Ever thought about all the items that were once objects of desire but have just disappeared from our lives? I'll start the list (then it's your turn). Dial telephones, Sony Walkmen, big brown teapots, candlewick bedspreads, ashtrays, slide projectors, turntables, records, castor oil, typewriters, pressure cookers, macrame hangings ...
those doll things that cover the toilet roll and the dolls that go on the bed..
Georgie pie
chatter rings (damn annoying things) and roller skates lol
golliwogs, and those little dolls that you got at a&p shows, and buzzy bees, records, old cartoons that we use to watch as kids.
COMIC books... Richie Rich! and JugHead
seame street, play school nice one stu. wombles muppets smurfs
top cat, flintstones, jetsons, yogi bear, atom ant
brady bunch, bewitched, hogans heroes, HR pufnstuf, bugaloos
Knuckle bones, marbles and hop scotch Cowboys and indians... Gollywogs. Oops am I allowed to say that?
Slinky's, Splat, those rubber-gel hand thingies that you slap against a surface, 1 & 2 cent lollies, brown plastic appliances, carpet in bathrooms, Rainbow Bright, spokey dokey's....
playing elastics.use to play that all the time at school
Crank handle telphones black baby lollies, witches britches, stockings with seams up the back, fur coats
Spaceman Candy sticks with the red tips like cigarettes, they are all white now
Half pint milk bottles in school,,,Moggy Men, Banana Bikes, Sherbet Dabs, Apple Shampoo, Bendix washing machines, milk tokens, moolies, Joe 90, Gigantor, Mrs Beasley dolls, Kewpie dolls, crank handles on cars, 78 records, 6 o'clock closing.....
Anniseed wheels. kids putting disprin in their coke bottles just to get high. lol Jem and the holograms.
No TV and sing songs around the piano at night, racing home made trolleys down the street, ghastly home made tartan trousers, stove-pipe trousers, hats and best clothes on the bus to go to 'town', trolley buses in Auckland, trams in Auckland
men in shorts, long sox and sandles and I hope like hell that fashion never ever comes back
tea cosies, men in stubbies,glass milk bottles, the 8'clock paper, the Auckland Star.......Bell bottom trousers.
petticoats with blow up thingies in the hem, teddy boy irridescent socks, really high teased up hair...hot pants clothing
Bata Bullets and Bubblegummers and those pinafores that had a pleated tartan skirt and a plain white cotton top half so you could wear a hand-knitted jersey over top of it
those pants with the...3 white stripes down the sides with that bit that went under the foot, cant remember what they are called but males shouldnt have worn them the mind boggles trying to remember what they are called- Stirrups,
tt2 iceblocks
Banda machines (pre-photocopiers) They made heaps of prints in purple ink that smelled yum... carbon paper for typing... milk tokens... milk bottle tops (used to make stuff out of them)...
the sherbet lolly that used to come in a triangle container....it had a piece of licorice you dab in the sherbet. Pears shampoo that smelt like real apples. Ra Ra skirts. An egg beater.
The free farmers bus.. and the farmers playground in the Hobson Street store. Yup, with the cafe, and the toy cars etc. :) Spent many happy holidays there... was a special treat to go there once during the school holidays. And then we'd fight over who would give the toll bridge man the coin on trip back to the North Shore.
Vinegar & Tomato sauce.....In big bottles on the fish & chip shop counter. We used to help ourselves and squirt it onto the chips before they wrapped them up.
Treasure tip iceblocks, caramel tablets, Rarotongan Orange and Lime Smash Fizzy Drinks made by Thompson Lewis.
Big Hair and Padded Shoulders Power Suits, pantyhose with inbuilt panties,Kaydee Plastic Sandals, legwarmers, fluoro bike pants, red gumboots, Norm Kirk and other leaders of integrity.
Twinkies They have no nutritional value whatsoever (which is why they are no longer sold in NZ) but damn they tasted Good! :0)
White gloves for the summer/black gloves for the winter(?!) 6d bottles of drink, bottles you could take back to the shop and the innocence not to embarrased about it. Paper straws that came apart if you took too long drinking from it. Respect for the parents. I luv Lucy, The Flintstones and Laverne and Shirley. Frys mint bars and Frys chocolate truffles. Getting three jobs in one afternoon because you were bored with the old one.
Emerald Drops
The goodnight kiwi smacking in public, raleigh 20 bikes, european immigrants.
The goodnight Kiwi on TV Telethon, carless days, bright orange flags kids used to put on their bikes, toffee bars, K-Bars, multiple bangles on girls arms
view master
Buying non-sliced bread I was around before sliced bread. Used to buy a chubby loaf and eat the middle out of it by the time I was home. I got into so much trouble.
Golden kiwi lottery tickets. Pounds, shillings and pence and half pennies (hapennies). Mary Quant make up, vanity bags as accessory bags, tie dyed tee shirts, twin sets
I remember Nomads, they were so comfy But I had the cheaper ones first called "Donalds" (i think, something similar) I used to really like twinkies too.
Homestead Chicken, RTR Countdown Mag, Frank Flash
grapefruit juice in glass bottles from when the milk man delivered your milk to your home, along with the bread.
partyline phone lines, stubbies,hot pants...drain pipe addidas tracksuits, needle and spud ear peirsings
Lovely gold shiny paper in cigarette packets that we used to dress our little dolls in and make gold crowns with..
Hula hoops brown supermarket shopping bags, Butcher shops seem to be disappearing , prams and pushchairs with four wheels.
Those small (1") pink plastic baby dolls that you could put into match boxes for beds. I think they sold for about 6d (5c)
Lanes Emulsion cod liver oil tablets in schools, chocolate delight fizzy and Blue Lagoon. McKenzies and Deka stores. Milkbars, bodgies and widgies.
every delivery vehicle was either a CF bedford van or a TK bedford truck
Does the Rawleighs man still go door to door with his products ? Bwwaaaa that Lanes Emulsion was disgusting. Every Saturday night we had it shoved down our throats. Also, the Bond Brush man used to come door to door.
String you entwined round your fingers on one or both hands and made things like parachutes, cup and saucer
Those paper thingies you folded in certain way... which colour do you chose, which number do you chose, open it up and there's a written message like... your feet smell
I don't miss Lanes Emulsion ever and ever nor those disgusting Iron tonics nor Mother Superior dragging us out of the Milkbars away from the Bodgies. They had Cars with "peaches, this is your can" painted on the doors
Nappies A line full of cloth nappies blowing in the wind..Babies gowns they were kept in till about 3 months,matinee jackets..Horse and cart delivering milk in glass quart and pint bottles where I lived.
knucklebones, four square and elastics! They also had knitted baby booties and bonnets!
Rolling a weeks' supply of ciggies from my Father's packet of Capstan Tobacco. And keeping a rolled ciggie for my own personal use. I was only 5. Being given driving lessons in a Wolsley Car at 5 and I could drive the truck too. People have no faith in their kids today.. I miss that get up and go from the 1950's.. Being able to pour a good Beer from a flagon with a whisky chaser. Chucking the home brew out of the washing machine and digging a hole for the Dunny..Girls had to do everything..
Acid drops, deck and the HUGE twenty cent lolly mixtures!! Roller skates, bubble skirts, the radiogram and old records, nomad shoes, Princess Di haircuts, intervals in the movies so you could stock up with fresh lollies or have a pee, ponchos, Starsky and Hutch Jackets, Pokie machines with the big handle instead of pressing a button.
Trademe July 14 2007
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