Dick Smith Products
We see so many Australian companies disappear lately, like the most recent being Holden. Dick Smith closed down the food business a while back now,… Read More »Dick Smith Products
Groceries
Cleaning Products
“A little dab’ll do ya”, “Your soaking in it”, “Brusha Brusha Busha”, dittys and slogans that sell cleaning products. “Whiter than White”, “Cleaner than Clean”… Read More »Cleaning Products
Vintage Cereal & Packs
Becoming more increasingly popular in the late 1990’s is the collection of vintage cereal packets, rare cereal toys are also very desirable. The best collection… Read More »Vintage Cereal & Packs
Dickheads Matches
It was a brave marketing on behalf of Dick Smith to not only call these matches Dickheads, but to place them in direct competition to… Read More »Dickheads Matches
Vintage Medicinal
Remember Mechcurichrome ? The bright red or purple stuff applied to cuts as a kid to stop infection? As it contained mercury you can imagine… Read More »Vintage Medicinal
Vintage Tin Cans
In the small grocery section of the Milk Bar you often found canned food, especially fruit n vegetables. SPC, IXL, Cottees, Tom Piper, Edgells, etc… Read More »Vintage Tin Cans
Old Grocery Packing Boxes
Even today groceries still come in cardboard packaging for transit and storage. Here’s a few I kept of a by gone era, pre decimal, these… Read More »Old Grocery Packing Boxes
Uncle Sam Deodorant
You Need Uncle Sam in the Stars n Stripes Can It’s the Perfect Connection for Fellas & Girls Cause Under your Arm Is the Top… Read More »Uncle Sam Deodorant
Federal Matches
Once upon a time you used to see these everywhere, but since the invention of the humble lighter, they have slowly, but not completely, become… Read More »Federal Matches
Old Poisons & Insecticides.
You know we lived dangerously back in the day. The pictured bottle of insect repellent branded Kakoda is a favourite of mine for some reason.… Read More »Old Poisons & Insecticides.
Reckitt’s Blue Bag
Most of us here in Australia & NZ remember our mothers wetting a blue bag and placing it on a bee or mosquito sting, apparently… Read More »Reckitt’s Blue Bag
Old Laundry Detergents
Fab, Omo, Rinso, Spree, were around in the 60’s, we’ve used one or all of them for years to clean our clothes. Even the local… Read More »Old Laundry Detergents
Brown Paper Grocery Bag
STORY BOUT AN OLD BAG!…… Wow, it’s been many years since I placed this amongst my stuff and re-discovered it just today and thought what… Read More »Brown Paper Grocery Bag
Supermarket Shopping
Supermarkets were introduced to Australia in Balwyn Vic in 1960, and over that 50 years we have seen many changes. Coles & Woolworths now own… Read More »Supermarket Shopping
Old IXL Shop Display Cans
These pictured cans are good example of old shop display tins as these are sealed, with no contents. Some merchants in a local milk bar… Read More »Old IXL Shop Display Cans
Brockhoff’s Biscuits
Back in the 70’s my mother worked at the Brockhoff’s factory in Burwood Melbourne Victoria. She sustained an injury from working in the factory and… Read More »Brockhoff’s Biscuits
Arnotts Clown Tin
Phreaky looking clown huh? I met a lady at a garage sale and she asked me if I would be interested in buying some old… Read More »Arnotts Clown Tin