Do you remember when

[BaseCamp]

When you would get to Bribie via the Cooper out of BNE?.... 

The Bribie bridge opening in the 1960s ....   had a toll to be paid  (on the mainland end). ...

  The guys working the toll booth lived in a little cement block dwelling nearby the bridge. ...

That shed is still there... (boarded up though)....

Rentons Hardware at Bongaree; super crusty white bread baked on the Island; the movie theater with canvas seats; the fish & chip shop beside the jetty with the huge Croc on the awning....  Surfside Restaurant at Worrim run by Hal and Jerry....

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[edz]

You were 19 and had the responsibillity  of looking after 10 blokes and had the use millions of dollars worth of machinery supplied by the department of defence 

[tracker]

Accidentally swallowing the sixpence in the Christmas pudding

  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

                                     Cheers Tracker.

[Rocky and Bullwinkle]

Pounds, shillings and pence, we changed over on the 14th of February 1966.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Pounds, shillings and pence, we changed over on the 14th of February 1966.

Some of my family didn't change over until years after that. 

[sol]

  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

                                     Cheers Tracker.

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[edz]

Ohh yeah that feeling of crunching a thrippeny bit in a steamed christmas pudding has stayed with me all these years

[plusnq]

  Gezzzzzz......You guy's were rich.....We only had threepenny  bits in our puddings.....hehehehhehe

                                     Cheers Tracker.

And I've worked hard to maintain that position ever since   

[denidoug]

When free camping was anywhere

[tracker]

When free camping was anywhere

    Gezzzzzzz.....Wouldn't that be fantastic to see that again........( dreaming )


                              Cheers Tracker.

[speewa158]

                            Young People today don't realise how Tuff we did it
                                      & Just how lucky they are
                                         Lucky Lucky Lucky


                                             

[Trailer Bloke]

Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.

[robbo1172]

Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.

Manners are sorely missing these days, although my kids are great with please, thank you and you're welcome...

Makes me smile every time someone says, what lovely manners.

Robbo...

[Steffo1]

When you would get to Bribie via the Cooper out of BNE?.... 

The Bribie bridge opening in the 1960s ....   had a toll to be paid  (on the mainland end). ...

  The guys working the toll booth lived in a little cement block dwelling nearby the bridge. ...

That shed is still there... (boarded up though)....

Rentons Hardware at Bongaree; super crusty white bread baked on the Island; the movie theater with canvas seats; the fish & chip shop beside the jetty with the huge Croc on the awning....  Surfside Restaurant at Worrim run by Hal and Jerry....

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Enrights had the Woorim News, Honey was the boat builder just before you got to Woorim & Ian Fairweather lived somewhere around that area. My grandfather was one of his few friends. "Pie" Thomsons home made pies.
I remember queueing up for the opening of the bridge. My sister & I were a bit disappointed that the barge had been replaced.

[Kangaron]

When you could launch your boat at Mordialloc creek and the fee was 2 bottles of Abbots Lager for Jack Pompei.

[Foo]

When I could drink more than a 3/4s of a bottle of Rum, and not be smashed! 

Foo

[denidoug]

When you could launch your boat at Mordialloc creek and the fee was 2 bottles of Abbots Lager for Jack Pompei.

When we we're kids we caught bream and gars off Jack's landing

[edz]

You would go down to the creek flats with your brothers and sisters with dad and select a real chrismas tree, bring it back and set it up on the verandah in a bucket full of water and river rock, decorated with crepe paper and a few  rolls of twisted coloured foil and home made ornaments ..lit by a few tea light candles ..

[Rumpig]

When you'd leave a few tallies or even a six pack out for the garbo's to have just before Xmas...your way of saying thanks for the job they did all year

[edz]

Missed our garbo this morning, but still do this, Some of the younger drivers give you bit of a funny look when your standing  at the bins holding a  present .

[jwb]

When the Outhouse waste used to be collected?
Burly gents swinging it up on their shoulder!
Crasy Shit!

[jwb]

When I could drink more than a 3/4s of a bottle of Rum, and not be smashed! 


Good night v bad night ?

[Ozsnowman]

Saying please when asking for something and saying thanks when receiving something. Note to kids it's called manners.

At the cinema watching Star Wars the other day - walked into the loos as a young kid (7/8 approx) was walking out - he held the door open for me, I said thanks to him, and blow me own if he didn't smile and say 'you're welcome'! I almost fell over! I cannot for the life of me remember when I have seen a young kid so polite! A big tick to his parents, good job!

[Kangaron]

You could go to the Boxing day test with a rubbish bin full of ice, and everyone took a slab. 

[Troopy_03]

When the Outhouse waste used to be collected?
Burly gents swinging it up on their shoulder!
Crasy Shit!

And watching it slop over his shoulder when it was a bit too full... would have to have been one of the nastiest jobs around eh...