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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Pseudo » Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:20 pm

Brodlach wrote:Putting coins on the track so they got flattened

Within short distance of a level crossing, find the point on the track where there is a small gap in the rail, and lay the coin across it to complete the circuit...

(It don't work like that anymore, so don't try it kids. Rails are dangerous!)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Dutchy » Wed May 08, 2019 10:28 am

The time when brand new concrete infrastructure didn't collapse
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby am Bays » Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:53 am

Freezing your nuts off at the end of the Rapid Bay Jetty......

F*** that was a cold windy place in Winter
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby JK » Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:56 am

am Bays wrote:Freezing your nuts off at the end of the Rapid Bay Jetty......

F*** that was a cold windy place in Winter


We got chased off the jetty by some locals with knives and Citronella on a footy trip back in the early 90's. About 20 odd of us and 4 of them. We thought we were pretty tough before that :lol:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby am Bays » Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:17 am

JK wrote:
am Bays wrote:Freezing your nuts off at the end of the Rapid Bay Jetty......

F*** that was a cold windy place in Winter


We got chased off the jetty by some locals with knives and Citronella on a footy trip back in the early 90's. About 20 odd of us and 4 of them. We thought we were pretty tough before that :lol:


Wasn't my Grandfather was it? Couldn't have been him with his hips...

On Rapid Bay, my grandfather slept on the beach when they first started building the mine in 1940.

For over thirty five years he and my Nanna lived in the middle house (#2) of the top three closest to the Jetty.

To say that place is special to my family is an understatement.

Will never forget the tall ships in the First Fleet reenactment going past the Jetty at ~ 10:30 at night (full moon, gulf dead flat) on 01/01/1988.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby JK » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:37 pm

Used to love going there and 2nd Valley as 17 years olds, just every now and then in summer when we had nothing planned we’d get a car load of people and chuck the barby in and head down there for the day. Simpler but very enjoyable times
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:46 pm

Fishermans Bay Easter races, although I hear they still do them?
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Wedgie » Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:47 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:Fishermans Bay Easter races, although I hear they still do them?

Every Easter Sunday still. My kids used to always have a go.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:50 pm

Wedgie wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:Fishermans Bay Easter races, although I hear they still do them?

Every Easter Sunday still. My kids used to always have a go.

So did I, and that was in the late 70's, we went there every Easter.

Rented a shack one Easter and all we could hear all night was the mice running in the walls, woke up to our Easter Eggs being nothing but some crinkled foil.

We later owned a shack on Dolphin Road, first road on the right as you entered, second shack in.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Wedgie » Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:55 pm

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Lightning McQueen wrote:Fishermans Bay Easter races, although I hear they still do them?

Every Easter Sunday still. My kids used to always have a go.

So did I, and that was in the late 70's, we went there every Easter.

Rented a shack one Easter and all we could hear all night was the mice running in the walls, woke up to our Easter Eggs being nothing but some crinkled foil.

We later owned a shack on Dolphin Road, first road on the right as you entered, second shack in.

I know Dolphin Road quite well, my parents have lived there since 1990!
2nd last shack on the right before the roadblock. Probably about a dozen further up from the one you mention.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:02 pm

Wedgie wrote:I know Dolphin Road quite well, my parents have lived there since 1990!
2nd last shack on the right before the roadblock. Probably about a dozen further up from the one you mention.

I just google earthed it, brought back some memories.

Going over the hill for bonfires, raking crabs or just walking through the mangroves and knee deep mud on Shag Island, we got to know the deli owners well too.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:44 pm

The bloody playground near the boat ramp has the same things there still 40 years later!
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Wedgie » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:05 am

As this thread is almost a decade old I know I'm nearing 50 when my youngest kid turns 20!
He was 6 when I created this site! :shock:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby am Bays » Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:35 pm

eight ball overs in cricket
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby gadj1976 » Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:20 am

am Bays wrote:eight ball overs in cricket


Maybe a bit older than 40! But yes, I remember them. As well as rest days in the tests.

And 60 over a side 'one dayers' in England.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Psyber » Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:13 pm

Dutchy wrote:The time when brand new concrete infrastructure didn't collapse

Yes modern technology.
Roman concrete got harder and bonded together more strongly with age because of particular metallic salts included in the specific sands they used. Once we dropped that selectivity and used steel reinforcement we set it up for self-destruction - fine crack , water gets in, steel rusts and expands, cracks widen, and so it goes...
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby The Bedge » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:01 pm

I know i'm getting old when 95% of the players I coach don't know any footballers from the 90's.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:09 pm

The Bedge wrote:I know i'm getting old when 95% of the players I coach don't know any footballers from the 90's.

What names have you dropped?
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby The Bedge » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:33 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
The Bedge wrote:I know i'm getting old when 95% of the players I coach don't know any footballers from the 90's.

What names have you dropped?

I was firing handballs in a drill the other week - threw out that i'm like a young Diesel Williams.. "Who?" :roll:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:35 pm

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Lightning McQueen wrote:
The Bedge wrote:I know i'm getting old when 95% of the players I coach don't know any footballers from the 90's.

What names have you dropped?

I was firing handballs in a drill the other week - threw out that i'm like a young Diesel Williams.. "Who?" :roll:

He did retire 23 years ago mate.
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