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

[stampy]

- Bullen's Lion Safari, out near Two Wells (we always wanted to go as kids so badly, but Dad refused to take the then brand new Datsun 200B out there..."I'm not having the paintwork scratched by a stupid great cat dancing on it")

Wasn't it called Bullen's Lion Park?

Anyway, loved the sign that warned you to wind up the windows ...

is that the one that had the sign "poms on bikes free"

[fish]

- Bullen's Lion Safari, out near Two Wells (we always wanted to go as kids so badly, but Dad refused to take the then brand new Datsun 200B out there..."I'm not having the paintwork scratched by a stupid great cat dancing on it")

Wasn't it called Bullen's Lion Park?

Anyway, loved the sign that warned you to wind up the windows ...

is that the one that had the sign "poms on bikes free"

I seem to remember they had perimeter signs that read "Trespassers will be eaten"

[Footy Chick]

- - Bullen's Lion Safari, out near Two Wells (we always wanted to go as kids so badly, but Dad refused to take the then brand new Datsun 200B out there..."I'm not having the paintwork scratched by a stupid great cat dancing on it").

Your dad was Bobby Bulpitt?

[CK]

- Catching the train to National Park

- ....or to Colonnades, when the centre was first built.

- When entering a contest on TV was through filling out an entry form, not a SMS entry.

- Only having a handful of taxi ranks in the CBD, the primary one being outside Darrell Lea's on King William Street.

- Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built (did people used to just meet on Beehive Corner in that case?)

- Rock Wallaby and Charlie Wombat.

[Brucetiki]

- Ditters Nuts in the city

I believe that still exists, and one has recently opened up at Tea Tree Plaza (as part of one of those old school lolly shops)

[fish]

Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built.

I remember Rundle Mall before it was even a Mall! Only just.

[Booney]

Instead of dickhead or wanker people were called - Rabbits or peanuts.

My old man always used "Shutup ya' Rabbit" at the footy.

[Psyber]

- - Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built (did people used to just meet on Beehive Corner in that case?)

Yes that was the traditional meeting place - even in the days before Rundle St was a mall, and still had cars running through it.
[An uncle of mine was Myer's "Commissionaire" in the 1950s and would open doors for arrivals and park their cars.]

[Magpiespower]

Buying SANFL grand tickets through the cutout form in the Sunday Mail.

Then having it arrive in the mail...

[Ian]

Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built.

I remember Rundle Mall before it was even a Mall! Only just.

I can just remember the old man driving down what is now the mall when we were visiting from the sticks, I can also remember trying to navigate the footpaths with Mum while she did xmas shopping

[fish]

Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built.

I remember Rundle Mall before it was even a Mall! Only just.

I can just remember the old man driving down what is now the mall when we were visiting from the sticks, I can also remember trying to navigate the footpaths with Mum while she did xmas shopping

Yeah my memory as a toddler was that the footpaths were absolutely packed.

Also remember when the mall was proposed there were lots of detractors saying it would be the death knell of the CBD as a shopping precinct!

[Brucetiki]

Being in Rundle Mall BEFORE the Mall's Ball's were built.

I remember Rundle Mall before it was even a Mall! Only just.

I can just remember the old man driving down what is now the mall when we were visiting from the sticks, I can also remember trying to navigate the footpaths with Mum while she did xmas shopping

Yeah my memory as a toddler was that the footpaths were absolutely packed.

Also remember when the mall was proposed there were lots of detractors saying it would be the death knell of the CBD as a shopping precinct!

Some things never change

[CK]

- When pubs used to have live music as their focus, not how many pokies they could squeeze into every corner

- The smell of the brakes on the Red Hen trains. To this day, as soon as an old truck brakes near me, can immediately think of hot days on a Red Hen with the door open to keep cooler

- Lining up for concert tickets at the old ABC Shop in Gawler Place, and...

- Picking up the weekly SA-FM, KA-FM or ARIA Charts each week from Brashs across the street

- Wizz Fizz, pink lolly cigars and Candy Tabs.

- Buses being a route number then a letter - eg. I used to catch the 28L to my grandmother's after school, or the 29D to go home.

- Playing "Dukes of Hazzard" or "Cop Shop" in the playground at lunch - basically, chasing after each other, skidding on the dirt and hiding behind the old wooden forts in our school playground.

- The AMF Bowling promotions in school holidays..."For $6.50, you get two games, shoe hire, hot dog, fries and a coke"

- The giant picture in West Lakes Mall, just above where the old food court was, next to Venture, that showed the old surrounds.

- Being allowed to stay up to watch the Don Lane Show

[Leaping Lindner]

People lining up to get tickets from Allan's Music back door. Sometimes the queue would extend down Frances St and then down Rundle Mall/Street.
When the Bay City Rollers toured the queue was huge and not one guy was in it. But plenty were hanging around trying to chat up the girls in the queue.

[Leaping Lindner]

- Picking up the weekly SA-FM, KA-FM or ARIA Charts each week from Brashs across the street
..

Top 40 charts from "Life Station" 5KA and 5AD "Today" !

[GWW]

Which reminds me of Top 40 with Barry Bissell, does he still do that?

[Punk Rooster]

* Playing Wonderboy at the Academy Cinema on Friday Arvo's after school and then going to Max's in the old John Martins Arcade for the best fries in the world

They had the BEST burgers!

[Brucetiki]

* Playing Wonderboy at the Academy Cinema on Friday Arvo's after school and then going to Max's in the old John Martins Arcade for the best fries in the world

Last movie I saw at Academy was Boytown in 2006, and I was the only person in the cinema!

[JK]

* Playing Wonderboy at the Academy Cinema on Friday Arvo's after school and then going to Max's in the old John Martins Arcade for the best fries in the world

Last movie I saw at Academy was Boytown in 2006, and I was the only person in the cinema!

I saw A History Of Violence there with the Mrs in 2006 (IIRC) and there were only 2 other people in the cinema (and frighteningly they reminded me of Tom Hanks and his mate in the cinema in "Philadelphia", still scarred from it)

[goraw]

when u remember halls drinks.they are now kirks drinks i think.
(how about a halls lemonade, when everything feels so good ....)


when u say to someone*just pissin in ur ear *(said that to a 18 year old the other day and he goes ewww)

when u remember the glass 1 litre coke bottle and it was worth 20 cents and u could take it back to the shop and get lollies n stuff.