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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby CENTURION » Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:55 pm

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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby dedja » Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:31 pm

when Port weren't shit ...
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Footy Chick » Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:35 pm

dedja wrote:when Port weren't shit ...



:lol:
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby woodublieve12 » Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:34 pm

dedja wrote:when Port weren't shit ...


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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby RustyCage » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:57 am

when Glenelg were good
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby GWW » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:01 am

I was 14 in 1986 :)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:26 am

Dutchy wrote:When ATM's had $10 notes


I used to get my $115 austudy all in $10's, I felt rich momentarily.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby GWW » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:33 am

Did they rip one of them in half?
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:36 am

GWW wrote:Did they rip one of them in half?


Na, it was about $115.60, it meant I got $120 every 2nd fortnight.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Footy Chick » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:24 pm

Am I the only person in Adelaide that remembers Munch Bunch lunches? They had a different one every day, which unfortunately always came with a pack of sultanas - but otherwise they were good!
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby gadj1976 » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:53 pm

Footy Chick wrote:Am I the only person in Adelaide that remembers Munch Bunch lunches? They had a different one every day, which unfortunately always came with a pack of sultanas - but otherwise they were good!


Nope I remember them now you mention it.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby FlyingHigh » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:09 pm

When we used to bag the other football codes for going backwards and sideways with the ball (apologies if it's already been mentioned)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Pseudo » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:58 pm

...when you knew who "Mrs. G" was.

Might also help if you lived in the southern 'burbs.
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby JK » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:33 am

Bloody Hell!! Just checked the pricing for the Drive-In these days, $66 per car for 3 films .. I remember when it was $10.

Not the cheap exercise it used to be!!
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remember...

Postby Magpiespower » Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:33 pm

JK wrote:Bloody Hell!! Just checked the pricing for the Drive-In these days, $66 per car for 3 films .. I remember when it was $10.


Plus a few more who would jump the fence and pile into the car...
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby dedja » Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:20 pm

The Chantoozies were hot and not 50 year olds ...
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Pseudo » Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:37 pm

dedja wrote:The Chantoozies were hot and not 50 year olds ...


Had a thing for David Reyne, did you?


I still have the 12" of Witch Queen sitting somewhere amongst my old vinyl 8)
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby CENTURION » Tue Dec 25, 2012 11:56 am

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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:13 am

The majority of cars on the road were :

VH/VK Commodores
XD/XE Falcons

( Rarely see any now days )

And almost everyones "first" car was a :

Gemini
Cortina
Torana
Colt
Corolla

( Even rarer and usually Grandma's or on car club runs )
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Re: You know you're nearing 40 in Adelaide, when you remembe

Postby Dissident » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:21 am

+ Corona

T'was mine!

Actually, that was Dad's car, to be fair - my first car was a Datsun 200B SX
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