OK: to set the scene, no, I was post WWII but still within the
wrong half of the 20th Century. SO:

Thom Stewart wrote:
Tad,

Do you remember gasoline at 11 cents a gallon.

No, but I remember it at 25 cents: plus 5c for the oil to run my
2-stroke DKW.

Do you remember a new
Chevy or Ford for $6oo. Do you remember damn few people could afford to
by a new car.

I have vague memories of a RUgby, and a 30's Vauxhall, but the
first car we had was second-hand, when I was 14...

We were born before Fm radio,
Yep

television

That arrived when I was 11/12
, frozen food, plastic,
Yep
polioshots,
My brother had polio. Kids my age in calipers were common. Most
of them died young.
ball point pens,
Steel nibs and inkwells at school
dishwashers, clothes driers, credit cards,
26 y.o., 40y.o. 32 y.o.
air conditioners,
Still don't have one of those (other than in the car)
electric blankets,
No, they were around for all I can remember
pantyhose, the PILL!
They weren't around when I first became interested in females;
they were once I was able to do something about my
interests...one was great but the other was a real nuisance; do
you think that was intentional?

We could get 10 cent for a Saturday afternoon movie if we could find
enough empty soda bottle to take back to the grocery store for deposit.
( Made of glass)
Still was that in the 50's. Hey, 1/3 (=12 cents) bought: a pie
or pastie for lunch, with a buttered fruit bun, and a bottle of
Coke, and a couple of biscuits for morning recess.

ROCK Music was a Grandma's lullaby sung in a rocking chair
Heh: I didn't find out about rock music till I was 13...

We knew gasoline, car tires, sugar, butter and meat rationing.
NOW you're making me feel younger. None of the above

I remember unpaved road with three ruts in them. Two made by wagon
wheels and the middle one made by the horse
Unpaved roads stretching for hundreds of miles are still a big
part of my life. Re the horses: no, no ruts, but horses used for
inner-city milk and bread deliveries, yes.

But WE SURVIVED!! If you remember life then you were born before WW2.
If you were TAD, then you are on our side of the GENERATION GAP!! You're
OLD
NO I'm not! All the above just demonstrates how much longer the
same sort of existence continued.

Some things to add:
GOing to school a few miles down the line by steam train, usually
pulled out by a 4-6-0, sometimes tender first, occasionally by
bigger steam (depending on what was on the roster) and the return
trip in a Brill car.

Riding the four-wheeler streetcars on holidays in Ballaarat.

Watching as a kid the coaster ketches Stormbird and Hawk (the
former lost--in a typhoon in the SOuth CHina Sea, from
memory--the latter still going strong as a gentleman's yacht,
back to her original rig of a Revenooer Schooner) being loaded
with bagged wheat at Edithburgh, the wharfies riding the brakes
of the little fourwheel rail trucks as they went down the slope
to the jetty (and a horse to pull empty trucks back up to the
wheat stacks on the low clifftop).

As a teenager fishing on the Port Adelaide breakwater, watching
one of the last trading 3-masted schooners sailing in: no
topmasts but still with a jib and forestaysail set. And that last
was mid 1960s.


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