Brookie
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Do you remember when......Tools were made in Birmingham, Coventry and Sheffield in UK and Crescent tools was made in USA and even Australia manufactured tools. Remember Sidchrome
You could buy staples without having to buy a new staple gun to fit them.
6mm meant 6 mm not 6.2mm
Edge weld came in rolls and you ordered by the metre not in 5 metre lengths that the Chinese insist on supplying.
Batteries in drills-modern stuff- lasted for years- now the battery for a quality drill costs $75+ and now you can buy a beaut new drill for $39.95 or 3 tools for $79.95.
Chisels were able to be sharpened and so could drills.
You could buy nails that could be driven into Jarrah or Karri or other hard woods.
I think they are getting the descriptions wrong -Hardware stores should be the software stores and software should be TOOHARDWARE.
The Govt thinks we should have a Space programme- we had one -No3 in the world after USA and UK but they shut it down.
My satellite feed for broadband comes from an Indonesian satellite and yet Australia was major funder of Telstar the first non military communication satellite.
Rant over 
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the aussie trimmer
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Me thinks your showing your age Warren, or are you breathing too much fresh air. Ah I faintly remember the sweet smell of fresh clean air, don’t get much of that in Wanneroo.
Come to think of it I can remember when they use to make lots of stuff in Australia, where did it all go.
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VLKSWGN
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Thanks for the mention of Birmingham, gonna tell my old man tomorrow...he will be well chuffed  he's got loads of old skool tools from his home town.
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Gabbo's Run
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Sorry brookie, dont remember any of this, must be to young. 
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Keith D
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Australia had it's own radio and TV industry. Remember ASTOR, AWA, KREISLER, just to mention a few. (I used to design car radios back in the '60's with Astor (Radio Corporation) in Grant Street, South Melbourne. Their slogan, "It's an Astor, thats the difference!") A 13 transistor top-of-the-range push-button Astor used to cost $130 plus installation - about 2 to 3 weeks adult pay! Cassette tape players were still to be invented. I got paid just over 32 quid ($64) a week - well above the average wage!
A shilling coin (10 cents) was known as a deena or a bob, and a sixpence (5 cents) was a zack. A two shilling coin (20 cents) was a florin. Five shillings was referred to as a dollar. This was everyday slang and yet it looks so funny now when I write it down!
Harold Holt was Prime Minister then, after Menzies retired, until he drowned himself. I was driving an A40 sedan in Park Orchards, Melbourne when the news came over the radio.
Hey Warren, why did you start this dammed thread - it's making me show my age!!!
Keith D
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Brookie
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You forgot the "trey" threepence
...and all the drive ins- would have been great to have a poptop then
VLKSWGN - no one should forget Birmingham-
Birmingham Small Arms or BSA -one of the world's great motorbikes.
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Gabbo's Run
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You could have a nice cold glass of Marchants.
While listening to your Astor radio.
This one still works too, only it dont have FM.
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Keith D
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Hey Bricat,
I'd like a dollar for every bottle of Marchants that I drank in the old days! I can still remember the old Marchants advert on black and white TV in Melbourne!
"Marchants lemonade is sparkle-arkle-arkeling,
Sparkle-arkle-arkeling, sparkle-arkle-arkeling,
Marchants lemonade is sparkle-arkle-arkeling,
Just say Marchants please!"
Strewth, you don't want to hear me sing that !
On that note I'm going to bed!
Keith D
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Roadcow
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This is cool. I'm learning a bunch. What did Marchants taste like as say compared to Coke?
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Keith D
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Marchants was nothing like Coke. From memory it was available in different flavours but most people drank the lemonade. Very similar to Sprite. A clear fizzy liquid that was full of sugar (like Coke!) I don't think Coke was as popular in those days as it is now. There was no low calorie stuff in the sixties, you drank it and got fat!!! - Keith D
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kimba
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Not that I was around then (unfortunately) but there wasn't numbers in the food like the "food" of today, and there weren't the computer games and home theatres that are around today either, so there was more physical activity being done in general, and therefore less fat people, marchents drinkers, coke drinkers or otherwise. Well that's what all my Mum and Dad's photos suggest anyway.
My family call me "the throwback" (among other things) and my Mum often apologises for having me in the wrong decade. On that note, I'm going to polish my rock and roll dancing shoes 
edit: Now days the "food" is made of the same cheap crap as the tools!!
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Roadcow
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Growing up in the 60's here in the States I remember " Fizzies" a couple of quarter sized tablets you'd drop in a glass of water and it would color, add flavor ( grape usually) and effervescence all in 1 go. I loved Fizzies!
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Gabbo's Run
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When you used to have a drink of milk from a glass bottle. The baby was also fed by a pyrex bottle.
The bottle with the big top, was from Wattle valley Dairy, 720 Heidelberg rd Alphington.
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Gabbo's Run
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You would get rid of the flys with one of the big guns.
Your cooler brick was tin.
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Gabbo's Run
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You probably had your clothes pressed or burnt by one of these type of irons.
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Gabbo's Run
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Or even one of these hitech devils.
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Gabbo's Run
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Then who could forget the old man having one of these under his bed to save that 20 yard dash down the back yard in the rain wind and cold in the early hours of the morning.
With out the rose petals of coarse.
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Bessie
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Remember when KFC had bean salad on the menu.
Remember when you could buy two lollies for 1 cent.
Remember when petrol was 80 cents a litre.
hmmm the good old days..............
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Keith D
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I can remember when petrol was 38 cents A GALLON!!! (1967) That works out at 8.4 cents a litre! - Keith D
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Brookie
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I can remeber when petrol was 11 pence a gallon and they put it in for you, washed windscreen, checked oil and tyres all for free!!!
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Gabbo's Run
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| Brookie wrote: | I can remeber when petrol was 11 pence a gallon and they put it in for you, washed windscreen, checked oil and tyres all for free!!!
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you are so right brookie.
I worked in a service station back in 76. i hated it, every young boof head that come in would ask for 50 cents worth of petrol and clean the wind screen, check the oil and pump the tyres.
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Piratekombi
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I remember milk deliveries, bread deliveries, and Loys soft drink deliveries....
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the aussie trimmer
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It was a clever ploy to get sales, I was a bowser boy at Dog Swamp Ampol, we sold everything through checking under the bonnet, hoses, belts, oil and wiper blades etc. It was common practice on rosters; if you lifted the bonnet they needed a quart of oil or transmission fluid. We use to get incentives to do the hard sell and boy did we sell.
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Brookie
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Thought I would "kickstart " this again.
Do you remember when you gave hand signals-no trafficators, indicators or turn signals.
Brakes were mechanical and sometimes on the back wheels only.
Some cars had hand operated windscreen wipers
Some had crank handles to start
I think we may have member/s that still drive these occasionally.
This is a starter...................
Also kickstart was how you started a motorbike
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kombi family
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Sorry Im out of this one , Apart from kick starting Motorbikes
Man your old Warren Good to see you still have
original Paintwork, If your not carefull the the Vw Beetle boys might
put some air Bags on each corner , Some Blinged up Rims
Call you a Ratt and flog you on Ebay
Be Afraid 
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Keith D
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Do you remember when you could phone a Government Department or a bank and get through without being put on hold forever, after being told that your call is important??
Do you remember telephone receptionists that used to connect you to who you wanted instantly??
Do you remember travelling on a train without having to listen to every other idiot aboard discussing their personal business on a mobile phone at the top of their voice??
Do you remember catching an aeroplane without having to remove your belt, shoes, artificial legs, wallet, wristwatch, car keys and money, and treated as if you were a criminal??
Do you remember working in an office or construction site without having to sleep through endless useless inductions and submit to countless drug/alcohol tests??
Do you remember living in a world that did not ever use the word LOGISTICS??
Keith D
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