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 […]
Memories
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Your First Car, A Rite of Passage
I came across a fascinating newspaper article recently which asked the question: “Do young people of today still think of a car the way we […]