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

Postby CK » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:17 pm

- Woodville playing in green and gold stripes
- That the Eagles weren’t just a SANFL team
- Watching “The Super Cartoon Show”, “Earlybirds” and Winky Dink
- Delis on street corners that sold more than just mobile phones, magazines or bottled water
- Summer meant that the Coastal Clipper used to drive up and down the Esplanade of beach towns, handing out freebies
- Doing showbag shopping in Hamilton Hall, after seeing the showbag ads on TV, and then going to Expo in the winter months
- Carrying a ten or twenty cent piece, in case you needed to use the green rotary dial Telecom phonebox in an emergency.
- Dialling the magic number that would make the Telecom phonebox ring, and hiding behind a corner to see if anyone going past answered it.
- Saving up to buy the latest 7 inch single from CC Records or Allan’s, before deciding whether to buy the 12 inch album later.
- You knew who Dean Davis, Robin Roenfeldt, Joey Moore or John Oster all were, and depending on your age, would…
- Ask for their autograph, to put in the shiny autograph book with the different coloured pages.
- Going to school for three terms a year, with eight weeks of summer holidays.
- Catching the silver bus to the city, and hoping it was one of the new Volvo ones, that had the “air conditioning” holes above the head, and not the older MTT ones without the air vent on the roof.
- Watching “Diff’rent Strokes”, “The Facts Of Life”, “Silver Spoons”, or in later years, “21 Jump Street” or the “A-Team” and if you missed it, hoping you had enough room on a video tape to tape it.
- Taking a dollar note to the shop and knowing it would buy enough mixed lollies to last most of the day
- Buying chips at school, like “Fonzies” or “Chicken Cackles”, or a “Snip”, “Sunny Boy” or “Glug”
- School holidays at Academy Cinema City, Hindley Cinemas or Regent Cinemas.
- A trip to Victor Harbor was a real day out, and it was possible to drive both ways up Ocean Street, past the country Myers, Bell’s.
- Bragging to your mates that you had seen players like Russell Ebert, Rick Davies or Graham Cornes cut a game to shreds on Saturday – because the five matches were all played on Saturdays – as Dad jotted down the race results from the scoreboard.
- Going out to the quarter time breaks at the footy, and seeing players having a smoke in the huddle.
- The only time you saw the VFL was on “The Winners” on ABC
- Doing the “Lick A Prize” from Paddle Pop’s
- Hearing “What Will They Be Singing In The 80’s” and wondering what the answer would be

Add away, folks :)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:20 pm

Buying cigarettes for your parents at 7 years of age with a note.
Walking to the shops by yourself at 7.
Buying a litre of milk for 59 cents, taking 60 cents to the shops and they'd give you a couple of lollies for change.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Booney » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:32 pm

- Going to the shop 'cause Dad was too pissed to buy "The News" for him in the afternoon. :lol:
- Shorts were short.....on men. :oops:
- Bus tickets were paper and less than 30c
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby JK » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:35 pm

Deli's and Butchers that operated out of backstreet suburbia, ahh the good ol' days.

I can also remember the bread/bakery van that used to hit our street daily (like the Home Ice Cream man of today) and we'd always hope there were iced buns left.

Actually now that I mention it, I can't remember seeing the Mr Whippy vans cruise the streets playing that excitement-inducing music (think Eddie Murphy - Raw) for God knows how long.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Bum Crack » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:36 pm

Having a fight with a Glenelg Reserves or Under 19's player at Lennies over the same chick you are trying to shag.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Mr Beefy » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:39 pm

Picking up a coke bottle from out the back of the deli and taking it inside to get your 20c refund.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:43 pm

Leaving your front door and windows open and unlocked overnight when it was hot.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:44 pm

Leo Wanker.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Footy Chick » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:48 pm

* SANFL players like Russel Ebert and Jumbo Davies TEACHING you how to kick a footy 8)
* THe milk man delivering milk bottles with the foil caps and the cream on top :tonqe:
* Being charged 10c to use the Loo's in Harris Scarfe
* The massive Lego exhibitions at Myer.
* Roller skating at Downtown on a Saturday Morning 8)
* pasting cut outs of your favourite bands and singers and movie stars on the back of your Bus Pass. (I had Trigger and River Phoenix :heart: )
* Playing Wonderboy at the Academy Cinema on Friday Arvo's after school and then going to Max's in the old John Martins Arcade for the best fries in the world

My Nanna STILL has a 10c bus ticket -cos Nanna's save stuff like that :lol:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Booney » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:48 pm

Bum Crack wrote:Having a fight with a Glenelg Reserves or Under 19's player at Lennies over the same chick you are trying to shag.


You could have at least stopped while you sorted it out.. 8)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:49 pm

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

Postby MatteeG » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:57 pm

Bum Crack wrote:Having a fight with a Glenelg Reserves or Under 19's player at Lennies over the same chick you are trying to shag.


LMAO- Or flipping a coin with abovementioned fellas for 'first crack'...
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby CK » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:01 pm

Catching the school bus which had a letter as the route number (I used to catch the W to primary school, or the S)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby JK » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:03 pm

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

Postby Booney » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:11 pm

CK wrote:Catching the school bus which had a letter as the route number (I used to catch the W to primary school, or the S)


Now I think you're having a lend of us saying nearing 40... ;)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby smac » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:20 pm

Having the coca-cola yoyo team come to your school. Having a coca-cola yoyo as well.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Footy Chick » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:24 pm

smac wrote:Having the coca-cola yoyo team come to your school. Having a coca-cola yoyo as well.


I still have mine! :D
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby CK » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:28 pm

Booney wrote:
CK wrote:Catching the school bus which had a letter as the route number (I used to catch the W to primary school, or the S)


Now I think you're having a lend of us saying nearing 40... ;)


LOL...put it this way, I was nearing the end of primary school when Culture Club came* to Adelaide, to the Rundle Mall balcony, but still on the right side of 40 :) (Anyone else out there that caught these buses..anyone to rescue me?)

Did anyone have the Yo-Yo's that were in the SANFL club logos?
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Booney » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:28 pm

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smac wrote:Having the coca-cola yoyo team come to your school. Having a coca-cola yoyo as well.


I still have mine! :D


You kept a yo-yo team? :lol:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:28 pm

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