Bob Byrne's Australia Remember When

Bob Byrne's Australia Remember When

Growing Up in a Baby Boomers Australia

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Month: May 2017

When the Bread Came by Horse and Cart

May 23, 2017 Bob Byrne 2

I remember before supermarkets and sliced bread in plastic bags, hot, fresh bread was delivered, unsliced of course, by the baker in his horse and […]

Remember Free Milk at School

May 20, 2017 Bob Byrne 2

Back in the 1950s the Australian Government introduced a scheme for school children to receive free milk. I think the idea was that it would […]

Going to the Drive-In Pictures.

May 18, 2017 Bob Byrne 2

Ahhh…..those nights at the local drive-in! Remember how, as teenagers, there would be 6 of us crammed in the FJ or the Zephyr and one […]

Sweet Memories of my Childhood

May 16, 2017 Bob Byrne 5

I’m sitting here remembering some of the lollies we used to have as kids back in the 50s to the 70s. There were Fags of […]

Remember ‘Tuck’ Day at School?

May 12, 2017 Bob Byrne 3

Remember the brown paper bags for school lunch orders? When I was at school we never had anything quite as fancy as the printed paper […]

Games We Used to Play

May 9, 2017 Bob Byrne 2

What were some of the games we used to play, growing up as a kid in the 50s, 60s, and 70s? Long before the ‘age […]

Customer Service, (When the Customer was Always Right)

May 7, 2017 Bob Byrne 1

Whatever happened to the personal customer service that was provided by the local shops and businesses in the 1950s and the 1960s? Can you remember […]

Remember ‘Defrosting’ the Fridge?

May 5, 2017 Bob Byrne 1

Remember the first fridge your family ever bought? Prior to refrigerators we had ice chests. The ice man would come every second day and deliver […]

“You’re Not Touching the Kingswood”!

May 2, 2017 Bob Byrne 1

Remember Kingswood Country, the Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on Channel 7? The show featured real Aussie humour and although it was […]

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