I remember when ... (Icy Poles were tuppence [2d])

[Rallo]

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Talking 1970s prices. I remember the day there were at the local swimming pool (Caloundra), 4 of us. We needed another 20 cents to get an extra ice block. Went across the road the bottle depot and found a 1 litre softdrink bottle with deposit. on the bikes down to the corner shop at the turn off to Golden Beach, trade in the bottle. Back to the pool, my brother and I had a season pass and could get in, but not our friends. Back over the road, 2 more bottles to get the 40 cents required for them to get in.

Similar experience at local petrol station trading empty bottles for full bottles of coke , the problem for the servo was that that we were trading their empties from out the back of the servo

 

[medhead]

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My mum would have a field day with all of this. Her common saying was "I used to have a can of coke for 20 cents & still get change...."

We used to do a podcast together called "Blast From The Past", subtitled "Back In My Day" & we used to talk about her day, my day & the current day.

Just remember, Pepsi is the choice of the next generation.

Yep, and I was shocked when coke went to 50 cents a can.

However, Coke is the real thing.

 

[Flashback]

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Yep, and I was shocked when coke went to 50 cents a can.

However, Coke is the real thing.

It's a helluva drug!

 

[erkpod]

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When did I become that guy spending almost an hour in the supermarket talking to one of his high school besties?

 

[erkpod]

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However, Coke is the real thing.

I remember after I had glandular fever that I could not handle Coke except with alcohol for months afterwards.

 

[anat0l]

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I remember when I entered uni that the vending machines at our high school had just increased the cost of cans of soft drink to $1.20.

At uni they were already this price at the vending machines, except for one vending machine in our Engineering building. The student society maintained that vending machine which offered only cans of Coke, but at the homely price of $1 apiece.

It's gone now.

 

[amaroo]

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And bring back the Pollywaffle

I love that scene from the caddie shack!

 

[erkpod]

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I remember when I entered uni that the vending machines at our high school had just increased the cost of cans of soft drink to $1.20.

At uni they were already this price at the vending machines, except for one vending machine in our Engineering building. The student society maintained that vending machine which offered only cans of Coke, but at the homely price of $1 apiece.

It's gone now.

At my place of employment today, it's not uncommon to have a vending machine or a fridge in a staff area with cans of drink for between $1 - $1.50.

 

[anat0l]

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At my place of employment today, it's not uncommon to have a vending machine or a fridge in a staff area with cans of drink for between $1 - $1.50.

At the time we still had that vending machine, finding any can drinks for $1 anywhere except for supermarket etc. was near impossible (common price was $1.20, and fuel stations were $1.40).

I suppose the cheap price was somewhat offset by the fact that it was sometimes a bit troublesome (thankfully it was usually that it rejected the money more than it took it and then you had to try and shake the can out). Of course, around exam times or near the end of semester, it was often out of stock; I blame mainly the IT students for poaching the cheap drinks en masse

 

[Mal]

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Aah memories.
The old coke machines that used to sometimes dispense two cans if you knew a special trick.
Pop top cans. (Big fail. Didn't last long).
Glass returnable bottles of soft drinks.
Plastic bottles with black bases.

I'm not too old... But I still have some good memories

 

[erkpod]

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Aah memories.

Pop top cans. (Big fail. Didn't last long).

I'm not too old... But I still have some good memories

The cans with one small hole & one big hole? I never saw the point of them.

 

[anat0l]

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The old coke machines that used to sometimes dispense two cans if you knew a special trick.

People found enough tricks to rig the vending machines. Wasn't unusual to hear a war story of someone who managed to rig the machine so that it kept dispensing (of course, in these instances, inclining the machine at a slight angle was necessary).

Another common trick was "making" currency to fool the machine. This worked until they installed smarter coin recognition mechanisms in the machines.

Now we have vending machines that accept notes and credit cards. Next step: vending machines that will accept Amex.


The IT building had the most vending machines in our part of campus. Two cold drinks machines, one snack machine and one instant coffee vending machine. Even before the full on espresso coffee revolution, the coffee vended by that coffee machine was nothing short of foul.

 

[Pollywaffle]

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The cans with one small hole & one big hole? I never saw the point of them.

We liked them. We worked out how to drink out of them without fully opening the can. You could then drink as much as you liked and put it back in your bag with no spillage. Necessity being the Mother of invention and all that...

 

[jukebox333]

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The cans with one small hole & one big hole? I never saw the point of them.

..because way back then, the cans had real ring pulls - that separated from the can proper.

IIRC the pop tops were an attempt to deal with inevitable litter because of all the lazy buggers who popped the ring pull and ditched it on the ground where they stood.

Nowdays, the captive ring pull gives the best of both worlds - and somewhere to hitch your straw, to boot!

 

[Mal]

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Aah yes. Tear away ring pulls. Forgot about them. Also steel cans... None of this aluminium.

BTW. There are amex accepting coke machines in oz.
Btw2. The machine trick I was talking about was simulatiously pressing two buttons multiple times.

 

[Mal]

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Yep. Press the small button to release the pressure. Press large button to drink out of. Or something like that...

 

[amaroo]

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I remember the days when my Amex card use to pay ATO points

 

[Hvr]

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And this video will help the young'uns understand the change over.

Dollar Bill and Australians Keep The Wheels Of Industry Turning - YouTube


Whilst alive I was very young.

 

[erkpod]

I'm sure many of us remember cash for cans. I remember collecting $1/kg & being really happy with that once. The recyclers was on my walk to/from school.

Next to my primary school used to be an Esso service station (around 45c/l in 1984 for super IIRC) & I remember keeping an eye on both the petrol & the can prices.

 

[Pushka]

Oh yeah. And the health police weren't around so it was ok to wrap chips in newspaper.

Coke and Fanta in glass bottles , milk delivered in glass bottles with cream under the foil lid , bread delivered to your door or a warm finger bun from the back of the bakery truck on school holidays.
Does anyone remember the small chocolates called cobbers?

Fantales are pretty much modern cobblers. I remember half Vienna loaves of bread that were still warm when the baker delivered them. And you'd scoop out the middle bit of fluffy white bread. Bliss.

Every container in SA has a 10c value so the memory lives on.

In comes the dollar and in comes the cents. To replace the pound and the shilling and the pence ....