Re: I can remember when...

From	keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
Newsgroups	aus.tv, aus.computers
Subject	Re: I can remember when...
Date	2016-01-19 00:22 +1000
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On 17/01/2016 9:47 AM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 21:23:42 +1000, keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> On 13/01/2016 2:52 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:45:57 +1100, felix <me@nothere.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>>> .. drinks in glass bottles had a screw top that could easily be removed
>>>> because it wasn't made of light aluminum and pressed on by machine. it
>>>> was actually screwed on and so could be screwed off relatively easily.
>>>>
>>>> thought I would start a thread. anyone else got any? how about this one
>>>> for the old codgers..
>>>>
>>>> I can remember when milk and bread were delivered door to door.
>>>
>>> You should like this. Memories of a WASP Australia.
>>>
>>> I can remember when:
>>>
>>> men wore hats... (okay - old men, at least).
>>>
>>> Old blokes walked down the street with the tranny glued to their ear,
>>> listening to the trots
>>>
>>> A hamburger with the lot was 20 cents (cooked by a wog, naturally)
>>>
>>> Nearly all cars were either Australian or British made
>>>
>>> They picked up the shit-can weekly
>>>
>>> There were milk bars
>>>
>>> A bucket of Kentucky fried chicken was $6
>>>
>>> One could go down to Brickies to watch/have a drag race
>>>
>>> We had to recite God Save The Queen at school assembly
>>>
>>> My auntie's endless rants on how evil Catholics were
>>>
>>> TV memories of wrestling and BP Pick A Box
>>>
>>> ... memories from around 8-9 y/o...
>>>
>>> Let's face it, the country for the most part sucked back then.
>>> Thank fuck for genetic/cultural diversity...
>>>
>> Adelaide 1965 - a friend of the wife and her husband were sailing to
>> Europe on an Italian liner, and they got us passes to look over the
>> ship. At the gangplank a guy in a brown dustcoat (remember them?) took
>> our passes and said "Its bloody nice to see some white people".
>
> I remember the days when Italians and Greeks were viewed with
> suspicion etc. I had a friend in primary school who had come from
> Germany (still with a bit of an accent), didn't he cop some crap...

When we lived in Adelaide in the 60s, Italians were disliked mainly 
because they worked hard and did well. In Carnarvon, the Yugoslavs were 
resented because they had bought up unsuccessful banana plantations that 
the locals had started and made a real go of them.

>> memories from 3-4 yo - being snatched out of bed by my mother and
>> carried to the air raid shelter coz a bunch of foreigners were
>> approaching with the intention of killing us.
>
> Was that in Darwin?
>
Just north of London.

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