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

[Booney]

Great stuff there, Boonster. The horror-movie theremin based music up to about 1:25 is great, spooky in a cheap piss-weak Aussie horror film type of way. And the staged flight sequence is full of cheese. Why, who's hiding in the propeller-driven plane but Deputy Premier Des Corcoran. G'day Des! G'day Don! Want to take a flight over a dump and some sand dunes? Sure, let's turn it into a suburban paradise!

And the bikini-clad mums frolicking at the beach at the end. Don't mention the cadmium.

There's some other quality state library footage on YouTube about Adelaide, like this 'un:

Leaving junior behind to frolick in the shallows, learning to swim, by necessity.

[Magellan]

Great stuff there, Boonster. The horror-movie theremin based music up to about 1:25 is great, spooky in a cheap piss-weak Aussie horror film type of way. And the staged flight sequence is full of cheese. Why, who's hiding in the propeller-driven plane but Deputy Premier Des Corcoran. G'day Des! G'day Don! Want to take a flight over a dump and some sand dunes? Sure, let's turn it into a suburban paradise!

And the bikini-clad mums frolicking at the beach at the end. Don't mention the cadmium.

There's some other quality state library footage on YouTube about Adelaide, like this 'un:

Leaving junior behind to frolick in the shallows, learning to swim, by necessity.

Survival of the fittest. Darwin would've been proud.

[Jack]

1970s
When petrol stations were not open 24/7
Having to drive to Cavan after hours to get petrol , having self serve pumps , having to slot in 20 cent pieces in the machine to get petrol.

When they were open
Service Station attendants that cleaned your windscreens, checked your oil, and pumped petrol for you

[Booney]

The servo in the airport being the only place after hours to buy grog in the west of Adelaide.

[Pseudo]

Want to take a flight over a dump and some sand dunes? Sure, let's turn it into a suburban paradise!

... and if that works then we'll try it again just down the road. Multi-Function Polis, anyone?

[Booney]

....playing Pokemon go was "cool". ( For that 15 minutes it was )

[Magellan]

1970s
When petrol stations were not open 24/7
Having to drive to Cavan after hours to get petrol , having self serve pumps , having to slot in 20 cent pieces in the machine to get petrol.

When they were open
Service Station attendants that cleaned your windscreens, checked your oil, and pumped petrol for you

Golden Fleece on the corner of Bridge Road and Grand Junction Road, circa 1979. Had an attendant, can recall my mum asking the man for 'two dollars worth of super' and handing him the old school green two dollar bill through the driver's side window.

[Magellan]

Want to take a flight over a dump and some sand dunes? Sure, let's turn it into a suburban paradise!

... and if that works then we'll try it again just down the road. Multi-Function Polis, anyone?

Interesting stuff at about 5:45 about 'devices being implanted in your body' - a concept since replaced by the now ubiquitous mobile telephone.

[Jack]

1970s
When petrol stations were not open 24/7
Having to drive to Cavan after hours to get petrol , having self serve pumps , having to slot in 20 cent pieces in the machine to get petrol.

When they were open
Service Station attendants that cleaned your windscreens, checked your oil, and pumped petrol for you

Golden Fleece on the corner of Bridge Road and Grand Junction Road, circa 1979. Had an attendant, can recall my mum asking the man for 'two dollars worth of super' and handing him the old school green two dollar bill through the driver's side window.

If its the same Northfield corner , it eventually became the Above Ground Pool swimmimg pool retailer
That business site closed down recently

[Magellan]

1970s
When petrol stations were not open 24/7
Having to drive to Cavan after hours to get petrol , having self serve pumps , having to slot in 20 cent pieces in the machine to get petrol.

When they were open
Service Station attendants that cleaned your windscreens, checked your oil, and pumped petrol for you

Golden Fleece on the corner of Bridge Road and Grand Junction Road, circa 1979. Had an attendant, can recall my mum asking the man for 'two dollars worth of super' and handing him the old school green two dollar bill through the driver's side window.

If its the same Northfield corner , it eventually became the Above Ground Pool swimmimg pool retailer
That business site closed down recently

Yep, spot on Jack, that was it. Drive past it quite often, to me it'll always be a GF servo.

[Booney]

1970s
When petrol stations were not open 24/7
Having to drive to Cavan after hours to get petrol , having self serve pumps , having to slot in 20 cent pieces in the machine to get petrol.

When they were open
Service Station attendants that cleaned your windscreens, checked your oil, and pumped petrol for you

Golden Fleece on the corner of Bridge Road and Grand Junction Road, circa 1979. Had an attendant, can recall my mum asking the man for 'two dollars worth of super' and handing him the old school green two dollar bill through the driver's side window.

Super! Nice one.

[MW]

I remember when my sister pumped a tank full of unleaded into mum's Sunbird which only took super...

[Pseudo]

"Super"? I must've had poor parents; mine always bought "Standard". Was 29.9 c/L in the mid seventies.

[Footy Chick]

A monumental knob of a man.

It's funny you mention this..

The Adelaide Remember When page on FB posted a picture of him today and everyone has absolutely teed off on him

https://www.facebook.com/adelaiderememberwhen/photos/a.424077437683076.1073741828.424061334351353/1116276661796480/?type=3&theater

[RustyCage]

I didn't know he was that bad a person. What did he do?

[am Bays]

Do you reckon he gets many Christmas cards each year from former colleagues???

[amber_fluid]

Wasn't there an Ebert and Weston somewhere in the city?

I was thinking Ebert first but then Belton came to mine.
Could have been Ebert(Craig) as I was thinking of a player that played at the Magpies and also West Adelaide.
Both Ebert and Belton fit that mould.
It was upstairs in the arcade as well originally.

Yeah, it was Ebert and Weston

Is there still a Hughes and Loveday sport store?
They were in the city as well from memory.

[Pseudo]

Sitting here watching a DVD of the movie "Tommy" based on the Who rock opera, remembering the first time I saw it, brought this one to mind:


Saturday night movie specials on the telly, simulcast on SA-FM.

[Footy Chick]

Sitting here watching a DVD of the movie "Tommy" based on the Who rock opera, remembering the first time I saw it, brought this one to mind:


Saturday night movie specials on the telly, simulcast on SA-FM.

Wasn't it known as Double SA_FM back in the day

[mighty_tiger_79]

The servo in the airport being the only place after hours to buy grog in the west of Adelaide.

When I was working at Airport around 10yrs ahlgo a number of cars would pull up looking for grog