Sydney 1970s and 80s recollections

• Three cheeseburgers at McDonalds. Was my defiition of a perfect meal, for years.
• Auntie Lottie at Ashfield?
• Auntie Eve at Chatswood and 2nd/3rd cousins. Jeremy?
• Boat ramps, mussels. Fishing off Drummoyne jetty - caught leatherjacket and tiny bream.
• Ferry commuting, looking down at jellyfish. Hydrofoil to Manly.
• Ferry race.
• Crates of soft drink from Franklins. Had to pop two holes on top to drink.
• Wheat Chex.
• Buying pranks at Paddy's Market. Lost my leather Washington DC souvenir wallet Poppa gave me - someone returned it??
• Driving to Wendy's or Pete & Chris's. Delhi Road, Channel 10, Mars Field.
• Waratah Park - where Skippy was filmed. We saw ‘Skippy’, bounced on trampolines for the first time.
• Walk from Iron Cove Bridge to middle of Gladesville Bridge. Footpath unbearably hot.
• Wiseman’s Ferry Road, Cattai - dinosaurs?
• Phil Thaux Chemist
• RSL with Poppa. Birkenhead Point with Poppa. I bought a rubik's cube in the gist shop and went back the next day for a book on how to do it.
• Learning to swim in Drummoyne pool. Mrs Gill – flowery rubber headgear.
• John and Isla Konrads one lane pool next door.
• Early morning cartoons and Gene Autry.
• 1985 watching simulcast Midnight Oil concert Oils On The Water and recording it on my Akai deck; Poppa was worried it would damage his TV.
• Balmain market, I bought t-shirts.
• Festival of Sydney
• Boat trip with friend of Poppa's.
• Catching a bus in Victoria Road, riding to the city standing up and slipping around in sweaty thongs.

I remember driving past this place with the weirdest name: Peak Freans.
It looked like this below, but once It looked like these above.



Now it's a Bunnings.

Hobbyco shop George Street.

“Westfield Burwood was built on a slope which meant that it was the first centre that facilitated an incline mall design. This meant that the centre was a gently-ascending grade and that the levels were connected via a system of ramps, stairs and escalators. The centre also featured a circular stage and an ornate air fountain which shoots controlled compressed air with metallic coloured balls in the air.” - Wikipedia