REMEMBER THESE? Part 2

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More memories of yesteryear, mostly from when we were kids, courtesy of Steve M, with comments added by myself.

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School days, school days

Dear old golden rule days

Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic

Taught to the tune of the hickory stick

Actually, we didn’t have hickory sticks but we did have getting the cane, up to 6 whacks (called “cuts”) on the palms of your hands, boys only. Did me no harm, though.

We didn’t have leather satchels for school when I was a kid, we had Globite school ports, as they were called.

These days the kids have backpacks and some of the ones I have seen the kids carrying are huge, can’t be good for them . . .

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Lolly cigarettes. How non PC that looks today.

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Another non PC item, this time from the playground.

Along with high slippery dips, climbing rocket ships, monkey bars, spinning wheels, Roman rings, tetter totters and the like, it is a wonder that any of us kids survived at all.

Here’s another pic of an old spinning swing in Lidcombe in 1943.

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Sliding number puzzles required sliding the numbers until they were in sequential order. I always found it too frustrating to spend time on, along with Rubik’s cubes, crossword puzzles and mathematical games. Still do.

The oldest type of sliding puzzle is the fifteen puzzle, invented by Noyes Chapman in 1880. Chapman's invention initiated a puzzle craze in the early 1880s. From the 1950s through the 1980s sliding puzzles employing letters to form words were very popular.

An alternative puzzle

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My mother had one of these on the kitchen counter, the 1950’s Bakelite radio from the days before television in Australia. It came to Oz in September 1956 but it took some years before people could afford to get them.

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Kids still play hopscotch, don’t they?

Hopscotch dates from c.1200 to 600–500 BCE from the prehistory days of India, it is also listed among the games prohibited by Buddha. An ancient form of hopscotch was played by Roman children and soldiers, but the first recorded references to the game in the English-speaking world date to the late seventeenth century, usually under the name "scotch-hop" or "scotch-hopper(s)".

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Cheap, easy to make (just push the wings and tail fins in) and you had a glider that occupied you for hours.

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We used the packets (found on the streets) to make armbands. Not many people smoked this brand.

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