What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[GreyCrow]

Like revisiting a place you remember from your childhood as being big, only to find it's quite small.

When your back goes out trying to drink from the water fountains

 

[the_interloper]

I remember putting in 5.50 each with 3 mates to get a slab of Carlton Draught once in the mid 90s

 

[FRUMPY]

I remember my dad and uncle taking handful of slabs each down to the caravan park over christmas as the local bottle shops charged a lot more than they did back in suburban melbourne.

These days all of them are owned by the same corporations so prices are the same wherever you go.

 

[Syd]

6:00am weekdays were better for a start...

 

[Pistol Night]

6:00am weekdays were better for a start...

I wonder what ratio of people who watched actually did the aerobics

 

[Syd]

I wonder what ratio of people who watched actually did the aerobics

I often did a workout of sorts watching it....

 

[Bestbird]

I can remember these badboys at the local deli.

 

[Billy ray]

Fancy drink bottles

 

[Pistol Night]

 

[Roobs321]

On shapes, they definitely aren't as good as they once were, less emphasis on 'flavour you can see', especially Nacho Cheese which was my go-to since that came in but a pale imitation nowadays. Red Rock Deli chips are similar, when they initially became a sensation it was very much 'flavour you can see'. A lot of biscuits still on the shelves have devolved too.

I remember being crazy for Tomato Salsa shapes and then the In a Biskit Nacho in the late 90s. They didn't last long though sadly.

 

[Roobs321]

Remember that surreal moment as a kid on an interstate holiday or something when you found out some states do their gingernut biscuits and creaming soda differently. I gave my first brown cream soda the side-eye but was quickly converted.

 

[Pistol Night]

Remember that surreal moment as a kid on an interstate holiday or something when you found out some states do their gingernut biscuits and creaming soda differently. I gave my first brown cream soda the side-eye but was quickly converted.

Remember when Schweppes brought on clear cola for a bit? I was blown away as a 10yo

 

[craigos]

6:00am weekdays were better for a start...

And now we have 101 cooking shows where slobs can find new ways to mix fat with sugar and then wonder why they can't lose wait.

 

[Gough]

And now we have 101 cooking shows where slobs can find new ways to mix fat with sugar and then wonder why they can't lose wait.

I've always had a theory that the amount of cooking you actually do is inversely proportional to the amount of cooking shows you watch.

 

[Lets Roar like '44]

dog on the tuckerbox - took our kids and we all said 'is that it?'

We came back from Bathurst and I was pretty pumped to show the kids, my memory had it as something pretty special so you know was keen to see it. After pulling off to find it, we had the same sort of “is that it?”, didn’t even stop the car, just turned around and back on the highway we went.

 

[FRUMPY]

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Still around and kids still love them

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[rank and file]

Red Dog statue shits on tuckerbox dog.

 

[footyfan1978]

Remember that surreal moment as a kid on an interstate holiday or something when you found out some states do their gingernut biscuits and creaming soda differently. I gave my first brown cream soda the side-eye but was quickly converted.

I was shocked as a kid when we went to
Adelaide for holidays and they had no Milk Bars.
A few decades later and we finally almost there ourselves.

 

[Macca19]

I still long for Schweppes Cola

 

[peternorth]

Recording songs off the radio.
Dubbing cassette tapes

 

[MatthewB]

I was shocked as a kid when we went to
Adelaide for holidays and they had no Milk Bars.
A few decades later and we finally almost there ourselves.

We had milk bars, we just called them deli's

 

[MatthewB]

Recording songs off the radio.
Dubbing cassette tapes

I was stoked when i got a twin deck with a pause button and stereo speakers after having one with just one speaker and no pause button, the recordings didn't end so abruptly

 

[Xtreme]

80s/90s

Going to the milkbar and playing on a SF2 CE machine inside or just outside the front door.

Friday night visits to the videoshop and picking out 5-7 weekly movies, or a 3-4-7 night Nintendo or Sega game hire. Also being able to play games in most video shops (saw a lot in different stores over the years Final Fight, Chase HQ, SF 2, TMNT, Daytona!!, T2 Pinball).

Since my post is game themed, the 90s was great for arcade game places like Time Zone (so much better than the 90% of prize machines that take up floor space today). Had quite a few Time Zone birthday parties - was amusing the amount of hangers on I had at school.... that would ditch me days later or once discovered they weren't invited would ditch me beforehand.

My fav Time Zone place was multi level, small yet large to me. Knox was massive!

 

[Billy ray]

I still long for Schweppes Cola

And schweppes clear cola

 

[Gough]

80s/90s

Going to the milkbar and playing on a SF2 CE machine inside or just outside the front door.

Friday night visits to the videoshop and picking out 5-7 weekly movies, or a 3-4-7 night Nintendo or Sega game hire. Also being able to play games in most video shops (saw a lot in different stores over the years Final Fight, Chase HQ, SF 2, TMNT, Daytona!!, T2 Pinball).

Since my post is game themed, the 90s was great for arcade game places like Time Zone (so much better than the 90% of prize machines that take up floor space today). Had quite a few Time Zone birthday parties - was amusing the amount of hangers on I had at school.... that would ditch me days later or once discovered they weren't invited would ditch me beforehand.

My fav Time Zone place was multi level, small yet large to me. Knox was massive!

Addam's Family pinball!!!