Ah, the Taren Point Drive-in brings back great memories. Apart from the films Mum had her her driving lessons from Dad there when it was empty during the day. It was usually on the way to the sand hills at Kurnell. Remember sitting in the back of our new EH station wagon, kangaroo-ing all over the joint. What a sight that would have been. She never drove again until we got an automatic (Powerglide) HR a few years later.
First theatre movie I saw was in Cooma - a Mary Poppins film. We were on a snow holiday and the EH lost a front wheel (it actually fell off) and we were stuck in Cooma.
I used to love Mondays at school, at Carlton South. We got 20 cents every Monday which would buy a pie with sauce, a sunny boy (triangle ice block) and a bag of lollies. The milk bar on JA used to supply the bought lunches which we’d order on a brown paper bag. Heaven.
I thought we were rich back then. I remember Dad getting the new EH filled up at the Esso in Hurstville around the corner from the first St George Building Society and he told the guy to keep the change from a green $2 note.
I also remember the first $50 note I saw was when Dad came home from a
GI. cordial was tasty and as you said great ice blocks but I was sipping beer about the time that came onto the market Drakon . But cracker night or Empire day as it was known as then was indeed a great time for all , probably because of the half day of school . And those huge bon-fires that we all built lt the night skies for quite some time .
I think half the fun was collecting the branches of trees and accumulated newspapers with just a touch of kerosene to ignite it all in to a ferocious blaze . They were days when being a kid was all about having fun in the fresh air and open spaces of the bush , unlike today’s generation whom seem to have their heads stuck in front of computers and video games , well some of them not all .
big win on the pokies at the Taj. We were so, so rich that night!
