Do you remember when ...

I not only remember when people did not have mobile phones but also when hardly anyone had a home phone - you used the phone box to ring the luckly ones that did - and I even remember using phones that you wound the handle and spoke to an operator. :o

I remember black and white tv. Saturday nights were spent watching Walt Disney welcoming you and seeing innocent family movies. Sunday nights was watching Molly Meldrum and countdown so you could talk about it at school the following day. Tammy, Gidget and Doris Day were our 'role models' on tv.  Who could forget the Leyland Brothers followed by Alby Mangles in later years. TV usually closed down around 11 and the Queens Christmas message would stop a nation.

The cinema showed shows like World Safari, and a trip there with school would mean watching Lord of the flies not Harry Potter. Your price also included 2 movies not 1. There were Jaffas to roll down the isle or throw over the balcony. Then came Rocky Horror, Rocky Balboa and Aliens.

Drive ins were everywhere and you could smuggle your friends in by putting them in the boot. Choc topped icecreams were the go and mattresses in the back of panel vans were the go.

10 cents worth of lollies was more than 1 lolly, hell it was more than 10 lollies. You got free milk at school. The majority, not the minority of mothers helped at the school tuckshop. Working b's meant parents turned up to help. 

Teachers smoked in the classroom, teenagers smoked in the cinema, in fact people smoked everywhere.

All kids would go out playing and come home when hungry and before dark. We would go bike riding, horse riding, yabbying, swimming and just general play.  The baker, milko, fruitman and softdrink man all came to your house. 

I remember ipods, cd's, cassettes, 45's, 33's and even 78's. Dvd's, tapes, and when your choice was Beta or VHS. 

The ensuite, the bathroom with separate toilet, the flushing toilet in a room on the verandah, the outhouse.

Milk in bottles with silver foil lids, real cream milk that you had to shake to mix before drinking. Milk in metal buckets or in the tins at the end of driveways waiting for the factory to collect it. 

Everyone played sport, everyone had a veggie garden and every child walked or got the bus to school. 

I have lived through flares, ponchos, tartan, cheesecloth, taffetta, long boots, short boots, riding boots, jesus sandals, joggers, sandshoes, stillettos, ballet shoes, thongs, minis, maxis, big hair, permed hair, short hair, straight hair and most have returned at some stage or another. 

Everyone older was Mr or Mrs or Aunt or Uncle. Every suburb had a least 1 corner store, service station, phone box and mail box.

Stores closed at midday Saturday and didn't open again until Monday. Nothing was opened on Good Friday or Christmas day. 

Trains use to have red carriages that had doors to benches that faced each other with just enough room for someone to stand on your feet in the middle at peak hour. You had nothing to hold on to and would constantly fall onto the lucky person to get a seat.

Dual lanes on the highway was when you indicated and overtook the person going slow in front of you. 

There is so much more and so many memories.