Reminders of your childhood

[Jim Rockford]

Who else had one of these?

 

[roofromoz]

something to take my mind of all this spooky stuff..

Old school library cards.....

And you needed to look this up to find a book:

IIRC the computer catalogues came in early/mid 90s.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Lol.

The nerds have indeed inherited the earth in our lifetime.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Lol.

The nerds have indeed inherited the earth in our lifetime.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Lmfao

Comedies were so much better back in the day.

 

[Generalzod]

Remember this 1979

 

[Generalzod]

We have Bush lol

 

[Generalzod]

Lmfao

Comedies were so much better back in the day.

 

[horrie hastings]

Kentucky Fried Chicken grand opening at Guildford in 1968



and menu

 

[Generalzod]

Kentucky Fried Chicken grand opening at Guildford in 1968

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and menu

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Kentucky was a treat for us, living in Mascot our local Kentucky was located in Eastlakes there was another situated near GMH..

 

[Jim Rockford]

My first job was working at the KFC at Carlingford.

 

[horrie hastings]

Kentucky was a treat for us, living in Mascot our local Kentucky was located in Eastlakes there was another situated near GMH..

Yes the one near GMH at Pagewood was the third one to open in Australia in 1969, we were still living in Paddington at the time and my father drove out to Pagewood with one of our neighbours and returned with buckets of this wonderful tasting new product.
Later on when were at Kingsford there was the Pagewood, Randwick and Eastlakes shops close by

 

[horrie hastings]

My first job was working at the KFC at Carlingford.

I loved when the Carlingford one turned into an all you eat one sometime in the 90s, i caught the train out there to try it.

 

[Jim Rockford]

I loved when the Carlingford one turned into an all you eat one sometime in the 90s, i caught the train out there to try it.

Yeah, that was well after I was working there. I worked there in 1986-1988.

 

[horrie hastings]

Yeah, that was well after I was working there. I worked there in 1986-1988.

The all you could eat was short lived, the Bondi Jct store did it also after the Carlingford one which was easier for me to get to, think i only did the Bondi Jct one twice, there is only so much chicken you could eat in one sitting.

 

[horrie hastings]

This is the only photo i could find but when Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in Sydney, Henny Penny also opened many Sydney stores, there were stores in Casula, Cabramatta /CanleyVale and this one in Bondi Jct, not sure when Henny Penny finished up in Sydney but they were still in the country towns like Port Macquarie and Grafton in the 80s besides their original home town of Newcastle which is the only place they still exsit now.
Henny Penny at the time back then was interesting as their fried chicken packs only had breast or thigh pieces in them, if you wanted legs or wings you had buy them separately . Very unique taste at the time, their chicken was delicious but Kentucky Fried Chicken was more gimmicky at the time, looking back then Henny Penny was the better product but at the time KFC was more sort after.

 

[horrie hastings]

My first job was working at the KFC at Carlingford.

Did you get sick of the smell of the chicken or were staff allowed products at a discount price ?

 

[Jim Rockford]

Did you get sick of the smell of the chicken or were staff allowed products at a discount price ?

I've always liked the smell of KFC. The only thing I got sick of was prepping the chicken. The rib pieces you had to break the bone and then jam your thumb into the cavity to force the giblets out. That got real old pretty quick. I seem to remember we got some sort of discount and the staff got to divide up any chicken that was left over at time of close.