doyen i am sure you would remember the little chap with the moustache selling peanuts at the scg in 1957?he looked of ethnic background we would pass the coins thru the crowd where we usually sat on the grass hill just below the southern eastern scoreboard at the scg and he would pass down those hot clear plastic bags of peanuts those were the days doyen i wonder if he is still around?thats when mum and dad had a cold beer and pie and the crowds were 70k approx against stgeorge in particular..
They sure were the days--we were lucky to be part of that magnificent era!! I was lucky enough to be born & bred a Rabbitoh;my first 21 yrs growing up in Botany! 5 yrs at Cleveland St. High in Redfern. At 21 yrs was married & off to the bush teaching for the following 35 yrs.
Yes,I can vaguely remember the peanut man & the various other vendors who sold their food at the ground!!
I used to love the old footy programmes too & the "Doubles" purchased for sixpence to win CASH; on the first scorer from each team. They were a small piece of cardboard stapled together with the number of a player from each team. You won the cash if the two numbers you had were those two first scorers. A hard working member of the club would wander through the crowd selling these doubles!! The club basically ran on chicken raffles in those times.
Players like Churchill,Honeysett,Doherty,Donohue,Cowie,Purcell,Rayner,Hammerton--WOW!!
If you passed coins through the crowd these days some bugger would pocket them!
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