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

[Scorpion]

* 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)

Which sucked badly and got very annoying if your name was Kylie......

[Scorpion]

I can remember in the early 80's my family getting their first VCR, was around around '82. I thought it was the greatest piece of technology ever. Even had a remote control with a cord going from the remote to the video, lol.

Around about the same time we got a soda stream machine, which i thought was quite brilliant too.

I remember getting our first VCR too and my mum always having to drive all the way to West Terrace because it was the only video hire shop in Adelaide!

[Scorpion]

Phone 2170101 for the Channel 10 Christmas Appeal, pledging extra if a 'celebrity' would take off their shirt or kiss another 'celebrity'!

Anne Wills and her earrings

School excursions to the Pioneer Village down Morphett Vale way somewhere

This is the best thread EVER

[GWW]

I can remember in the early 80's my family getting their first VCR, was around around '82. I thought it was the greatest piece of technology ever. Even had a remote control with a cord going from the remote to the video, lol.

Around about the same time we got a soda stream machine, which i thought was quite brilliant too.

I remember getting our first VCR too and my mum always having to drive all the way to West Terrace because it was the only video hire shop in Adelaide!

I was just thinking the other day about some of the videos that were out when we got a VCR around '82..
- They Shoot Horses Dont They
- Victory
- "Herbie" movies
- The Omen
- Cujo
- When a Stranger Calls
- Greece
- History of the World
- Terence Hill/Bud Spencer movies - Watch Out We're Mad / Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (was very surprised to learn as a kid they were Italian movies, and as such were dubbed


There was also a movie that I can only vaguely remember. I'm not sure if it was based around one of the wars, Vietnam or Korean perhaps? I think it was based around a form of torture where those captured were tied to a jetty (?) and drowned when the water level rose. Thats a very vague summary because I was very young when it was released. I can't recall which actors were in it.

[Pseudo]

School excursions to the Pioneer Village down Morphett Vale way somewhere

I won 20 cents there for correctly answering the question "Who invented the gramophone?", and promptly spent it on lollies in the little kiosk

[Footy Chick]

School excursions to the Pioneer Village down Morphett Vale way somewhere

I won 20 cents there for correctly answering the question "Who invented the gramophone?", and promptly spent it on lollies in the little kiosk

It's a housing estate now I thnk:(

Pioneer village was great, the only thing we have that's remotely close these days is old Tailem Town, I should go one day "for old times sake"

[Sheik Yerbouti]

There was also a movie that I can only vaguely remember. I'm not sure if it was based around one of the wars, Vietnam or Korean perhaps? I think it was based around a form of torture where those captured were tied to a jetty (?) and drowned when the water level rose. Thats a very vague summary because I was very young when it was released. I can't recall which actors were in it.

Deerhunter

[Ian]

School excursions to the Pioneer Village down Morphett Vale way somewhere

I won 20 cents there for correctly answering the question "Who invented the gramophone?", and promptly spent it on lollies in the little kiosk

It's a housing estate now I thnk:(

Pioneer village was great, the only thing we have that's remotely close these days is old Tailem Town, I should go one day "for old times sake"

I'm sure there is one at Loxton as well

[CK]

Pioneer Village is indeed a housing estate now. Drive past it many days, and from memory, the estate itself is called Pioneer Village now. Keep meaning to go to Tailem Town next time I visit Mum.

When jumbos first starting landing at Adelaide Airport, and going down to watch them land.

Coloured rotary dial phones, rather than the push button versions.

[CENTURION]

when my home phone number in Salisbury was 583327.

[Dog_ger]

Mine was 458514 in Findon.

I am 53...

My deceased mum always put a lot of emphasis on learning this number if we got lost.

She would always say, if you get lost, find a policeman and he will buy you an icecream....

[CENTURION]

when the street lights went out at night, then back on about 5am.

[Dog_ger]

when the street lights went out at night, then back on about 5am.

Time to search for milk money...

Go a few suburbs over though....

Grange...

[CK]

Speaking of milk, the cream on top of the milk when you peeled off the foil lid

[Dog_ger]

Bread delivered by oldfields horse and cart...

Still warm...

[CENTURION]

catching a double decker bus down Kings Road to visit my Aunty Wendy in Parafield Gardens.

[Ian]

when my home phone number in Salisbury was 583327.

I can remember our phone at Keith was a 2 digit number and you dialled and spoke to the operator to make a "trunk" call, moving to Coonalpyn which had a automatic exchange in '74 was nearly as exciting as getting colour TV

[A Mum]

Yep we had the same set up at Karoonda when I was 16 years old.
So/but that was only 26 years ago (1985).

When you think about it - that really isn't that long ago - it's totally amazing how far things have come from that to mobile phones etc.
Mind boggling.

[CENTURION]

getting pulled over by a cop, no bloody breatho back then, asked how many have you had, said 8 or 9, then told you had best go straight home then.

[Lightning McQueen]

The old man buying a cd player, Dire Straits "making movies" was our first cd.