I had a Sindy doll & my sister had a Debbie (her name was Debbie too lol) Had the dreaded codliver oil capsules every day along with vitamin C & fluoride tablets. HArdly anyone I knew had pierced anything LOL until the girl across the road pierced her own ears with a needle & a potato! She was my hero hahaha
My mother used to put my hair in rags to give me ringlets too. When I was 16, my friends and I all had long hair and we used to crouch down over the ironing board with brown paper over our hair and iron it to make it super straight.
My mum was despaerate for me to have ringlets. I'd go to bed every night with my hair firmly tied in rags! The curl never held LOL Now I've got such wavy hair it peeves me off hahaha. Remember Mum entering my sister in a lookalike comp at the Industries Fair one year as Buffy from A Family Affair - she looked just like her but was so shy she ran off the stage in tears LOL
Remember there was no shampoo. Mum would wash my hair in the handbasin with soap. She would cook the meat till it was dry and stringy. Rice puddings.. yuck.. Picking cooties outa dads hair while he sat reading a book. Peeling sunburnt skin off mum.. yuck yuck
and who remembers the dreaded "Bertie Germ" at the school dental clinic?. My two sisters and I all had the same dresses,trouble was, I got the hand-me-downs and when mine was too small I progressed to Christines,while she got Susan's (who got something new!!) and THEN I got Christines -which used to be Susan's -it was HARD being last in line. I had a hoola hoop and I could hula it right up to my neck and back down to my knees.
i remember years ago we had these neighbours and we would call them the muppets cause the mother wore no teeth and her chin would touch her nose, well one day they were outside so i sang the muppet song to them u know the tune and i was laughing when i was singing it so they could hear me, well dad was behind me and i got a good kick up the ass, those ppl are still called the muppets till this day and yes i still sing the tune quietly under my breath when i see them
Mum SCRUBBING the back of my neck for all she was worth - thinking my tan was DIRT! I was in Girl's Brigade & my sister & I would skip off to Sunday School each wk & leave Mum in bed still asleep - we were such GOOD girls LOL
Ohh just remembered the time I wanted to bake a cake for the G/B cake stall - I turned on the gas, lit the match, then opened the oven door - BOOM! lost my fringe, eyebrows & lashes - & gave Mum a heart attack LOL
Playing a game with sticks....I dont know what it was called but we used to race out to the footpath and play with all the neighbours after school and after dinner. You had sticks about a foot long and laid them out vertically with about a foot space between. You ran through them then had the choice of moving one to the end of the line hence the gaps would get bigger until you were leaping. I remember it was a lot of fun. Most of my childhood toys and play involved mimicking what mothers do. What about wooden tops and teasets....
What did you all get whacked with by your parents I had a well sanded stick, it was about a yard long and 2 inches wide and had my name inked on it. Hurt like hell. My father used to wave it round all the time.
Ah Keenkiwi, you reminded me..The word SCRUBBING brings back memories of weekly having to scrub the doorsteps with sandsoap. Some benches had the wooden tops that required sandsoaping as well. Why is it that way back when and as the eldest and a girl I seemed to spend a good part of my weekend cleaning and scrubbing and you know nothing much has changed really!! Not like kids of todays world...
my parents used... the bamboo shillaylee, jug cord, garden hose whatever he put his hands on first yet we still till this day respect them even for what they did ouchhhhhhhh but u knew what u were going to get a hiding for yet we did the same over and over again, or am i speaking for myself lol
A leather belt.. As a youngen I crawled under the house and my big excited find was this leather belt. I was so chuffed about it BUT it was buckled up and hung on the door handle to use at any given opportunity. AND the opportunities seem to come around so quickly didnt you find. My mother had a quick hand as well. I remember having to sit at the table until EVERYTHING was eaten from my plate. It didnt seem to matter that I was gagging on boiled leeks that were stuck in my throat!! From that experience I never made my children eat everything on their plate but they did have to make a good go of it to get dessert. I loved rice puddings, junket etc. We had brain fritters, black pudding, tripe....mmmm.... can still smell them all cooking.
I wonder how many kids today would be able to read something like this thread and recognize so many things that are familiar? anyone else's parents bottle fruit in the summer? We used to take a trailer and wooden fruit boxes over to Hawkes Bay and bring back pounds and pounds of various fruit. The kitchen would be steamy, smell of syrup for a week as we hung round to gather up the peelings for eating. A lot of hard work but we always had fruit on hand in the winter as there was never any of this imported stuff.
ohhhh - my mum used the jug cord, her slipper or jandal, flyswat (ohh did that HURT) and this nasty looking leather thong thing my aunty gave her - it had a plaited loop for a handle & all the thongs hung down about a foot or so - it was a SCARY thing!
oh yuk brain pudding make me heave what about tripe is this tha same as what u meant #371 dam i never made my kids eat that either but i remember my daughter not liking peas and she would reach so in the end someone told her to push them under her plate so she did and i never new this for a long time the little toad, she was allowed pudding once she had eaten her tea as well and all the time she was hiding what she didnt like, dont worry she has a baby and i remind her of this lol
Bottled fruit.... OH yes.... I remember that. In fact I did it myself for many years. A very syrupy sticky kitchen that drew the flies. Yuk! Love it but its cheaper to buy now really. We seemed to live on mince, mutton and stewing steak! Chickens were a huge expensive treat, my how things have changed. The only time I had a fizzy drink was at xmas parties at the end of the year. We had the kitchen lion that required polishing. It was my job with the electric polisher that had its own agenda haha. Many a time it got away on me.
My grandmother had a stack of old plates in her kitchen cupboard - if we were grumpy about something we were expected to go into the kitchen, close the doors and SMASH plates until we felt better! Then you had to clean up the mess before you could leave the room LOL Was a great stress release, but the clean up was a b*tch!!
polishing with one of those heavy polishers was one of my chores, as was cleaning out fireplaces and resetting them for lighting later in the day. Cant imagine asking a child to do that now. Another one was polishing everyone's schoolshoes in the evening...the smell of nugget lingers to this day.
There was no talking about what you did wrong back then. It was slap, bang, smack and no questions asked. Well for me anyway. There was no talking or discussing anything. No reasoning or chance for explanations. I wasnt told about menstruation until the morning I got my period on our way into town. How uncomfortable was that trip!! A book was placed on my bed from the doctor later that week with words I didnt even know the meaning of. My did I improve on that one!!
One year..all the bottled fruit stored on a shelf in the washhouse, fell down in the middle of the night! Yukkkk the sticky mess. Who had a copper ? scary things boiling away. Got a wringer machine when my sister was born
reading about the smacks with 'weapons' god these days the kids would be removed from the 'abusive' household. I got the jugcord, ouch, but hardly ever smacked my kids and only with my hand. Am babysitting my 23mth old granddaughter at her house while her parents are away on holiday, my 8mth pregnant daughter is staying to help out as I work part time. GD parents do not smack her but use the naughty corner, GD was spitting out her water instead of swallowing it, has been going on for awhile,at least since christmas, so I did what her parents do and used the naughty corner, straight after she spits out the water and I gave her a smack over her nappy, she gave a grizzle and we haven't had a spit since. Daughter was horrified but I begged her not to tell GD parents!! I'm an abusive grandma!!!!!!!!
Remember the Rawleighs Mandelivered the foulest tasting stuff. Could never work out why my mother made us take it "clean out your bells" - didnt have a clue where my "bells" were - was years before I found out she meant bowels!
We had a big old thick leather fanbelt for whacking. Used to hide it, but if caught got twice as many round the ass. A clip around the ears was common. Never had any long term affect.. Brain still functions ok.. lol
Our house was different, or so our friends thought..we discussed anything and everything. My dad was one of only two vets in PN and we taken by him to some cases. Took it in our stride to see stallions serving mares, spaying cats and neutering dogs etc. Often got into trouble at school for sharing this at morning talk time.lol
Oh shoe polishing.... I had to polish every morning prior to leaving for school. We didnt have a fire place but I did go to brownies where I learnt that art. Thats where I built and lit my first fire and made my first rice pudding. I remember riding on trams in Wellington. Getting my bike wheels stuck in the tram lines and falling off!! Riding freely around the streets without helmets and with less cars. Playing elastics and big jump ropes. There was some ditty that went with the skipping about Roy rogers. (Hi Roy Rogers, how about a date. Met me at the corner at half past eight....) I never had a bbq as a child at all. I dreaded Sundays going out visiting people every weekend. BORING!
I remember the old wringer washing machine. Sister and I were playing with it and her arm got caught and went through it. Had to go to hospital for skin grafts. She still has a lot of scaring 45 years later...
Coppers, yes...and big wooden tubs. A huge long wooden spoon for the coppers. Mind you everything was probably mainly cotton back then. The wringer washing machine was fascinating. We never had one. My M-I-L had one which I learnt to use as a teenager and really enjoyed the novelty. I remember the old scrubbing boards and sunlight soap. Thank goodness they are no more. I remember the beautiful delicate china my grandmother used to have. She had a saying "hells bells and buggy wheels" no idea what that meant either. Bless her.
My youngest sister put her index finger up into the motor of our wringer washing machine as it was working..still has a munted finger that is useless. Thinking of some of the other things we did it is a wonder we survived. My mother swore that when she rang the hospital they automatically asked which of us it was that needed urgent treatment!
I was the same - woke up with it, went out to Mum & showed her my pj bottoms, my sister laughed and I got handed a pad & told to put it in my pants. What a shocker that was. My daughter got hers on New YEar's Eve morning - I took her out for a Mummy Date & she was well informed with starter packs from Carefree & Libra. Was determined she wouldn't be traumatised by it :-)
blueo for the whitening sheets etc. Thick eiderdowns and aircell blankets on beds with kapok mattresses on wire bases.
I recall Mum made piles of half gallon jars filled with ginger beer made from the 'bug'. All stored under the house and at regular intervals one would explode so we had bangs in the night as well. I remember my Dad packing his half gallon case with the two bottles and heading off to the pub to have them filled each weekend. Fish and chips wrapped in newsprint. Some places still do this. Asking for threepence worth of scraps on the way home from school. Asking also for vinegar and sauce (worcester) on your chips. Ah, those were the days....
was very lucky not to need skin grafts. My cousin & I were playing with the bubbles while Aunty hung the washing. Thankfully Aunty was very quick at releasing the wringer!
remember my mum making ginger beer and how we had to leave it for 3weeks or more, it was the most beautiful ginger beer that i had tasted, and the maori bread she used to make, not sure what that was called but dam it was all good
My partners father was the ginger beer and lemondade man who delivered in those large brown gallon jars, on the Shore hundreds of years ago. I was counting up how many men "visited" my mother in a week ! OMG the butcher, the bread man, the milkman, the ice man (we had a larder, no fridge till the late 50's), Mr Rawleigh, the grocer, the postman and on and on. Its a wonder she didnt have an affair !!
my grandmother said that too LOL and 'you'll bust your fu-fu valve' LOL Fluffs instead of farts. My poppy chased me around the garden with the spade once for saying SH*T - think I was 3 or 4 hehehe
Keenkiwi, you did exactly the same as me haha Took the pj pants and showed her. Little did I know that I had been having little starter periods for ages prior to. I thought I hadnt wiped my bottom properly and knew I would get into trouble for it so when I had my incinerator duty in the weekend I burnt my pj pants haha. Mum could never figure where they had all gone. I was handed a pad, belt and safety pins. Was told "thatscalled your period, you get it monthly, it helps you to have babies and your cousin (who is two years older) has only just got hers". That was the extent of it! My tum was soooo sore that day but no asprin or disprin (what ever it was then) offered, I told my girls way before they would get theirs so they didnt have the shock I did. I remember the blueo as well. Used to dangle on a string and was apparently good for bee stings too.
blueo was good for bee stings LOL I had tons of them from playing in the clover LOL.
Diana's Pancake house on Willis St Wellington Where the gang used to go in the we small hours after dancing the night away at uncle alberts Artic with a band called Shiner.. good the lead singer was hot as used to shake my butt right infront of him.. oh the memories.. Being the tallest.. buying drinks under age at the speak easy.. .lol.. oh yeah ..the hungry horse and old mark and roland often wonder what they are up too and the soho bar next to uncle alberts.. Now we cant forget Carman can we.. what a doll... always looking out for us.. never had to worry to much about muggings and stuff.. they were the best days of my life... 400
Monday, January 15, 2007
Part 7
yep used to love the days in the blackcat playing all the old music and playing those machines that u put a penny in and watched it go down to the bottom and in hope u got a free turn again
The home sister sure as hell wasn't wrapped around my little finger. Those were great days though. Have heaps of great memories from my student nurse days.
We walked 3miles to school and then back home again.I remember where every berry,yum-yum and water hole was.And who to hitch a ride with too.
Knitted home made socks.....Omigod, how itchy were they. Lanes emulsion, maltexo, codliver oil tablets and vitamin c tablets and all on one day!!! Lovely. The codliver oil would repeat on you all day and thats all you could taste. Yuk! Have to say I havent suffered many flus and colds in my life though. Kiddies car seats that hooked onto the back seat. I loved my black walkie talkie dolls. Sabrina dolls, first dolls with boobs, sindie dolls. Stringy chewy stews and casseroles. Yuk. Put me off for life. Rin tin tin, William Tell, the first memory of black and white Tv. Tin putt putt boats in the bath. Lit with a candle. They were fun. My absolute fav which gave me a lot of pleasure was a frisbee type dish that you spun on top of a pointed stick. I had a pale pink with glitter. Ah, memories. Those were the days .... * sigh *
going to the opera house to the pictures and dropping all those jaffas down thru the seats and u heard every bit of rolling that they did, no carpet on the floors those days, then the big torch that got shone in your face and u sat there like nothing had happened and it wasnt you hehehehe nah it wasnt me it was him, trueeeee
lanes emulsion and maltex yukkkkkk well the malt wasnt too bad but the lanes emulsion yukkk were they trying to poison us hehehehe we didnt have the cod liver oil sht dont know how we missed with that one lol
i had sindy doll as well and use to spend hours dressing her we also had to have a teaspoon of malt every day, the vegetables that had the guts boiled out of them yuk
i remember in the cremalta porridge you got a free stick with the plastic bowl so u could swirl it round yes they were the days, and all the tin toys, my first doll was a walkie talkie, i named her Hayley after hayley mills cause i went to her movie Pollyanna and loved her in it, and the boats u used to get in the baking soda, u put the baking soda in it and it would fiz to the top in the bath
Oooh yuk, and having to eat a teaspoon of sulphur powder and treacle once a week because my mother said it was good for your skin. May have been good for the skin but it made your bum sound like a starter motor.
shirley templei had my hair done in ringlets like her
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at xmas there was always a huge pile of pressies under our tree
I hated cremelta although I didn't mind porridge with golden syrup swirled on the top. On rainy days Mum would always have fingers of hot toast ready for us with marmite. The "Sunday drive" we went on those every Sunday right up until I was about 16 -we would usually go up to Wenderholm or Orewa and the big treat was "snowfreeze" icecream.We had a hut and we had a rope swing over some bigg gully which you had to jump to catch!!(no fear then!!)My friend,Fiona got "witches britches" and white boots and I was SO upset,because Mum wouldnt let me have them. Who had a cane dolls pram? I have recently bought one (re-living the childhood!!) and "Patch" doll -just bought one of those too on ebay!! My sisters had "Sindy"
my mother loved shirley temple
and your parents would say now hurry up and go to sleep otherwise father xmas wont come, and u would lie there awake waiting for him to arrive then u would hear a noise and think he was on your roof, then we would get up like 2-3 in the morning and grab our pressies and play with them, i would make my dolly cry and wake the rest up hehehehehe
being able to go to the dairy by yourself cause it was safer then. the beatles coming to nz and those plastic wigs that everyone had
"Maltexo" with the cod liver oil and orange juice in it -yummy. I still occasionally buy it.the Spacemen cigarette sweets which i think you can still buy. Waking up at 3am on Christmas morning. I can still remember the smell of the plastic on the bride doll I got one Christmas, it set your teeth on edge! cap guns -I loved the smell of the burnt out caps. and the great plastic toys you got in the weetbix or kornies packets.
lining the streets holding you little flag when there was a royal tour
i have a cane dolls pram here so i am still living my childhood days
the tin babies bath that was put out side with water in it on hot days so we could play in it
,we used to tie our cardi's on the bar first which made it far easier to go round and round. Who remembers the big skipping ropes at school and you would all be in a line and run and jump into the rope and skip,then run out again,then the next person would do the same? or two of you would skip at the same time. There was a particular song we used to sing,but I cant remember what it was.
i have lots of dolls still, and yes the flag when the queen came over way back, and the flags when the govenor general came to your school, and the jokes we would make up..in 1956 the king was chopping blocks, he missed the block and cut his......finger stupid, in 1956 hehehehee remember all of these
Spending summer days at Pt Erin Baths 5c to get in, 20c would be enough to get lunch and some Sante bars, arrive at 8am leave at 5pm. No sunblock, no hat and the days seemed so much hotter than now.
My best Christmas present was a go-kart that my big brother had made for me. I LOVED that go-kart and I've still got the scars on my knees as a reminder. Ooh and playing cowboys and indians in the bush. I always wanted to be the Indian princess and wore a headpiece and skirt made from toi-toi.
yes those skipping times when we were great at it and doing it in pairs gosh these days we would try it and just laugh our heads off. We would bike to school 10mile away and it would be up steep hills and windy roads out in the country, we would meant to be catching the bus and we would say that we did go on the bus but it was so much more fun riding the bike, no gears on them either and then now u go out over those same roads, they have been tarsealed and yet for the life of u you wonder how u ever did it phewww
Anyone here from Christchurch? The Albatross coffee lounge, Regent, Savoy, Majestic, Odeon, Avon, State, Cinerama, Tivoli, Crystal Palace, Snoopy's, Plainsman, Scene, Mojo's.
and the days we let the kids mow the lawns we had a rolling motor mower and i had taken my oldest daughter to marching and left the other kids at home with their dad. He let the youngest son of 6yrs mow the lawn and the younger daughter of 2yrs old always followed the motor mower around, well she went in front of it and her brother couldnt stop the mower from moving and he mowed over her leg and she has this cut shaped like a E, we reminded him of it at his 21st and then she showed him, dam laugh now but not at the time
I remember the Plainsman very well....slow dancing . Some one wanted to know when 'the pill' came here. It was 1959 as my mother was preggers with twins (numbers 5 and 6) when it came here. that is why there was no number 7
Getting up at 5am Doing a lambing beat.Having a bath ,breakfast and catching the bus at 7 to get to high school.Having 2/6 a week to buy my lunch.Gym frocks,panama hats,roman sandles.Lever hit parade each sunday evening.Ofcourse all the mums serials to..Sighhh... so uncomplicated then.
winkle pickers and stove pipe trousers
The long haired students wearing roman sandals and old ladies fur coats.....jeez they're still looking like that today...lol
I loved Haley Mills and Dirk Bogard.I can also remember going to the movies with a shilling and having enough money to buy an icecream at half time as well. Ciggies were 2 shillings a packet and a little bag chippies for threepence and they had the salt inside them wrapped up in a bit of blue paper.
sunday night was our bath and wash hair night in about 2inches of water urrrrrrrrrrrg and the rest of the week we had to wash our feet and legs up to our knees
dipping the nib pen in the little ink well at school..
the pill wasnt really spoken about then cause when i had my first child out of wedlock u couldnt even talk to your parents about anything, u couldnt ask questions, they wouldnt tell u about the birds and the bees as it was discusting to them, now these days the kids tell u it all, u can get redfaced with what they say at times, they dont even mind joking with how they did it last night
The Beachboys. My first crush was on Dennis from the Beachboys.
the days when children were seen and not heard or so they say
shirley temple is a star S T A R she can do the wiggle wobbles she can do the splits she can lift her dress right up to her hips.
remembers Plunket. it's Plunkets 100th birthday this year. Remember dances at the Crystal Palace in Mt Eden rd.,., the Orange ballroom,it was quite daring to go there, can';t remember why, and one of the first restaurants was the Matador Symonds st.,
geez i remember the plunket days had this real old dragon for a plunket nurse, and the way they put the baby in a nappy and hung it to the hook on the weigh scales then held it up in the air to read the weight
the discos
What about the lemonade iceblocks with jellybabies frozen in the tip. The homemade milky iceblocks. I too had witches britches which we let show just under our school skirts. I still have my cane pram, dolls cot, dolls highchair etc. I had white boots with a bow in the front and almost slept in them. My fav roman sandals were my red ones. I thought I was so different. My hair was put in rags overnight to provide me with ringlets. I remember the praise people would give me!! My most treasured memory was of a boy at high school. We liked each other but both shy, today we are now together after our marriages collapsed. The most happy days of my life. It truly goes in circles.
Going to the Christmas parade in Auckland and ending up at Farmers. That big old Father Christmas on the roof with the finger that moved.
sitting on santas knee
brownies taking your 5cents and putting it on the mushroom and dancing around it, thats if you didnt spent your 5cents at the dairy on aniseed wheels before brownies.. i got away with that for so long, until my mum became brown owl. every tuesday we got to wear our brownie uniform to school,we all felt so cool.... can you remember paper drives with the scouts.
ohhhh thats so sweet asado your time sure has gone round in a circle, nice to have a happy ending. well i must get off here but will be back later, i just love this thread, it brings back all the great old times, just what we needed. 350
The home sister sure as hell wasn't wrapped around my little finger. Those were great days though. Have heaps of great memories from my student nurse days.
We walked 3miles to school and then back home again.I remember where every berry,yum-yum and water hole was.And who to hitch a ride with too.
Knitted home made socks.....Omigod, how itchy were they. Lanes emulsion, maltexo, codliver oil tablets and vitamin c tablets and all on one day!!! Lovely. The codliver oil would repeat on you all day and thats all you could taste. Yuk! Have to say I havent suffered many flus and colds in my life though. Kiddies car seats that hooked onto the back seat. I loved my black walkie talkie dolls. Sabrina dolls, first dolls with boobs, sindie dolls. Stringy chewy stews and casseroles. Yuk. Put me off for life. Rin tin tin, William Tell, the first memory of black and white Tv. Tin putt putt boats in the bath. Lit with a candle. They were fun. My absolute fav which gave me a lot of pleasure was a frisbee type dish that you spun on top of a pointed stick. I had a pale pink with glitter. Ah, memories. Those were the days .... * sigh *
going to the opera house to the pictures and dropping all those jaffas down thru the seats and u heard every bit of rolling that they did, no carpet on the floors those days, then the big torch that got shone in your face and u sat there like nothing had happened and it wasnt you hehehehe nah it wasnt me it was him, trueeeee
lanes emulsion and maltex yukkkkkk well the malt wasnt too bad but the lanes emulsion yukkk were they trying to poison us hehehehe we didnt have the cod liver oil sht dont know how we missed with that one lol
i had sindy doll as well and use to spend hours dressing her we also had to have a teaspoon of malt every day, the vegetables that had the guts boiled out of them yuk
i remember in the cremalta porridge you got a free stick with the plastic bowl so u could swirl it round yes they were the days, and all the tin toys, my first doll was a walkie talkie, i named her Hayley after hayley mills cause i went to her movie Pollyanna and loved her in it, and the boats u used to get in the baking soda, u put the baking soda in it and it would fiz to the top in the bath
Oooh yuk, and having to eat a teaspoon of sulphur powder and treacle once a week because my mother said it was good for your skin. May have been good for the skin but it made your bum sound like a starter motor.
shirley templei had my hair done in ringlets like her
'...
at xmas there was always a huge pile of pressies under our tree
I hated cremelta although I didn't mind porridge with golden syrup swirled on the top. On rainy days Mum would always have fingers of hot toast ready for us with marmite. The "Sunday drive" we went on those every Sunday right up until I was about 16 -we would usually go up to Wenderholm or Orewa and the big treat was "snowfreeze" icecream.We had a hut and we had a rope swing over some bigg gully which you had to jump to catch!!(no fear then!!)My friend,Fiona got "witches britches" and white boots and I was SO upset,because Mum wouldnt let me have them. Who had a cane dolls pram? I have recently bought one (re-living the childhood!!) and "Patch" doll -just bought one of those too on ebay!! My sisters had "Sindy"
my mother loved shirley temple
and your parents would say now hurry up and go to sleep otherwise father xmas wont come, and u would lie there awake waiting for him to arrive then u would hear a noise and think he was on your roof, then we would get up like 2-3 in the morning and grab our pressies and play with them, i would make my dolly cry and wake the rest up hehehehehe
being able to go to the dairy by yourself cause it was safer then. the beatles coming to nz and those plastic wigs that everyone had
"Maltexo" with the cod liver oil and orange juice in it -yummy. I still occasionally buy it.the Spacemen cigarette sweets which i think you can still buy. Waking up at 3am on Christmas morning. I can still remember the smell of the plastic on the bride doll I got one Christmas, it set your teeth on edge! cap guns -I loved the smell of the burnt out caps. and the great plastic toys you got in the weetbix or kornies packets.
lining the streets holding you little flag when there was a royal tour
i have a cane dolls pram here so i am still living my childhood days
the tin babies bath that was put out side with water in it on hot days so we could play in it
,we used to tie our cardi's on the bar first which made it far easier to go round and round. Who remembers the big skipping ropes at school and you would all be in a line and run and jump into the rope and skip,then run out again,then the next person would do the same? or two of you would skip at the same time. There was a particular song we used to sing,but I cant remember what it was.
i have lots of dolls still, and yes the flag when the queen came over way back, and the flags when the govenor general came to your school, and the jokes we would make up..in 1956 the king was chopping blocks, he missed the block and cut his......finger stupid, in 1956 hehehehee remember all of these
Spending summer days at Pt Erin Baths 5c to get in, 20c would be enough to get lunch and some Sante bars, arrive at 8am leave at 5pm. No sunblock, no hat and the days seemed so much hotter than now.
My best Christmas present was a go-kart that my big brother had made for me. I LOVED that go-kart and I've still got the scars on my knees as a reminder. Ooh and playing cowboys and indians in the bush. I always wanted to be the Indian princess and wore a headpiece and skirt made from toi-toi.
yes those skipping times when we were great at it and doing it in pairs gosh these days we would try it and just laugh our heads off. We would bike to school 10mile away and it would be up steep hills and windy roads out in the country, we would meant to be catching the bus and we would say that we did go on the bus but it was so much more fun riding the bike, no gears on them either and then now u go out over those same roads, they have been tarsealed and yet for the life of u you wonder how u ever did it phewww
Anyone here from Christchurch? The Albatross coffee lounge, Regent, Savoy, Majestic, Odeon, Avon, State, Cinerama, Tivoli, Crystal Palace, Snoopy's, Plainsman, Scene, Mojo's.
and the days we let the kids mow the lawns we had a rolling motor mower and i had taken my oldest daughter to marching and left the other kids at home with their dad. He let the youngest son of 6yrs mow the lawn and the younger daughter of 2yrs old always followed the motor mower around, well she went in front of it and her brother couldnt stop the mower from moving and he mowed over her leg and she has this cut shaped like a E, we reminded him of it at his 21st and then she showed him, dam laugh now but not at the time
I remember the Plainsman very well....slow dancing . Some one wanted to know when 'the pill' came here. It was 1959 as my mother was preggers with twins (numbers 5 and 6) when it came here. that is why there was no number 7
Getting up at 5am Doing a lambing beat.Having a bath ,breakfast and catching the bus at 7 to get to high school.Having 2/6 a week to buy my lunch.Gym frocks,panama hats,roman sandles.Lever hit parade each sunday evening.Ofcourse all the mums serials to..Sighhh... so uncomplicated then.
winkle pickers and stove pipe trousers
The long haired students wearing roman sandals and old ladies fur coats.....jeez they're still looking like that today...lol
I loved Haley Mills and Dirk Bogard.I can also remember going to the movies with a shilling and having enough money to buy an icecream at half time as well. Ciggies were 2 shillings a packet and a little bag chippies for threepence and they had the salt inside them wrapped up in a bit of blue paper.
sunday night was our bath and wash hair night in about 2inches of water urrrrrrrrrrrg and the rest of the week we had to wash our feet and legs up to our knees
dipping the nib pen in the little ink well at school..
the pill wasnt really spoken about then cause when i had my first child out of wedlock u couldnt even talk to your parents about anything, u couldnt ask questions, they wouldnt tell u about the birds and the bees as it was discusting to them, now these days the kids tell u it all, u can get redfaced with what they say at times, they dont even mind joking with how they did it last night
The Beachboys. My first crush was on Dennis from the Beachboys.
the days when children were seen and not heard or so they say
shirley temple is a star S T A R she can do the wiggle wobbles she can do the splits she can lift her dress right up to her hips.
remembers Plunket. it's Plunkets 100th birthday this year. Remember dances at the Crystal Palace in Mt Eden rd.,., the Orange ballroom,it was quite daring to go there, can';t remember why, and one of the first restaurants was the Matador Symonds st.,
geez i remember the plunket days had this real old dragon for a plunket nurse, and the way they put the baby in a nappy and hung it to the hook on the weigh scales then held it up in the air to read the weight
the discos
What about the lemonade iceblocks with jellybabies frozen in the tip. The homemade milky iceblocks. I too had witches britches which we let show just under our school skirts. I still have my cane pram, dolls cot, dolls highchair etc. I had white boots with a bow in the front and almost slept in them. My fav roman sandals were my red ones. I thought I was so different. My hair was put in rags overnight to provide me with ringlets. I remember the praise people would give me!! My most treasured memory was of a boy at high school. We liked each other but both shy, today we are now together after our marriages collapsed. The most happy days of my life. It truly goes in circles.
Going to the Christmas parade in Auckland and ending up at Farmers. That big old Father Christmas on the roof with the finger that moved.
sitting on santas knee
brownies taking your 5cents and putting it on the mushroom and dancing around it, thats if you didnt spent your 5cents at the dairy on aniseed wheels before brownies.. i got away with that for so long, until my mum became brown owl. every tuesday we got to wear our brownie uniform to school,we all felt so cool.... can you remember paper drives with the scouts.
ohhhh thats so sweet asado your time sure has gone round in a circle, nice to have a happy ending. well i must get off here but will be back later, i just love this thread, it brings back all the great old times, just what we needed. 350
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Part 6
we sure were and the kids of today dont know what they are missing out on, my father worked in a dairy factory and we used to go with him and help build the crates for the cheese, they were a barrel kind of crate, he worked in with the cheese, we used to go watch how the cheese was made as well, used to like watching the curd slish around in the vats, b4 he was a factory worker we lived on a farm, so remember the old long drops, i always carried my kitten with me when i sat on there to do my business and my kitten fell down amongst the pooooo so my dad had to get a rake to try and winch it back up, me didnt get growled but i always remember it. We had a small med and a large size toilet/longdrop it was so good living there. dam why arent the days like this now..no i dont want to drop another kitten down it, the poor wee thing hehehehe
pushbikes with 28inch wheels chev belairs and morrie miners no give way signs and no gangs murder you never heard of it then later words like cool farout right on man we are a pack of old foggies
and the old mini coopers i still have a 1979 GT1275 shes a hoon and I love her, and i remember the times when my brother in his old chevy coop taking his friend to Paeroa for an icecream travelling 6hrs there then straight back again.
there were hardly any murders. I do remember the BassettRoad one though cause all the neighbours talked about it. We had a nasty 52 red Morris Oxford, everyone else had blue, green, white or black cars, my father was terrified someone would bang into us, so he painted it red, so we could be seen. Well we were seen, from about 50 miles away !! I remember my father making a home brew and all the neighbours coming to try it. Im sure the alcohol content was hideously high back then. And my father would wear one of those dressy hats to work, thinking back it was ghastly, but all men wore hats. What were the tight trousers called that we wore ? stove pipes ?
I remember sitting down for dinner one night, aged about 7 and saying in a loud voice Father Uncle Cousin King ! I didnt have a clue what it meant, had heard it at school. OMG I can still see my father slowly turn purple with shock and rage! hahahaha boy did I get the bit of 4 x 2 planted firmly on my backside that night and my mouth washed out with vinegar. Was years before I knew what it meant.
when i was a child my brother took me and my little sister with a few of dads capstan 10 plain cigs and we laid in the long grass just down from the house and lit them up and tried them out coughing and spluttering, dad saw the smoke rising and sneaked down to us, we didnt get the bamboo that time cause we were choking on the ciggie anyway, yukkk never again
Great Memories A bag of speck fruit,ice cream for a penny, I see the hula hoop is back in
yes it is and what i could do with the hula hoop then, i cant now lol, what about the jungle gym when u used to swing around the bar with one leg and go round and round, yukk i could never do that now hehe
we had more respect for our parents, teachers etc than the kids do today because we knew we would get the strap or bamboo etc there was a lot of what the would call child abuse (today)back then but it did us no harm
LOL at the jungle gym and turn upside down and show our panties! and the boys would all laugh. Those days panties were very plain. I had these navy ones and they used to leave dye all over my nether regions. Grosssssss
those days u could wear your panties for PE they were like shorts lol
remember the times hen the boys put mirrors on the top of their shoes to look up the girls dresses or gyms, now if you wore a gym it would be naughty lol
My grandma iued to wear a girdle with bones in it and hooks in the front and these weird things that hung down to clip onto her 'hose'. The stockings were so thick and darned. On the clothes line, the girdle, stretched out, used to take up a whole line! Then she wore bloomers, that came down to her knees. They were a sight to behold on the clothes line! Looked like those windsoxs that fly at airports !
I lived over the coast e walked to school and had to wear boots, when we got there the teacher made us a cup of cocoa, also that razor strap, not that i got it, Ha Ha
i remember the cocoa, i used to make it
at our school, and those bloomers #267 dam that made me laugh what u wrote hehehehe but yes the clothes we all wore yesteryear is what the guys want us to wear these days for their pleasure hehehehe
dont think my gym slip would fit me now, but it was very short, would come up to my waist now. Should I add a pair of bloomers ? Someone needs to delete this thread off. Its taking all my time up and Im exhausted from laughing so hard.
and the school cap and berets the socks had to be pulled up, and if u got a ladder in your stocking u had to darn it or put nail polish on it to stop it from running any further
I bet you didnt have nice tartan pants like I had to wear. I hated them so much. Home made :( and everyone had Farmers pants. And I had to wear dresses (with lots of lace and frills) to match my sister 5 yrs younger. So gross, hate pink, lace and tartan to this day. I wanted those shiny black patent shoes, but my mother made me wear red ones. YUK, Talk about a traumatised childhood !! LOL
couldnt wear makeup to school otherwise u had to go wash it off, the girls today wear it to school and get away with it, maybe some boys wear it too hehehehe imagine it
my parents were the same dressed all 4 of us girls the same and nah didnt have the tartan panties not sure what they were, maybe nappies still hehehehehe...NOT...
not having to wear seat belts in carsor crash helmets when on a motor bike, cars with a bench seat in the front that was held up by a strap so it could be laid down for a bit of fun
sorry meant like trousers, pull up jobs, no fly with lovely wide elastic round the waist. So Gross with a luvly fairisle jumper to match.
the bench seat, you could slide across, make me blush
we were all dressed the same as well going to sunday school to get out of doing the dishes and spending the plate money on lollies on the way home
hehehhehehe debbie what kind of fun debbie hehehehe but yes those were the days, what about the fun in a 2 front seat car and the hand break there ouch hehehehe
and the times the cars broke down and u had to get the crank handle out to start it again, and if u didnt have that all us kids had to push the car, but we did it
the crank Handle h the car always need a crank to get going in the cold. Things didnt seem to change much back then. We seemed to wear the same 'fashions' for years on end. I was not interested in clothes so suited me. I was more interested in bikes and trucks that the boy next door had.
black and white tv that came on at 6 oclock at night
yes and if u didnt have a TV at the time your parents would take u into town on a friday night and u would sit outside a shop in front of their window and watch The Lone Ranger, sometimes the shopkeeper would tell u to bugger off but u got to know the ones that would let u sit there, they would even tell u to go sit inside and watch it
Dancing the night away at Granny's in Auckland to the La Di Da's and Dinah Lee, then climbing up the fire escape at the Nurses Home and being caught by Sister Death. Oooh and keeping our hands over our glasses of coke in case some boy put an aspro in it. lol.
geez the nurses home lol i had the charge nurse wrapped round my little finger hehehehehe sht those were the days there aye hehe
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pushbikes with 28inch wheels chev belairs and morrie miners no give way signs and no gangs murder you never heard of it then later words like cool farout right on man we are a pack of old foggies
and the old mini coopers i still have a 1979 GT1275 shes a hoon and I love her, and i remember the times when my brother in his old chevy coop taking his friend to Paeroa for an icecream travelling 6hrs there then straight back again.
there were hardly any murders. I do remember the BassettRoad one though cause all the neighbours talked about it. We had a nasty 52 red Morris Oxford, everyone else had blue, green, white or black cars, my father was terrified someone would bang into us, so he painted it red, so we could be seen. Well we were seen, from about 50 miles away !! I remember my father making a home brew and all the neighbours coming to try it. Im sure the alcohol content was hideously high back then. And my father would wear one of those dressy hats to work, thinking back it was ghastly, but all men wore hats. What were the tight trousers called that we wore ? stove pipes ?
I remember sitting down for dinner one night, aged about 7 and saying in a loud voice Father Uncle Cousin King ! I didnt have a clue what it meant, had heard it at school. OMG I can still see my father slowly turn purple with shock and rage! hahahaha boy did I get the bit of 4 x 2 planted firmly on my backside that night and my mouth washed out with vinegar. Was years before I knew what it meant.
when i was a child my brother took me and my little sister with a few of dads capstan 10 plain cigs and we laid in the long grass just down from the house and lit them up and tried them out coughing and spluttering, dad saw the smoke rising and sneaked down to us, we didnt get the bamboo that time cause we were choking on the ciggie anyway, yukkk never again
Great Memories A bag of speck fruit,ice cream for a penny, I see the hula hoop is back in
yes it is and what i could do with the hula hoop then, i cant now lol, what about the jungle gym when u used to swing around the bar with one leg and go round and round, yukk i could never do that now hehe
we had more respect for our parents, teachers etc than the kids do today because we knew we would get the strap or bamboo etc there was a lot of what the would call child abuse (today)back then but it did us no harm
LOL at the jungle gym and turn upside down and show our panties! and the boys would all laugh. Those days panties were very plain. I had these navy ones and they used to leave dye all over my nether regions. Grosssssss
those days u could wear your panties for PE they were like shorts lol
remember the times hen the boys put mirrors on the top of their shoes to look up the girls dresses or gyms, now if you wore a gym it would be naughty lol
My grandma iued to wear a girdle with bones in it and hooks in the front and these weird things that hung down to clip onto her 'hose'. The stockings were so thick and darned. On the clothes line, the girdle, stretched out, used to take up a whole line! Then she wore bloomers, that came down to her knees. They were a sight to behold on the clothes line! Looked like those windsoxs that fly at airports !
I lived over the coast e walked to school and had to wear boots, when we got there the teacher made us a cup of cocoa, also that razor strap, not that i got it, Ha Ha
i remember the cocoa, i used to make it
at our school, and those bloomers #267 dam that made me laugh what u wrote hehehehe but yes the clothes we all wore yesteryear is what the guys want us to wear these days for their pleasure hehehehe
dont think my gym slip would fit me now, but it was very short, would come up to my waist now. Should I add a pair of bloomers ? Someone needs to delete this thread off. Its taking all my time up and Im exhausted from laughing so hard.
and the school cap and berets the socks had to be pulled up, and if u got a ladder in your stocking u had to darn it or put nail polish on it to stop it from running any further
I bet you didnt have nice tartan pants like I had to wear. I hated them so much. Home made :( and everyone had Farmers pants. And I had to wear dresses (with lots of lace and frills) to match my sister 5 yrs younger. So gross, hate pink, lace and tartan to this day. I wanted those shiny black patent shoes, but my mother made me wear red ones. YUK, Talk about a traumatised childhood !! LOL
couldnt wear makeup to school otherwise u had to go wash it off, the girls today wear it to school and get away with it, maybe some boys wear it too hehehehe imagine it
my parents were the same dressed all 4 of us girls the same and nah didnt have the tartan panties not sure what they were, maybe nappies still hehehehehe...NOT...
not having to wear seat belts in carsor crash helmets when on a motor bike, cars with a bench seat in the front that was held up by a strap so it could be laid down for a bit of fun
sorry meant like trousers, pull up jobs, no fly with lovely wide elastic round the waist. So Gross with a luvly fairisle jumper to match.
the bench seat, you could slide across, make me blush
we were all dressed the same as well going to sunday school to get out of doing the dishes and spending the plate money on lollies on the way home
hehehhehehe debbie what kind of fun debbie hehehehe but yes those were the days, what about the fun in a 2 front seat car and the hand break there ouch hehehehe
and the times the cars broke down and u had to get the crank handle out to start it again, and if u didnt have that all us kids had to push the car, but we did it
the crank Handle h the car always need a crank to get going in the cold. Things didnt seem to change much back then. We seemed to wear the same 'fashions' for years on end. I was not interested in clothes so suited me. I was more interested in bikes and trucks that the boy next door had.
black and white tv that came on at 6 oclock at night
yes and if u didnt have a TV at the time your parents would take u into town on a friday night and u would sit outside a shop in front of their window and watch The Lone Ranger, sometimes the shopkeeper would tell u to bugger off but u got to know the ones that would let u sit there, they would even tell u to go sit inside and watch it
Dancing the night away at Granny's in Auckland to the La Di Da's and Dinah Lee, then climbing up the fire escape at the Nurses Home and being caught by Sister Death. Oooh and keeping our hands over our glasses of coke in case some boy put an aspro in it. lol.
geez the nurses home lol i had the charge nurse wrapped round my little finger hehehehehe sht those were the days there aye hehe
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Part 5
Catching flounder in the Tamiki riverwith a spear at low tide.. Nicking the neighbours canoe and getting stuck at low tide in the estuary.. Damn mud in the Tamiki stinks...
Not locking your doors when you left home...
I can remember at primary school having to go for a swim with the class even if our swimming pool was green. Yes, we had a special day for each class to go swimming and it was compulsary. The pool sometimes was so green it was a health risk. But we did it or we got to clean the classroom at night for a week for punishment
We used to play on the streets at night...No TV watching in them days... String across the road and watch the cars run into it. Screech brakes and we were off.. lol
floundering
yes we did that as well with home make spears. You say Tamaki stank, you should of tried the west side like Wood Bay ....that was slimey stinky mud there but we headed off. I remember dad saying not to move much just glide through the water and anything moving stab it. Well i did and it was his sandshoe!!!!
I remember damning up the creek over the back of our property and causing floods to the neighbours... Lighting the long dry grass on fire so we could watch the fire engines at work.. Remember the fire alarms on the power poles. Break the glass hit the button and run for your life...
ahahha We did the pretend string over the road, We would each stand on the kerb and as a car approached we would pretend to be pulling on sting from one side to the other. We got growled at so many times, We would poke out our tongues out and run off. Theses days we would get stabbed for it lol
I have a spear scar on my left foot... But I did it ... lol
hahahah i remember well the lampost alarms. ummmmm I am guilty also of breaking one and doing a runner....
hahah u did it yourself.. did u catch anything though. I dont think in all the times we went there we actually came home with fish!!! just a lantern that had run out of kerosene and wet clothes
Going to the dairy with the milk billie and getting the milke. Waiting for the grocer to weigh out the sugar or flour and put it in brown paper bag. The old scales with the weights on one side on the goods on other. Riding bikes everywhere. Playing in Ongley Park but not going near the ESPLANADE (creepy old men lived there) Watching the Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Bank practising at Manaroa Park and being used as markers. Sharing just about everything we owned. Cats, dogs, rabbits, horses, birds. Swimming at the Muni after school. Not being allowed into the Square after 5 when it started to get dark.
Couldn't really eat the flounder too nuch mud in them.. The eels were ok tho... loved them smoked.
hmmmmm can say i remember a billie with mik, just glass bottles for me. I remember getting mums groceries and the boy would deliver them on his bike with a basket in front of it lol
mum and dad had a dairy i use to sneak the bottles from behind the shop and go and resell them at the dairy down the road.
I am amazed at how many are from PN in this thread I was there from 1965 to about 1975.
You seem like the girlfriends I kicked around with. I lived down the road from Bert Munro.....the bikie gang in the movie lived a couple of houses away. Playing on the streets was a favorite, but it wasn't a gang, more likely soccer or rounders. Always on our bikes. My favorite programmes were mostly about drinking and fun...high chaperal, the dean martin show, the monkees. the best times ever (58 model)
Dean Martin Show was great... Never missed it
My parents didn't have much money so we never had a car. We didn't have a TV or phone for a long time either.
My dad drove a Taxi in Auckland It was an old 1954 FJ Holden.. Yellow... Our only car and we never even owned it.. State house .. no money...
Remember when they even had a column in "the Truth" for divorces
It was a true gossip column aye...
Only read half of this and this old chook has to go to bed hope I can find it tomorrow. Thanks everyone for the laughs and the memories. Nitey Nite all
What a hoot! I used to work at the Bo Peep in my heyday. Also remember other great Ak clubs of the time= Big S, Embers Jazz club and the Galaxy ~ lunchtime gigs with the Underdogs *swoons*
lifestylz i was born in palmy and was there from
57 to 63 I remember going to visit my great aunt at the post office and it was a huge building with desks not counters.
shiver
My grandad worked there. He had a huge old oak desk and he was about 5 foot nothing... lol
revolting half pints of milk luke warm when left standing in the sun at school
I remember the strap and the cane and the wooden rule... very close contact at QEC...
icecream sodas
mmm! lime fizzy drink and slurping icecream up though a straw while sitting in a milkbar
heck so did my grandad for a little while buti don't remember seeing him there. I also remember our trips to town and we would have lunch in the park feeding the birds and watching the highland dancers. Going into the department stores where i was sooooo terrified i would get lost. Went into pn hospital when i was 2 1/2 and vividly remember getting smacked by a nurse. Train went through town, oh and i also have very vivid memories of evening setting through the back window of our studebaker car while waiting for our dad at the pub that isn't there now, i always thought he worked there, ha ha, only found out about five years ago he didn't, just visited lots.
Oh The Underdogs, yip they did rock Auckland, there is a poster on here sometimes who's brother-in-law was in the Underdogs.
Well it's taken a while but
Poppy (g/dad) used to take us to the pub with him we got to stay in the car with all the windows down & he (or one of his mates) would bring us out tall glasses of raspberry & coke while we waited. Just visited Kaikoura last week & was shocked to see the pub is now a huge pile of RUBBLE! G/parents had 2 baches in South Bay where we stayed every long w/end! We'd catch cockabillies in the rock pools & go out in the dinghy every day for fish. I remember helping Poppy hang the fish in the little shed out the back, which was a smoke house. I so loved being there :-)
i remember the chocolate milkshake icecream on a stick called a chacha and they were soooo yummy, i also remember a boy in my class playing a joke on the teacher by cellotaping a weta to her desk draw handle, they were the old kind draw handle that your fingers went up inside of, glad i wasnt a teacher
we lived in a back country and the school we went to had a swimming pool where the water in the pool come from a creek, we swam with the tadpoles and i remember my sister swimming under water and she swollered one, no she never turned into a frog lol but those were the days.
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Not locking your doors when you left home...
I can remember at primary school having to go for a swim with the class even if our swimming pool was green. Yes, we had a special day for each class to go swimming and it was compulsary. The pool sometimes was so green it was a health risk. But we did it or we got to clean the classroom at night for a week for punishment
We used to play on the streets at night...No TV watching in them days... String across the road and watch the cars run into it. Screech brakes and we were off.. lol
floundering
yes we did that as well with home make spears. You say Tamaki stank, you should of tried the west side like Wood Bay ....that was slimey stinky mud there but we headed off. I remember dad saying not to move much just glide through the water and anything moving stab it. Well i did and it was his sandshoe!!!!
I remember damning up the creek over the back of our property and causing floods to the neighbours... Lighting the long dry grass on fire so we could watch the fire engines at work.. Remember the fire alarms on the power poles. Break the glass hit the button and run for your life...
ahahha We did the pretend string over the road, We would each stand on the kerb and as a car approached we would pretend to be pulling on sting from one side to the other. We got growled at so many times, We would poke out our tongues out and run off. Theses days we would get stabbed for it lol
I have a spear scar on my left foot... But I did it ... lol
hahahah i remember well the lampost alarms. ummmmm I am guilty also of breaking one and doing a runner....
hahah u did it yourself.. did u catch anything though. I dont think in all the times we went there we actually came home with fish!!! just a lantern that had run out of kerosene and wet clothes
Going to the dairy with the milk billie and getting the milke. Waiting for the grocer to weigh out the sugar or flour and put it in brown paper bag. The old scales with the weights on one side on the goods on other. Riding bikes everywhere. Playing in Ongley Park but not going near the ESPLANADE (creepy old men lived there) Watching the Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Bank practising at Manaroa Park and being used as markers. Sharing just about everything we owned. Cats, dogs, rabbits, horses, birds. Swimming at the Muni after school. Not being allowed into the Square after 5 when it started to get dark.
Couldn't really eat the flounder too nuch mud in them.. The eels were ok tho... loved them smoked.
hmmmmm can say i remember a billie with mik, just glass bottles for me. I remember getting mums groceries and the boy would deliver them on his bike with a basket in front of it lol
mum and dad had a dairy i use to sneak the bottles from behind the shop and go and resell them at the dairy down the road.
I am amazed at how many are from PN in this thread I was there from 1965 to about 1975.
You seem like the girlfriends I kicked around with. I lived down the road from Bert Munro.....the bikie gang in the movie lived a couple of houses away. Playing on the streets was a favorite, but it wasn't a gang, more likely soccer or rounders. Always on our bikes. My favorite programmes were mostly about drinking and fun...high chaperal, the dean martin show, the monkees. the best times ever (58 model)
Dean Martin Show was great... Never missed it
My parents didn't have much money so we never had a car. We didn't have a TV or phone for a long time either.
My dad drove a Taxi in Auckland It was an old 1954 FJ Holden.. Yellow... Our only car and we never even owned it.. State house .. no money...
Remember when they even had a column in "the Truth" for divorces
It was a true gossip column aye...
Only read half of this and this old chook has to go to bed hope I can find it tomorrow. Thanks everyone for the laughs and the memories. Nitey Nite all
What a hoot! I used to work at the Bo Peep in my heyday. Also remember other great Ak clubs of the time= Big S, Embers Jazz club and the Galaxy ~ lunchtime gigs with the Underdogs *swoons*
lifestylz i was born in palmy and was there from
57 to 63 I remember going to visit my great aunt at the post office and it was a huge building with desks not counters.
shiver
My grandad worked there. He had a huge old oak desk and he was about 5 foot nothing... lol
revolting half pints of milk luke warm when left standing in the sun at school
I remember the strap and the cane and the wooden rule... very close contact at QEC...
icecream sodas
mmm! lime fizzy drink and slurping icecream up though a straw while sitting in a milkbar
heck so did my grandad for a little while buti don't remember seeing him there. I also remember our trips to town and we would have lunch in the park feeding the birds and watching the highland dancers. Going into the department stores where i was sooooo terrified i would get lost. Went into pn hospital when i was 2 1/2 and vividly remember getting smacked by a nurse. Train went through town, oh and i also have very vivid memories of evening setting through the back window of our studebaker car while waiting for our dad at the pub that isn't there now, i always thought he worked there, ha ha, only found out about five years ago he didn't, just visited lots.
Oh The Underdogs, yip they did rock Auckland, there is a poster on here sometimes who's brother-in-law was in the Underdogs.
Well it's taken a while but
Poppy (g/dad) used to take us to the pub with him we got to stay in the car with all the windows down & he (or one of his mates) would bring us out tall glasses of raspberry & coke while we waited. Just visited Kaikoura last week & was shocked to see the pub is now a huge pile of RUBBLE! G/parents had 2 baches in South Bay where we stayed every long w/end! We'd catch cockabillies in the rock pools & go out in the dinghy every day for fish. I remember helping Poppy hang the fish in the little shed out the back, which was a smoke house. I so loved being there :-)
i remember the chocolate milkshake icecream on a stick called a chacha and they were soooo yummy, i also remember a boy in my class playing a joke on the teacher by cellotaping a weta to her desk draw handle, they were the old kind draw handle that your fingers went up inside of, glad i wasnt a teacher
we lived in a back country and the school we went to had a swimming pool where the water in the pool come from a creek, we swam with the tadpoles and i remember my sister swimming under water and she swollered one, no she never turned into a frog lol but those were the days.
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Part 4
The outhouse... there are still houses around that have them, although don't think they're used anymore. No loo paper then either!
We had a party line as well. We would have a special beep to know that the call was for us. Like 3 rings for us. 4 long rings for the other people and so on and so on. I used to tap the phones as well. but probably only ever got the correct number once out of about 10 attempts.
We used to get our morning bread delivered to the door. We would put a large tin out and he would call early morning and we had fresh bread.
Oh Dear looks like this has gone by its bedtime as its now on a go slow for this subject. heheheh I guess we are at the age we need our rest lol lol
I went to MRGS Lacey and we didn thave to have a party line cause my father was a cable technician for the Post Office and designed cables etc and was on call out. So we had our own line. Wahoooooo we were the envy of the street !! AND we had the first TV in the street cause my father got a kit set shipped out from the States and was all going before anyone else could buy one. And our neighbours bought a brand new chrysler valiant ! was gorgeous
lol I still remember our old phone number, but now cant remember what we had for dinner yesterday.
either that or we have all slipped into a reverie of memories. However for me it is time to say goodnight as my day starts early.
ok Georgee I went to Good shepherd Convent in Balmoral, then onto St benedicts in Symonds street. Being taught by nuns people used to think you were a goodie goodie. Good God!! how wrong could they have been where I was concerned.
geez it is now a total no no touching mercury but I remember nurse aiding and having broken thermometers then rolling that old mercury about!! It was great fun. But now its as bad as doing that to asbestos!! Ignorance is bliss sometimes!!
THOSE WERE THE DAYS road runners mcc would line their bikes on a friday nght at the t&G clock tower, go for a walk around town to shock the citizens..Pork chop hill, driving down on the bonnet.. brill cream to stop ya gettin preggy.. pick up for the woodgies was the bus stop.. easy pickings from mckenzies & woolworths. blue dutch for a yummy lunch. and those blardy jumble sale's.. memories only good things I can think of at the moment of my life in PNTH
Kal Q Lated Risk!!!!!!!!! Who remembers these guys playing around Palmy pubs..Especially the Awapuni.
and the Sunday bread was sold with just a band of paper around the middle.Hokey pokey sold in cellophane bags from the dairy for three cents,sherbet in the white paper bag with the licqorice tube to suck it through.Playing "bullrush" on late sumer evenings with all the other neighbourhood kids. Ice cream slice as a special treat after dinner or even better still, Mr Whippy.witches britches!! sweets at 5 for one cent.
lol darmoz I was in Auckland and headed to Queen Strert for the BIG Sat night out lol. Hitch hike our way there and back with never a fear of something happening to us. Riding round in a zephyr Mk1 convertible thinking I was gods gift to men. Hair all back combed up, skin tight jeans that I had laid in the hot bath in trying to shrink them so i had to sqeeze myself into them. Ohhh those were the days!!!
Sunday morning kids stories on 1ZB merv smith........flick the little fire engine.....billy goat gruff.....dinky pinky the elephant......3 blind mice........rumplestilkskin (sp).....peter rabbit
I remember all of those things. chewing gum as 2 pence for 4 pieces ( i think) I used to order my weekly comics from the stationary shop and could'nt wait till the following week to bike to the shop and they would be put aside for me.
night
Maybe we can sue for the dental nurse giving us mercury to play with.
I used to listen to those stories as well.. then there was the singing in them which till this day I also remember the Flick fire engine tune and Sparky!!
I...remeber going to the Murde house (dentist) in mt eden. there were all the chairs lined up and nurses learning and we had to sit there while the fiddled around poking cotton wool into our mouths then calling the head nurse who had to pass what the nurse had done before we were allowed to collect our little cotton wool doll that they had there and then go home
oooppssss
Look at my spelling I am getting tired. Shoule read, remember, then Murder house
WALK ....yes . walk to school in brown leather roman sandles. leather school bag. hit over knuckles with ruler. milk cart, girls doing maypole dancing. fizzy drinks off the self or a penny more off the ice. cheaper to drink in the shop or 2 pennies more to takeaway- BUt you could bring the bottle back for a refund and spend it on lollies?? buzz bars off the ice. old man used to come to our house to sharpen the knives." bottle o man" on a horse and cart used to pick up the bottles in manurewa/homai. mr whippy as a sunday , late afternoon treat. bull rush as a game . stubb yah toes???
good night KIWI......................... when the t/v had finished for the night- 10pm , i think.??
Yes I remember them all to well. I wonder how the kids of today would react if all was taken from them and they had to go back to the good old days like we had. They wouldn't survive. I remember having to carry the crates of warm milk down to the classroom and having to drink it warm. Going by surnames mine was with a *W* so I was about 3rd to last to drink it and by then it was warmer than warm. I dont drink milk now.. I wonder why?
Tv... shut down with the goodnight kiwi. I can still remember the 6pm hotel closing, and also riding the trams down symonds street with my parents
I have a question... which I haven't been able to find the answer to in the book (maybe it's there, but haven't read it yet) - when did 'The Pill' first get prescribed to women? Was it late 60's or early '70s? I understand women had to be married or they wouldn't prescribe it to them when it first appeared. Then along came Womens Lib and feminism which changed all that.
We did!!! LOL My sister went on a school trip to a farm - and came home with a LAMB!! Mum almost had a heart attack LOL Curly was a very popular pet - everyone came to see him & feed him hahaha. He ended up getting a harem out near the airport & for months my sister refused to eat lamb in case it was Curly.
I... I know it was around 37 years ago, cos i was on it then
hitchhicked to auck myself, hell at least back then the guys would say to you..turn it up or walk.. not much rape back then eh. the 60's sure were the days ..songs had words that had meaning to them. I used to kick it with one of the top guys from the HELLS ANGELS.. I was it ( or so I thought).. If I could turn back time
lol keen kiwi, that would be awful to think you were eating your pet like that heheheh
blue rompers which were standard sports uniform wear at highschool (mortifying they were)...
Yo-Yo's!
we had the world champions do a demo at school & we spent months driving Mum up the wall doing tricks like walk the dog - tried showing my kids how to do it & discovered it is NOT like riding a bike hahaha - couldn't ewven get the darn thing to yo let alone yo-YO! LOL
i did a lot of the old hitchhiking as well. Saved the bus fare so we could spend it on something else. Rape was around for sure but it wasnt like today. it wasnt really broadcadt much either. I remember pinching my dads TRUTH paper and going into my room with a torch and under the bedcovers read it., That was like Playboy is today back then. Also went to a segrated movie in Newmarket.\ Boys upstairs girls downstairs. OMG.. just inagine that happening now
Telethon What a trip down memory lane - is my birthday tomorrow - and I feel ohhhhhhhh so nostalgic.
I could understand it if he'd gone to lamby heaven LOL but he was a RAM & got to have a lot of fun before his time came - she soon forgot about him though as the lure of Mum's Sunday Roast Lamb & mint sauce become to powerful to ignore hehehe
ohhhhh Rompers YUCK!!! but yes we had to wear them as well. I also remember playing netball at Mountain Road Courts in Newmarket in a long sleeved white blouse. my black gym frock a tie, black thick stockings with a suspender belt to hold them up.. hahahahah
usualsuspect You must be old!. What are rompers??? *cringes cause rabbits remembers them too* Gawd they were terrible. The person who designed those had it in for girls. Now there was one very good way to stop guys harassing them. A pair of rompers could stop the most out there guy.
Ohh yes - sneaking a peek at TRUTH was a real forbidden pleasure - not that I really knew what I was looking at LOL Then I discovered my Uncle's stash of Playboys! Oh! Er! LOL My Nan had a FIT!
the truth back then was a real grown up paper.. I used to get under the folks bed and read it by torch.. age is a bugga alright. but this thread has bought some life into me tonight..
Sunday night movies Rolling jaffas down the aisles and getting booted out.. snoggin in the back row... easy rider... lol
I HATED rompers! Always felt like a big baby! And having to line up for romper inspection was just the PITS - the boys never had to have their SHORTS inspected! Or the length of their HEMS! Totally sexist, it was LOL
lol My dad spat the dummy big time when he caught me with the truth!! Also he caught me smoking out the bathroom window. He wasnt due home from work so early and I was doing the puffing out the window , he came in banged on the door said there was a fire in there, I was busy trying to wash my mouth out with Ipana toothpaste hahahsahas
I remember pinching the empty drink bottles from the back of the shops in Wymondley Road Otara. Then selling them back to them.. haha... I was a good boy then... lol
Jaffas yes we also did thre old roll them down the floor trick. Never got put out, but did get banned cos we put chewing gum along a row of seats hahahaha. I also dyed my hair blonde when dad had said NO. I was so upset as it was yellow the chemist gave me a bottle of crystal Silver to tone it down. But I never read instructions and put it on my head UNDILUTED. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I was purple streaked.. hahahah
If we forgot to bring our rompers for PE, we had to show up with them the next day, the penalty was to wear them around the school for a half-day. Thank God it was an all-girls school but even so, it was mortifying! I only forgot them once!
yes we used to get 2 pence per bottle back for them didnt we? I used to get my pocket money by selling the empty glass bottles to the Dairy. And yes i am also guilty of pinching them and selling them back to them again hahaha
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We had a party line as well. We would have a special beep to know that the call was for us. Like 3 rings for us. 4 long rings for the other people and so on and so on. I used to tap the phones as well. but probably only ever got the correct number once out of about 10 attempts.
We used to get our morning bread delivered to the door. We would put a large tin out and he would call early morning and we had fresh bread.
Oh Dear looks like this has gone by its bedtime as its now on a go slow for this subject. heheheh I guess we are at the age we need our rest lol lol
I went to MRGS Lacey and we didn thave to have a party line cause my father was a cable technician for the Post Office and designed cables etc and was on call out. So we had our own line. Wahoooooo we were the envy of the street !! AND we had the first TV in the street cause my father got a kit set shipped out from the States and was all going before anyone else could buy one. And our neighbours bought a brand new chrysler valiant ! was gorgeous
lol I still remember our old phone number, but now cant remember what we had for dinner yesterday.
either that or we have all slipped into a reverie of memories. However for me it is time to say goodnight as my day starts early.
ok Georgee I went to Good shepherd Convent in Balmoral, then onto St benedicts in Symonds street. Being taught by nuns people used to think you were a goodie goodie. Good God!! how wrong could they have been where I was concerned.
geez it is now a total no no touching mercury but I remember nurse aiding and having broken thermometers then rolling that old mercury about!! It was great fun. But now its as bad as doing that to asbestos!! Ignorance is bliss sometimes!!
THOSE WERE THE DAYS road runners mcc would line their bikes on a friday nght at the t&G clock tower, go for a walk around town to shock the citizens..Pork chop hill, driving down on the bonnet.. brill cream to stop ya gettin preggy.. pick up for the woodgies was the bus stop.. easy pickings from mckenzies & woolworths. blue dutch for a yummy lunch. and those blardy jumble sale's.. memories only good things I can think of at the moment of my life in PNTH
Kal Q Lated Risk!!!!!!!!! Who remembers these guys playing around Palmy pubs..Especially the Awapuni.
and the Sunday bread was sold with just a band of paper around the middle.Hokey pokey sold in cellophane bags from the dairy for three cents,sherbet in the white paper bag with the licqorice tube to suck it through.Playing "bullrush" on late sumer evenings with all the other neighbourhood kids. Ice cream slice as a special treat after dinner or even better still, Mr Whippy.witches britches!! sweets at 5 for one cent.
lol darmoz I was in Auckland and headed to Queen Strert for the BIG Sat night out lol. Hitch hike our way there and back with never a fear of something happening to us. Riding round in a zephyr Mk1 convertible thinking I was gods gift to men. Hair all back combed up, skin tight jeans that I had laid in the hot bath in trying to shrink them so i had to sqeeze myself into them. Ohhh those were the days!!!
Sunday morning kids stories on 1ZB merv smith........flick the little fire engine.....billy goat gruff.....dinky pinky the elephant......3 blind mice........rumplestilkskin (sp).....peter rabbit
I remember all of those things. chewing gum as 2 pence for 4 pieces ( i think) I used to order my weekly comics from the stationary shop and could'nt wait till the following week to bike to the shop and they would be put aside for me.
night
Maybe we can sue for the dental nurse giving us mercury to play with.
I used to listen to those stories as well.. then there was the singing in them which till this day I also remember the Flick fire engine tune and Sparky!!
I...remeber going to the Murde house (dentist) in mt eden. there were all the chairs lined up and nurses learning and we had to sit there while the fiddled around poking cotton wool into our mouths then calling the head nurse who had to pass what the nurse had done before we were allowed to collect our little cotton wool doll that they had there and then go home
oooppssss
Look at my spelling I am getting tired. Shoule read, remember, then Murder house
WALK ....yes . walk to school in brown leather roman sandles. leather school bag. hit over knuckles with ruler. milk cart, girls doing maypole dancing. fizzy drinks off the self or a penny more off the ice. cheaper to drink in the shop or 2 pennies more to takeaway- BUt you could bring the bottle back for a refund and spend it on lollies?? buzz bars off the ice. old man used to come to our house to sharpen the knives." bottle o man" on a horse and cart used to pick up the bottles in manurewa/homai. mr whippy as a sunday , late afternoon treat. bull rush as a game . stubb yah toes???
good night KIWI......................... when the t/v had finished for the night- 10pm , i think.??
Yes I remember them all to well. I wonder how the kids of today would react if all was taken from them and they had to go back to the good old days like we had. They wouldn't survive. I remember having to carry the crates of warm milk down to the classroom and having to drink it warm. Going by surnames mine was with a *W* so I was about 3rd to last to drink it and by then it was warmer than warm. I dont drink milk now.. I wonder why?
Tv... shut down with the goodnight kiwi. I can still remember the 6pm hotel closing, and also riding the trams down symonds street with my parents
I have a question... which I haven't been able to find the answer to in the book (maybe it's there, but haven't read it yet) - when did 'The Pill' first get prescribed to women? Was it late 60's or early '70s? I understand women had to be married or they wouldn't prescribe it to them when it first appeared. Then along came Womens Lib and feminism which changed all that.
We did!!! LOL My sister went on a school trip to a farm - and came home with a LAMB!! Mum almost had a heart attack LOL Curly was a very popular pet - everyone came to see him & feed him hahaha. He ended up getting a harem out near the airport & for months my sister refused to eat lamb in case it was Curly.
I... I know it was around 37 years ago, cos i was on it then
hitchhicked to auck myself, hell at least back then the guys would say to you..turn it up or walk.. not much rape back then eh. the 60's sure were the days ..songs had words that had meaning to them. I used to kick it with one of the top guys from the HELLS ANGELS.. I was it ( or so I thought).. If I could turn back time
lol keen kiwi, that would be awful to think you were eating your pet like that heheheh
blue rompers which were standard sports uniform wear at highschool (mortifying they were)...
Yo-Yo's!
we had the world champions do a demo at school & we spent months driving Mum up the wall doing tricks like walk the dog - tried showing my kids how to do it & discovered it is NOT like riding a bike hahaha - couldn't ewven get the darn thing to yo let alone yo-YO! LOL
i did a lot of the old hitchhiking as well. Saved the bus fare so we could spend it on something else. Rape was around for sure but it wasnt like today. it wasnt really broadcadt much either. I remember pinching my dads TRUTH paper and going into my room with a torch and under the bedcovers read it., That was like Playboy is today back then. Also went to a segrated movie in Newmarket.\ Boys upstairs girls downstairs. OMG.. just inagine that happening now
Telethon What a trip down memory lane - is my birthday tomorrow - and I feel ohhhhhhhh so nostalgic.
I could understand it if he'd gone to lamby heaven LOL but he was a RAM & got to have a lot of fun before his time came - she soon forgot about him though as the lure of Mum's Sunday Roast Lamb & mint sauce become to powerful to ignore hehehe
ohhhhh Rompers YUCK!!! but yes we had to wear them as well. I also remember playing netball at Mountain Road Courts in Newmarket in a long sleeved white blouse. my black gym frock a tie, black thick stockings with a suspender belt to hold them up.. hahahahah
usualsuspect You must be old!. What are rompers??? *cringes cause rabbits remembers them too* Gawd they were terrible. The person who designed those had it in for girls. Now there was one very good way to stop guys harassing them. A pair of rompers could stop the most out there guy.
Ohh yes - sneaking a peek at TRUTH was a real forbidden pleasure - not that I really knew what I was looking at LOL Then I discovered my Uncle's stash of Playboys! Oh! Er! LOL My Nan had a FIT!
the truth back then was a real grown up paper.. I used to get under the folks bed and read it by torch.. age is a bugga alright. but this thread has bought some life into me tonight..
Sunday night movies Rolling jaffas down the aisles and getting booted out.. snoggin in the back row... easy rider... lol
I HATED rompers! Always felt like a big baby! And having to line up for romper inspection was just the PITS - the boys never had to have their SHORTS inspected! Or the length of their HEMS! Totally sexist, it was LOL
lol My dad spat the dummy big time when he caught me with the truth!! Also he caught me smoking out the bathroom window. He wasnt due home from work so early and I was doing the puffing out the window , he came in banged on the door said there was a fire in there, I was busy trying to wash my mouth out with Ipana toothpaste hahahsahas
I remember pinching the empty drink bottles from the back of the shops in Wymondley Road Otara. Then selling them back to them.. haha... I was a good boy then... lol
Jaffas yes we also did thre old roll them down the floor trick. Never got put out, but did get banned cos we put chewing gum along a row of seats hahahaha. I also dyed my hair blonde when dad had said NO. I was so upset as it was yellow the chemist gave me a bottle of crystal Silver to tone it down. But I never read instructions and put it on my head UNDILUTED. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I was purple streaked.. hahahah
If we forgot to bring our rompers for PE, we had to show up with them the next day, the penalty was to wear them around the school for a half-day. Thank God it was an all-girls school but even so, it was mortifying! I only forgot them once!
yes we used to get 2 pence per bottle back for them didnt we? I used to get my pocket money by selling the empty glass bottles to the Dairy. And yes i am also guilty of pinching them and selling them back to them again hahaha
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Part 3
pete sinclair i got a sign pic from him i hated gym slips ans black stocking with surpenders, and panama hats. liked my hollow hoop. mk 2 zephers, and school bus rides,loved Dr kildare, and bewitched. though if u had sex standing up u woun't get preg.
children stories on the radio on sunday mornings little toot fire engine flick
Dornwell Road ran down the hill from Foodtown Three Kings to Carr Road. But when I was there, living at the bottom of the hill, it was all paddocks where Foodtown is and Carr Road only had 2 factories.
Craig Scott's father was our grocer. When he (Craig) got married we went along to the church and watched outside. Years later I used to do some work for the firm he worked for.
Im laffing so hard Im coughing! Used to roller skate over at the neighbours drive and annoy the heck out of her cause she always had a migraine.
reading all this has reminded me how so many things have changed. Some bad but also some good. I was in Canada in 1976 and saw a program about how in our life time we could expect to see one of the greatest technical revolutions ever..yep the internet. At the time it was no where near reality but the predictions they made have certainly come true. Just think how we have all reminisced tonight and yet we are only connected by wiring and packets of information. I can remember scoffing at the time.
I got bitten by a dog So far up my inner thigh it was almost on my 'you know where' when I was 9 and remember pulling up my skirt to show all the kids my wound...ewww...lmao
American skipping with the elastic and collecting and swapping paper 'scraps'
yowl pain! big hair rollers in scarf over the top and sleeping with them in!! hair spray that was a stiff as the starch that mum put in the collars of our school shirts!
OHHH Georgee i remember now where that was. I used to meet me boyfriends occasionally up on that hill where the water tank on it
Witches Britches - As our high school uniform (Timaru College) was a black, green & navy pleated skirt, we were only allowed to wear those colours for witches britches. If the head mistress caught you wearing any other colour we were given a detention!
Kerosene cowboys and pillion pussys. Milk bars. Dr. Paul, on the radio. Black lisle stockings, in the Winter, at High School. Penny bags of broken biscuits, or the same of 'specked' fruit. Threepence got a piece of fish, a hot dog, and chips, for Friday school lunch. Party lines ~ for those who had a phone. Our ring was long, short, long. Awesome memories, 70schic, thank you.
so who remembers BoPeep in Auckland, The UnderDogs, Human Instinct, Creation, Tommy Adderly, etc. Oh...and Daggy and The Dickheads??? lolol
bludggh cutting up beef liver and kidneys or the cats cos there was not tinned cat food in those days.
Pants inspections at high school They made us lift our skirts and sent you home if you had the wrong colour.
our cats and dogs thought it was christmas when they got Felix or Fido canned food instead of gravy beef. Home grown vegetables and home kill hogget for us...
yes we had that and I had lime green witches britches, and having our hem length checked. I was always hoofing it up. Remember going to work in 1970 and my uniform was so short that when I held the strap on the bus all my knickers showed. oooops didnt tell my kids that when they were teenagers
Human Instinct were my idols The greer boys were all from PN. Had a nightclub and milkbar there. The Ponderosa in George st. Remember it?
Is Porkchop Hill still the "meeting" place in Palmy..Oh the memories of that place.
we had to kneel down so that Miss Bowler could measure the disatnce from ground to skirt level. And God forbid if you were caught in uniform out of school hours without your beret on, let alone IN school hours. Bring that code back please. Really, lets see tidier kids about, no shirtails hanging out or socks down. ( another big NO NO!)
The LaDeeDas (cant spell it) were around I also went to the Beatle Inn. Shirilee and the Top Twenty. Tommy Adderly was the singer there with Alison Durban and Craig Scott
remember my mum used to listen to the 'wireless' Aunt Daisy.. Dr Paul.. Portia faces life, while doing the washing. the sheets used to get boiled in the copper.
Who else in here had party lines? I remember being a 'townie' kid going to camp in the wops, forgot something - had to ring Mum and wondering why there were voices coming out of the phone when I picked it up...lol. Spooked the hair off me! also remember those old 'phone boxes where you could make a free call if you knew how to 'tap' it properly. Post Office got wise to that one quickly and fixed them so we couldn't. Next time I tried with tiddly-winks from a board game, didn't work.
I remember when the milkman used to bring the milk on a horse and cart. It was so cool when he would let us kids help deliver it. I'm too scared to tell my kids that, would probably think it was the 19th century. And the dental nurse giving you mercury to roll around in your hand, and making you cotton wool dolls.
Yes I remember those serials as well. My parents had a copper in the Laundry and everything was boiled in that. There was a concrete tub that was besides the copper, God and old concrete tub lol lol
Larry's Rebels Mark 1 Zephyrs, the Sorrento coffee bar in Wellington.
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children stories on the radio on sunday mornings little toot fire engine flick
Dornwell Road ran down the hill from Foodtown Three Kings to Carr Road. But when I was there, living at the bottom of the hill, it was all paddocks where Foodtown is and Carr Road only had 2 factories.
Craig Scott's father was our grocer. When he (Craig) got married we went along to the church and watched outside. Years later I used to do some work for the firm he worked for.
Im laffing so hard Im coughing! Used to roller skate over at the neighbours drive and annoy the heck out of her cause she always had a migraine.
reading all this has reminded me how so many things have changed. Some bad but also some good. I was in Canada in 1976 and saw a program about how in our life time we could expect to see one of the greatest technical revolutions ever..yep the internet. At the time it was no where near reality but the predictions they made have certainly come true. Just think how we have all reminisced tonight and yet we are only connected by wiring and packets of information. I can remember scoffing at the time.
I got bitten by a dog So far up my inner thigh it was almost on my 'you know where' when I was 9 and remember pulling up my skirt to show all the kids my wound...ewww...lmao
American skipping with the elastic and collecting and swapping paper 'scraps'
yowl pain! big hair rollers in scarf over the top and sleeping with them in!! hair spray that was a stiff as the starch that mum put in the collars of our school shirts!
OHHH Georgee i remember now where that was. I used to meet me boyfriends occasionally up on that hill where the water tank on it
Witches Britches - As our high school uniform (Timaru College) was a black, green & navy pleated skirt, we were only allowed to wear those colours for witches britches. If the head mistress caught you wearing any other colour we were given a detention!
Kerosene cowboys and pillion pussys. Milk bars. Dr. Paul, on the radio. Black lisle stockings, in the Winter, at High School. Penny bags of broken biscuits, or the same of 'specked' fruit. Threepence got a piece of fish, a hot dog, and chips, for Friday school lunch. Party lines ~ for those who had a phone. Our ring was long, short, long. Awesome memories, 70schic, thank you.
so who remembers BoPeep in Auckland, The UnderDogs, Human Instinct, Creation, Tommy Adderly, etc. Oh...and Daggy and The Dickheads??? lolol
bludggh cutting up beef liver and kidneys or the cats cos there was not tinned cat food in those days.
Pants inspections at high school They made us lift our skirts and sent you home if you had the wrong colour.
our cats and dogs thought it was christmas when they got Felix or Fido canned food instead of gravy beef. Home grown vegetables and home kill hogget for us...
yes we had that and I had lime green witches britches, and having our hem length checked. I was always hoofing it up. Remember going to work in 1970 and my uniform was so short that when I held the strap on the bus all my knickers showed. oooops didnt tell my kids that when they were teenagers
Human Instinct were my idols The greer boys were all from PN. Had a nightclub and milkbar there. The Ponderosa in George st. Remember it?
Is Porkchop Hill still the "meeting" place in Palmy..Oh the memories of that place.
we had to kneel down so that Miss Bowler could measure the disatnce from ground to skirt level. And God forbid if you were caught in uniform out of school hours without your beret on, let alone IN school hours. Bring that code back please. Really, lets see tidier kids about, no shirtails hanging out or socks down. ( another big NO NO!)
The LaDeeDas (cant spell it) were around I also went to the Beatle Inn. Shirilee and the Top Twenty. Tommy Adderly was the singer there with Alison Durban and Craig Scott
remember my mum used to listen to the 'wireless' Aunt Daisy.. Dr Paul.. Portia faces life, while doing the washing. the sheets used to get boiled in the copper.
Who else in here had party lines? I remember being a 'townie' kid going to camp in the wops, forgot something - had to ring Mum and wondering why there were voices coming out of the phone when I picked it up...lol. Spooked the hair off me! also remember those old 'phone boxes where you could make a free call if you knew how to 'tap' it properly. Post Office got wise to that one quickly and fixed them so we couldn't. Next time I tried with tiddly-winks from a board game, didn't work.
I remember when the milkman used to bring the milk on a horse and cart. It was so cool when he would let us kids help deliver it. I'm too scared to tell my kids that, would probably think it was the 19th century. And the dental nurse giving you mercury to roll around in your hand, and making you cotton wool dolls.
Yes I remember those serials as well. My parents had a copper in the Laundry and everything was boiled in that. There was a concrete tub that was besides the copper, God and old concrete tub lol lol
Larry's Rebels Mark 1 Zephyrs, the Sorrento coffee bar in Wellington.
100-150
Children of the '40's '50's & '60s come in here! Part 2
milk shakes in the metal cups they were yummy
the two piecarts in hastings the one by the clock tower that moved opposite the police station
What about warm milk at school( out of small bottles that sat outside until 1st break) served with a codliver oil capsule. Geezuz!! One broke in my mouth one day and I will never touch those ghastly things again. And BCG tests on our wrists, the dental clinics with all sorts of cottonwool painted happy bugs as an enticement to come back happily next time!
Friday Lunch was a pie and donut for 1 and 6pence. Imagine having that kind of lunch at schools now. But was soooo tasty. Remember the day when decimal currency arrived I July '67? I was in Form 2. Remember when man landed on the moon ? I was in 5th form Chemistry class.
I always wanted one of those 3 wheeler tricycles, remember the street cleaner that used to clean the gutters, all the kids in the neighbourhood would be waiting outside their house for him cause he would give out cards, oh and, the postie had a whislte she would blow if u had a letter, gosh the things u start remembering, those were the days. Could sleep with your doors wide open in the summer. The big black heavy phones.
Everything I have read here so far, is mentioned in the book - and it has heaps of photos too, yes there is the large, heavy tricycle with the tray attached to the back!
the gas meters that took coins out side toilets
the toilets in Auckland that you had to pay a penny into the door to use them
What about the Butcher who had real sawdust on the floor and his saveloys tasted like nothing I have had since! We ate them raw. And the fish n chip shop lady would give us all the leftover pieces of batter from her fryed stuff...it was a total treat. And standing for the Queen at the pictures, then watching Tonto and the Lone Ranger and hating having to wait until next Saturday to see the rest but at least there was the Nibble Nook to go to and have the BEST treat. An icecream. Especially a choccie dipped one. Sigh....
wowl! I I had a chain bike so there! Not a happy ending though..it got out of control going down a bridge and I used my barefeet as brakes and finished up with 9 stubbed toes!*cringes *
was looking at the old friends site the other day and there is a photo of me when i was about 6 in my school gym. we didnt have to wear it but mother made me as it was tidy and respectful. boy did i get teased... so i found the photo and it has someone elses name, and i dont know how to change it. any ideas
Greys cigarettes 10 pack...My first attempt at smoking, I was 13 in 1967. The Seekers, Walker Bros, Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich. Dino, Desi and Billy.
Rompers Our gym teacher at Hagley High in Chch had a speech impediment...she called them Wompers.
I went to a Peter Paul and Mary concert and still have their autographs.. wonder if I sold them Id be a billionare LOL
glad i didnt have one now. Remember the old scooters? The old Mascara (had a little brush) that was a real glubby mess (teenegers), school socials-boys on one side of the hall, girls on the other.
Peroxide in our hair Maxi skirts, mini skirts, paisley bell-bottoms, Gene Pitney,
Who had RED witches britches showing under their gym frock, with black lace ?
Lawsons owened our chip shop in May Road Mt Roskill and when she got pregnant they sold up.
Blusher was called rouge.I remember wearing a roll-on (girdle) and stockings to school. Sanitary pads with belt and pins...lol
And you could get 6 chocolate buttons for 1 cent!!!!! And as i post the poster above me is asking about red witches britches with black lace and gym frocks...yep i wore them!!!!!
I remember the Fish and chip shop theLawsons had, I grew up near there.
I...used to put jaffas on my lips as lipstick hahaha.. Oh god help me...
LOL @ mascara we used to use Kiwi boot polish for mascara, at school during lunch time
sneaking out of school at lunch time to meet your boyfriend in the espanade in palmy nth, and coming back to school late doing up your skirt as you enter the class room in front of your very religious teacher, and having all the girls in the class checking out your hickies...opps sorry that was the 80's
those chocolate dipped icecreams were called "Brown Derbys" weren't they?
groceries when the grocer delivered the weekly groceries in a cardboard box and a bag of lollies thrown in for nothing. Yep 9pence to get into the movies and 3d to spend. always bought a wee bag of smokers(pink).A penny to put in the plate at Sunday school.School milk yuk,.No wonder I still hate milk.Hand basin in the loos at school was a long concrete trough.Spooky place at the end of the school yard.Listening to Noises in the Darkness on the radio on a Friday night then running like mad to bed.Top 20 on the radio on a Sunday from 12 till 2pm and trying week after week to write down the words of the songs.Rompers under gym frocks, bulky. Panama hats in the summer and horrible berets in the winter.Doughnuts from the Marina bakery in Hastings. Still the best I have ever tasted.Curly top fizzy drinks. Once they made one called scoffee a coffee flavoured one.Never caught on but I loved it. boy could go on and on.Those were the days.
seaman's jerseys mid length white mohair coats, duffel coats, hipster bell bottoms with a rope tie. Those little fluffy hat type things that buttoned on the side of the chin. Sachets of Gypsy Fire or French Plum hair colour. Those big cosmetic cases with little plastic bottles inside
Who blotched their ink from the fountain pen all over the desk and themselves. But they made great amunition. Used to ping the ink across the room at the boys. Our teacher, stubbed his cigarette out on my book and another teacher broke her ruler on my butt
dont remember what we called them, but they were SUCH atreat werent they? Blardy heck, even a fizzy drink was special. I recall going to a wedding or some kinda party and there were a few bottles of fizz in a nice wee line. About 20 pairs of preteen eyes were totally fixated on that line for a couple of hours!! LMAO!! Now, could we keep young ones of today so enthralled with ANYTHING?? Methinks not, and how damned sad is that. :( Yep. We were the last of the Golden Age. Bring it back please.
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the two piecarts in hastings the one by the clock tower that moved opposite the police station
What about warm milk at school( out of small bottles that sat outside until 1st break) served with a codliver oil capsule. Geezuz!! One broke in my mouth one day and I will never touch those ghastly things again. And BCG tests on our wrists, the dental clinics with all sorts of cottonwool painted happy bugs as an enticement to come back happily next time!
Friday Lunch was a pie and donut for 1 and 6pence. Imagine having that kind of lunch at schools now. But was soooo tasty. Remember the day when decimal currency arrived I July '67? I was in Form 2. Remember when man landed on the moon ? I was in 5th form Chemistry class.
I always wanted one of those 3 wheeler tricycles, remember the street cleaner that used to clean the gutters, all the kids in the neighbourhood would be waiting outside their house for him cause he would give out cards, oh and, the postie had a whislte she would blow if u had a letter, gosh the things u start remembering, those were the days. Could sleep with your doors wide open in the summer. The big black heavy phones.
Everything I have read here so far, is mentioned in the book - and it has heaps of photos too, yes there is the large, heavy tricycle with the tray attached to the back!
the gas meters that took coins out side toilets
the toilets in Auckland that you had to pay a penny into the door to use them
What about the Butcher who had real sawdust on the floor and his saveloys tasted like nothing I have had since! We ate them raw. And the fish n chip shop lady would give us all the leftover pieces of batter from her fryed stuff...it was a total treat. And standing for the Queen at the pictures, then watching Tonto and the Lone Ranger and hating having to wait until next Saturday to see the rest but at least there was the Nibble Nook to go to and have the BEST treat. An icecream. Especially a choccie dipped one. Sigh....
wowl! I I had a chain bike so there! Not a happy ending though..it got out of control going down a bridge and I used my barefeet as brakes and finished up with 9 stubbed toes!*cringes *
was looking at the old friends site the other day and there is a photo of me when i was about 6 in my school gym. we didnt have to wear it but mother made me as it was tidy and respectful. boy did i get teased... so i found the photo and it has someone elses name, and i dont know how to change it. any ideas
Greys cigarettes 10 pack...My first attempt at smoking, I was 13 in 1967. The Seekers, Walker Bros, Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich. Dino, Desi and Billy.
Rompers Our gym teacher at Hagley High in Chch had a speech impediment...she called them Wompers.
I went to a Peter Paul and Mary concert and still have their autographs.. wonder if I sold them Id be a billionare LOL
glad i didnt have one now. Remember the old scooters? The old Mascara (had a little brush) that was a real glubby mess (teenegers), school socials-boys on one side of the hall, girls on the other.
Peroxide in our hair Maxi skirts, mini skirts, paisley bell-bottoms, Gene Pitney,
Who had RED witches britches showing under their gym frock, with black lace ?
Lawsons owened our chip shop in May Road Mt Roskill and when she got pregnant they sold up.
Blusher was called rouge.I remember wearing a roll-on (girdle) and stockings to school. Sanitary pads with belt and pins...lol
And you could get 6 chocolate buttons for 1 cent!!!!! And as i post the poster above me is asking about red witches britches with black lace and gym frocks...yep i wore them!!!!!
I remember the Fish and chip shop theLawsons had, I grew up near there.
I...used to put jaffas on my lips as lipstick hahaha.. Oh god help me...
LOL @ mascara we used to use Kiwi boot polish for mascara, at school during lunch time
sneaking out of school at lunch time to meet your boyfriend in the espanade in palmy nth, and coming back to school late doing up your skirt as you enter the class room in front of your very religious teacher, and having all the girls in the class checking out your hickies...opps sorry that was the 80's
those chocolate dipped icecreams were called "Brown Derbys" weren't they?
groceries when the grocer delivered the weekly groceries in a cardboard box and a bag of lollies thrown in for nothing. Yep 9pence to get into the movies and 3d to spend. always bought a wee bag of smokers(pink).A penny to put in the plate at Sunday school.School milk yuk,.No wonder I still hate milk.Hand basin in the loos at school was a long concrete trough.Spooky place at the end of the school yard.Listening to Noises in the Darkness on the radio on a Friday night then running like mad to bed.Top 20 on the radio on a Sunday from 12 till 2pm and trying week after week to write down the words of the songs.Rompers under gym frocks, bulky. Panama hats in the summer and horrible berets in the winter.Doughnuts from the Marina bakery in Hastings. Still the best I have ever tasted.Curly top fizzy drinks. Once they made one called scoffee a coffee flavoured one.Never caught on but I loved it. boy could go on and on.Those were the days.
seaman's jerseys mid length white mohair coats, duffel coats, hipster bell bottoms with a rope tie. Those little fluffy hat type things that buttoned on the side of the chin. Sachets of Gypsy Fire or French Plum hair colour. Those big cosmetic cases with little plastic bottles inside
Who blotched their ink from the fountain pen all over the desk and themselves. But they made great amunition. Used to ping the ink across the room at the boys. Our teacher, stubbed his cigarette out on my book and another teacher broke her ruler on my butt
dont remember what we called them, but they were SUCH atreat werent they? Blardy heck, even a fizzy drink was special. I recall going to a wedding or some kinda party and there were a few bottles of fizz in a nice wee line. About 20 pairs of preteen eyes were totally fixated on that line for a couple of hours!! LMAO!! Now, could we keep young ones of today so enthralled with ANYTHING?? Methinks not, and how damned sad is that. :( Yep. We were the last of the Golden Age. Bring it back please.
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Children of the '40's '50's & '60s come in here!
Hi Baby boomers! Got a fantastic book today (from a TM auction) which is pure nostalgia of growing up in NZ in this era. Do you remember...Plunket, hula hoops, school cadets, the strap (ow I got that!) school milk, stiff petticoats, bodgies and widgies, rock and rollers, behind the bike sheds, winkle pickers, the flicks, old jalopies, the Bisto Kids, tapioca pudding, Lanes emulsion, junket, Sunday roasts, maltexo, Portia faces life, The Chicks, Lee Grant, milkbars. I'm glad to see we have a book of this nature which is NZ's very own!
carless days
gym frocks YUK
Was that Mr Lee Grant. He was gorgeous
Life with Dexter Radio was great... lol
the proper aniseed wheels teachers smoking around school. many times my teacher sent be across the road buy his smokes
sunday morning stories on the wireless buzz o bumble.
Lee Grant was a teacher in PN I knew him quite well.
Sunday bread Hot and fresh, that never made it home without a hole in one end.
zephyr convertables psychadelic fabrics
police bring you home with a clip around the ear, to scared to braek the rules after that,.
STUBBIES
Church dances...lol... Picking up the sweet wee innocent chicks..
our maths teacher smoked in class. Had an ashtray on her desk. Mr Lee Grant was for my big sister i was more interested in Craig Scott and in The Inbetweens. Saturday night dances, C'mon, little juke boxes beside the tables in coffee shops, spending hours mooching through record shops for 45's to buy for my very own new portable record player and watching the boys hanging out the top window of manukau tech. Little 4pce packs of chewing gum, tt2's, oh i could go on all night.
We use to buy the fatty dregs from the chip vats for sixpence a bag... very tasty... Pamure fish shop
every sunday evening sitting in front of the old black and white telly to watch the wonderful world of disney....i remember when we got our first colour tv, i was so excited, i brought home most of the kids from my class un beknown to mum to watch big bird.
remember the boxes of broken biscuits!scavenging through for the choccie ones and the pink wafers!
That reminds me... Marching Girls... Loved them long legs and short skirts...
yep and that disgusting brown leg colouring the marching girls had to wear and if it rained they became pibald!he!he!
remember the incineraters in the girls loos to burn your pads
Ralley 20 bike
going to the store to get the square " packet wrapped in newspaper or brown paper!'Life with Dexter' Yep it was great back then & guess what, Yep I have married a man named Dexter & my life with 'Dexter' is great
Having to tuck the ends of the napkin under elastic that was in the crotch of special underwear you only wore at *that time of the month* and the napkins were SO bulky!!!! Witches britches, loved aniseed wheels, zephyrs, white knee high socks with lace around the top ('m a 60's girl)
used to rush home to listen to the Archers with my Mother. God, gym frocks, so hot and what was worse, my mother made mine and the pleats would never hang straight. Milk was always warm and ikky. Loved Lanes emulsion. Hated the castor oil. Imagine if we gave our kids that stuff now.
a boy in my form 1 class took his lunch to school one day in a 'Modess' bag! Us girls couldnt stop laffing and he didnt have a clue why were we laffing. What a cruel mother.
Hula hoops!!
how about one shilling to go to the movies..included 6d admission,3d for an ice cream at interval and 3d bus ride home. I remember the furor over the screenings of the movie Ulysses..no mixed audiences and so my parents went on different nights. However my fondest memories are of playing outside in all weathers, making our own fun, doors never locked and often left with the keys in them.
yeah four-and-six-pence for a round of caddying on titirangi, hot chips sixpence, TT2, spearmint leaves, choc bombs, the 8'oclock on Saturday nite, girls at kelston screaming over lee grant, the chics, lets go, the lawson quinns, hub dairy, delta theatre jumping on the seat when the calvary was coming
cowboys and indians
I went out with Lee Grant..real name Bogdin Kominoski (sp).. met him at a youth club in Woodville.. he was the singer.. & I was in a dance comp..lol
Speaking of the Lawson Quins... I havd just finished renovations on a house owned by one of the girls...
Raleigh Choppers And Fireballs, Endless summer days racing my P Class at French Bay Boat Club....My parents divorce...Well nothings perfect
we spent so many hours trying to catch birds using a cardboard box, and a piece of string attached to a stick as the trigger to lower the box. Playing games in the middle of the street with all the kids in the area was the night time fun.
Mum found an old b & w photo of me (couldn't have been any more than 7 y.o.) happily riding my brand, spanking new Raleigh 20! Funnily enough she only came across that photo today - same day as I received this book!
ahhhhhhhh those were the days Mr Lee Grant, Craig Scott, Shane, Larry Morris. blossom parades in hastings. life was so simple back then.
Yeah, i remember (Born 1957)
every Sunday night watching the Black & White Minstrals(sp) Show, Chokito Bars (yummmmm), Bay City Rollers, Rompers, Ralaegh(sp) 20 Push Bike, Bata Bullets, Basket Ball Boots, when fags ere 50c a pack, milk and cream in glass bottles(which I much prefer), getting a HUGE 5c bag of mixed lollies from the local dairy, butchershops that had the sawdust floors and the butcher would have a rolly smoke behind one ear & behind the other a pen & he would add up all your meat written on the brown paper your meat was wrapped in, Ready to Roll, Radio with Pictures with Karen Hay, The Dudes, Lilos, Elastics, Brushing your teeth lessons at school, where u took your thbrush and a mug to school with you, Banking with the Post Office at school, Banardos(still have my badge from primary school), also have my red cross badge as well, gosh there`s heaps of stuff...
Chain bikes and metal tricycles with a tray on the back. I can actually remember when sliced bread was introduced. My siblings and I would fight over the kissing crust between the twin loaves of unsliced...YUM.
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carless days
gym frocks YUK
Was that Mr Lee Grant. He was gorgeous
Life with Dexter Radio was great... lol
the proper aniseed wheels teachers smoking around school. many times my teacher sent be across the road buy his smokes
sunday morning stories on the wireless buzz o bumble.
Lee Grant was a teacher in PN I knew him quite well.
Sunday bread Hot and fresh, that never made it home without a hole in one end.
zephyr convertables psychadelic fabrics
police bring you home with a clip around the ear, to scared to braek the rules after that,.
STUBBIES
Church dances...lol... Picking up the sweet wee innocent chicks..
our maths teacher smoked in class. Had an ashtray on her desk. Mr Lee Grant was for my big sister i was more interested in Craig Scott and in The Inbetweens. Saturday night dances, C'mon, little juke boxes beside the tables in coffee shops, spending hours mooching through record shops for 45's to buy for my very own new portable record player and watching the boys hanging out the top window of manukau tech. Little 4pce packs of chewing gum, tt2's, oh i could go on all night.
We use to buy the fatty dregs from the chip vats for sixpence a bag... very tasty... Pamure fish shop
every sunday evening sitting in front of the old black and white telly to watch the wonderful world of disney....i remember when we got our first colour tv, i was so excited, i brought home most of the kids from my class un beknown to mum to watch big bird.
remember the boxes of broken biscuits!scavenging through for the choccie ones and the pink wafers!
That reminds me... Marching Girls... Loved them long legs and short skirts...
yep and that disgusting brown leg colouring the marching girls had to wear and if it rained they became pibald!he!he!
remember the incineraters in the girls loos to burn your pads
Ralley 20 bike
going to the store to get the square " packet wrapped in newspaper or brown paper!'Life with Dexter' Yep it was great back then & guess what, Yep I have married a man named Dexter & my life with 'Dexter' is great
Having to tuck the ends of the napkin under elastic that was in the crotch of special underwear you only wore at *that time of the month* and the napkins were SO bulky!!!! Witches britches, loved aniseed wheels, zephyrs, white knee high socks with lace around the top ('m a 60's girl)
used to rush home to listen to the Archers with my Mother. God, gym frocks, so hot and what was worse, my mother made mine and the pleats would never hang straight. Milk was always warm and ikky. Loved Lanes emulsion. Hated the castor oil. Imagine if we gave our kids that stuff now.
a boy in my form 1 class took his lunch to school one day in a 'Modess' bag! Us girls couldnt stop laffing and he didnt have a clue why were we laffing. What a cruel mother.
Hula hoops!!
how about one shilling to go to the movies..included 6d admission,3d for an ice cream at interval and 3d bus ride home. I remember the furor over the screenings of the movie Ulysses..no mixed audiences and so my parents went on different nights. However my fondest memories are of playing outside in all weathers, making our own fun, doors never locked and often left with the keys in them.
yeah four-and-six-pence for a round of caddying on titirangi, hot chips sixpence, TT2, spearmint leaves, choc bombs, the 8'oclock on Saturday nite, girls at kelston screaming over lee grant, the chics, lets go, the lawson quinns, hub dairy, delta theatre jumping on the seat when the calvary was coming
cowboys and indians
I went out with Lee Grant..real name Bogdin Kominoski (sp).. met him at a youth club in Woodville.. he was the singer.. & I was in a dance comp..lol
Speaking of the Lawson Quins... I havd just finished renovations on a house owned by one of the girls...
Raleigh Choppers And Fireballs, Endless summer days racing my P Class at French Bay Boat Club....My parents divorce...Well nothings perfect
we spent so many hours trying to catch birds using a cardboard box, and a piece of string attached to a stick as the trigger to lower the box. Playing games in the middle of the street with all the kids in the area was the night time fun.
Mum found an old b & w photo of me (couldn't have been any more than 7 y.o.) happily riding my brand, spanking new Raleigh 20! Funnily enough she only came across that photo today - same day as I received this book!
ahhhhhhhh those were the days Mr Lee Grant, Craig Scott, Shane, Larry Morris. blossom parades in hastings. life was so simple back then.
Yeah, i remember (Born 1957)
every Sunday night watching the Black & White Minstrals(sp) Show, Chokito Bars (yummmmm), Bay City Rollers, Rompers, Ralaegh(sp) 20 Push Bike, Bata Bullets, Basket Ball Boots, when fags ere 50c a pack, milk and cream in glass bottles(which I much prefer), getting a HUGE 5c bag of mixed lollies from the local dairy, butchershops that had the sawdust floors and the butcher would have a rolly smoke behind one ear & behind the other a pen & he would add up all your meat written on the brown paper your meat was wrapped in, Ready to Roll, Radio with Pictures with Karen Hay, The Dudes, Lilos, Elastics, Brushing your teeth lessons at school, where u took your thbrush and a mug to school with you, Banking with the Post Office at school, Banardos(still have my badge from primary school), also have my red cross badge as well, gosh there`s heaps of stuff...
Chain bikes and metal tricycles with a tray on the back. I can actually remember when sliced bread was introduced. My siblings and I would fight over the kissing crust between the twin loaves of unsliced...YUM.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Website tracks ancestor's journeys to NZ
Website tracks ancestors' journeys to NZ.
NZ Herald 10 January 2006 - Website tracks ancestors' journeys to NZ.New Zealand family-tree fanatics whose ancestors emigrated from Britain by ship are able to look up their relatives' life-changing journeys on the internet from today.Details of some 30 million passengers who sailed out of Britain between 1890 and 1960 to destinations like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, North America and India are being made available online at the www.ancestorsonboard.com website.The 1.5 million pages of passenger lists were previously only available at The National Archives in Kew, London.The move should spark interest among family tree researchers, who are growing in number thanks to a series of historical archives being opened to the public in the internet.In particular, the database holds records from the period of mass emigration before the First World War.An estimated 125,000 British people emigrated to the United States, 50,000 to Canada and 25,000 to Australia every year between 1890 and 1914."The availability of the passenger lists from ships that left British ports in this period is an invaluable tool for people tracing relatives they believe may have left the UK during this period," said Elaine Collins, commercial director of family history website findmypast.com which developed the database."The passenger records may well provide a missing link for many genealogists who have hit a brick wall in their research, as well as helping those outside of the UK to trace back to their British heritage."The 1890 to 1900 records go online from today, with the subsequent decades to follow over the next six months.Images of the passenger lists will be available to view, download, save and print.As well as the names, departure dates and destinations of each passenger, the records may also include their address, age, marital status and occupation."We hope that digitisation will open up a hugely valuable resource for genealogists and social historians all over the world," said Dan Jones, head of business development at The National Archives."The archives in Kew are stored chronologically and there are 1.5 million records to plough through. If you weren't sure of the year it made it difficult to find people," a findmypast.com spokeswoman said."Online you can easily search for example by name or ship."The passenger lists could shed new light on social trends."There are war brides and babies from the First World War, soldiers who returned to Canada with English and Scottish wives," the spokeswoman said.The records also show British playwright Noel Coward travelling to New York -- not to mention the passenger list of the ill-fated Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.- AFP
NZ Herald 10 January 2006 - Website tracks ancestors' journeys to NZ.New Zealand family-tree fanatics whose ancestors emigrated from Britain by ship are able to look up their relatives' life-changing journeys on the internet from today.Details of some 30 million passengers who sailed out of Britain between 1890 and 1960 to destinations like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, North America and India are being made available online at the www.ancestorsonboard.com website.The 1.5 million pages of passenger lists were previously only available at The National Archives in Kew, London.The move should spark interest among family tree researchers, who are growing in number thanks to a series of historical archives being opened to the public in the internet.In particular, the database holds records from the period of mass emigration before the First World War.An estimated 125,000 British people emigrated to the United States, 50,000 to Canada and 25,000 to Australia every year between 1890 and 1914."The availability of the passenger lists from ships that left British ports in this period is an invaluable tool for people tracing relatives they believe may have left the UK during this period," said Elaine Collins, commercial director of family history website findmypast.com which developed the database."The passenger records may well provide a missing link for many genealogists who have hit a brick wall in their research, as well as helping those outside of the UK to trace back to their British heritage."The 1890 to 1900 records go online from today, with the subsequent decades to follow over the next six months.Images of the passenger lists will be available to view, download, save and print.As well as the names, departure dates and destinations of each passenger, the records may also include their address, age, marital status and occupation."We hope that digitisation will open up a hugely valuable resource for genealogists and social historians all over the world," said Dan Jones, head of business development at The National Archives."The archives in Kew are stored chronologically and there are 1.5 million records to plough through. If you weren't sure of the year it made it difficult to find people," a findmypast.com spokeswoman said."Online you can easily search for example by name or ship."The passenger lists could shed new light on social trends."There are war brides and babies from the First World War, soldiers who returned to Canada with English and Scottish wives," the spokeswoman said.The records also show British playwright Noel Coward travelling to New York -- not to mention the passenger list of the ill-fated Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.- AFP
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Stamford Hotel - Increasing the size
Five-Star Apartments Above Landmark Auckland Hotel
A striking new addition to the Auckland central city skyline is about to take shape on top of one of Auckland’s landmark hotels.
The Stamford on Albert Residences will rise 10 levels above the 5-star Stamford Plaza Hotel, which has been undergoing a $10 million refurbishment over the past four months, and provide 143 luxury apartments right in the heart of Auckland’s CBD
Catering for the current strong demand for spacious, quality apartments at the upper end of the Auckland residential market, Stamford on Albert Residences will provide predominantly two and three bedroom apartments, but with some one-bedroom apartments also starting at $420,000.
There will be 10 luxury double-level penthouses on the top floor from 236 square metres to one of Auckland’s largest at 729 square metres. These are priced from just under $3 million to over $9 million
Located at the northern end of Albert Street, the residences are within a short stroll of the harbour and Viaduct yet are located on freehold land, meaning owners are free of the substantial annual land lease charges levied on many CBD apartments close to the waterfront.
Each apartment is detailed with floor to ceiling glass and enclosed balconies which take full advantage of the light and ever changing harbour and city views both by day and night. The innovative 1.5 metre wide internal balcony is enclosed in a mix of fixed glazing and sliding panels that can be opened vertically in good weather. The means the balconies can be used all-year round either in an enclosed, open or semi-open configuration.
A retractable inner screen will divide the balcony from the lounge and dining area but as there is no change of level between these areas, the space can be used as one living area to maximise the space and views.
In another novel building feature, residents will be transported to their secure internal carparks in a specially designed car lift that is being installed at the rear of the building
The apartments will also have a level of design usually reserved for luxury homes, with immaculately styled ensuite bathrooms, ceiling heights that accentuate the openness of the residences andelegant fittings with a combination ofquality timber, tile, marble and stainless steel finishes.
Residents can also enjoy the Stamford Plaza Auckland hotel’s exclusive selection of five-star services and facilities. Following its extensive refurbishment, the hotel has raised the benchmark in luxury accommodation in the city.
The grand foyer (pictured) has been completely redesigned and reconfigured into a light filled, more contemporary look with a new restaurant and bars incorporated into the lobby area along with the addition of a teppanyaki restaurant. New retail space is being added around the ground level of the hotel to complete the revitalisation of the city block that the Stamford sits on.
Residents as well as guests will be able to utilise all the hotel’s facilities and amenities including 24-hour room service and a state-of-the art health and fitness centre which will include a pool, spa with massage services, sauna and gymnasium.
However apartment owners will have their own separate entranceway and glazed lobby area off Albert Street with their own concierge services exclusive to residents. An "observation” lift will run up a striking glass column on the exterior of the building for use by residents and their visitors and there will also be internal residents' lifts off the carparks.
The Stamford Plaza has been an iconic building in Auckland since it was established as the Regent Hotel 25 years. The $100 million-plus addition to and refurbishment of the existing complex builds on the distinctive design and imagery of the existing hotel.
The addition, designed by Peddle Thorp Architects and being built by Fletcher Construction, incorporates a modern facade design to the residences with the retention of selected features at the corners and roof line of the building. These features will appear more prominently and dramatically on the skyline and the facade design reinforces the image that the hotel continues below the new residences.
Separating the new residences from the Hotel is the health club and swimming pool area which is enclosed in double height clear glazing set back to provide a junction of the “new with the old.“.
The redevelopment and expansion of the building is being undertaken by Stamford Land Corporation. Founded in 1935, the group is the largest owner and operator of luxury hotels in major cities across Australasia and is also a leading developer of high quality residential and mixed-use properties in landmark locations.
The four-month upgrade of the hotel and strengthening of the existing building to enable it to take an additional ten floors has been completed as the first stage of the development. Work is now commencing on the new recreation centre and the apartments.
For further information contact Fran Hudson-Carter, (09) 375 8487 or 021 907 993 or visit www.stamfordresidences.co.nz; www.stamford.com.au.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Russian Dolls
The very beginning of Russian matryoshka
The first Russian nesting doll (matryoshka) was born in 1890 in the workshop "Children's Education" situated in Abramtsevo estate new Moscow. The owner of Abramtsevo was Sava Mamontov - industrialist and a patron of the arts.
The end of the 19 century in Russia was a time of great economic and cultural development. Mamontov was one of the first who patronized artist who were possessed by the idea of the creation of a new Russian style. Many famous Russian artists worked along with folk craftsmen in workshops Mamontov.
Why it is called "Matryoshka"
Russian wooden dolls within smaller dolls were called matryoshka. In old Russian among peasants the name Matryona or Matriosha was a very popular female name. Scholars says this name has a Latin root "mater" and means "Mother". This name was associated with the image of of a mother of a big peasant family who was very healthy and had a portly figure.
Subsequently, it became a symbolic name and was used specially to image brightly painted wooden figurines made in a such way that they could taken apart to reveal smaller dolls fitting inside one another.
Japanese High School Students
4 bus loads turned up at the Domain - on Armistice day - All had official photos taken. The man on the left was obviously the Headmaster - in control of all groups.. hovering like a mother hen
Pine Cones on the domain, after the Big Blow
The wind caused the Sky Tower to close on the 10 November 2006
Cricket at the Domain
Auckland Domain
Park Rd, Grafton. Note that there are two sets of pitches on separate levels.The elevated area between the Wintergardens and the museum (Pitches 1 to 6, parking on Football Rd in front of the pitches) and in front of the Grandstand (parking along Grandstand Road North and South but you need to be early).Incidently don't ever,ever park on the grass, the parking wardens are ruthless! Toilets are inside the Grandstand and in the changing room opposite pitch 2
Feijoa blossom - Pretty and colourful
The feijoa is from the Myrtaceae plant family and is native to Brazil and Uruguay. Feijoas can be considered as either warm climate or subtropical. First introduced into New Zealand in the early 1900’s the fruit was small and it was not for another 20 years before new cultivars were imported that were larger with improved flavour.
Crown Lynn
that most collectors are finding it increasingly difficult to find good or distinctive items of Crown Lynn to add to their collections. Where once second-hand stores and antique dealers always had a few items. This is now down to a trickle.
Amethyst
Amethyst: a Royal PurplePurple has long been considered a royal color so it is not surprising that amethyst has been so much in demand during history. Fine amethysts are featured in the British Crown Jewels and were also a favorite of Catherine the Great and Egyptian royalty. Amethyst, transparent purple quartz, is the most important quartz variety used in jewelry.Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that amethyst was able to dissipate evil thoughts and quicken the intelligence.Because amethyst was thought to encourage celibacy and symbolize piety, amethyst was very important in the ornamentation of Catholic and other churches in the Middle Ages. It was, in particular, considered to be the stone of bishops and they still often wear amethyst rings.In Tibet, amethyst is considered to be sacred to Buddha and rosaries are often fashioned from it.The Greek work "amethystos" basically can be translated as "not drunken." Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness, which is why wine goblets were often carved from it! The gemstone still symbolizes sobriety.The legend of the origin of amethyst comes from Greek myths. Dionysius, the god of intoxication, was angered one day by an insult from a mere mortal and swore revenge on the next mortal that crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his wish. Along came unsuspecting Amethyst, a beautiful young maiden on her way to pay tribute to the goddess Diana. Diana turned Amethyst into a stature of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws. Dionysus wept tears of wine in remorse for his action at the sight of the beautiful statue. The god's tears stained the quartz purple, creating the gem we know today.Amethyst ranges in color from pale lilac to deep purple. The pale colors are sometimes called "Rose de France" and can be seen set in Victorian jewelry. The deep colors are the most valuable, particularly a rich purple with rose flashes.Amethyst is mined in Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, as well as in Zambia, Namibia and other African countries.
What Katy Did and Secret 7 were favourite books
The first Three, What Katy Did, What Katy Did At School & What Katy Did Next were very definatly set to try to encompass any One of several age groups from Katy's very obvious little brother & sisters to her sister Clover who I am afraid seemed a bit to good for my taste & seemed very much Katy's shadow..In What katy did we read of Katy, who is the oldest daughter having to learn some deep lessons about life & it's ups & downs.What Katy did at school is hers & her sister Clover's chance to learn to live with others & to make life long friendships.In What Katy did next, Katy gets what for those times is every girls desire, a chance to go abroad to Europe & other countries & see the world.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Family Connection
Parents to get portal on pupils 19 November 2006
By RACHEL GRUNWELLParents across the country will be able to go online to check on their children's test results and behaviour at school in the future.
The Education Ministry has confirmed it is looking at the website idea initiated by Auckland's Avondale College, which is to be copied by Australia in a $60 million project announced last week.
The ministry's manager of e-learning, Murray Brown, said it was developing the technical infrastructure to link all New Zealand schools so they could share data and access curriculum information online. Video conferencing between schools would also be possible.
Brown said parents could access their children's test results, truancy and detention statistics online.
"The challenge is the security side of it," said Brown. "There are some things that need to be kept private. How we manage that side of things will be a big question."
He could not put a timeframe or cost on the project.
Avondale College principal Brent Lewis said it was a "good thing" that the ministry was following in his school's footsteps and adopting The Family Connection scheme, in which parents could log on to a secure website and check their children's progress.
He said The Family Connection made the school accountable and kept parents more informed than receiving mid-year and end-of-year reports.
About 40% of parents at his school had been using the site since it started early this year and Lewis predicted that figure would rise to 75% next year. There had been 3300 hits.
"Many parents are using it to help them have meaningful conversations with their children," said Lewis.
He did not know whether truancy had dropped as a result of the website, as he had not yet compared figures.
In Australia, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has revealed plans for an Australian-first - a school computer system that could allow parents to monitor their children's classrooms live online under a $60m initiative.
Bracks said the government was bringing in the system to every Victoria primary and secondary school. Parents would be able to check on what homework had been done, test results, attendance rates and could receive an automatic text, email or telephone notification if their child was absent without explanation.
The project was expected to be completed in three years.
Lewis said he was "astonished" at the cost of the Australian model. His school spent only $165 on The Family Connection. It has a piece of software that automatically updates the site every 24 hours.
By RACHEL GRUNWELLParents across the country will be able to go online to check on their children's test results and behaviour at school in the future.
The Education Ministry has confirmed it is looking at the website idea initiated by Auckland's Avondale College, which is to be copied by Australia in a $60 million project announced last week.
The ministry's manager of e-learning, Murray Brown, said it was developing the technical infrastructure to link all New Zealand schools so they could share data and access curriculum information online. Video conferencing between schools would also be possible.
Brown said parents could access their children's test results, truancy and detention statistics online.
"The challenge is the security side of it," said Brown. "There are some things that need to be kept private. How we manage that side of things will be a big question."
He could not put a timeframe or cost on the project.
Avondale College principal Brent Lewis said it was a "good thing" that the ministry was following in his school's footsteps and adopting The Family Connection scheme, in which parents could log on to a secure website and check their children's progress.
He said The Family Connection made the school accountable and kept parents more informed than receiving mid-year and end-of-year reports.
About 40% of parents at his school had been using the site since it started early this year and Lewis predicted that figure would rise to 75% next year. There had been 3300 hits.
"Many parents are using it to help them have meaningful conversations with their children," said Lewis.
He did not know whether truancy had dropped as a result of the website, as he had not yet compared figures.
In Australia, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has revealed plans for an Australian-first - a school computer system that could allow parents to monitor their children's classrooms live online under a $60m initiative.
Bracks said the government was bringing in the system to every Victoria primary and secondary school. Parents would be able to check on what homework had been done, test results, attendance rates and could receive an automatic text, email or telephone notification if their child was absent without explanation.
The project was expected to be completed in three years.
Lewis said he was "astonished" at the cost of the Australian model. His school spent only $165 on The Family Connection. It has a piece of software that automatically updates the site every 24 hours.
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