At last a NZ version!

**mdb** · 21st August 2006, 20:49

I used to hate wearing shoes and couldn't wait until it was warm enough so I could go barefoot to school (cos there was no way you'd disobey your parents). Funny thing is now when I see a kid with no shoes I think, "poor kid, I wonder if he had anything to eat today!"

**Edbear** · 21st August 2006, 20:52

Yeah, and riding on the sled behind "Danny" the half-draught horse to feed out the hay we'd pitchforked into stacks. My older sister sticking the fork through her gumboot...!

Party-line telephones and Dad trying to load the Angus bull onto the '48 Ford Bonus whereby it stamped its foot through the deck... Going around with him in the old Bedford Cream truck and making our own butter and ice-cream in the butter churn - "Muuummm! My arms are sore!" "Okay, let your sister have a go, now!"

Got my tonsils out in the local Drs. surgery with the old Ether mask! Ghastly!

Mumdriving the old Daimler school bus with the Wilson pre-selector 'box...

Sigh! I am NOT old, I'm NOT I'm NOT!

**scumdog** · 21st August 2006, 23:07

In my spasmodic memory: 4pence for one of those 4bit packs of chutty, a Jelly-tip cost 6pence but a Tutti-Frutti only cost 4pence, a shilling (10 cents) got you two pieces of fish and a gut-full of chips - and NO clean newsprint, it was all yesterdays newspaper - oh, and a newspaper cost 4pence, less than 4cents, likewise a pint (600ml) of milk.

Petrol was 36pence a gallon - about 7.8cents a litre.

A half-doz of Bavarian Bitter beer (BIG bottles, boy sized baby-bottles were not invented then) cost $1:98 a 1/2 doz.

Cops were to be scared of, if they kicked your arse the next worry was your dad found out - and kicked it again.

50 rounds of .22 ammo cost 7/6 (75 cents) for the good stuff.

**Motu** · 21st August 2006, 23:54

Sunday morning,sitting on the curb outside a dairy in a small beachside town.....4c for a pint of milk,a quick shake,a thumb through the tinfoil top and chugalug 2in off the top.Make a Shake was 3c?? strawberry flavour....pour it in,a quick shake and there's a good breakfast to settle a stomach full of Lion Red....

**scumdog** · 22nd August 2006, 00:05

Originally Posted by Motu

Sunday morning,sitting on the curb outside a dairy in a small beachside town.....4c for a pint of milk,a quick shake,a thumb through the tinfoil top and chugalug 2in off the top.Make a Shake was 3c?? strawberry flavour....pour it in,a quick shake and there's a good breakfast to settle a stomach full of Lion Red....

Make-a Shake? Oh yeah, geat stuff - tasted great just to dip your finger into it and suck!!!

**Ixion** · 22nd August 2006, 00:25

More to the point- beer was 1/- a jug! (1/3 for the poncy ones who could afford the lounge bar). Only woofters bought beer in bottles. Jug at the pub, flagon to take home.Take the empty flagon back, and get it refilled. (can't recall how much a flagon was , either 2/- or half a crown I think)

**scumdog** · 22nd August 2006, 00:40

Originally Posted by Ixion

More to the point- beer was 1/- a jug! (1/3 for the poncy ones who could afford the lounge bar). Only woofters bought beer in bottles. Jug at the pub, flagon to take home.Take the empty flagon back, and get it refilled. (can't recall how much a flagon was , either 2/- or half a crown I think)

A half-gallon? two and sixpence - a half crown in 1965.

**Big Dave** · 22nd August 2006, 00:49

Nostagia ain't what it used to be.

200hp 200kg motorcycles. Completely waterproof jackets. Mp3 players. plasma TV. Cable TV. The net. Porn on demand. Playstation.

Get over it and get with the programme.

**scumdog** · 22nd August 2006, 00:58

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Nostagia ain't what it used to be.

200hp 200kg motorcycles. Completely waterproof jackets. Mp3 players. plasma TV. Cable TV. The net. Porn on demand. Playstation.

Get over it and get with the programme.

Meh, fuggup ya twat, in 10 years or less all that crap you mentioned will be obsolete too.
Danged if I know what will be 'in' at that stage though.

**Jeremy** · 22nd August 2006, 01:51

hell I can remember most of that. And I'm 19. I'm not ment to feel ancient at 19.

Can't remember goodnight kiwi though. Not old enough for that. However I can remember that teletext use to display at like 5am in the morning while I waited for the cartoons to start on the weekdays.

I'm annoyed Cobb & co is gone though [at least in Manukau, not sure about the rest of the country]. And the pizza hut restaurants. And most importantly Georgie Pie. Mainly cause they botched up your orders so much and if you ordered cheap stuff you were certain to get chicken pies.

I am happy the see the spaghetti pizza is gone though... And the other day I found pebbles again on a dairy on symonds street. I can remember when you never got smarties, or twix or anything like that. You'd see them at christmas when relatives from England would send them over as presents.

And there were no mobile phones.

**Lias** · 22nd August 2006, 09:32

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Can't remember goodnight kiwi though.

I'm annoyed Cobb & co is gone though [at least in Manukau, not sure about the rest of the country]. And the pizza hut restaurants.

Hamilton still has a Cobb & co, and a Pizza Hutt restaurant.

I also have a video of Goodnight Kiwi (I think possibly the final ever one, not sure) on the pc somewhere.

**Str8 Jacket** · 22nd August 2006, 09:44

Ah the Goodnight Kiwi... I remember the very last one.
I remember the days me and my brother would chops trees down, mow the lawns, whatever the old's felt the need to make us do and then we'd get 20c each to go to the diary with, man you could buy alot of lollies with that. The old 2 for 1c lollies etc. Me and my brother were not allowed a TV when we were younger so we'd full the day's playing outside riding round and round on our bikes. I usually spent the time with my pony but sometimes the guys would let me play soccer with them, they'd make me go goalie and wind me just about everytime, I had broken all my fingers by the time I was 10. I hated wearing shoes and quite often "lost" them. I remember how much fun Bullrush was, though I do remember someone at school doing themselves a bad injury one day at school.... Damn all this PC bullshit! I often wish I could be a kid again!

**Smokin** · 22nd August 2006, 11:13

Now all i need is a Delorean and a flux capacitor.

**MikeyG** · 5th September 2006, 13:51

Isn’t this the TRUTH

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby bassinettes were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem
.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Junior League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

PS - This is written in large font because your eyes are shot at your age