Reminders of your childhood

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Anyone here remember Toxic Crusaders?

The green dude with flag I do but don't remember the others.

 

[Life's Good]

Hard to sext on this baby. Although you could slam it down to register your disgust at whoever was on the other end.

 

[King hit]

 

[El Diablo]

Old Sydney Town - surely any kid who went to a school in Sydney in the early 80's had a school excursion there.

yup went there a few times

 

[El Diablo]

 

[innsaneink]

My past times

This very machine, wed play forever on 20c after a few scoobies

My old club

Mt transport

Malver star dragster

Bahne super flex...you knew it if you copped a stray one in the ankle

 

[horrie hastings]

The old Manly ferry and at the time the more modern hydrofoil.

 

[innsaneink]

What's that mate?

Thats for kids with no mates

 

[horrie hastings]

The chair lift at the Royal Easter Show Moore Park, used to love going on this. Notice the gratuitous cigarette advertising.

 

[horrie hastings]

Some of the old fast food take away that are not around anymore.

Hartee's was very short lived, it got caught out using dog food at one of its Sydney outlets, I remember one being at the Royal Easter Show.

 

[horrie hastings]

Mr Chips

 

[horrie hastings]

Homestead chicken. I used to frequent the one at Kingsford a lot, so much nicer than Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Kingsford outlet actually replaced a Mr Chips which used to be on the site.

 

[horrie hastings]

I am going to include Henny Penny in the list, I know Henny Penny is still around in Newcastle and the Hunter region but back in the very late 60's till the mid 70s there were outlets all around Sydney and even up to the early 80s there were outlets still in country NSW townships, back in the very late 60s and early 70s it went head to head with the launch of Kentucky Fried Chicken and honestly Henny Penny was the far superior product. I still call in to Henny Penny when driving back from the north coast for old times sake but it is no where near as good as it once was, it still craps over KFC even now though.

 

[El Diablo]

 

[roofromoz]

Space probe 7...

The Bush Beast. Waiting in line and seeing the wooden foundations rattle when the rollercoaster went past.

 

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Went to a filming of one in the mid 80s... it was up past Castle Hill somewhere, maybe around Cherrybrook?

 

[roofromoz]

Mr Chips

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Is that Earlwood?

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

 

[horrie hastings]

Is that Earlwood?

Yep that was the Earlwood outlet. Its funny I remember Mr Chips so clearly from my childhood but I have looked long and hard on the web to find out anything about it now and I came up with a blank apart from finding that one pic. There were outlets at Kingsford, Maroubra Junction , Coogee and the Earlwood one, probably more but I remember those ones, not sure exactly when they disappeared but the Maroubra and Kingsford ones were gone sometime in the 80s, I think the Earlwood and Coogee were still around in the early to even mid 90s.

 

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