Retro Things Related To The 60's & 70's

[Milly Robertson]

I had one of those tops.

Ice-cream in a box.

 

[Kate Ellery]

King William street in the 1960’s

K W street is the Main Street of the city of Adelaide …note the Holden cars that were made in the suburb of Elizabeth 38 km from the city

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Kate Ellery]

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Madge Bumstead]

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That is the identical telephone we had when I was growing up except ours was off-white in colour!

The babysitting calls I took on that phone, and how stretched the cord was from mom sneaking from hallway where the phone was, to kitchen table to sip her coffee and light a cigarette when she was chatting on the phone!

 

[Madge Bumstead]

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Troll Dolls

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Wind-up beside table alarm clock!

I remember literally begging mom for one!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Were you given one Madge?

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Wood paneling!

There wasn't a home around that didn't have it, and so rare it was to walk into a home without it!

 

[Milly Robertson]

I thought wood panelling looked very smart.

I never thought these looked smart though.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Were you given one Madge?

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I sure did, Milly!

I grew up so fast, so fast in fact, I still feel to this day that I didn't get to enjoy the childhood that many do. Maturing quickly (biologically) didn't help, but growing up in a home where you're the oldest, and where you start helping your mom with domesticities including baby-care at a really young age, really makes you grow up fast.

I was head and shoulders above my counter parts and always looked way older than I was.

Anyhow, in the later years when that wind-up bedside/nightstand alarm clock became essential for me to wake for something or another, I used to dread winding it up before bed. No longer was owning my very own wind-up bedside alarm clock a dream.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

I thought wood panelling looked very smart.

I never thought these looked smart though.

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I'm with you, Milly!

My mom and Aunt Kay used to wear this version!

They had rubber soles that smacked and slapped on the old linoleum floors with every step, and my mom never went a minute without them!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Your Mum and Aunt would have felt very upmarket in the fluffy ones lol. Being the oldest girl in a big family often meant that person was robbed of a childhood. I think Kate can relate to this as well.





The apron was for cooking classes.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Hair Rollers, Bobby Pins, and Curl Clips, and Wave Nets!

 

[Milly Robertson]

None of that stuff for me. I had electric hair curlers..

 

[Jacqueline Lindt]

 

[Milly Robertson]

Yummy Bon-Bons