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Those doormats are indestructable, if WW3 breaks out just wrap yourself in them and you will be fine.
My pop made his own boot scrapers. He nailed metal bottle caps upside down on a small wooden frame, left next to the front door. Got the mud off easy.
The recycled tire door mat's were usually accompanied by a fly screen that was multi coloured plastic/vinyl strips.
And the Flyscreens worked and kept children entertained for hours.
Wow that was my Nana's house and she had coloured lights under her patio too
With beads on the straps to annoy the hell out of you.
Yeah!! The door mat and multi coloured vinyl streams hanging in the door were on most milk bars , especially at the beach. ❤️
I have two of those door mats, they were my fathers that he bought in the 70s. They outlived my father and they will out live me!
I have one of those doormats - vintage 1970s AT LEAST. It came with my last house but one, and will probably outlast me. Superb for knocking off dust & sand, easily cleaned with a hose and immortal.
Me too.
😂😂😂😂 still got floor mats at my front and back door today 😂 30 plus years old.👍🇦🇺🤠
Always called them door mats, because they go at the door.
They are great for scraping 'Cat heads' out of your thongs👍
I've still got one at my front door looking a bit sad though
Geelong and Melbourne have some sort of 20 year plan to join the two and I live at werribee and feels alot closer to G-Town than 10 years ago. Geelong is pretty nice too btw🎣
Living near the beach you need door mats
Dude the sec I seen the door mat I had to watch.😂 love ya work mate..
Haha same!
The pizza tables disappeared because they were too small to put a warning label on it. “Do not eat”. I’m sure some people choked on it and improved the gene pool.
We still use them at the pizza shop I work at but the millennials hate it! Come in in plastic clothes, plastic shoes with plastic sunglasses and complain about the plastic thing on the pizza. Go figure 🤨
@@kevo6190 ❤
Still see them in most places with the huge giant pizza's. Mostly when you buy a couple of them to stop them crushing each other.
They are still used, at least here in SA. I brought a pizza a few months ago from a pizza shop and that shop was using them.
Is this plastic table Vegan?@@kevo6190
Rage was a music show on ABC started at midnight and would go until top 100 countdown to number 1 song in Australia.
Rage rage ra ra RAGE. 🎉
I think rage replaced MTV on our public broadcasting channel (ABC), when MTV went to subscription, I.e. Foxtel.
The fuses used to be a fuse holder and fuse with replaceable fuse wire.
If the fuse blew, you had to remove the fuse, unscrew two screws to let remove the old burnt out wire, put in new wire and screw it down tight then replace the fuse.
Different wire had different ratings so you had to use the right one etc.
Now we use circuit breakers, so just have to flip a switch.
I can remember dad changing fuses manually. Late 70s Early 80s
I still have those old porcelain fuses.
I remember the roles of wire in the fuse box...with the spiders😅
@@infin8ee and the old screw driver kept with the wire...
@@35manning and the multiple bits of wire would always fall on the ground
Impressed about your pronunciation of Geelong. Well done sir. You are now an Australian.
He didn't fair well with Pakenham though lol
Austar was an Australian Pay TV service, it was bought out by Foxtel about 10 years or so ago. My brother and I got it put on at Mum's house, she insisted she didn't want it, wouldn't watch it, so if we wanted it, we'd have to pay for it, so we did... two weeks later, completely predictable Mum is sitting there eyes glued to the TV screen, remote in hand, flicking between four different channels and periodically yelling and cheering at the TV... for the first time in her life she was able to actually watch and follow all her favourite sports events every Saturday... and all her favourite movies and TV shows every other day of the week. My brother and I then had to buy a DVD recorder because recording what we wanted to watch became the only way we'd ever get to watch anything! 🤣
Yeah. Yeah Austar and foxtel did a deal. Austar got the rural areas and foxtel got the cities. Bad deal for customers as it destroyed competition . Bad news for Austar as the smaller market allowed foxtel to swoop in and buy them out at a bargain price
The old fuse boards had ceramic wire fuses. If the fuse blew, you would need to replace the wire with either 10 amp wire for light circuits or 15 amp wire for power circuits. The wire was held in place by brass screws. Just had to remember to turn off the main breaker, otherwise you would blow the fuse putting it back into the holder.
I used to make up the boards when I was an apprentice sparky.
My house still has one like that, sure keeps our electrikery bills low, roundabout $250 per quarter. We have 3 adults in our house plus 2 kids under 10 and all the gizmos and gadgets to go with it... the power box itself is circa 1960s/70s.
We built our house in 1975 and had that kind of fuse box. You kept your spare fuse wire in that kitchen drawer that holds a bit of everything. The people that bought the house from us knocked it down and rebuilt so it’s long gone.
@@jessiepfeiffer210 Huh? Sorry its not keeping your power bill low, unless you mean the wire is blown.
@@miniveedub we had our house, rewired about 10 or 15 years ago but I’m pretty sure the kitchen drawer still has fuse wire in it 😂
The Toyota's rego expired on the 11th of January and the yellow plate belongs to a grey Holden Rodeo with current rego.....we can check rego status online. Very illegal. 🤣👍
Pretty stupid too as most cop cars have auto plate readers these days
It's a door mat. And they still exist, not as popular as they once were, but they still exist. You put it at your front door or back door.
Have one
And….it’ll last a lifetime!
Bunnings have them.
Saw them in Bunnings two days ago
I’ve replaced quite a few fuses in my time. It’s hilarious to think of them as “nostalgia”. I still have fuse wire in my household toolbox 😂😂
I've still got some in my junk drawer in my study lol
I remember my dad showing me how to change these.
And if the fuse kept blowing you'd just double up on the wire... she'll be right.
🤣 Speaking of nostalgia, do ya recall the "She'll be right mate, Export Light mate" ads? @@sladflob
@@AndrewFishman i think i could still do all the cigarette ads, "ardath ardath your a star beats the other smokes by far" or my favourite, " black and whites are the smokes for blokes".
I grew up on a farm and we had a 2 stage system for door mats, we had these recycled tyre one first, then a more normal 'brush' one. the rubber one was good for large chunks of mud that would just turn the 'normal' one brown instantly. we would do all that, just to get onto the veranda. no shoes were allowed in the house (for good reason.)
Those coconut mats used to shed their bristles and cause more mess than they prevented!
We called it the mud room 😅
@@DomHollow if you have a mudroom, you are not middle class.
"Chip Sanga"........ "Sanga" is Aussie slang for "Sandwich".
When I was a kid (1970's) learning how to fix a fuse in your house's fuse-box was one of the earliest home maintenance tasks that your Dad taught you. I learnt to do it when I was about ten. If you didn't know how to do it, and a fuse "blew" you'd be without power in your home until Dad came home at the end of the day. I thought it a real treat learning how to fix a fuse because even my Mother didn't know how to do it, which meant, while Dad was away, I was the most important person in the house. The fuses were made of a ceramic material with a thin wire screwed to each end, if your power overloaded the wire would burn through and the power would go out. You had to go to the fuse box, turn the mains power to the "off" position, take the ceramic fuse body out of the Fuse-box and replace the wire. Then replace the ceramic fuse body into the fuse-box and turn it back on. It was a really important job and you'd be called on to do it more often than you'd think.
Yeah this system is not used anymore as they all have cutout switches instead of fuses.
I have one of those rubber door mats outside my laundry door, they work fine and are super easy to clean with a hose.
For the power board, these fuses still exist on very old house that have not been renovated
I have stacks of the 1 and 2 cent coins in my collection and several of the round 50cent coins :) Also have several 1 and 2 dollar notes.
I’m 73 and I had one of those plastic maps when I was in primary school, also had one of NSW but it was bigger than the state on the Australia piece.
Orange actually changed to Hutchinson and they changed to 3.
3 had the best reputation in the country and best contracts that no other Tele Communication company could compete with.
The takeover by Vodaphone was a nasty story. Will just say Vodaphone, who has always had a terrible reputation, screwed up royally when they bought out the superior company with the intent to absorb the best parts of Hutchinson 3, when they did they ended to company in such a way that everyone that was contracted was suddenly free to walk away and not be locked to Vodaphone. Vodaphone were left holding the empty shell of another company with nothing to show for it.
They also ruined the coverage, as they shut down 3's network and transitioned everyone onto Vodaphone, which is still trash as far as I am aware, the only thing going for them is the cheap price with high data.
@@BarzulRei I was with 3 and now been with vodafone for about 15 years and have never had an issue and it's cheaper than Telstra or Optus and the coverage I've never had an issue with. I pay 45 bucks a month for free national calls, free text and unlimited data and if you select certain countries you get 300 minutes talk time to those countries. Basically never had an issue is my point.
Same, here - they were a problem, and the commenters story above is true. They left, were only concentrated in the cities. Came back, much better, but still have much more black spots than the other two. But they are cheaper, more data, good billing info, will sometimes upgrade you with no cost and have not been corrupt with hacking and charging for services not asked for. They need to just get their coverage right.
@@bluedog1052 and there lies the greatest issue, you are paying $45 a month and for what?
With 3 you never had to pay that. You also got 5 times more unlimited free calls, sms and data. They were levels you had no hope of capping unless you did something really silly.
My monthly bill went from $4 per month to $50 per month when Vodaphone stripped me of my contract and forcibly tried to sting me with unreasonable rates and contract. Luckily I was still free to walk away with my old contract.
I also worked for 3 and was there when the company was sold. The 3 staff were all ultra professional, the Vodaphone staff were inept and constantly in trouble for being unprofessional. The factory was split down the middle along with the 3rd party which was Aust Post.
@@BarzulRei Vodaphone actually wanted 3's network and all the joined parties that made up that side of the company for themselves since theirs was so poor. When they ended the company, everyone that made up the network was no longer held in place and all parties walked away leaving nothing behind.
I believe it was a serious espionage and sabotage attempt by Vodaphone, some of those high ups were just so ridiculously incompetent that it was staggering. Seriously it truly is impossible to be that brain dead and inept. The things I saw and witnessed.
Below the knee board shorts are still king. Sure the above knee ones exist, but below the knee is #1, at least here in WA.
I still have both the mats and the fuse box with porcelain fuses with replacable wire.
Ergon has added main fuse/throwout switch.😅😅
Lovin' the VL Calais flag on the wall! We had one in the 90s, still regret selling it. Most iconic Calais of all the commodore car models.
Usually bread rolls are used, butter the roll crush the chips in the pack and pour on bread roll.😊
Our power board with fuses was replaced two years ago.
I always lost the spare fuse wire and had to rush to Bunnings to buy more and then get a son-in-law to repair the blown fuse😊
OMG I still have that doormat 😂 Those things just never die!
Biggest selling items for morning recess at my high school's canteen was a buttered empty hotdog roll and either a small packet of Twisties, or a sausage roll with tomato sauce. Either way, the second item ended up in the roll to be consumed with gusto on a cold day.
As for the map of Tasmania being drawn freehand, a "Map of Tassie" is an expression for a lady's pubic hair, with Tasmania being vaguely triangular in shape. I have a friend who teaches 'English as a second language' to migrants. The last class in the course of 12 lessons is the 'Swear Words' class (with potluck feast). The students apparently love this class, but the explanation of "Map of Tassie" has the students in fits.
Austar was a satellite dish TV service that was popular in NSW in the early 2000's. I'm from Melbourne, but my ex-wife was from Alstonville near Byron Bay. Her folks had Austar with the dodgy hacked sim card that gave you access to all the channels, including the PRAWN channels, but they'd put the genuine one back in when we came to stay so my six-year old couldn't find the PRAWN when he was looking for Nickelodeon.
Channel 31 was a public access channel run out of RMIT's City Campus (my Alma Mater). It still exists. Very much a forerunner of CZcams, because the bloke who ran our local Nursery (Garden shop) had a show called Vasili's Garden on 31. He had a catch cry "MARESI!!!" It became very popular. I'd see Vasili and his crew out doing landscaping on local houses and every car would yell "MARESI!" at him when they passed, and the poor bloke would be waving at them all and couldn't get any work done.
The foot scraper mat was a trip. The other related product was a suede sandal with rivets called "Tredz" because it had old car tyres for a sole. Surfers and hippie types would wear Tredz back in the 70's when I was a kid. As tyre compound was not great in the 70's, and they were made from worn out recycled tyres, the things had bugger-all grip and if it rained, you were on your arse.
Pakenham is pronounced Packin-um. The locals call it Packo or at least did 35 years ago. This is not to be confused with Pascoe Vale, where I grew up, and is also called Packo. Avalon beach is eerie. It's surrounded by windy, kind of marshy wetlands. No trees, no one really goes there much. You can still hear the highway, but you feel like you are in a wasteland, miles from anywhere.
SAUSAGE ROLL ON A ROLL.
@@davidbarrett8058 King oath, mate. Tonnes of sauce. I still did not get fat until over 45. Loved me a chicken twisties roll. I never could afford the sausage roll in the bread roll. Never had one. Instead my Dad bought me an old Morris Minor Panel van and I drove it for years after we restored it.
I remember watching Vasili's garden in the afternoon after school, on channel 44 in SA.
"You can still hear the highway, but you feel like you are in a wasteland, miles from anywhere." Are you sure you were not in Canberra?
Yep. Sausage roll on a buttered bun, or cheese twisties. @@davidbarrett8058
What I remember most about those door mats is always tripping over them because they curled up. I can't remember how many times I either face planted the screen door or the floor, but I still do have 3 of them. Safely tucked away in a box in the garage.
I remember as a kid, of a fuse blew, I'd have to turn the mains off, take out the big ceramic fuse, unwind the burnt out fuse wire and replace with new fuse wire. Fuses used to blow a fair bit back then.
Can't smoke in any enclosed space except your own house or other smokers houses.
Not allowed to smoke in your own car if there is a child in it with you.
Can't smoke in many outdoor public spaces when signposted.
Austar was a satellite system same as cable tv in the US. We also had Galaxy at the time back in the '90s. Other than satellite TV, your only other option was FTA.
The area between Melbourne and Geelong was not a very popular living segement due to being an ancient lava flow plain, dry, poor soils very rocky, wind swept, and most beaches over a large part of that section of Port Philip Bay are rather muddy flats. The Werribee area also had Melbournes largest sewage processing plant, with windblown odour issues. The land remained more a farming of livestock use, sheep, goats, some cows and limited grain crop planting. Compared to the eastern side of the bay with excellent soils infact until modern time much started as market garden and farming, the eastern side also has best beaches had many creeks and forested areas and more rolling not so flat terrain.
In modern times, there is by necessity of Melbourne population growth, maybe soon more than Sydney, the western sude has many community developments taking place from both Melbourne and Geelong ends. Much though is still the poorer cheaper places. Most homes must truck in good soil to establish nice gardens and lawns.
In reality that lack of development is now becoming distant past, though there is still plenty open grassy, roccky flat land remaining.
Also those western regions have a greater snake problem than the eastern areas, which being longer heavily populsted maybe have eliminated most of the snakes. In my south-easter area, we have had no snake issues for several decades. Yes they exist but very rare. Some western side places have significant Tiger Snake problems.
I dont know how old you are but back in the old days we used to say when we were in trouble that im in more shit than a werribee duck 🤣
@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb not ever heard that, though I have lived in Melbourne since 1960 in south eastern region. But that western side remained largely unknown, with St Albans the only place a college friend lived. Otherwise it was only transit to ocean beaches Great Ocean Road, or once working occasional Ford Geelong and You Yangs Proving Ground. The rest of that "vacant" region remained purely a transit zone of no interest, in fact mind numbingly boring.
@@BarbaraMacDonald-bq1lb still say it!
@@helmuthschultes9243 same born 60 and I'm from North Eastern Victoria, ned Kelly country but had relatives down Apollo Bay and Queenscliff and kings wood and now I'm living in Adelaide and the have a waste farm called boilivour so I now say I more shit than a boilivour duck and no one knows what I'm talking about 🤣
Yep first thing I thought of was no one lives there due to the shit farm, and even if they did only thing out that way is rocks wogs and thistles
We inherited my great grandmother's house, it had those fuse boxes with valves, some pull cord lightswitches and dodgy powerpoints! Anything electrical was a no go zone, if dad wasn't home and a fuse blew, we pulled out the candies and waited until he got home! I remember my mother having one of those mats for cleaning her garden shoes, I think she liked the soft feel and colours - it was more like it was an extra step for kids! 😂 Rage is still on ABC so much nostalgia! 🤗
Board shorts were originally a protective layer between skin and abrasive surface of a surfboard.
Then non-surfers started wearing them.
Shorter board shorts are probably not as useful but the surface of the boards is probably less scratchy now.
Haha, one of those mats is outside. They are still the biz for grass & stuff to fall through or scraping mud.
No, we do not need another sprawling metro area gobbling up Geelong. Nup, please no. Nature, Ian.
Oh, that the [cruddy] electrical board is circa 19060-80s, it uses rated ceramic fuses & as kids we'd replace blown "fuse wires" (google it!) Older boards have a bakelite cylinder with a horizontally spinning, disc running the analog meter. =))
Our hose was built in 1890 and we only replaced the 'fuse' box when we put on solar pannels last year. The electrician was excited because he had never seen an old style fuse box, yet alone one still in use. We still don't use any type of 'pay' TV, I still like DVD's. Only people in the big cities had lots of channels.
I still use two of those door mats. They are practically indestructable. Best used as a two mat system, use first then a bristle one.
10:47 We still have one of those LMAO.
It's the door mat that never wears out.
Sure it doesn't look great, but it works.
The little pizza "chair" went away because it was cheaper to make the box taller to clear the pizza.
I still have wire fuzes on my house, plenty of older homes do.
Auststar was the first satellite TV company. Cable and sat have never really been big in OZ.
Recycled car tyre mats were at every back door.
The plates aren't demerit points, that would be either an arrest or a court summons.
The electrical fuse board pre about 1970 used ceramic plug in fuse holders to the power board. You would screw in a little length of fuse wire, commonly sold at even supermarkets up to the last ten years or so. Wires of different gauges would melt, or fuse, if they carried more than their rated amp rating and so break the circuit and protect house wiring from dangerous short circuit or overload currents. Usually 10 and 15 amp rating with some 8 amp. Surprising how most people got the hang of putting new fuse wire in and understanding why it blew. Usually from too many high current appliances plugged into a circuit. Mostly ok, but some people were a risk with how they did that task incorrectly.
These ceramic and wire fuses replaced by circuit breakers like a switch.
Some old existing fuses still around , but by law electricians cannot repair them but only replace by newer safer designs.
I still remember these in early 80s in Melbourne suburbs
@@monkemagic9726yes my old 50s built house still mostly had them when I sold it in 2016. A legacy system.
But I had a feeling new installations of ceramic fuses stopped around 1970.
Maybe and electrician could be definitive about the dates.
Yes we used to replace the broken fuse wire with a new piece cut from a spool at home.
And could double up the wire for those pesky circuits lol 😂
I'm 64. My tyre floor mat is now at least 40 years old. LOL
Seeing that many round 50 cent coins was a flashback. Now they are worth a fair chunk of money.
my house is 50 yr old and still has those ceramic fuses.
Avalon beach always looked 'strange and eerie' because the buildings looked very similar, sort of equally spaced and frozen in an older time. In fact, this place was odd looking enough to be used in the original Mad Max movie.
Sanga = Aussie slang for sandwich 😊 Some of this stuff, e.g. Austar, is only 20-25 years old, which is not remotely old enough to be nostalgic for those of us in our 50s 😅
Yer I remember having galaxy in Perth in the early 90s. Nic at night etc 😅
My mum still has one of those doormats I think they’re recycled tyres.
We don’t have the 1 and 2 cent pieces anymore. They went out of circulation in the ‘90’s maybe (?) and got melted down to make the bronze medals for the Sydney Olympics
In the picture there was a silver 50 cent coin from 1960"s. Round and was in circulation for one year. The price of silver increased so much that year that it cost more to make than 50 cents. It was replaced by the 12 sided monster that we still use today.
The 1 cent was very interesting because it had a picture of the small possum.
My brother still broadcasts on Channel 31, he does the local footy show. It is a community channel
I remember having one of those plastic maps of Australia at school and I also remember having to learn how to attach fuse wire when a fuse blew as I lived by myself! We have “free to air television” which if you can’t afford or just don’t want Foxtel etc is perfectly acceptable tv. I had one of those mats until 5 years ago when I moved. Thanks for the memories!!
The 1c & 2c coins have been gone since the early to mid 80s & the round 50c contained about about 70c in value of silver, some people melted them down to make a profit, then the government changed the mix & made them 12 sided.
1984 was the last of 1c and 2c
We had one of those rubber door mats in UK in the 1960s but it was a bit different to the one shown. The short strips of rubber were kind of hinged at their ends so the mat could be rolled up.
It use to be called a chip bunty. You can do it with hot chips too. I like it as a roll, and just plain potato chips, you can have it with peanut butter, or vegemite. I like the potato straws, they were good with it. No toasting, you have it with a fresh bread roll, small bit of vege, or vege dege, butter and chips on the top. Its yummy, we put all sorts of things on sangas or sandwiches.Things peopel wouldn't even think off. The twistie one is good, kids have been doing this for decades.
chip butty, not bunty.
Chip butty was with HOT chips from the fish shop
What's vege dege?
Bunty 😅
11:10 They were a Doormat. Everyone had one in the 70s, 80s, 90s
Hi Ian,
You're right that you cannot smoke anywhere in public indoors in Australia. I travelled to the U.S. about 6 months ago. Part of the trip entailed Las Vegas, you couldn't smoke in the hotel lobby, but I was shocked to see that all the big casinos allowed you to smoke once you were on the gambling floor. You could smoke right there at the tables.
Still have Battledome!!!! Was a Hasbro release. Commercial was from the US. Sort of like a 4 player pinball. Great game
Channel 31 was a Community Channel😊
Rage is ABC Music Channel😊
Door Mat Ian😊
foxtel/austar is pay tv, similar to 'cable' in the USA.
free to air TV here is actually pretty decent.
it tended to be called foxtel in large cities, i think it was called austar when it was delivered by sattalite, for example, down here in tassie, NOBODY had foxtel, but a bunch of people had austar. the house I own now still has an austar 'dish' on the roof (not really a dish, sort of a hybrid between an arial and a dish).
as far as i know austar no longer exists.
the 'box' is just a tuner/decoder for the digital signal. you put a card in it to prove you are a paid subscriber, the 'gold card' was a hacked card with free access to everything.
I never really understood why people paid so much money for it when 90% of it was constant reruns and seemed to have just as much ads as the free to air TV.
My Dad still has one of those Austar Box's still been used today through Foxtel.
Chip sanga yes and twisties vegemite goes good too my school
Lunch many years ago a buttered roll packet of twisties
3:14 the plastic’l ‘table’ was to stop the box squishing the pizza.
I thought they still had these
I'm nominating you for honoury Aussie this Australia Day Honours Awards.
Seppos are not known for their curiosity of other countries so big ups to you :)
The Door mats made from tyres we had at home in the 70`s i had forgotten about till seeing it now
Ive got one of those rubber mats at my front door. Theyre bought at Bunnings.
I remember the floor mats from the middle sixties. And there's no demerit points for two number plates, just a trip to the police station.
make sure its white bread, the more processed the better (it matches the chips). If you use hot chips, then put lots of butter in too. If using the packet crisps/chips, use something strong like salt and vinegar, and really put a lot in there, and don't use butter. They are the sort of thing you eat when you're a kid or teen and you're really hungry.
Smiths BBQ chips on fresh white bread with generous thickness of butter plastered on it. Yummo! I still do it to this day occasionally. Healthy? Nah, but who gives a 💩
Last pic it's just farm land between Melbourne and Geelong back in the day more built up now but still some farms there
Nuway mats, my mother’s first job was as a Secretary there. The change in construction of tyres rather thwarted the production of their mats.
Ah mate, you're bringing back a lot of old memories for this old Aussie, I remember all these things, some with affection, and some I'm glad we got rid of.
one & 2 cent coins are still legal tender in Aus. but are not in circulation When you pay for your shopping the price is either rounded up or down. eg if you owe 2 cents its down, if you owe 3 cents its up to the nearest 5 cents wihch coin is still in circulation
By the time I was a teenager we had 4 channels in Oz. It was enough, because when no good shows were on, we'd be outside playing.
Anyone see the problem today?
My brother said he was at the channel 31 studio and he laughed at how dodgy that fish cam setup was... it was literally a chair with a camera sitting on it and a cardboard box around the fishtank...😂😂
In a snapshot. Tasmania was connected to mainland Australia by a land bridge for thousands of years. This allowed the Aboriginal peoples who lived in these regions to travel back and forth. About 12,000 years ago, sea levels rose and separated Tasmania from the Australian mainland
What a shame they weren't all on it when it broke off... 😂
There’d still be houses around with the old style wire fuses.
Who remembers sunnyboys and glugs. Couldn’t get through summer without them.
Australia map we had those at school when I was a kid and there was also a separate one for Tasmania. They weren't to scale though, the Tasmania one was about the same size as the mainland Australia one but as a result showed much greater detail. They were different colours, one a dark purple and the other yellow but can't remember which was which, too long ago now.
Switchboard that's the very old way of doing it and pre-dates modern modularised switchboards. They'd be absolutely non-compliant and thus illegal to install today, and have been for decades now, but are permitted to remain in use if already installed. For residential use they were still around into the 1980's.
I remember having Austar when I lived in Adelaide in my early 20's. One of the first cable companies in Australia Saturday nights were my favourite. Nick At Night had some pretty awesome sci-fi shows.
We called those chip-buttis. And yes the bread should be buttered! It's how to make one packet of chips and some thin sliced bread into a budget meal/treat for four kids.
I have one of them mats by .my front door..they are made from tyres.. they definitely hooked the prickles out of your Thongs n theyd fall in between the gaps..they were around way b4 the 90s. Im guessing 60s/70s
Yeah definitely way before 90s
I have one of those stencils of Australia from way back (the 1980s). The pizza thing, many pizza shops still use them. I don't see Pizza Huts about any more though. I found this video amusing as four of the things in this video I still have at home (i sometimes joke that because of my disability and mostly bedridden state it often feels like time has stopped for me).
I can remember going to the cinemas in the 1970's and the seats had integrated ashtrays for smokers.
Was that in Australia? Thought Australia never had those in the last sixty years that I remember. In Victoria anyway
Or are you describing the UK or was it a state thing ?
Back In high school every few day for lunch we would go to the tuckshop (school cafateria) Order bread with butter on it and a pack of chips, I think why they went out was the staff got made at so many using up all the bread and butter without actual sandwiches, It was a type of door matt used were yes you wiped for shoe to try and get rid of some of the grit its why it had spaces, Old Ceramitc fused just turn off main power pulled out the fuse then replaces the wire and put it back in.
Kyle Sandilands is a very popular radio talk show host with his long time on air co-host Jackie O, they have been a bit controversial at times on air, and at one time he had a television show trial by kyle where he did his own version of a Judge Judy type show.
Ag yes the old ceramic fuses. My Parents had these until about 10yrs ago. You'd have a draw fulll of fuse wire in the shed if a fuse blew.
Remember the "Smoking" section on Jets ?
I still have a couple of those mats at the doors.
I recently bought one of those doormats! I had one of those Australia stencils in school. I was crap at drawing Tassie though.
I forgot about those plastic maps. We used to use them in our schoolbooks 50 years ago. I wonder if you can still get them. Kids probably don’t draw maps anymore.
I remember getting the tv guide out of Saturday paper that was delivered. We would read under tv show to find out what would happen that week. Lol.
It's just an outdoor rubber mat. They came in different types. I have a steel wire one and there are some that are made of a prickly rope like material. They were the types you put out the back to clean off dirt before entering the home. They were less used at the front door as they usually have a different type to welcome visitors there.
We never had those door Matts but i think i saw them at others houses as a kid. Most houses still have door matts buy they are usually made from other materials sometimes carpet, with a rubber underside.
Often they are called a welcome matt. And have welcome written in it and some kind of pattern lol.
wired fuses were certainly in the 60's and 70's, I don't know when breakers became required. But I remember buying fuse wire, to fix the fuses when the blow.
Older houses still have fuse boxes like, it can be expensive to update the old wiring could be 10,000 dollars or more
Rage is the ABC TV overnight continuous music broadcast. Lots of classic music clips on CZcams will have the Rage stamp in the corner. A go to source for music focused CZcamsrs, especially Australian ones.
I can't remember the fish channel but I can tell you about Rage so Rage is basically a top 40 show but it also shows lesser known songs as well. Haven't watched it in years but I understand it hasn't changed.
I remember those door mats. They were terrible my Aunt had one and her dog got her paw caught in it it was promptly replaced by a welcome mat instead. As for the big fuse boxes like that I remember seeing one on a older home in the town I grew up in. My house had a newer model but it still had fuses you had to re wire yourself but these days most places just have fuses that you simply replace without needing to replace the wire. I remember the days when you could give someone your address and tell them if you weren't home to let themselves in. These days houses are locked up like Fort Knox.
As for the little three pronged things in the pizza boxes. I know neither Dominoes or Pizza Hut have them but I do know of two places that have them one is called Wiseguise and the other is called the Pizza Pub both are here in Tasmania (As seen on the occasional map)
Lastly that Ute dodgy, very dodgy I think perhaps there may be some criminal goings on happening there!
You Yang's Ford Proving Grounds, reserves, sanctuaries, motor raceway, a major airport where bi-annual air shows were performed and one of the world's largest sewerage treatment works exist in a state of the art natural wetlands that changes it to almost pure drinking water, naturally and sustainably - that's what's in-between Melbourne and Geelong, plus many other things.
External door mats for removing the big lumps stuck to your shoes / feet. Yes they are still available. Bunnings is like Home depot.
Totally remember those tyre door mats. I think they were cheap. We had them back in the 70s & 80s.