Monday, 31 May 2010

Alpines




When I was 9, mum and dad brought a car from the Katherine Show for $1500.00 brand new. Its the first brand new car they had ever owned. Its pictured here out the front of the home I lived most of my childhood in. In that car was a cigarette lighter which was a rather new invention. We're talking 1969. Mum used to smoke Alpines and thats all I can remember her ever smoking. Im certain the packet looked like this. The funny thing is she always tasked me with running down stairs to the car to light her smoke if she had run out of matches. I hated it. She probably done me a favor though because Ive always hated the smell of tailor mades, as they used to call them.

1 comment:

The Hill Family..... said...

How times have changed! I remember lighting mum's smokes all the time for her.................