Vintage shots from days gone by!

Back when a quarter meant something...lol

 

Darling-Check out my sheik new lavender Olds. Oh by the way-I seem to have misplaced my large salad bowl..

 

Yes Noel Hunter Bros. There are some wild stories about the adventures of the employees. Like someone sitting on the box and the can was pulled out from under them while a new one put in.Hopefully nothing happened in between
the changeover. A friend was their accountant and was told by one of the owners about slipping over with a full can on his shoulder. He was covered with the contents of course and was yelling for a neighbor to hose him off.
Fortunately we grew up with septic tanks but my grandmother down at Redcliffe had the "outhouse" we had to use when visiting or on holidays.

 

Whats going on here?
Some sort of drive in "donner bank" ?

 

As the saying goes "it's flat as a shit carters hat",,,

 

^^^^ Try using a dunny at 0*C sometime, that will get your attention.

 

When I was still on the Bomb squad we used to get at least one call a week to remove cases of old dynamite out of barns and sheds after the owners pass away even to this day. And those are HAIRY jobs the nitro leaches into the ground and you have to spend all day getting it out or it deteriorates and can make little threads like spider webs that if they are broken the whole thing can go up with a loudbang LOL.

 

From the movie "Full metal jacket?"

 

^^^^^^ Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.

 

The passengers are Jacqueline Roque and Pablo Picasso, Driver is the owner of the 300SL, Mr. Duncan - Brittish photographer.

 

Life sure seemed more fun:

 

And I thought bicycle polo was rough!

 

"Thats a bunch of BS Imogene-----I don't find any Easter eggs under here"!!!!!!

 

No burnouts in the burnout box!

 

My grandfather passed away this week at 97. Here he is with his Ford panel truck in 1968.

 

I really, really, really shouldn't have said "Hold my beer"

 

I’m surprised that no one recognized this historic picture as being one that was responsible for origination of old phrase: “Shit eating grin”