Reminders of your childhood

[Das Gupta]

Watching this as a young nipper - and gutted at the end of every episode week after week after f*cking week when Miss Helena never saw me through the f*cking magic mirror...

She never read my name out either.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Rocking up here ..

And getting a bunch of these..

As a kid, or as an adult - This has always been the showbag of showbags ever since I went to my first easter show at Moore Park as a youngster.

I was lucky to go the last ever Easter show there and can honestly say this post brought back some great memories of that Easter Show.

It wasnt that fun the following year I think it was fairly new at Homebush. I didnt have the old feeling. At Moore Park a lot things looked old and historic and was great.

The show bags were full on. I remember getting a Coca Cola one which was a backpack after eventually convincing my parents which contained all varieties of coke.

We spent all day there and stayed there till night. A lot of places still open including a Milo store, I remember drinking the milo milkshake.

Also that was around the time Super League started and there were two stores, ARL and Super League. Of course me being loyal I went to ARL and saw Tim Brasher there with the pass the ball competition there.

When we went to the Showground stadium at night there were plenty of motorbike stunts and everything.

 

[horrie hastings]

I was lucky to go the last ever Easter show there and can honestly say this post brought back some great memories of that Easter Show.

It wasnt that fun the following year I think it was fairly new at Homebush. I didnt have the old feeling. At Moore Park a lot things looked old and historic and was great.

The show bags were full on. I remember getting a Coca Cola one which was a backpack after eventually convincing my parents which contained all varieties of coke.

We spent all day there and stayed there till night. A lot of places still open including a Milo store, I remember drinking the milo milkshake.

Also that was around the time Super League started and there were two stores, ARL and Super League. Of course me being loyal I went to ARL and saw Tim Brasher there with the pass the ball competition there.

When we went to the Showground stadium at night there were plenty of motorbike stunts and everything.

Growing up in Stewart St Paddington we lived so close to the Showground, my father used to fix the phones in the showground so as kids we were at the show most nights when we got home after school, used to love seeing the wood chopping and many of the farm animals, was terrified of the noise of the fireworks when I was young and used to stick my fingers in my ears, also used to love seeing the meat displays in the Dome building, when the show wasn’t on you could hear the noise from the speedway so loudly from home.

The last year at Moore Park I went on the chairlift 3 times as they said they weren’t relocating it to Homebush, it was also the first time since about 1969 or 1970 that I had been into the pavilion that displayed the cats, it was exactly like I remembered it when I was a young kid. Loved the Moore Park site because I grew up around there.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Disney character Wizz Fizz.

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Wizz Fizz..!!

The trick was to eat the wizz fizz off the spoon without getting saliva on it which would cause it all to glue-up into a ball of sh!ite...

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I was lucky to go the last ever Easter show there and can honestly say this post brought back some great memories of that Easter Show.

It wasnt that fun the following year I think it was fairly new at Homebush. I didnt have the old feeling. At Moore Park a lot things looked old and historic and was great.

The show bags were full on. I remember getting a Coca Cola one which was a backpack after eventually convincing my parents which contained all varieties of coke.

We spent all day there and stayed there till night. A lot of places still open including a Milo store, I remember drinking the milo milkshake.

Also that was around the time Super League started and there were two stores, ARL and Super League. Of course me being loyal I went to ARL and saw Tim Brasher there with the pass the ball competition there.

When we went to the Showground stadium at night there were plenty of motorbike stunts and everything.

Great post.

I worked for Boral in the late 90's and we were contracted to do all the roads & footpaths in the then "new" Olympic precinct and where the Easter show would be relocated to (including the Olympic Stadium where we laid the running track but thats another story..). We were still laying asphalt on on the days leading up to the Easter show in its first year there (and in some parts, on the opening day!). It was actually an awesome time to work there as all the country folk were gathering for the Easter Show... getting shown around all the exhibits, stalls, etc before the show was opened - everyone there was right on it leading up - party central.. Fond memories.

But as fond as those memories are... my fondest are as a kid going to Moore Park in all its chaotic glory. There was just something carnival about it that Homebush could never replicate.

 

[Parra]

I worked with a bloke nicknamed Showbag

 

[El Diablo]

and your nickname was ballbag

 

[Annyong]

and your nickname was ballbag

And your nickname was sackrash.

 

[horrie hastings]

Wizz Fizz..!!

The trick was to eat the wizz fizz off the spoon without getting saliva on it which would cause it all to glue-up into a ball of sh!ite...

I remember the Disney ones had a ring on the handle of the spoon which you would snap off and put on your finger, the trouble was the ring was so small it didn't fit many fingers and also it was so sharp and you could cut yourself trying to put it on.

 

[horrie hastings]

The other thing I remember about growing up in Paddington was that you could hear the roar of the crowd and the siren from the Sports Ground and the SCG from our house, was often at the Sports Ground with my father at the football games but was to young to understand what was going on so played on the hill a lot. I can remember when they painted the Tiger paw prints along the Driver Avenue foot path after the Tigers won the Grand Final in 1969.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

I remember when I got a tv in my room when I turned 13 - I was over the moon, It was one mum n dad had since my earliest memories.. this baby..

I had it up until just a few years ago when it finally kicked the bucket - around the same time everything went digital... might have known it had a great innings and its use on this world had come to an end..

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

I played a shit load of these on a Commodore 64 on that tv above.

The day we upgraded from the cassette to the floppy disk was a special day.

Mind blowing load times.

 

[___]

Who remembers the VCR TV?

 

[captain kaos]

And your nickname was sackrash.

And your name was Box Rot.

 

[captain kaos]

Who remembers the VCR TV?

They have the same now - its the DVD version.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

When shit got real.

 

[Bazal]

When shit got real.

And this classic. "Here's a hint!"


And then Rodimus throws Galvatron across literally the entire galaxy....but the writers follow it up by turning him into a whiny emo so they can appease the whiny emos whining about them killing Optimus and bring him back

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Ah, the transformers movie. Probably the first animated kids film with swear words in it.
One of the 5 year olds favourite toys is hot rod.

 

[thorson1987]

Who remembers the VCR TV?

A staple in classrooms.