You don't often see these nowadays, but back in the day, a Jack-in-the-Box could be found in many kids toy boxes.
Did you ever have one?
Mcdonalds cookies
'80's - '90's Kids will remember these 'Mcdonalds cookies'. Plain and simple but it was a cookie so we loved them! Do you remember them well?
Calculator Words
Remember doing this?
When calculators were first introduced to schools, we all felt very cool to have such a new invention, but it wasn’t long before the clever kids worked out that if you turned them up the other way, you could actually write some words on them!
Twinkle girls paper
Did you ever read the Twinkle girls paper?
These ones are from the 1970's but I am sure they were available earlier than this. What years did you read them?
Glory Box
Did you ever have a Glory Box to store things for when you got married?
Some were plain wood like this, and others were camphor wood chests. Some people even set aside a “Bottom Drawer”.
Up until the 60s & 70’s it was very common to collect linen and kitchen utensils for your Glory Box, in preparation of getting married. That was back in the day when the Irish Linen man, or the Dromorne Linen man would call and sell you linen items which you could pay off, to add to your Glory Box.
The Kiwi Classic, Jet Planes.
Whats your favourite colour?
Pull Tabs
Remember when cans had Pull Tabs? Did you ever sand on one? OUCH!
Instead of disposing of their pull tabs responsibly, many folks simply discarded them on the ground before chugging away. Walking barefoot on the beach in the 1960s and ’70s was often something of an obstacle course; those tabs weren’t always immediately visible, but they were razor-sharp, and savvy sunbathers included Band-Aids in their picnic baskets for the inevitable sliced toe.
Raro Pineapple Juice 1969
Do you remember Raro in a can?
Cool, refreshing, delicious!
From the Cook Islands for your drinking pleasure...
PERK UP! with Raro pineapple juice
Throw away your clothes line!
Throw away your clothes line! Dry clothes faster, safer, easier with a Norge Automatic Tumble-Dryer. 1950s
Drying washing was no longer dependent on sun and wind once tumble dryers were available. Freeing household from the tyranny of the weather and time of day was one of the most significant results of new technology. Heating and lighting homes at the flick of a switch, ended routines around lighting candles, filling lamps, collecting wood, buying coal, and cleaning up after them. Description via teara
Ref: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1955-01. Alexander Turnbull
New Zealand TV guide June 3, 1968
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
Description from site:
Rare old New Zealand TV guide,,these were issued for short time only between 1966 to 1969....Magazine front cover measures 8 inches x 5 & 1/2 inches.
June 3, 1968 includes 47 pages complete. Front cover Billy Mummy, Eliza Keil colour pin-up with biography. features articles & pics on.. Best ever Punch-up Billy Cornelius and John Collin Violet Carson 4 page spread with pics,BBC-TV Black & White Minstrel Show musical spectacular 2 page spread with pics, Jack Collins Occasional Wife,Disney Canine Star Terrier Bobby 2 page spread & pics,Mogal Ray Barrett philippa Gail Robert Hardy Edwina Carroll, Buffy Sainte-Marie 2 page spread & pics using real Indians as cast members...New Faces NZ music show, Dandy Nichols, Onscreen Marriages article Don Adams Barbar Feldon / Babara Parkins & Ryan O'Neal etc 3 page spread & pics, Jack Nicklaus Arnold Palmer Gary Player 54 hole match at St Andrews, Eric Porter in Cyrano de Bergerac, Judy Carne, Ruta Lee, Alejandro Rey, Barbara Eden Michael Ansara, Sara Harrison girl from U.N.C.L.E., Paula Prentiss Dick Benjamin, Gary Collins Mary Ann Mobley, Rolling Stones 1 page write-up with 4 small pics Mick Jagger Bill Wyman Keith Richards Brian Jones...Ed Nelson & family portrait.
Sodastream
I'm sure most 70s - 80s kids can tell you what this is.
1980s Tiptop poster
WOW! a 55c Trumpet. Do you recall them being this cheap? What was your go to indulgence?
