Reminders of your childhood

[horrie hastings]

Here is the Imperial Leather ad.

 

[horrie hastings]

oh my goodness the chips

I just about wet myself watching that again.

 

[horrie hastings]

A sound blast from the past today.

I was listening to 702 in the car (AM radio) and they played Sunnboys Alone With You. That instant reminder of pop music on an AM radio. Takes you straight back to the era in a way that stereo or digital sound can't do.

It was all we heard - AM radio or mix tapes from AM radio played on something like this with one speaker.

While I was driving around WA last October down around Denmark all I could pick up on the radio was an AM station at Albany, the sound quality was terrible but they played some great music.

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

While I was driving around WA last October down around Denmark all I could pick up on the radio was an AM station at Albany, the sound quality was terrible but they played some great music.

Nice part of the world down there.

A big lesbian community down there from memory.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Enjoy:

I did!

also @Parra @horrie hastings and @___ posts..

I used to catch the train to school from Helensburgh to Heathcote from '86 to '91. Used to get most of these although only the Red Rattler once. They must have had availability issues with the other fleets and rolled it out. And boy did it rattle! And yeah the smell of those brakes and sticking your head out the window..... does take me back.

Funny I now work in the Rail Industry and we do a lot of project work on fleets, including some of the older ones still in service. But some of the retired trains are still stabled in and around Sydney. I was at the Eveleigh depot a few years ago and got shown around one of old maintenance sheds where a lot of old timers (most lifetime employees in the rail industry now retired) still tinker on the retired/historic fleets, including old locos. Awesome. Most are now privately owned and get out on the network once or twice a year.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

 

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I remember I had a dollarmites account.

 

[Parra]

 

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I remember I had a dollarmites account.

@madunit it won't let me edit my post for some reason so here is the rest of it.

I remember I had a dollarmites account. I just left it there and put some money in it whenever I got a big amount. Then when I turned 18 I got a letter from the Commonwealth Bank telling me that I'll be getting charged $5 per month in account fees. Being a fulltime student with no job or allowance, that was a HUGE blow. I went to that branch the following day, closed my account, went up the road to ANZ, opened a no-fees account with them.

Thank you very much Commonwealth Bank for threatening to charge a fulltime student with no income monthly fees... best thing you ever did!

 

[Reflector]

I may be weird but I used to love that smell! Bloody intoxicating.

The detonators on the rails were more of a thing back then as well, used to scare the shit out of you especially if you were in the front carriage... was like a shotgun blast. I remember the police coming to primary school to do safety presentations in the 80's and showing some pretty graphic photos of kids missing fingers etc. from stuffing around with them.

One hot day back when I was a teenager, I was down at the local park near the cricket nets when I smelt that scent in the air. I soon worked out it was the smell of the rubber backing of the cricket nets, coming up in the heat. I went over and smelt that rubber- awesome flashbacks! Thankfully, nobody was around to witness me doing it.

 

[madunit]

@madunit it won't let me edit my post for some reason so here is the rest of it.

I remember I had a dollarmites account. I just left it there and put some money in it whenever I got a big amount. Then when I turned 18 I got a letter from the Commonwealth Bank telling me that I'll be getting charged $5 per month in account fees. Being a fulltime student with no job or allowance, that was a HUGE blow. I went to that branch the following day, closed my account, went up the road to ANZ, opened a no-fees account with them.

Thank you very much Commonwealth Bank for threatening to charge a fulltime student with no income monthly fees... best thing you ever did!

I did the exact same thing! Switched to ANZ about a week after turning 18.

There was about 12 cents left in Dollarmites account, even though I told CBA to close it, twice (once at the branch and once over the phone)

They spent the next six months charging me a $5 fee, which I never paid. Then they rang me to tell me that they were closing the account and that they would waive the accrued fees. I said "I know you will, because I told you to close it twice, when it still made 12 cents in it."

They hung up on me. Been with ANZ ever since.

 

[madunit]

they used to censor this ad with a little black box unless it was shown late

That ad and the Grim Reaper ad about AIDS were pretty f**king full on.

 

[madunit]

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Reminded me of this... on Channel 2 (before at became known as the ABC..)

 

[AJB1102]

A big lesbian community down there from memory.

@Haynetrain this may interest you.

 

[El Diablo]

did anyone ever watch this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085683/

can't find the boppy theme song for it

 

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did anyone ever watch this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085683/

can't find the boppy theme song for it

Can't say I did - it only went for one season though so mustn't have got the ratings.

 

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Reminded me of this... on Channel 2 (before at became known as the ABC..)

That reminds me of this...