Nostalgia

[tiger_one]

That photo would have been taken very close to the Astor picture theatre.
And, I had an EH Holden like the one on the LHS of the photo.
Mine was blue/green with the white roof.

 

[tiger_one]

I owned a Monaro like the one parked in the car park, except mine was dark green with the gold stripes.

Maybe something like this:

 

[BZN]

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Still haven't seen it...is it worth watching?

 

[BZN]

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I did this for three days in a row just recently, except my words were
"I must not upset @cochise 😀.
But bugger it, it didn't work 😛

 

[BZN]

Maybe something like this:


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Yep, thanks tiger_one. From memory it was an HT GTS Monaro, but it was only a 2-speed auto gearbox.
I bought it off a 2nd cousin, and he never bothered to tell me he had pranged it at some stage and fitted it with what appeared to be a homemade exhaust.
I was lucky I didn't get picked up by the cops for noise pollution, and I never really enjoyed driving it as the suspension was so stiff.

 

[BZN]

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The 2 in front in the bottom rhs photo look familiar?

 

[BZN]

This is how the Australian Government did the National Service Ballots for the Vietnam War:

Numbered marbles, each representing a day of the year, were placed in a barrel. A predetermined number were then drawn individually and randomly by hand. If the number picked corresponded to the day of the year on which a person was born, they were required to present themselves for national service.





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War of any sort is horrendously terrible with the no. of innocent civilians and soldiers being brutally and grotesquely killed.
And it's lunatics like Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon that send the troops out.
But add to that, conscription was a disgrace.

I must have been more trouble when I was at that age to be called up than I am now, as my truly dear Mother who was a Liberal Party voter was perfectly happy for me to be called up..."it'll make a man out of you".

Luckily for me, my birthday marble didn't come out of the barrel.

 

[tiger_one]

The 2 in front in the bottom rhs photo look familiar?

1993 film, a mix of fun comedy and melodrama starring

• Charlie Sheen
• Kiefer Sutherland
• Chris O'Donnell
• Oliver Platt
• Tim Curry
• Rebecca De Mornay
• Gabrielle Anwar

 

[BZN]

2 champs of yesteryear:


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McEnroe should have been banned from playing top tennis.
He was an obnoxious jerk.

 

[tiger_one]

Still haven't seen it...is it worth watching?

Boxing history and De Niro - what's not to love? 😉

 

[tiger_one]

McEnroe should have been banned from playing top tennis.
He was an obnoxious jerk.

But he was a champion gifted obnoxious jerk .......😉

 

[BZN]

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I had my clock radio tuned to him every morning.
Great to wake up to something to laugh at.

 

[BZN]

Boxing history and De Niro - what's not to love? 😉

De Niro great...boxing not great at all.

 

[BZN]

And here's another Sydney double decker bus photo to step back in time..(1971 to be exact) ........



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I did the route 500 to Top Ryde probably hundreds of times, but not in a double decker.

 

[BZN]

INXS - 1st September 1977
(Hutchence is always up there for me)
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INXS "Live from Wembly Stadium" on Ch 7 tonight.

 

[BZN]

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I did with Barnes driving school...and in a VW beetle.