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

[GWW]

* You think of the 1983 Magarey Medal presentation on tv every time you hear the song Flashdance by Irene Cara

* Channel 7 was ADS and channel 10 SAS (ie. before call sign swap due to Christopher Skase's purchasing of channel 10 in Adelaide going along with eastern states channel 7).

* Jane Doyle was reading the news on the ABC, Kevin Crease was on 7, then 9; Caroline Ainslie read news on channel 9 with Rob Kelvin; Adelaide tv news stations still had traditional weathermen (Keith Martyn/Barry Pitman)

* State Affair was the main current affairs show on Adelaide tv

* Every SANFL supporter wondered whether Woodville or Central District would ever win a premiership

* Football Times was a must read

* The "News" had a competition where you unscrambled an SANFL players name, and you also required a couple of pie wrappers also to enter

* You can remember staying up the whole night to watch Pat Cash win Wimbledon in 1987

[CK]

* You think of the 1983 Magarey Medal presentation on tv every time you hear the song Flashdance by Irene Cara

** Every SANFL supporter wondered whether Woodville or Central District would ever win a premiership
* Football Times was a must read

When I was in Year 4 or so, the joke that year was, What did Buck Rogers say when he
woke up in the 25th Century?

"Have Woodville won a premiership yet?"

- Going to the Ice Arena for the day, and requesting songs from the DJ ("Take On Me" and "Listen Like Thieves" were two regulars of mine)

- Christmas Appeal every year, when it went all through the night from around 7pm to midday the next day

- Playing footy and cricket in the street, and moving the stumps when the call of "Car" would come.

[purch]

> Torino, Lemon twist, Passiona, Big Sars and Woodies Lemonade
> Milk in glass bottles and the milkman
> "The Family"
> The Adelaide Grand Prix
> Southwark Stout (has it been discontinued??)

[CK]

How could I forget Rally X and Elevator Action? Elevator Action was addictive. Great game LOL. Hated Hyper Olympics though that pissed me off.

regards,

REB

I'd hate to think how many Downtown tokens I spent on that. To get up the necessary pace for the 100m, borrowing a lighter from someone to run over the buttons at full pelt.

Downtown and Magic Mountain tokens. It used to be 2 tokens per game, 20c per token. A mate heard they were making it one token games, but tokens would be put up to 40c. He bought $20 worth at 20c a token and waited a few weeks. Sure enough, they went up to 40c. Smart bloke

The amusement centre that used to be next to Colley Reserve, just up from Magic Mountain, with dodgems, video games (fairly old ones) and one of the odder Skill Testers I remember. It was a flat, glass topped table, with a metal arm that would "sweep" prizes, which were housed in plastic containers, like watches, bracelets etc. In all my years going there, I never saw one person win on them.

[Footy Chick]

* that Glenelg had a sideshow alley
* you remember singing "C'mon Kylie, you can do it" to un-co mates
* Fireworks night at your primary school (well ours had it - Dernancourt Primary. All the kids had to make a poster and the best ones were put up in local shops to advertise it)

[Dutchy]

Leeds yoyo's

Glenelg winning premierships

Jetty Rd shops being closed on Sundays

[Squawk]

Red Nose Day
Dunlop Volleys + Pro Kennex Silver Ace + Stefan Edberg shirt
Topless hairdressing salons came in, and went out again
Dragster bikes
Desert boots
John Dyson's catch on the boundary line
Bruce Doull and Kevin Bartlett
Mr 1-10
Edwardstown had the only SA Velodrome

[fish]

Not sure if it's been said yet - wearing Ciak shoes to the disco.

[dedja]

what's a disco?

[Dirko]

Daws Road High School

I'm a Roads Scholar !

Paper Money
Flip top lids on Cokes
McMahons
BMX Bandits
Red Hen Trains

[Strawb]

When Mullets were the must have Hair do.
Adelaide had signal boxes.
You could catch a train to Bridgwater, Northfield, and anywhere that the bluebirds and Budd cars ran.
Catching a train to somewhere in the state from Adelaide Railway station.

[dedja]

you know you're well over 40 when you remember ...

- 5c bus tickets
- a pasty and coke costing 20c
- the opening of KMart Firle
- being at the opening of the casino
- being one of the first to ride the waterslides at magic mountain
- the Pier Hotel at the Bay was full of bikies

[CK]

- Miss Beach Girl quests on TV

- Looking forward to watching the Birdman Rally at Glenelg, and then the Milk Carton Regatta.

- Shopping at Centrepoint, which is now the building where Target is in the CBD, and sneaking to Andromeda Records in the same building

- Staying up late to watch "Trax The Music", after "Music Express" that afternoon

- Knowing which shop the jingles of "Wheeerrrreee do ya get it??" or "There's a - ------ store on every corner" refer to, or you can finish the phrase "Remember folks, don't just tip the winners,...."

- When girls used to take elastics to school for recess and lunch

- The Troubridge was the main passage between Kangaroo Island and Adelaide, until the Hydroflite started leaving from North Haven

- Going to Apollo Stadium to watch either the basketball or a concert

[am Bays]

A5 size budgets
Black and white TVs
Telephons
Yellow no overtaking lines on roads
SANFL windcheeters with a game action scene on them.
Kookaburra footies
Mike Cowards turtleneck sweater
Graham Cornes' Fur coat
The Bay Disco

[Booney]

Your home phone having a dial on it, none of this push button whizz bang stuff

Fat Cat coming on TV* being the signal to go to bed

[Drop Bear]

Hypercolour T-shirts.

[Drop Bear]

For winning and losing and saying GOOD ON YER IT'S ALL IN THE GAME
Amscol Footy Colours
Claridge ciggies for 98c a packet
Wagon Wheels that were huge
Spending a Saturday Afternoon at the Albert Street Snooker Hall playing one game of Galaxian
Cosmic Princess pinball machine at the deli on Daws Road
Daws Road High School
Eastwood Roller Skating Rink
The Escort Cup
South Adelaide making the finals ha ha
Watching Sounds
Getting sick of You and Me or Fernando at number one on Countdown
Downtown
Tilt and Little Tilt
Galaxian
Galaga
Space Invaders
Pheonix
Uni Wars
Time Pilot
1942
Dig Dug
Moon Cresta
Scrambler
Defender
Moon Patrol
Asteriods
Battle Zone
Jungler
Tutenkamen
Frogger
Pacman

regards,

REB

Donkey Kong and Popeye?????

Pitfall.

[Leaping Lindner]

When the Renaissance Tower was Malltown.

You can still see the imprint of the old Malltown sign on the Renaissance Tower!

When Malltown was Cox Foys. But that would make me closer to 50
Every year they would put rides etc on the rooftop and the floor below was the Toy floor. It was like a poor man's magic cave.

[FlyingHigh]

Cool kids had Adidas 3-stripes, kids with Harrison(?) two stripes got bagged.
36ers wearing short shorts.
Winning a one-dayer against the Windies still sticks in your mind as a great day 25 years later.

[Lightning McQueen]

Pitfall.

I racked my brain for 16 hours trying to think of the name of that game.