Friday (rather than Saturday) night was always fish and chips night at our place. Even today, that aroma of hot fish and chips with salt and vinegar sets my senses back to those years.
Back before the ‘60s, customers were almost always served by shopkeepers. It was a simpler time, before newfangled ideas such as self-service emerged.
Most of these small businesses were family owned and run. Regular customers were greeted by name, many of whom kept a tab to be paid for next payday. As everybody knew each other, it was a system based on trust. Practically everything that anybody could want was on sale in these shops (and there was no plastic). On the very rare occasion that you couldn’t find what you were looking for, a trip to the city might be required!
Long before chocolate foiled-covered versions, the bunny was a familiar food to many Australians. Wild rabbits, the introduced European species, were plentiful and could be tastily cooked in various ways. Who remembers Mum or Grandma’s rabbit stew?
I remember as a kid, we often ate rabbit, and the rabbit-o used to call on a Friday afternoon selling a pair of bunnies for two bobs!
During the Depression, many Australian families survived on rabbits, and it was not unusual for butchers who sold rabbits to sell as many as 6000 a week.
Even in the 50s and 60s, as kids, we used to set traps or go rabbit shooting and bring home our catch for mum to cook up her favourite rabbit stew
Desert Boots became fashionable in Beatnik culture; they were later adopted by Sixties Mods who wore them as part of smart and casual clothing outfits. The Popularity of the Desert Boot stretched far beyond the working-class youth. Desert Boots continued to the Mod Revival era of the Seventies and Eighties, becoming a true Retro Mod Classic.”
Thanks, Audrey – So, who wore desert boots in the 70s/80s?
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