Sunday, November 21, 2021

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







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