Hajj so-called "good old days" was Super petrol @ 40c per gallon !! It was even less in the 60s, but I didn't own a car or have a license back then.
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I lived in Calgary , Canada in 1979/80 and can vividly remember traffic jams at peak hour which mainly involved two door Cadillacs with only the driver in each one. The price of fuel - 17 cents a litre.
You are lucky you got your milk, I was 800 kms by rail from Perth and most of the triangle milk containers had leaked by the time they got to us.
Originally Posted by HK1837
Nearly on the Road
October 1979 Mildura, Victoria
Super petrol 27.9 cents per litre.
I noted it in my travel journal because we thought the price was outrageous.
Sunraysia Daily newspaper 5 cents.
Draw the comparison with todays petrol price and daily newspaper price.
Cars have increased roughly 4 times in price since 79. Say a HZ sedan was $10000. A new Commodore is around $40000. So fuel at 30c a litre times by 4 is $1:20 a litre. So fuel was not much cheaper in 79.
I had a HQ DeVille as my drive car in year 11 and year 12 at school in 1984/5. I can remember putting $4 of Super in it, lasted me a few days. I think fuel was around 25c a litre.
I just felt a pang of emptyness to realise that chip packets of course dont shrink anymore !! I can even remember clearly how the plastic smelt when you did it, almost as though you could still smell the salt and flavour in the plastic!
Yes I do remember Cheese Things.
Yeh I remember cheese things.
You must be a lot younger than me because tic tacs are modern to me all we had as kids was wrigleys
Double mint gum individually wrapped.
Just joined this thread, but some I didn't see there are; 'Mr Juicy' (from the school tuckshop for me), and I wonder if anyone remembers 'Fujitsu 10' car stereo, serious gear in the 70s! The Panasonic cassette player pictured earlier in the thread was indeed truly low fi, my brother and I had one exactly like the one in the picture, it was christmas and birthday presents combined for both of us from one year from my grandparents it said Panasonic on the front, and on the back "National Panasonic" and made in Japan and all details of the unit like it was a precision device. My brother and I used that thing as a music machine and tape recorder and experimental toy to way beyond its design limits for about 6 or more years until we were teenagers and got better gear. It was still working last I saw it though which was about a decade ago maybe its still around somewhere..
Interesting though, the TVs were just called National during the late 70's early 80s, I recall the TVs then became National Panasonic and then eventually dropped the National part of the name, my Grandfather had a National TV - the colour was amazing for the time, we used to be up in Sydney at Christmas and we'd have the Sydney Hobart on the National and the cricket on the Thorn/Rank Arena cause the colour was so good on the National, and the Harbour never looked so blue - I actually still have a National Quintrex portable that gets used every day and is working fine.
I remember those coloured anodised aluminium picnic cups that came in a zip up leather container, (it'd be cool to have a set of those!) Haminex Cameras, the beginning of home video games with, simple black and white TV pong, and then later, Atari bi-planes (flash!). Pizza Hut used to be a real sit down restaurant with waiters and red lights and curtains, red and white check table cloths, and red candles in glass bowls.
Incidently, Sunnyboy orange was still available in its frozen triangle/pyramid shape just two years ago in Canberra at Lyneham Shops (it may still be on the market) and I actually had a STUD cola about 8 years ago in Lismore, but I hadnt seen it since the 70s prior to this and havent seen it since.
I remember by the 80's Lucas had a brand of driving lights called "Mean Mothers" (I actually have a set I scored a while back - even has the dashboad switch with Lucas written on it) and I remember that in 1977, (I was 7 years old), my family driving along the Cahill Expressay over Circular Quay from the western side, the was a huge billboard ad for channel 7 Sports ("Super 7" with the 7 logo in colour and a colour border and a massive, absolutely massive picture of Dennis Lilleys face looking out over the quay) about where the building they call 'the toaster' is now. I remember getting my first impression of what being famous must be.
Byron mentioned the Tab Cola Ad with Elle Macpherson in the red swimsuit, its also hard to forget the one with the girl in the white swimsuit (from about 1982) - I even remember the words! ("Tab Tab Cola what a beautiful treat, Just right for beautiful people... And every Tab has less than one calorie!")
Speaking of advertising jingles try these ones on;
"Unless your name is Rockafella or if theres gold down in your cellar, its Datsun 200 B... !!"
"Datsun 120Y its the apple of your eye...!"
I also remember being able to buy fireworks as young as 7 years old just down at the local shops, individual ones for 20c and 50c, or bags for about $2.50, we used to have fire cracker wars as kids, shoot the 8 ball shooters at each other, (we couldnt usually afford the 10 and 12 ball shooters) break the parachute bangers up for the gun powder and make our own bangers with toilet paper and sticky tape - thyis went on for about two maybe three cracker seasons, amazing nobody got hurt, but hey, kids are tough!. It all stopped when one kid in our neighborhood got a hole burnt through a parka jacket and we wernt allowed to play with fireworks unsupervised after that!
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I'm talking early to mid 70's. http://www.tictac.com/en/tic-tac-history I got onto these early because my grandmother owned a take away.
I certainly remember Wrigleys Double Mint, my old man work as the manager of an RSL club and would bring home Chewy, Smith's Chips and Pepsi for us boys every so often.
Come to think of it he liked Pepsi and I like Coca-Cola. Yet it would always be Pepsi he bought home.
ABBA did the ad for this brand in the mid 70's and Victoria Nichols did a TV ad in the late 70's.
I have a set of these.
I had one of these long gone now.
I had Telesports
Yes, you can still get them. Somewhat smaller and the flavour is not as intense.
What colour and design was the can? Might have been in the fridge for a very looooooooooooong time!
How about.
"Your sitting pretty parking in the city, starting and stopping - bringing home the shopping, the all new 120Y..."
I seem to remember John Farnham's "Don't you know it's magic" sung about a Mazda? "Don't you know it's Mazda, oh baby it's Mazda. Get behind the wheel you'll find it amazing, luxury and comfort...."
Chrysler Sigma - it's a Sensation! Car smashing through glass.
I still have a couple of packets of throwdowns from my primary school days. Wonder if they would still work?
I'll have to take some photo's of some of my collection.
Filling the car up for less than $20, and dad would buy me a smurf at the BP servo.
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