Scents & Smells of the 60's & 70's...

[Milly Robertson]

Moth Balls

 

[Madge Bumstead]

OMG, yes! I still remember the nauseating smell of Moth Balls! Yuck!

 

[Milly Robertson]

I am not keen on them either.

 

[Jacqueline Lindt]

I must be bizarre/weird because I like the smell of both balls

 

[Jacqueline Lindt]

Homemade candy !

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Gosh, I remember the old garage. workshop, fix-it-shed smell like yesterday, Milly!

Concrete floor stained with oil, old oily and soiled clothes laying around, a cigarette butt or two stubbed out on the floor, takes me back to when I was a young child and the neighbour would fix all of us neighbourhood kids bikes.

We'd wheel up to his garage, he'd have the wood stove going (cold/damp mornings/seasons), he'd be smoking his pipe, and just like a service station, no sooner we brought our bikes to him, we'd be back in business.

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Jacqueline Lindt]

 

[Milly Robertson]

The taste and the smell was horrible to me.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Oh my, Milly... I never had it, but one such cough syrup I remember from my childhood days was yellow, and OMG, the taste was enough to make you woof!

 

[Milly Robertson]

Good memories eh? Not.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Dreft Detergent in the washing machine

 

[Milly Robertson]

Phenyl in the outside toilet.

 

[Kate Ellery]

We had a lady who lived near us that had children by the dozen , it was always rumoured she would be given a phenyl bath at the hospital

She sure stunk like a dead rat ….. all the kids were filthy as well …they all lived in a 2 bedroom house




Has anyone mentioned Musk smell ..I hated it …especially Avon musk

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Wood stoves

 

[Milly Robertson]

We still have a wood stove for heating.

A slow combustion stove for cooking.

 

[Milly Robertson]

 

[Jacqueline Lindt]

 

[Milly Robertson]