You know you're nearing 50 in Adelaide, when you remember...

[RJM]

Knowing the words to this ad..."What DOES it take to make a grown man cry? Perhaps if we..."

.

kicked him where it hurts...

"Aww, my knee..."

Told him the Kingswood's been reposessed

(faint voice in background) "sorry mate"

[CK]

...or that his girlfriend's run off with his best mate...

"Bye, Nev!"
"No hard feelings, mate!"
(used to chuckle especially at this bit - if you see a copy of the ad on Youtube or the like, the guy is mouthing along ever so slightly with this part)

- When what was touted as the biggest toy store in the Southern Hemisphere at the time, opened - did anyone get to go to Toytown at Parafield? I always wanted to go, but for Dad, a trip to Parafield was akin to driving to Alice Springs. It was in a massive building not far from the airport, with Humphrey as their logo.

[RJM]

[GWW]

Is that Garry Who from "All Together Now"?

[Brucetiki]

- When what was touted as the biggest toy store in the Southern Hemisphere at the time, opened - did anyone get to go to Toytown at Parafield? I always wanted to go, but for Dad, a trip to Parafield was akin to driving to Alice Springs. It was in a massive building not far from the airport, with Humphrey as their logo.

I remember it vaguely as a kid. It became Mitre 10's distribution centre for years and is now a U-Store-It.

Was also a smaller one on Anzac Highway near Le Cornu.

[gadj1976]

- When what was touted as the biggest toy store in the Southern Hemisphere at the time, opened - did anyone get to go to Toytown at Parafield? I always wanted to go, but for Dad, a trip to Parafield was akin to driving to Alice Springs. It was in a massive building not far from the airport, with Humphrey as their logo.

I remember it vaguely as a kid. It became Mitre 10's distribution centre for years and is now a U-Store-It.

Was also a smaller one on Anzac Highway near Le Cornu.

Yep, I made dad and mum take me to Toytown Parafield to buy "Game & Watch" games with my birthday money. Still got em too!

[Magpiespower]

When what was touted as the biggest toy store in the Southern Hemisphere at the time, opened - did anyone get to go to Toytown at Parafield?

Hell yeah!

Went there all the time. Loved that joint.

Wouldn't buy my Humphrey merch from anywhere else...

[Magpiespower]

When All You Can Eat first started at Pizza Hut, and not having room to buy one of their gingerbread men afterwards. I LOVED those gingerbread men, miss them a lot.

Never really liked the gingerbred men.

Just loved the look of them so I'd always get one anyway.

Reminds me of the Fat Boys...

[CK]

When what was touted as the biggest toy store in the Southern Hemisphere at the time, opened - did anyone get to go to Toytown at Parafield?

Hell yeah!

Went there all the time. Loved that joint.

Wouldn't buy my Humphrey merch from anywhere else...

Always wanted to go there, but such a journey wasn't in Dad's reckoning, unfortunately.

- The "AD Football Instant Replay", on 5AD, when after a goal, they would immediately replay the passage of play.

- Going to Mount Lofty, prior to the Ash Wednesday bushfires, and eating at the kiosk there

- The first release of compact discs in Adelaide, with the CD Shop in Rundle Mall, just across from where David Jones was. One of the steepest downward staircases known to man, always thought I would fall down them one day. That was when SA-FM used to produce separate "Top 20 Album" and "Top 10 Compact Disc" charts.

- The jukebox shop in Franklin St, that used to sell old jukebox singles for 20c each. Used to stock up there on records for only a few bucks.

- Going to Hoyts Regent Cinema in school holidays.

- Watching The Super Cartoon Show on 9 after school

- The shop/booths that used to run down the middle of Adelaide Arcade, and wondering how people that worked in them didn't go stir crazy in such a small space - although they did have underground storage areas.

[Magpiespower]

Those t-shirt things you'd get at Pizza Hut and (maybe) Hungry Jack's.

They were white, pretty small, hard like a p!$$-trough cake.

The one's I got had a Marvel comic book character on them.

Put them in the oven and a fre minutes later...

You've got a Hulk or Spiderman t-shirt!

[Booney]

Having a tik-tok buscuit wrapped up in your lunch box.

[smac]

Not something I remember from days gone by, but I just taught smac Jr how to shave and it certainly made me realise how close to 40 I am!

[Magpiespower]

Pubs with sawdust covered floors.

Easier for bar staff to scoop-up all the teeth, blood, glass and spew at the end of the night.

The Royal Admiral on Hindley St was the last place I went to that had this.

When it still had go-go girls dancing in cages.

God old days...

[CK]

Back when I was about 12 or so, there was a trolley collector at the (then very new) Port Adelaide K-Mart, who used to wear a Walkman (another one for those nearing 40), sunglasses and used to sing, dance, click his fingers and bop around as he was collecting trollies. He grew such a cult following that he became a story on "State Affair" at the time. Not sure if others remember this bloke?

[Booney]

I sure do. His Sony walkman, when it died, was stuck on a wall outside Super K for ages.

[Brucetiki]

When buses were government operated, and not by two-bit organisations like Transfield (oh, I'm sorry, Light City Buses)

[Dissident]

I walk through the city every day, and remember things from when I was younger, going there with Mum. I'm 6 years away from 40 so probably doesn't really fit!?

- the elevators with a lady there, pulling the lever, telling you what floor it was
- the toy section at John Martins; was massive, loved it! Had the ramps going down and had two levels. Right next to where they would have the magic cave and the Lego exhibitions.
- Granny Mays on the corner of Hindley and King William (above the Charles Sturt?)
- Going to the Renaissance Tower with my Nanna, and having lunch at the top floor, getting a tray and moving it along, like I was an extra in Degrassi Jnr High.
- the fence/edging type thing, basically curved thick steel in arches, about 2 foot high, running down King William towards the Festival Theatre.

[redden whites]

Centrals not in the G.F.

[CK]

I walk through the city every day, and remember things from when I was younger, going there with Mum. I'm 6 years away from 40 so probably doesn't really fit!?

- the elevators with a lady there, pulling the lever, telling you what floor it was
- the toy section at John Martins; was massive, loved it! Had the ramps going down and had two levels. Right next to where they would have the magic cave and the Lego exhibitions.
- Granny Mays on the corner of Hindley and King William (above the Charles Sturt?)
- Going to the Renaissance Tower with my Nanna, and having lunch at the top floor, getting a tray and moving it along, like I was an extra in Degrassi Jnr High.
- the fence/edging type thing, basically curved thick steel in arches, about 2 foot high, running down King William towards the Festival Theatre.

Did they move to John Martins later in the piece? I used to go to it each year when they were on the top floor of the old Myer (next to the Ladies Lounge, which always seemed such a mysterious place to a little tacker).

Used to love those elevators - the ones with the gold gates on the inside.

[Dutchy]

The mini league kids kicking brown plastic footies into the stands during the SANFL finals (prelim day I think) my dad used to palm them down to me on the ground