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Hosted by yours truly Bob Byrne, former radio announcer and talks personality on Radio 5DN in Adelaide from 1983 to 2004. Previous to that I was an announcer at 2GO Gosford on the Central Coast of NSW, 5KA and 5AD in Adelaide and 5AU in Port Augusta in SA. I am currently a regular columnist with the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide and guest writer on Adelaide Now.
I have written and published 3 books, “Adelaide Remember When”, “Australia Remember When” and “The Best of Boomer”, a selection of stories from my newspaper columns.
What started out as a bit of fun, sharing on Facebook some of my memories of Australia and Adelaide while growing up from the 50’s to the 80’s, has developed into a fun obsession! In just over 3 years I have almost 150,000 fans on the combined Facebook website/pages, thousands of people viewing and sharing the daily posts, hundreds joining in with comments and their own memories, plus many thousands of likes for the individual posts.
When I started to get a big following on the page I began to worry that I would soon run out of ideas and memories to post, but then I was reminded of something I learned from all my years on radio, “one programme at a time”. By that I mean that each day something will present itself as a reminder of the years gone by. Somebody will write a comment on the page, there’ll be something in the paper, a friend or colleague will say something which in turn will start the old memory juices flowing and before you know, there’s a memory from the past to write about.
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