f**k we were almost neighbours.
I always had you as a crony of the Neal Bros Inc (Berala Bears)
Mate, I'm so old I can remember when they were building Westfields with faint memories of the old Astor Cinema on the block where they built the f**ker.
I should have continued to hold your scruffy head under the water at Cabarita or Ashfield pool when I had the chance (only would have got about 10 years) but you kept screaming "Momma, Momma",
Remember the milk bar across the road from Westfield & Burwood Park and the pool hall above the shops half way up Burwood Rd towards the station?
Shit, they were good times - the wild, wild west (we were not the inner west in those days)
I actually lived at Croydon Park..close to Brennan's panel beaters on Burwood Rd for 25 years.
My parents retired to Port Macquarie,and I purchased a townhouse in the area.
I swam at Enfield pool
Played cricket at Henley Park for Pine Inn Magpies Cricket Club and league for the E Feds.
Burwood had 2 theatres i at Westfields and 1 on railway parade,and yes I remember the pool hall.
Dad use to take me to Pratten Park to watch Kelly,Parish,diamond,Cody ,stonestreet etc
There's more but think I have shocked u with my knowledge.
Pop,I know the area with my eyes closed.So I should