- 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
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