whatever happened to

[Footy Chick]

movie theatres in town

I heard Hindley St cinema is closing its doors too. It's going to become a church.

Yes, EDGE have bought it apparently, it's funny what ogling porn and faking a terminal illness can do for a person moneywise these days

[bayman]

plenty to come up with but i'll start with


special after hours petrol stations (where you'd put coins in a machine & the bowser would give you the $2.00 -$10.00 worth of petrol

while on petrol golden fleece, amoco & neptune petrol stations (who remembers the king neptune statue situated where the darlington macdonalds is now ?

[Squawk]

still on petrol, remember when self-serve petrol was cheaper than an attendant?
remember when an attendant checked your oil and tyres while he/she filled up?
minimum chips was a massive 40 cents?

[smithy]

the lady who played violin on the music video of Hurricane.

[CK]

Red Hen trains.

Paper bus tickets, that the conductor used to punch, or the bus driver would slip into a stamping machine.

[Footy Chick]

Red Hen trains.

Paper bus tickets, that the conductor used to punch, or the bus driver would slip into a stamping machine.

My grandmother still has some of those!, it cost 10c for an adult ticket to the city in the lat 70's

[Pseudo]

Red Hen trains.

Paper bus tickets, that the conductor used to punch, or the bus driver would slip into a stamping machine.

Paper tickets? Meh. I can remember the cardboard tickets which had to have a hole punched through them.

Who remembers those sad little one-line platitudes which used to be printed on the paper tickets? I once had a girlfriend who would religiously read the proverbs as soon as she bought the ticket, and spend the next ten minutes meditating on the inner meanings thereof... I'm glad I got out of that relationship

[Booney]

When I was at High school the Government introduced free public transport for all students,when the graffiti bill began to exceed the money being lost on fares the rule quickly changed.

I still have my bus pass picture ID card,good mullett.

[CK]

Were they the ones with each day of the year on them, and a slightly minty smell to a part of them? A lot of mates used to have them, I was never lucky enough .

Did used to catch the old STA "School Bus" though - either the "S" or the "W" (grew up in Western Suburbs). This was around the time the Grange Railway Station used to be on the other side of Military Road to where it is now.

Psuedo - I remember those mottos like its yesterday. Some of them just used to leave me bewildered at that age though - didn't understand them all!!

On less pleasant memories: the yearly KP-24 blitzes as head lice made its annual pilgrimage through schools. Yuck .Lucky enough to avoid them fortunately!

Learning to swim at the old Henley Pool.

[Dirko]

Round 50c pieces !

Had a customer pay me yesterday some dollar value & 20c.

She paid correct money or so I thought, until I went to put it in the
float and BINGO, a round 50c coin !!

I swapped it over for a normal one !!

[A Mum]

Round 50c pieces !

Had a customer pay me yesterday some dollar value & 20c.

She paid correct money or so I thought, until I went to put it in the
float and BINGO, a round 50c coin !!

I swapped it over for a normal one !!

Talking 50c pieces... my son came home with a 'captain cook' 50c piece from the canteen yesterday.... he and his friends had been discussing this 'strange' coin all afternoon... they thought it was fake.... I had to assure him it was actually the real deal

[MightyEagles]

The end of the world.

[Psyber]

The end of the world.

They switch CERN on in 13 minutes - lets wait and see!

[MightyEagles]

The end of the world.

They switch CERN on in 13 minutes - lets wait and see!

Still waiting at 5.12pm.

[Dutchy]

Round 50c pieces !

Had a customer pay me yesterday some dollar value & 20c.

She paid correct money or so I thought, until I went to put it in the
float and BINGO, a round 50c coin !!

I swapped it over for a normal one !!

when I was a teller a scrubby looking kid came in with $30- of them, I gave him $30- then went a few doors down to the coin collector and got $80- back...$50 profit

I would have told the kid if I didnt think he had flogged them in the first place...

[Footy Chick]

Speaking of "whatever happened to" I have just come home from the show and put my SUnny Boy, Razz and Glug in the freezer...mmmmmmm

and I have a good stock of Bertie Beetles too

[bayman]

mike & MAL leyland (ask the leylands brotheeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssssssssssssssss)

i hope their tune isn't in everyones head

[Dutchy]

Hog's Breath had fantastic potato skins..

Whatever happened to.... going into a deli, & having a choice betwen 45 different types of sot drink?
Big Sars, Lime, Creaming Soda etc...
Halls drinks, Scweppes, Coke, Pepsi...
Now it's either Pepsi or Coke

TRESCA

or 'tab cola' from memory i think the tab cola add was elle macphersons first step on the way to 'stardom' i still remember that bikini & i reckon it was red in color

You can still get TAB in James Place in the city

[bayman]

'on this day'

a 4 or 5 minute program at the end of the nights television (yes folks tv used to stop around midnight) which had snippets of australian news from yesteryear, which was then followed by the national anthem & either a blank screen or test pattern, until 'norMAL services' re started the next morning

[stampy]

talking about late night tv,what about deadly ernest? used to open up the coffin and sit up! classic television