I lived in Kaniva and still remember my phone number with 053 area code. Actually still I have one of the old rotary phones from that house with the number on it.
Also remember that we had two channels on the TV: BTV6 & ABC. And you had to get up to change between them. Clunk, clunk. And remember watching the, AIDS bowling grim reaper, ad on it: always wear condoms, always…
Anyone remember Pizza Hut’s all you can eat buffets on Thursday evenings in Melbourne back in the mid-90s? Geez, my mates and I used to wreck the one on Elizabeth St.
Watching re-runs of F Troop and Hogans Heros and still getting a laugh. Grandkids think I’m mad.
Sign me up.
Far out.
Also watched a YouTube on the making of the game a few weeks ago. Turns out there was a “Jordan Code” … On Michael Jordan’s personal version.
Also turns out that if you were playing as the Bulls, the probability of you making a last second winner if playing Detroit was 0.00%
Hmm, does it make me old if I remember the code for the guy with pipe and glasses was SNO?
Yeah, I was Cheltenham 93 / 583 / 9583
Although given the market gardens started at the next street (hello BMX track), I guess it was kind of the sticks…
Old enough to have caught trains on the Pt Melbourne and St Kilda lines that went over the Yarra.
Old enough to remember when there were manual railway gates on the Nepean Highway at Moorabbin station, before Patterson station was even built. The Nepean Highway had one lane each way in those days.
I held the record at my local for a number of years - 42 slices at a pre-volleyball dinner.
Ah, teenage immunity from weight gain, how I miss thee.
Hot summers day leaving Flinders Street with the doors on the old red rattler open and the timber pull down shades on the windows.I slept through my stop a few times ended up at Bonbeach.
There’s still a few around. Ballarat has one.
The old red rattlers had 3 compartments, 2 smoking and 1 non-smoking. We used to cram in the non-smoking compartment, along with all the other mums and little kids. Sometimes we got a seat, sometimes we didn’t, depending on if we were a bit late to catch one of the last off peak trains. IIRC the last off peak train was just before 4.30.
When l got older and started to hit the city on a Saturday night, l hitched home, as the trains stopped running early, about midnight. l never had any problems getting a lift. I knew it was a late night (about 4 AM) if l was getting into bed and could hear the horse and milk cart coming down the road, but l knew it was a really late night if l was getting into bed and could hear the first train heading into the city (around 5 AM) on Sunday morning from Highett station. Other times l could hear freight trains powering up as they came out of Moorabbin station, heading south.
Are you old enough where you now go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 5am, hearing the same trains?
No. l usually go to bed between 12 and 1, wake between 6 - 7. l don’t take afternoon naps, never have.
Seeing whoever remains of the Paxtons pick up their pension from Centrelink on an A Current Affair special in a few years won’t make me feel old at all.
Neither will watching A Current Affair for starters.
What about the old clock style traffic lights down around Mordialloc (from memory)
When the suburban phone numbers had 2 letters at the start…we were LA1751 then XJ6056.
There were 9 letters used, which later changed to numbers. I suspect that was because North Essendon started with F-U-X, then changed to 379.
And the Currency change ads…
In come the dollars
In come the cents
Out go the pounds
The shillings
And the pence.
To the tune of Click Go the Shears
And the ending
On the Fourteenth of February
Nineteen Sixty-Six
And we had a postcode of S2, in West St Kilda.
Current postcodes came in in the late sixties.
Signs of old age. When you read this, and can immediately remember the remainder of a friend’s parents number from 30 years ago. But you don’t know anyones phone number from the last 20 years.
waking up sore for no reason.
I remember going into a Pizza Hut to actually sit down and eat there.
And play table-top Ms Pac Man or Galaga while you waited.