Nostalgia

Video Village aired on HSV7 from 1962 - 1966.
Standing on the set are Liz Harris ("Mayoress") and Danny Webb ("Mayor").

So relateable to kids at the time as the simple set mirrored a table top game format, like ludo, snakes and ladders etc.

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What a weird design. It's probably worth a bit though, kind of like a coin with a minting error.
And champion @Leck, to maybe explain more:

In January 1989, the Australian Soccer Federation dropped its $300,000-a-year tobacco sponsorship with Rothmans (Winfield brand) to sign a landmark $1.5 million-a-year deal with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).

This transition briefly rebranded the national team into the "Quit" Socceroos to promote anti-smoking health messages
 
And champion @Leck, to maybe explain more:

In January 1989, the Australian Soccer Federation dropped its $300,000-a-year tobacco sponsorship with Rothmans (Winfield brand) to sign a landmark $1.5 million-a-year deal with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).

This transition briefly rebranded the national team into the "Quit" Socceroos to promote anti-smoking health messages
I do remember the Quit campaign, however I was only 6 at the time. It's just how poorly it was designed.

To me it reads 'Australian Quit Socceroos'
 
And champion @Leck, to maybe explain more:

In January 1989, the Australian Soccer Federation dropped its $300,000-a-year tobacco sponsorship with Rothmans (Winfield brand) to sign a landmark $1.5 million-a-year deal with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth).

This transition briefly rebranded the national team into the "Quit" Socceroos to promote anti-smoking health messages
I do remember the Quit campaign, however I was only 6 at the time. It's just how poorly it's designed.

To me it reads
A conductor collecting fares on a Sydney bus in 1978.


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Bathurst – 1963
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In 1963 the Armstrong 500 made the move from Phillip Island in Victoria to Bathurst in the western plains of NSW, but it made no difference to the result as previous year’s winners Harry Firth and Bob Jane scored in their Ford Cortina GT – making it a hat trick of Great Race wins for the pairing.

Firth and Jane had won the previous year in a Falcon, but the early model six-cylinder Ford was not suited to competition and would not be seen in the race again until the advent of the V8 Falcon XR GT four years later.
In the meantime, the 1963 race was significant in that it marked the first half-way serious appearance in the race for Holden.

In what was a tentative effort – at a time when General Motors’ world wide policy was not to go racing – the upgraded Holden EH ‘S4’ performed solidly to finish second in the hands of Frank Morgan and Ralph Sach (shown here), just 20 seconds ahead of the third placed Cortina of Bruce McPhee and Graham Ryan.



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Richie Benaud played 63 test matches for Australia and scored 2201 runs at an average of 24.45 and took 248 wickets at an average of 27.03 between 1951 and 1964.


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In the mid-1960s Pat Carroll and her friend Olivia Newton-John formed a singing duo called Pat and Olivia.
Having won a song contest in Melbourne, they travelled to the United Kingdom.
They achieved some success there on TV and in the clubs.
After a period of performing there, Carroll's visa expired, forcing her to return to Australia where she would eventually marry ex-Strangers member, John Farrar.
Olivia Newton-John stayed on and launched her own international career.



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