guy who rode one and thought Choppers were THE coolest things out! I remember buying bread with a white paper wrapper around it, and eating the middle... and aniseed balls and wheels, and chocolate peppermint frogs! I remember my mother buying a WHOLE BOX of them and we ate them in about a week! Hanging on the clothesline as it spun around, catching skinks, those were the days - guess I'll have to ask for the book for my birthday!
Porcha Faces Life, Stop Light lollies (bag fulls for farthing), Aunt Daisy and the light up her back passage. Ahhh those were the days
we had both - ducks on the lounge wall & a butterfly by the front door hehehe - Most of the adults in our house smoked & there were ashtrays on stands with little round shelves halfway down. The a/tray had a button in the centre which you pushed down & the ash would disappear under a lid thing - used to get a clip round the ear for pushing the thing constantly LOL kept breaking them.
lol - did you never play that game? And yes, I remember the ashtrays very well - our neighbour had one where you spun the top and the butt and ash would disappear into the bottom.
and the dunlop fieldmaster tyre ashtrays i've still got mine.
... my mother used to beg me let my skirt down 2 inches, (days of the mini), and I was a married woman, well, between husbands!!!
I wanted a raliegh 20 but ended up with a blue lowline that my Nan got at Smiths Auctions - she practically LIVED there LOL was alwyas buying boxes of stuff without really having a clue as to what was inside - must be where I get my clutterish ways hehehe
remember the tyre ashtrays too! Neighbour had one of them as well... Dad only had a huckary old tin one and a huckary, lopsided clay one I made in Standard 1.
LOL - I've still got the lopsided ashtrays I made my mum - & I don't even smoke LOL Not sure how I ended up with them.
Hi to all the QEC students.... Actually it was QETC when I was there. A rebel without a cause I was... Always in trouble.. Doc Spurdle.. lol. was always in his office.. Percy Coleman was the expert with the cane... Became friends later on when I painted his house roof for him.. Tony Hunt was our form teacher.. maths teacher.. See him in Foxton every time we go thru there now..
The "I'll show you mine -if you show me yours" one. Always done behind the dental clinic, with another kid as a lookout (bribed with lollies, money or a ride on my flash raleigh 20), or on weekends done in the toi-toi - ow! Sore bum!
I still have a heap of the old True Romance magazines from late 60s early 70s here. I remember Shirley Flight air hostess books.
"leader of the Pack" "teen Angel"
have *stacks* of those old romance mags too! Bought some from here and saved the rest from my 20's when 2nd hand bookshops were my main stop! My partner said they were becoming a fire-hazard and has stored most of them in a heavy steel cupboard!
I remember being into Holly Hobbie .. my Mum even dressed me as one when I was about 6! But then she also had a paisley pink/orange jumpsuit thing and I had a matching minime one. Choppers were cool. Reileigh 20s were also. Bartabullet sandshoes, the jeans with the white stripe down the side, feather earrings and waistcoats. Bullrush, spot light, making huts. Spending all day in the sun and the beach, leaving home at 8:30am and returning at 5pm without any problems happening. Really sad when you think about today's life!!
I think about the mid fifties to the mid seventies nd all the changes we went thru. Man on the moon. Veitnam war. Decimal currency. Womans libbers lol. sex drugs and rock n roll. Car ownership .. etc.. I remember wailking across the brand new harbour bridge in 1959. I remember our brand new TV in 1960. TV started at 6pm and ened at 8pm.. Rest od time was just a test pattern that we sat and watched for hours. I remember going to see the beatles in Auckland... Ridinging in a brand new PA Vauxhall. cool.. lol
but if anyone has old photos from this era could they put them up please? I have, but I'm a complete dummy and wouldn't know the first thing about 'how to'. Right, now I'm off to bed, truely... Night everyone!
We have a museum here in Mangakino That has thousands of photos and memoriabilia from the 50's and 60's... Especially with regards the damn construction etc. Well worth the visit. Our local library has a collection of old local newspapers for the 50's and 60's also.. Intersting looking the price of things then..
Wow Mangakino has a mueseum?
Funny that I still have my whole collection of Famous Five & I also have my "Dan Dan The Cremoata Man" plate lol
6 O cklock ClosingJuggs of Beer 35 Cents and Petrol 39 Cents
I used to sneak those True Romance mags into my bedroom. I was so naive back then. They never went "all the way" and I often wondered what happended LOL I was thinking the other day about our birthday parties, remember the traffic light sandwiches ? lamingtons, rainbow cakes, and all the food and drink seemed to have copious amounts of food colouring. Were we hyperactive because of it ? Not sure, was always outside playing.
My favourite Christmases were the ones when I was a kid. My uncle would dress up as Father Christmas (not Santa) & give us all our pressies. We always got a wee wooden crate of jaffas made to look like a miniature crate of oranges & a big shiny apple. And usually only 1 or 2 pressies - not 10 or 20 like some kids seem to get these days. We'd eat a big roast dinner sitting outside - my grandparents, their siblings, all their kids and all my cousins & me - so many ppl LOL it was such FUN!
One of my earliest memories is the smell of my father's car. It was a british racing green Jowett Javelin and it smelt divine. I was about four.
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I remember the swimming certificates at primary school were for 15 yards, 50 yards, water skills, then 100 yards...that was about my limit.
you mentitioned it a few hundred posts back. I went to Hokowhitu and Int.Normal, but we moved from Ruahine Street to North Street in 5th form year. Just thought our paths may have crossed somewhere.
I WENT TO QEC dr spoodle was the head. miss collins= sewing teacher.. miss cook = cooking teacher I was a rebel without a cause and reined havoc..spent most of my time at the office or detention room.. I also remember those great big bubble gums..got them stuck to me glasses all the time cause I would blow a huge bubble..the teach would look round and I would put my hands over me face..dur
Guy Fawkes night...We used to make a guy and pull him around the neighbourhood begging for pennies or hapneys..
good old half pennies. I used go round collecting all the empty soft drink bottles and then cash them in at the dairy to buy my lemonade TT2"s hahah love them TT2's
do you remember Joy Bars? They were a long chocolate covered ice cream bar with raspberry inside. They were in a blue covered box and you'd pull them up by a strip of cardboard.
and the old phones on a party line ours was 1short-2 long and green cellophane on black@white tv;instant colour;lucky strike ciggaretes that dad smoked @ sliding down mountain side on nikau branches man that was fun
I was at QEC when the Gym burnt down......And NO it wasnt me........ lol. It was a smoldering smoke under the mat.. man those flames went real high and the heat from the fire. The fire engines couldnt get up the driveway cos of the cars.... lol. We had 'pinky bar' for our maths teacher. well he had the brighest pink face that you ever saw. dunno his real name - I waged his classes. He had no idea what New maths was... and so I saw no reason to go to his class if he wasnt going to teach us. Mrs Curtain was a right pain in ther rear end. The principal's son wasnt allowed to attend the QEC cos he was such a shite.... apparently he died in a car crash into a powerpole. Was made to do shorthand and typing YUK.
cricket balls, Fry's bars. sante bars croquettes, aniseed wheels, banana bikes.
I... remember my parents giving me sixpence to give to the poor children overseas as they called them. Well I gave 1 penny to them and pocketed the other 4pence and managed to buy aniseed balls and bubblegums on the way home from school. Poor kids didnt see much of my donations at all.. My stomach saw the bulk lol Also going to the movies on a Sat. Watching a serial for the 1st half which would end in a real gripping part and then u would have to go back the following Sat to see the following part. eating ice creams at half time that had such soft cones. Rolling the jaffas down the aisle. and One thing I got banned for was chewing my gum. then stretching it along the row of seats hahaha then putting al the seats up and watching who the suckers were that pulled them down and sat on them, gum and all
Play Date magazine...you could buy them at the movies. The were expensive..2 shillings.
I do remember the joy bars yum yum for sure. So many sweet things. I loved when my parents did the BIG TRIP to town. Wow all the way from Mt Roskill to K'Rd to go to McKenzies and Rendalls and George courts. Mum had to make the trip so we could get the Adams bruce ice cream and Maderia Cake
about the GOB STOPPERS!!! hahahah what a mouthful they were and they changed colours as
the principal's son was a great friend of mine. He had this premonition that he wouldnt live to see his 20th birthday. To this day have always wondered why or how it happened. Probably not at the pubs either as I went overseas at the end of 1975..and wasnt really in the pub scene before that.
The Truth magazine and Man magazines were the **in** paper for the men those days. I managed to nick dads and read with my torch under the bed covers all the juicy bits. which compared to Playboy and Penthouse would be a comic book now
Anyone remember going to a segrated movie. Boys up top and girls on the bottom level. A sex education movie if i remember right. OHHHHH and i thought that was so hip to be watching something like that hahaha
From what I had heard..... there was no one around him when he crashed. He just lost it. People wondered whether it was a deliberate act on his part... but no one knew for certain.
pretty much my thinking too I was devastated when I found out. He was different in many ways...yes a shite sums it up...but one helluva nice guy if he let you get to know him.
Yeah suicide wasnt widely spoken of back then..... it was all put down to a lone driver in a car who lost it on the roads and slammed into a powerpole. Many young guys back then who died tragically like that could well have been suicide's. All for the same reasons young guys do it today.
We seem to have got away with a lot back then and yet we knew our boundaries on how far we could push it without geting a walloping.... mind you sometimes you got one just for the hell of it. Lol. We were taught respect and always called other adults as Mr and Mrs, nevr by their first names. well except for our teachers that we all had nicknames for...... old ma cutain. Holysocks. Shite we even had a male teacher have an affair with the art teacher.. yep they had it off out in the back of the art resource room while we were all in the class doing art. They did divorce their partners and got married to each other.... oh the fun we kids got to see and watch. lol.
I may have been born in 1967 but I remember a few things too. Being a new entrant to primary school in 1972 and accidentally walking into the boys loo instead of the girls and the teacher blardy smacked me!! Man, if anyone laid a hand on my 5 year old now they would be standing!!!
Someone mentioned Penthouse
mags etc. Do you remember when the Sunday News had the "page 3 girl"?
i mentioned the penthouse and was comparing it to the Truth magazine. cant say i remember the page 3 though of sunday news....
if you are still around, thanks so much for starting this thread last night. It has sure raised some laughs, some sadness, and yes, a whole ton of great memories. I love the fact that so many of us have the same recollections of those halcyon days. Lets keep this going people. I am getting off here now, but will check back tomorrow. Night all.
Magazines...How about "Pix People" or "People with Pix" which as I recall were out in the very early '70s and had photos of women with no clothes on. We used to sneak them off my friends Dad and run into the bushes or tee-pee tent to look at them.
I sorta remember the Pix magazine but by then I was married so i guess I thought I had been there done that and knew it all lol
Who had crackerjack gumboots as a kid
this thread is great...Raleigh choppers. I started out with a grifter.
The crackerjack gumboots my kids had, and the grifter bike my boy had.
i harped and harped for a grifter when i got it everyone had choppers
Wow, you have started something here....have managed tonight to obtain a copy of that book.....can't wait till it arrives....mrs d
Congratulations! You won't be disappointed! What did a 'grifter' look like, anyone? I knew what a chopper did and rode one. I know a guy, who like me loves stuff from that era and is putting together a chopper bike now! Ooooh the banana seat! Told him I wanted a ride, would even pay him for it!
The first songs I ever sang along to with a hairbrush as a microphone - My boy lollipop and Lipstick on your collar. The same hairbrush I used to get whacked with whenever I misbehaved. Watching Happen Inn and Let's Go, on Saturday evenings. Dancing the twist. lol.
I had a pink candlewick dressing gown, yellow candlewick bedspread & the ponchos my sister & I had were orange, brown & cream - totally YUCK!!! Almost matched the wallpaper LOL
Ohh clubhouses lol
We had an old carcase in the back garden with one side missing. My sister & I made a girls only club - no brothers allowed! All the girls in the neighbourhood would come over for tea LOL we had a table & chairs out there & thought we were just the bee's knees hahaha
The large butterfly's which
were on some houses near the front door, the three ducks which were on living/lounge room walls. No we never had either of these but I saw a lot of houses which had either or both.
i have one of those butterfly's in my garage
I did that too LOL funnily enough with my cousin (boy) He'd just had surgery for an undecended testicle ( but we didn't know what that meant hehehe - had to take a look at the scar! Can't say as I remember much at all really
got one of the butterflys on my fence.....i remember the smell of the inside of dad's morris oxford, and the sound of it....stuff 'new car smell' they should make airfreshners that smell like old leather interiors of morris's 700
you mentitioned it a few hundred posts back. I went to Hokowhitu and Int.Normal, but we moved from Ruahine Street to North Street in 5th form year. Just thought our paths may have crossed somewhere.
I WENT TO QEC dr spoodle was the head. miss collins= sewing teacher.. miss cook = cooking teacher I was a rebel without a cause and reined havoc..spent most of my time at the office or detention room.. I also remember those great big bubble gums..got them stuck to me glasses all the time cause I would blow a huge bubble..the teach would look round and I would put my hands over me face..dur
Guy Fawkes night...We used to make a guy and pull him around the neighbourhood begging for pennies or hapneys..
good old half pennies. I used go round collecting all the empty soft drink bottles and then cash them in at the dairy to buy my lemonade TT2"s hahah love them TT2's
do you remember Joy Bars? They were a long chocolate covered ice cream bar with raspberry inside. They were in a blue covered box and you'd pull them up by a strip of cardboard.
and the old phones on a party line ours was 1short-2 long and green cellophane on black@white tv;instant colour;lucky strike ciggaretes that dad smoked @ sliding down mountain side on nikau branches man that was fun
I was at QEC when the Gym burnt down......And NO it wasnt me........ lol. It was a smoldering smoke under the mat.. man those flames went real high and the heat from the fire. The fire engines couldnt get up the driveway cos of the cars.... lol. We had 'pinky bar' for our maths teacher. well he had the brighest pink face that you ever saw. dunno his real name - I waged his classes. He had no idea what New maths was... and so I saw no reason to go to his class if he wasnt going to teach us. Mrs Curtain was a right pain in ther rear end. The principal's son wasnt allowed to attend the QEC cos he was such a shite.... apparently he died in a car crash into a powerpole. Was made to do shorthand and typing YUK.
cricket balls, Fry's bars. sante bars croquettes, aniseed wheels, banana bikes.
I... remember my parents giving me sixpence to give to the poor children overseas as they called them. Well I gave 1 penny to them and pocketed the other 4pence and managed to buy aniseed balls and bubblegums on the way home from school. Poor kids didnt see much of my donations at all.. My stomach saw the bulk lol Also going to the movies on a Sat. Watching a serial for the 1st half which would end in a real gripping part and then u would have to go back the following Sat to see the following part. eating ice creams at half time that had such soft cones. Rolling the jaffas down the aisle. and One thing I got banned for was chewing my gum. then stretching it along the row of seats hahaha then putting al the seats up and watching who the suckers were that pulled them down and sat on them, gum and all
Play Date magazine...you could buy them at the movies. The were expensive..2 shillings.
I do remember the joy bars yum yum for sure. So many sweet things. I loved when my parents did the BIG TRIP to town. Wow all the way from Mt Roskill to K'Rd to go to McKenzies and Rendalls and George courts. Mum had to make the trip so we could get the Adams bruce ice cream and Maderia Cake
about the GOB STOPPERS!!! hahahah what a mouthful they were and they changed colours as
the principal's son was a great friend of mine. He had this premonition that he wouldnt live to see his 20th birthday. To this day have always wondered why or how it happened. Probably not at the pubs either as I went overseas at the end of 1975..and wasnt really in the pub scene before that.
The Truth magazine and Man magazines were the **in** paper for the men those days. I managed to nick dads and read with my torch under the bed covers all the juicy bits. which compared to Playboy and Penthouse would be a comic book now
Anyone remember going to a segrated movie. Boys up top and girls on the bottom level. A sex education movie if i remember right. OHHHHH and i thought that was so hip to be watching something like that hahaha
From what I had heard..... there was no one around him when he crashed. He just lost it. People wondered whether it was a deliberate act on his part... but no one knew for certain.
pretty much my thinking too I was devastated when I found out. He was different in many ways...yes a shite sums it up...but one helluva nice guy if he let you get to know him.
Yeah suicide wasnt widely spoken of back then..... it was all put down to a lone driver in a car who lost it on the roads and slammed into a powerpole. Many young guys back then who died tragically like that could well have been suicide's. All for the same reasons young guys do it today.
We seem to have got away with a lot back then and yet we knew our boundaries on how far we could push it without geting a walloping.... mind you sometimes you got one just for the hell of it. Lol. We were taught respect and always called other adults as Mr and Mrs, nevr by their first names. well except for our teachers that we all had nicknames for...... old ma cutain. Holysocks. Shite we even had a male teacher have an affair with the art teacher.. yep they had it off out in the back of the art resource room while we were all in the class doing art. They did divorce their partners and got married to each other.... oh the fun we kids got to see and watch. lol.
I may have been born in 1967 but I remember a few things too. Being a new entrant to primary school in 1972 and accidentally walking into the boys loo instead of the girls and the teacher blardy smacked me!! Man, if anyone laid a hand on my 5 year old now they would be standing!!!
Someone mentioned Penthouse
mags etc. Do you remember when the Sunday News had the "page 3 girl"?
i mentioned the penthouse and was comparing it to the Truth magazine. cant say i remember the page 3 though of sunday news....
if you are still around, thanks so much for starting this thread last night. It has sure raised some laughs, some sadness, and yes, a whole ton of great memories. I love the fact that so many of us have the same recollections of those halcyon days. Lets keep this going people. I am getting off here now, but will check back tomorrow. Night all.
Magazines...How about "Pix People" or "People with Pix" which as I recall were out in the very early '70s and had photos of women with no clothes on. We used to sneak them off my friends Dad and run into the bushes or tee-pee tent to look at them.
I sorta remember the Pix magazine but by then I was married so i guess I thought I had been there done that and knew it all lol
Who had crackerjack gumboots as a kid
this thread is great...Raleigh choppers. I started out with a grifter.
The crackerjack gumboots my kids had, and the grifter bike my boy had.
i harped and harped for a grifter when i got it everyone had choppers
Wow, you have started something here....have managed tonight to obtain a copy of that book.....can't wait till it arrives....mrs d
Congratulations! You won't be disappointed! What did a 'grifter' look like, anyone? I knew what a chopper did and rode one. I know a guy, who like me loves stuff from that era and is putting together a chopper bike now! Ooooh the banana seat! Told him I wanted a ride, would even pay him for it!
The first songs I ever sang along to with a hairbrush as a microphone - My boy lollipop and Lipstick on your collar. The same hairbrush I used to get whacked with whenever I misbehaved. Watching Happen Inn and Let's Go, on Saturday evenings. Dancing the twist. lol.
I had a pink candlewick dressing gown, yellow candlewick bedspread & the ponchos my sister & I had were orange, brown & cream - totally YUCK!!! Almost matched the wallpaper LOL
Ohh clubhouses lol
We had an old carcase in the back garden with one side missing. My sister & I made a girls only club - no brothers allowed! All the girls in the neighbourhood would come over for tea LOL we had a table & chairs out there & thought we were just the bee's knees hahaha
The large butterfly's which
were on some houses near the front door, the three ducks which were on living/lounge room walls. No we never had either of these but I saw a lot of houses which had either or both.
i have one of those butterfly's in my garage
I did that too LOL funnily enough with my cousin (boy) He'd just had surgery for an undecended testicle ( but we didn't know what that meant hehehe - had to take a look at the scar! Can't say as I remember much at all really
got one of the butterflys on my fence.....i remember the smell of the inside of dad's morris oxford, and the sound of it....stuff 'new car smell' they should make airfreshners that smell like old leather interiors of morris's 700
Part 13
rarely remember the red stars cos I didnt get many. i do remember the cotton wool dolls that the dental nurse at the Murder house in Mt eden used to make for us when we had a filling. On leaving the chair they gave us this little cotton wool doll like that was going to make up for all the drilling that had done. Calling a sister to overseee the work that had been done on us...#596
i think not my friend, that was something that worked, bit like the strap!
My teacher in standard 4 had a strap in his drawer called Hector somehow I avoided it but it was a nasty thick thing and girls and boys were up for it stinging pain on a hand. Noone ever cried but tears welled . I believe that when that particular teacher retired Hector was cut up into litle pieces as ultimate revenge!!
and now adays i think they make bumble bees its been along time since i have had any kids going to the murder house, but my grandaughter is about to be enrolled being 1yr old the poor wee thing :(
i managed to stay away from the strap BUT i did get detention but they were nothing, how about the 100 lines you used to get, I MUST NOT BE LATE FOR CLASS woopteedo, used to go home and get my other brother and sisters to help, tried the carbon paper copy but it didnt work lol
I was the first girl our Form 1 teacher had
ever strapped in his teaching career. Mr Ivan Ashbey, Heaton Intermediate Chch..1966.
Watching disgusting 8mm films in the hall of people infected with gonnoreah and syphillis...in the hope of frightening us off sex forever...Hagley High..1967.
strap!!! I was taught by nuns and i think they got a thrill in watching us cringe at the thought of getting it. They used it very often also but to be honest i guess we deserved it and maybe we were better for it. I know i wasnt lol but some were. I was the rebel. I remember we had a real hard case girl in our class who really had a bad reputation, one day in the toilets the girls were discussing being a virgin. Well.. I hadnt a clue what they meant @ 12 and when they adked me if I was one., I turned to the hard nut girl and asked was she, hahahah She said NO, so I said, well if Jackie isnt a virgin neither am I. Good God did the nuns give me a talking to even called up my parents to school. hahaha
Going to the Industries Fair in Chch with one pound in my pocket...I was so rich!!
I've still got some of my Sunny Stories!!! (kept them for my grandchildren!) What a horder! I was at Wanganui Girls' College when they had the black tunics. The Beatles appeared when I was doing my nursing training and I was met with unbelief when I asked who they were! And further back, I lived in Springston and went to primary school in the newly built school. We had cooking classes at Lincoln, and I loved the steamed brown pudding we made there! I think I still have my little cookery book from those days, advising to cover cabbage with cold water and boil for 30 min! and did anyone else buy a lot of Dromorne linen for their glory box?! and doing the twist! (and nowdays I do it at Mainly Music like a pro!!!!)
I was in a mixed school and we all got strapped male or female.
self paced learing modules
There was something we did in standard 4 mid 60's which had me very interested until the teacher suddenly decided he was bored with it and dropped it leaving us in the lurch at different levels. We had to work out answers to questions they were self-paced modules I think and as we completed each one we moved to a longer block with a different colour. It sounds babyish but it wasnt. I was so annoyed with him for dropping it and the whole class was into it. Does anyone remember working on something similar?
I was getting the strap by the time I was in Standard 4....... heaps in Form 1 and Form 2..... mostly for not redoing my homework agaian and again as they felt it wasnt done to their satisfaction.... Tidy.... I could read it and that was what mattered. But I would have to redo it over and over and then redo the next nights homeworks as well...... Detention was fun in Form 3 (lunchtime and afterschool.)
Oh and I am a female.... the strap was used mostly on the boys..... I know that I got it heaps. Cant recall many other girls getting it thou...
I was the biggest rebel in my third form class at Hagley High. The class was full of goody goodies except for me. One of those well behaved kids was Sandra Manderson who is now Commissioner of Police for Canterbury. She was a tattle tail even then...lol
Prime Minister Mr Holyoake's brother was our Headmaster/Principal.... and was the one to give me heaps of the strap.... and he would make me redo the homework.... he was such a idiot... lol.
detention in my day was to write 100 times a particular sentence. Or. if we were really naughty then we had to clean the classroom for a week. Otherwise we had to give up our lunchtime to do the garden in the nuns convent. Can u imagine the answer these days the nuns would get if that was given as detention lol
that would be the SRA laboratory system. Loved it when I was at school and it was still being used, although somewhat out of date, when I started teaching in 1975.
you were lucky you only got to do it 100 times... I got 500 times the same sentence... we would tape up 3 or 4 pens in a row and do them that way.... cos we go the same line every night for detention.... we would prewrite them out...... But we all got caught out one time as a new teacher changed the sentence..... and we had them already done in our bags... DAMN.... so we had to start all over again... we were all ready to just sit back and pretend to write the lines out...... lol.
iThey still have it in the resource room at the local school near me. Yep I remember doing them as well..
You must of gone to the same school as me cos they did that to us once and I was in the shit cos I had pages of the old detention in my bag and we had a new one we had to do. But still only 100 times,,
Well
who was ink monitor, and pigtails dipped into the ink well
hahahah well I never had to be that sort of monitor but i did become monitor of the warm milk crate hahahaha, YUCK.. we went in alphabet order to drink it and me being W was about 3rd to last. Bloody Norah!!! warm wasnt the word for it Hot would of been better. The nuns used to stand and make sure we finished it. i would always find a way to tip it behind the bush. Ohhhhhh Yuck.....
50,s on wards bullrush, home made trolleys, catching tadpoles and frogs, playing out in the dark till late at night hulahupes mini skirts, rompers suits for p.e at college yuk they were waxing up cardboard from candles and flying down the hills.swinging in the willow trees going to disco, shane the singer visiting our town.
Shane. then Alison Durban. Larry morris. (larrys Rebels) Diana lee.. ohh i could go on and on
flicking ink at the teachers back while they were writing on blackboard from those ink wells in desk,pictures were good always had the famous five on first, petrol was cheap and to go to the bakehouse for loave of bread it was hot you would eat the middle out by the time you got home.
Can you tell me a bit more about it please? Am I right in remembering it was 10 levels I love it so much I desperately wanted to do it all and had got to about the third last level when it was stopped.
tom sharplin, kids these days are missing out on lots of good clean fun
I just told my friend in the States about it and she's been browsing and enjoying it. She's a Kiwi who went to Hagley High with me in the 60's but she married an American and hasn't been home since 1977
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s probably shouldn’t have survived. Our baby cribs were covered with bright-coloured lead-based paint. We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. Not to mention the risks we took hitch hiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We ate cup cakes, bread and butter, and drank lemonade with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem...........
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable! We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers or Internet chat rooms, We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played cricket and football, and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.....
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s place and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them. School examinations were tough and some students weren’t as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you’re one of them! Congratulations. Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
SRA from memory...how is it that I can recall all this stuff as if it were yesterday,but have a hard time locating my glasses?...it was an American reading comprehension system that was imported out here in the early 60's as scholastic publishing here was in its infancy. Not sure about the number of levels but I think there were two parts to each level. You read a paragraph or two about something of interest and then answered questions and had to pass a certain percentage to move on to the next level. Supposed to develop independence in reading skills as well as encourage you to research more about the topic of choice. Sorry that was longwinded, but hope that it gives you some idea.
Yep there was different colours..... from easy to hard..... there was a story on one card........ and on another card there was questions..... the teacher had a card that was the answers.... I cant recall too much about them now...... but how about going into your local primary school and see if they still have them out the back in their resource rooms. I know about 10 years back... one teacher brought them back out and got the kids to do them...... lol. I remember green, red, brown, purple and gold colours. They were real easy as... did them in primary school.
those SRA were introduced the year I was in Std 3. I romped thru them and Mr Harvey told me I had to slow down and wait for the rest of the class to catch up. LOL very tailored to girls. The boys hated them
wasnt that half the fun for the girls in the class, to be encouraged to compete as we were generally excluded,unless you were like me.. a real tomboy..from joining in male sporting activities. How I hated not being able to play rugby or even cricket, and left with playing boring old netball. Even at swimming we were separated into boys males and females.
sorry, I was no lady i was a tom boy, played rugby, softball, got my mile swimming certificate at primary school. Plus we had an awesome singing group, it was called the Little Folksingers of Mt Roskill and we cut 45 records ! Even sang with the Hamilton County Blue grass band! WEnt to see the Highway Men, Peter Paul and Mary wahooooooo we were such busy kids, no time to be norty. Netball Saturdays, Gym in the week, brownies and guides and singing practice.
Respect We grew up having respect for our elders, teachers etc. We knew what was right from wrong and mostly abided by that. We also knew there would be consequenses to our actions. Also we grew up having common sense. A great deal has been lost and the young people of today are the poorer for it.
then at Intermediate school..... I wanted to do the woodwork and metalwork classes........ and not do the cooking and sewing classes. But it wasnt allowed. Girls had to do the domestic stuff and the boys had to do the cool stuff. There was one or two boys who wanted to learn to cook and we said we could swap...... NUP. To this day I hate cooking and sewing.... loved working with wood, can build decks, fences and make rimu coffee tables... give me wood and I am happy....lol. They could never knock the tomboy out of me... lol. Apparently a year or so later they changed the rules..... boys and girls doing all 4 subjects.... b*rst*ds....
I remember blue We were not given very long to do them the teacher preferred music and folk dancing but I will check out the resource room at the local school where I was thankyou!
Gosh, those certificates for swimming achievement. They were such an incentive to me and like you I aimed high and got my mile in primary school. Went on to do competitive swimming until I had to decide between that and training my horses.
you went to QEC? I went to Freyberg. What primary/intermediate did you attend?
How did you know I went to QEC???????? lol.
But yep I did... Takaro Primary and Monrad Intermediate....
having a pass to go home for lunch prefect standing there checking 650
i think not my friend, that was something that worked, bit like the strap!
My teacher in standard 4 had a strap in his drawer called Hector somehow I avoided it but it was a nasty thick thing and girls and boys were up for it stinging pain on a hand. Noone ever cried but tears welled . I believe that when that particular teacher retired Hector was cut up into litle pieces as ultimate revenge!!
and now adays i think they make bumble bees its been along time since i have had any kids going to the murder house, but my grandaughter is about to be enrolled being 1yr old the poor wee thing :(
i managed to stay away from the strap BUT i did get detention but they were nothing, how about the 100 lines you used to get, I MUST NOT BE LATE FOR CLASS woopteedo, used to go home and get my other brother and sisters to help, tried the carbon paper copy but it didnt work lol
I was the first girl our Form 1 teacher had
ever strapped in his teaching career. Mr Ivan Ashbey, Heaton Intermediate Chch..1966.
Watching disgusting 8mm films in the hall of people infected with gonnoreah and syphillis...in the hope of frightening us off sex forever...Hagley High..1967.
strap!!! I was taught by nuns and i think they got a thrill in watching us cringe at the thought of getting it. They used it very often also but to be honest i guess we deserved it and maybe we were better for it. I know i wasnt lol but some were. I was the rebel. I remember we had a real hard case girl in our class who really had a bad reputation, one day in the toilets the girls were discussing being a virgin. Well.. I hadnt a clue what they meant @ 12 and when they adked me if I was one., I turned to the hard nut girl and asked was she, hahahah She said NO, so I said, well if Jackie isnt a virgin neither am I. Good God did the nuns give me a talking to even called up my parents to school. hahaha
Going to the Industries Fair in Chch with one pound in my pocket...I was so rich!!
I've still got some of my Sunny Stories!!! (kept them for my grandchildren!) What a horder! I was at Wanganui Girls' College when they had the black tunics. The Beatles appeared when I was doing my nursing training and I was met with unbelief when I asked who they were! And further back, I lived in Springston and went to primary school in the newly built school. We had cooking classes at Lincoln, and I loved the steamed brown pudding we made there! I think I still have my little cookery book from those days, advising to cover cabbage with cold water and boil for 30 min! and did anyone else buy a lot of Dromorne linen for their glory box?! and doing the twist! (and nowdays I do it at Mainly Music like a pro!!!!)
I was in a mixed school and we all got strapped male or female.
self paced learing modules
There was something we did in standard 4 mid 60's which had me very interested until the teacher suddenly decided he was bored with it and dropped it leaving us in the lurch at different levels. We had to work out answers to questions they were self-paced modules I think and as we completed each one we moved to a longer block with a different colour. It sounds babyish but it wasnt. I was so annoyed with him for dropping it and the whole class was into it. Does anyone remember working on something similar?
I was getting the strap by the time I was in Standard 4....... heaps in Form 1 and Form 2..... mostly for not redoing my homework agaian and again as they felt it wasnt done to their satisfaction.... Tidy.... I could read it and that was what mattered. But I would have to redo it over and over and then redo the next nights homeworks as well...... Detention was fun in Form 3 (lunchtime and afterschool.)
Oh and I am a female.... the strap was used mostly on the boys..... I know that I got it heaps. Cant recall many other girls getting it thou...
I was the biggest rebel in my third form class at Hagley High. The class was full of goody goodies except for me. One of those well behaved kids was Sandra Manderson who is now Commissioner of Police for Canterbury. She was a tattle tail even then...lol
Prime Minister Mr Holyoake's brother was our Headmaster/Principal.... and was the one to give me heaps of the strap.... and he would make me redo the homework.... he was such a idiot... lol.
detention in my day was to write 100 times a particular sentence. Or. if we were really naughty then we had to clean the classroom for a week. Otherwise we had to give up our lunchtime to do the garden in the nuns convent. Can u imagine the answer these days the nuns would get if that was given as detention lol
that would be the SRA laboratory system. Loved it when I was at school and it was still being used, although somewhat out of date, when I started teaching in 1975.
you were lucky you only got to do it 100 times... I got 500 times the same sentence... we would tape up 3 or 4 pens in a row and do them that way.... cos we go the same line every night for detention.... we would prewrite them out...... But we all got caught out one time as a new teacher changed the sentence..... and we had them already done in our bags... DAMN.... so we had to start all over again... we were all ready to just sit back and pretend to write the lines out...... lol.
iThey still have it in the resource room at the local school near me. Yep I remember doing them as well..
You must of gone to the same school as me cos they did that to us once and I was in the shit cos I had pages of the old detention in my bag and we had a new one we had to do. But still only 100 times,,
Well
who was ink monitor, and pigtails dipped into the ink well
hahahah well I never had to be that sort of monitor but i did become monitor of the warm milk crate hahahaha, YUCK.. we went in alphabet order to drink it and me being W was about 3rd to last. Bloody Norah!!! warm wasnt the word for it Hot would of been better. The nuns used to stand and make sure we finished it. i would always find a way to tip it behind the bush. Ohhhhhh Yuck.....
50,s on wards bullrush, home made trolleys, catching tadpoles and frogs, playing out in the dark till late at night hulahupes mini skirts, rompers suits for p.e at college yuk they were waxing up cardboard from candles and flying down the hills.swinging in the willow trees going to disco, shane the singer visiting our town.
Shane. then Alison Durban. Larry morris. (larrys Rebels) Diana lee.. ohh i could go on and on
flicking ink at the teachers back while they were writing on blackboard from those ink wells in desk,pictures were good always had the famous five on first, petrol was cheap and to go to the bakehouse for loave of bread it was hot you would eat the middle out by the time you got home.
Can you tell me a bit more about it please? Am I right in remembering it was 10 levels I love it so much I desperately wanted to do it all and had got to about the third last level when it was stopped.
tom sharplin, kids these days are missing out on lots of good clean fun
I just told my friend in the States about it and she's been browsing and enjoying it. She's a Kiwi who went to Hagley High with me in the 60's but she married an American and hasn't been home since 1977
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s probably shouldn’t have survived. Our baby cribs were covered with bright-coloured lead-based paint. We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. Not to mention the risks we took hitch hiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We ate cup cakes, bread and butter, and drank lemonade with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem...........
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable! We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers or Internet chat rooms, We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played cricket and football, and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.....
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s place and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them. School examinations were tough and some students weren’t as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you’re one of them! Congratulations. Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
SRA from memory...how is it that I can recall all this stuff as if it were yesterday,but have a hard time locating my glasses?...it was an American reading comprehension system that was imported out here in the early 60's as scholastic publishing here was in its infancy. Not sure about the number of levels but I think there were two parts to each level. You read a paragraph or two about something of interest and then answered questions and had to pass a certain percentage to move on to the next level. Supposed to develop independence in reading skills as well as encourage you to research more about the topic of choice. Sorry that was longwinded, but hope that it gives you some idea.
Yep there was different colours..... from easy to hard..... there was a story on one card........ and on another card there was questions..... the teacher had a card that was the answers.... I cant recall too much about them now...... but how about going into your local primary school and see if they still have them out the back in their resource rooms. I know about 10 years back... one teacher brought them back out and got the kids to do them...... lol. I remember green, red, brown, purple and gold colours. They were real easy as... did them in primary school.
those SRA were introduced the year I was in Std 3. I romped thru them and Mr Harvey told me I had to slow down and wait for the rest of the class to catch up. LOL very tailored to girls. The boys hated them
wasnt that half the fun for the girls in the class, to be encouraged to compete as we were generally excluded,unless you were like me.. a real tomboy..from joining in male sporting activities. How I hated not being able to play rugby or even cricket, and left with playing boring old netball. Even at swimming we were separated into boys males and females.
sorry, I was no lady i was a tom boy, played rugby, softball, got my mile swimming certificate at primary school. Plus we had an awesome singing group, it was called the Little Folksingers of Mt Roskill and we cut 45 records ! Even sang with the Hamilton County Blue grass band! WEnt to see the Highway Men, Peter Paul and Mary wahooooooo we were such busy kids, no time to be norty. Netball Saturdays, Gym in the week, brownies and guides and singing practice.
Respect We grew up having respect for our elders, teachers etc. We knew what was right from wrong and mostly abided by that. We also knew there would be consequenses to our actions. Also we grew up having common sense. A great deal has been lost and the young people of today are the poorer for it.
then at Intermediate school..... I wanted to do the woodwork and metalwork classes........ and not do the cooking and sewing classes. But it wasnt allowed. Girls had to do the domestic stuff and the boys had to do the cool stuff. There was one or two boys who wanted to learn to cook and we said we could swap...... NUP. To this day I hate cooking and sewing.... loved working with wood, can build decks, fences and make rimu coffee tables... give me wood and I am happy....lol. They could never knock the tomboy out of me... lol. Apparently a year or so later they changed the rules..... boys and girls doing all 4 subjects.... b*rst*ds....
I remember blue We were not given very long to do them the teacher preferred music and folk dancing but I will check out the resource room at the local school where I was thankyou!
Gosh, those certificates for swimming achievement. They were such an incentive to me and like you I aimed high and got my mile in primary school. Went on to do competitive swimming until I had to decide between that and training my horses.
you went to QEC? I went to Freyberg. What primary/intermediate did you attend?
How did you know I went to QEC???????? lol.
But yep I did... Takaro Primary and Monrad Intermediate....
having a pass to go home for lunch prefect standing there checking 650
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