Remembering the Days of the ‘Garbo’
Every Christmas and New Year, it was a tradition to leave some beers out for the garbos….. I’ve just put up the garbage and it got […]
Articles by Bob Byrne
An Australian Country Town 1971
If you ever lived in a country town while you were growing up and then moved to the city, you’ll enjoy this look back in […]
Read All About It…Get the News Hee-ya!!
Remember when there were newspaper boys and girls on almost every corner of the city each afternoon, at tram and bus stops, at traffic lights […]
When the Milky Came Every Day
Remember when you would be woken each morning to the clinking sound of glass bottles as the milky delivered fresh milk to your home? It […]
Remember Those Early Years At School?
Going to school in the 50s, 60s and 70s was a completely different experience from that which our children and grandchildren might have today. In […]
A Chookhouse, the Dunny and a Hills Hoist.
There was a time when almost every backyard in Australia had a chook house, an outdoor dunny, a vegetable garden and either a Hills Hoist […]
Monday Was Always Wash Day
Remember how Monday was always wash day as we were growing up in the boomer years. My own recollections of the mammoth effort that went […]
It Was Sunday Best When ‘Going to Town’
There was a time when people always dressed in their ‘Sunday best’ whenever they ‘went to town’. This photo of the Adelaide Town Hall, taken in 1962, […]
Simple Fun and Games At School.
Before iPads, iPhones, tablets and Wii, kids could make up a game with almost anything, including knuckle bones collected from the Sunday roast! Growing up […]
Are We There Yet?
Do you remember childhood holidays with the family in the 50s and 60s? They generally included long road trips by car, sometimes with a caravan […]