Nostalgia

Nadia Elena Comăneci (November 12, 1961) is 62 years old today! Winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
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Wow she’s the exact same age as me! And here was me thinking she was just a kid during those Olympics, turns out I was too! Haha I don’t feel so old now 😂
 
I hope it’s the latter coz I kinda like being an Aussie, especially a 5th generation !
I think that's a pretty old stencil Hb61 when Vict. definitely wasn't part of Straya.
If you only moved there 6 years ago, there must have been a whole heap of AFL players kick it back into place, maybe :p, prior to that, just sayin.
I reckon you're safe.
 
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The shopping strip along Burwood Road at Burwood in Sydney pictured in 1965.
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A few double decker buses from Burwood Depot got stuck under the bridge.
They obviously didn't see the sign "single deck buses only".

I used to do the run from Burwood to North Ryde
and getting past the Private Girls School around the back of Burwood Park was a nightmare when the girls were leaving school.
Some of the parents would park in No parking zones while waiting for their children to come out which meant an already narrow road was down to one lane, and with cars wanting to go in both directions it was a real :poop: fight.
I deliberately blocked the road one day by driving the bus in front of a stream of oncoming cars.
The cops had to come out to open the road again.
I just hope a few of the drivers of the illegally parked cars got booked.
 
And don’t forget the Showgrounds speedway as well - usually Saturday night I think - awesome.
A couple of mates and myself went to the Showground Speedway nearly every Sat. night for a couple of years.

Simply the best entertainment...solos, sidecars, speed cars and hot rods/super modifieds all on the one night.
The Solo's were COOL, but the Sidecars RULE.

On a couple of occasions there was even ladies from W D and H O Wills handing out free cigarettes :eek:.
 
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