Re: I can remember when...

From	felix <me@nothere.biz>
Newsgroups	aus.tv, aus.computers
Subject	Re: I can remember when...
Date	2016-01-13 18:32 +1100
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On 13-January-2016 5:47 PM, Xeno wrote:
> On 13/01/2016 4:32 PM, felix wrote:
>> On 13-January-2016 2:23 PM, Xeno wrote:
>>> On 13/01/2016 1:45 PM, felix 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.
>>>
>>> Don't recall them. We had milk delivered to our door and ladled out of
>>> a milk churn. The cows were milked first thing and the milk delivered
>>> to our door still warm. Pasteurisation? Not back then! We moved from
>>> that delivery method to bottles with foil tops. You even had to return
>>> the bottles for, get this, reuse! Still have 2 or 3 of those bottles
>>> out in the garage somewhere. They show very visible signs of having
>>> spent many, many hours rattling around in a milk crate.
>>
>> yes. I have one somewhere too that I found. they always were a bit
>> scratched up weren't they.
>
> Two of mine are really scratched up, one not so much. I think it was a 
> new law that came in that prevented bottles from being reused. 
> Something to do with people using bottles for storing all manner of 
> nasty chemicals which the cleaning processes didn't completely remove.
>
>> did you also get milk delivered to your
>> school in half pint bottles in crates that were left sitting outside in
>
> Yes, that was a morning recess treat back then.

treat!? lol!

>
>> the hot sun until the bell rang? nothing like a drink of warm milk on a
>> hot day! not!
>
> Since I grew up in Tasmania, the hot sun wasn't all that hot so the 
> milk was still quite cool by morning recess. The only real hot days in 
> Tassie seemed to be during January and we were on holidays then. I do 
> recall classes in Tasmanian heatwaves in February where the 
> temperature climbed all the way to a sizzling 29C. Classrooms had no 
> AC so there was not a lot of learning happening on days like that. 
> Come to think of it, I don't recall there being too much heating of 
> the classrooms in the winter either.

no heating or cooling either where I went

>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> Yep, the local baker had a van for that.
>>>
>>
>> and came to the door with a basket of bread so you could choose what you
>> wanted. no sliced bread either then I think. ahh... the good old 
>> days! :)
>>
> Was at the baker this morning and I bought a loaf of bread. They 
> sliced it on the spot to a toast thickness.
>
> When I was a kid, I wasn't all that good with a bread knife so my 
> bread slices were a little 'variable' to say the least. Wasn't a 
> problem as the toaster we had back then had sides that were hinged at 
> the bottom and folded out. No possibility of the toast jamming.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jkfeur8

yes that design was common before the pop-up toaster made it's 
appearance. in fact, I saw one in a collectibles store selling for $40

>
> Ours was very much like the above unit. We had it through the 50s and 
> 60s though ours was a simpler, more modern style. The good thing about 
> it was that it was eminently repairable. You could even buy the 
> elements for it in the late 60s. Though the unit would toast two 
> slices at a time, it only toasted one side. You needed to flip the 
> toast over when you wanted the other side done. Wasn't a problem for 
> me as I preferred toasting only on one side anyway. Can't do that with 
> all these modern popup toasters. Might note that you needed to keep an 
> eye on it as it wasn't in any way automatic. On the upside, it was 
> very quick, certainly much quicker than our current popup toaster.

yes, we had one as well. then we got the bees knees of toasters.. a 
morphey richards.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01510/old-toaster_1510723i.jpg

but it had orange sides


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