Those were the days

[Ratti]

70's?
that's be growing up on the Coromandel Penninsula.
Housetruckers, alternative lifestylers, Nambassa and Sweetwaters,

[Oscar]

70's?
that's be growing up on the Coromandel Penninsula.
Housetruckers, alternative lifestylers, Nambassa and Sweetwaters,

My first music festival was the one at Waikino.
Found someones big bag of dack that they'd dropped, lost me wallet and slept in our old Austin A95. I ate Hare Krishna rice for two days and got down to Hello Sailor and Living Force (remember them?).

[Mom]

and a lot of use remember a world before decimal currency

I was a dollar scholar

Aaaah school milk......left in the box in the summer sun until 10 o'clock..................

the smell of regurgitated milk all over the classroom floor............

Dental nurses with their foot operated drills.........

That milk was disgusting and it HAD to be drunk before you could go and play as I recall. As far as the dental nurses go, I to this day need to take panadol before I ring to make an appointment at the dentist. Actually that is a lie I almost NEVER go. The foot operated drill I remember having all my adult molars drilled out and filled during one summer holiday. No injections back then either, just the cruel and inhumane drilling. One day I clamped my teeth shut on this bitches fingers and refused to let go

[vifferman]

PS i envy all who grew up in the 70's

Ta! You envy us rightly - the '70s were pretty good - lots of cool music, lots of interesting new bikes, lotsa fun.
Yeah, things are better now in some ways, but also more complicated. For a start, there was far less nasty crime - if you got one murder a year, it was BIG news. (Mebbe because back then speeding motorists weren't murderers....)
Oh yeah - and I too had Line7 gear (just the trou), and it was pretty good, which is why the bike cops were kitted out in it.
My first bike cost 80c to fill up, and would go 85 miles before going onto reserve.
Y'know, the funny thing is, a year or so back, I did a comparison of petrol prices, bike prices, speeding tickets, and wages, and discovered to my surprise that bikes, petrol and speeding tickets are all cheaper now, allowing for inflation.

[Mom]

I used to have to carry spare spark plugs in my pocket back in the day, I dont have to do that now.

[SPman]

My first music festival was the one at Waikino.
Found someones big bag of dack that they'd dropped, lost me wallet and slept in our old Austin A95. I ate Hare Krishna rice for two days and got down to Hello Sailor and Living Force (remember them?).

First big festival was at Ngaruawahia in ....'73 ....communal showers.....Corben Simpson naked on stage......Black Sabbath, with the burning cross on the hill....what were they like...who knows, we were well away....the acid was good that year.....

I was a dollar scholar

I worked in the decimal conversion plant for Burroughs in Khyber Pass Rd - my first job out of school...hey, 15 quid a week was good money...only cost 4 pound an hour flying lessons in a Piper Cub and a Yammy 100 was L 97/10/-

[peasea]

I used to have to carry spare spark plugs in my pocket back in the day, I dont have to do that now.

Yeah, Champions were pretty much all you could get and they were rubbish. I know they've improved but NGK's and electronic ignition are the shiz.

[Mom]

Yeah, Champions were pretty much all you could get and they were rubbish. I know they've improved but NGK's and electronic ignition are the shiz.

I remember going for my license, I was really worried I would foul a plug as I could not go 30 mph (OMG! Miles per hour) in top without fouling one, and any lower gear made it sound like I was wringing its neck. I expained that to the cop who suggested I just did my best

[peasea]

I remember going for my license, I was really worried I would foul a plug as I could not go 30 mph (OMG! Miles per hour) in top without fouling one, and any lower gear made it sound like I was wringing its neck. I expained that to the cop who suggested I just did my best

So; you still don't have a license then?

[JATZ]

Ahhhhh......reminiscing (?)
I too used to cash in the glass bottles for a huge bag of lollies,.
Go scabbing at the tip and find some reeeal good stuff too, before all this recycling nonsense took over.
And heading up North head with a LARGE bag of double happys, roman candles and skyrockets for an epic battle in the tunnels with my brother and his mates, it was his birthday around then and thats how we celebrated
AAAnd going down the shop for my old man to by his smokes when I was still in single figures, no I.D. required

[Ocean1]

Ta! You envy us rightly - the '70s were pretty good - lots of cool music, lots of interesting new bikes, lotsa fun.
Yeah, things are better now in some ways, but also more complicated. For a start, there was far less nasty crime - if you got one murder a year, it was BIG news. (Mebbe because back then speeding motorists weren't murderers....)

All true.

I'd rabbit on about it too but I recall a lot of the old bastards in my life doing that.

And I'm not yet ready to go there.

[Genie]

Ahhhhh......reminiscing (?)
I too used to cash in the glass bottles for a huge bag of lollies,.
Go scabbing at the tip and find some reeeal good stuff too, before all this recycling nonsense took over.
And heading up North head with a LARGE bag of double happys, roman candles and skyrockets for an epic battle in the tunnels with my brother and his mates, it was his birthday around then and thats how we celebrated
AAAnd going down the shop for my old man to by his smokes when I was still in single figures, no I.D. required

oh those teeny little red and green ones all strung up together.....shit i hate it when my brain doesn't remember the name of some things, but hey, those wee bangers were fun! Tom Thumbs????

[rickstv]

Yeah those were the days, late 50's early 60's I remember walking to the IGA store above Beach Haven wharf with two of my mates. We were carrying our air rifles in full view. we bought Coke off the ice for 6d and used the empty bottles for target practice on the wharf.
Couln't get away with that today.

Trapping possums and making Davey Crocket hats from the pelts and keeping the odd baby possum as pets

And a mate of mine showing off on his new Kawasaki 3 cylinder 500cc two stroke bike (1973 or there abouts) took off down the road and before he changed into the next gear, the bike hit its power band suddenly and front wheel came up. Idiot came back white as a sheet. first wheel stand I ever saw.

And all those bloody vaccinations at primary school from primmer one onwards. I seem to remember they used the same needle for everyone, could be wrong though.

Every kid in my class at school had both a mum and a dad living at home
There wasn't any TV and we wern't bored, yeah, those were the days

[Gareth51]

Dental nurses with their foot operated drills.........
.............

Your whole mouth would vibrate as it slowly ground away at your teeth..................THE MURDER HOUSE..........

[Gareth51]

and a lot of use remember a world before decimal currency

My first packet of Rothmans cost 2/- ( a couple of bob)