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

[mickey]

- When was the last Birdman Rally?

- Once upon a time when you saw a speed limit sign, you simply added 10kmh and stuck to that.

- The Lion Safari Park at West Beach, and the Dolphin place there as well.

- The Ice Arena (pre-skiing slope), when it had a fast outside track and an inside ice paddock.

Joplins, the Planet, McMahons, the Circuit and Lennies. And the Firm.

- When it did only actually take 20 mins to get from one side of adelaide to the other

- You went to see Mr Percival at MARINELAND

- the other ice skating arena at Payneham

- Ahh, Joppies, so many memories I dared a certain North Melbourne footballer once (no prizes for guessing) to grab my boobies as there was a whole nights worth of drinks on the line courtesy of the other regulars as a prize, so he went to drag me into the gents and I got kicked out. I think was more devo about the drinks than not being molested by you-know-who

[Footy Chick]

Errrr..no

[smithy]

Errrr..no

[Booney]

[JK]

[Bum Crack]

this bloke?

[Booney]

*Thread right off track*

This guy? C'mon FC....tell us.

[smithy]

Sorry, my last one.

[Footy Chick]

this bloke?

OMG I thought that was John McCarthy at first - and although at one time in my life I wouldn't have minded being molested by him, he wasn't it

PS: Your piccies are very amusing

[CK]

Was it this one, FC?

[JK]

:D Was it this one, FC?

LOL Thats the one I'd been looking for

[Footy Chick]

Good grief

and just so I beat you all to it, it wasn't this bloke either:

[Magpiespower]

Know you're nearing 40 when you remember all those 'rumours' about Cornesy.

On 5AA one time he attributed them to a fur coat that would make Liberace blush that he used to wear...

[mickey]

Waiting for ages and ages at McDonalds if u dared order a burger without something eg pickles

and the plane at maccas West Lakes for birthday parties

[CK]

...the last words to the following advertising slogans...

"Think aluminium, think ........"
"Betcha buy it better at ........"
"......., your Pageant store"

[dedja]

Christmas Appeals ...

thank you very much for your kind donation, thank you very much, thank you very much much.

C'mon Kylie, you can do it


and who can forget Deadly Earnest.

[CK]

Telephone numbers with two number prefixes, such as 51 (we used to have 47 as kids, when living down the Port way).

When the local kids shows, like C'mon Kids, Super Cartoon Show, Earlybirds etc used to have prize vans going around, and they would advertise where they were going to be, and hoping it would be within walking distance (happened once to me, they were in a park around 50m from my house).

Three daily editions of "The News" - the Sport edition (available around 11am), the City-State (about 12.30pm) and the Last (around 3.30 - 4.00pm).

Being a roadside seller of "The News" . Had a good spot on Tapleys Hil Road, outside the Hendon Hotel for a while, good fun being a Norwood fan in winter, wearing the duffle coat to keep warm, in Port country.

[Columbo]

What a brilliant topic this is, some of these might have already been done..

Bush Biscuits, Sunny Boys and Razz in the school canteen
The games arcade at the anzac highway end of the sideshow alley at the bay - the games were all 20c
Count Dino from Central Furnishers at Hindmarsh where Ch 7 is now
Showbag ads on TV
Big Ben and Ma Kelly's pies
Junction Markets (when it was good!!)
Touring Cars at Adelaide International Raceway
Black Thunders & The Rock N Roll Roadie
Scott McBain...on your wireless!
KG's Footy Show
Sheffield Shield Cricket from Adelaide Oval on Channel 9

Someone mentioned the old paper bus tickets before - I have got a couple of wads of those that i got from the steamranger office at Victor Harbor Railway station about 3 years ago

[Leaping Lindner]

Christmas Appeals ...

thank you very much for your kind donation, thank you very much, thank you very much much.

C'mon Kylie, you can do it


and who can forget Deadly Earnest.

217 01 01 the Channel ten Christmas Appeal.

And those albums they use to release to go with them "Songs of hope and happiness" or something like that. And you could only buy them at Shell Service Stations.

[Leaping Lindner]

Christmas Appeals ...

thank you very much for your kind donation, thank you very much, thank you very much much.

C'mon Kylie, you can do it


and who can forget Deadly Earnest.

217 01 01 the Channel ten Christmas Appeal.

And those albums they use to release to go with them "Songs of hope and happiness" or something like that. And you could only buy them at Shell Service Stations.

And apparently every State had a different Deadly Earnest.
Adelaide's own....
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