School Fete, 1966
This is a photo of a photo taken in 1966 – my sister Carol and the elder of my four brothers – at the lucky dip, Gray Street State School fete, Hamilton, Victoria. Carol was a year younger than myself. Both so young and innocent.
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Christine R 
Those were the days, hope they had a good prezzy, I never went for Lucky Dips, rather spend my money of the lollies, remember the ones in the paper patty’s that always left little bits of paper on the toffee, yum
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I’d be tempted Sue, when I saw stuff other kids got. It was probably a small bag of lollies and a little toy.
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C’est la vie. L’innocence ne reste jamais, malheureusement … 🙂
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Plus la pitié
[compliments of Google translate) 😀 😀 😀
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Happily I understand, in spite of Google. [grin]
Just thought you could use some quick translating work there …
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The translation didn’t look quite right – ‘more’s the pity’ didn’t tranpose well. I got the gist of your words, but had to check of course. I might have got As in French but that was decades ago!
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Tell me about it …
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How lucky you are to have a photo of the lucky dip. I like the expression on the face of the lucky dip controller. Lucky dips must have been similar all over Australia.
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Knowing Carol she probably said something amusing. She was a very confident girl. In 1966 she rode horses belonging to neighbour and through that family joined a marching band. She was really upset when we moved to the other side of town and she had to give both up.
Thanks for dropping by Irene.
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🙂
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Hi Christine, I’m curious – What was the occasion for the lucky dips in the pic? Are lucky dips still popular in Australia?
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Hi Raroto, nearly all schools have an annual fun raising fete (fair). You pay your money and reach in and grab your ‘lucky dip’ and see what surprise you get. As in ‘dipping’ in your hand and getting ‘lucky’ with one of the better treats. I suppose they are still popular. There would be separate dips for boys and girls — or Jack and Jills as this one shows. Just googled, and yes, lucky dips are still popular as a school fund-raiser.
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Nice! It’s something like the lucky draws we have here except in yours, everyone gets to ‘win’ something. I don’t have much luck when it comes to lottery or lucky draws. The only thing I’ve won was a hairdryer! But this was during one of the office functions, not a school fundraiser. During my schooling days, we normally hold food fair and jumble sale. The school sold cookies and cakes that were freshly baked by us students in our Home Science kitchen. Fun times!
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I used to make icing sugar mice to sell at the fete on the cake stalls, I wasn’t much for sponge cake baking. Lotteries – I once won a $100 vocuher at Coles a long time ago. Best win was $1000 voucher to be spent over a selection of stores. That was great fun and a surprise to win. Free entry during Christmas shopping at a participating store. 😀
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I’m sorry we never had Lucky Dips! We had/have Grab Bags, which probably is the same. What a fun memory and photo.
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Sounds like the same thing Kayti. I wasn’t aware of the photo until my sister died. It was on that visit to my mum that I photoed this photo. I was going to crop it before I posted but decided not to. I had to go outside to get good light. My camera has good macro. 😀
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