Nostalgia

[AmericanHistoryX]

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

NRL Grand Final Day 2023 is Here

so what about a quick look back to one of the great Grand Finals that the Magpies played against Saints, all those years ago:

(Picture of the Western Suburbs Magpies Team and Early Incarnation of a Magpie Mascot in the 1961 Grand Final vs St George Dragons)

 

[Buttface]

NRL Grand Final Day 2023 is Here

so what about a quick look back to one of the great Grand Finals that the Magpies played against Saints, all thise years ago:

(Picture of the Western Suburbs Magpies Team and Early Incarnation of a Magpie Mascot in the 1961 Grand Final vs St George Dragons)


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WTF is going on with that mascot outfit? Are they garbage bags tied together?

 

[upthetigers]

Lived on Parra Rd Croydon near rosebank.
So much stuff to do playing on the street back then around there.
When I went to Ashfield bhs we used to jig school a bit and smoke the wacky tobakky.
The old masonic hall near the station was empty for years and a few mates burnt it down accidentally... Lucky I was busted for something else at school and was sitting out side the firm masters office when I heard the fires heading down there
Big bug trouble those lads were in... Court at yasmar and doing time for some also.


The old abandoned servo between Parra and Liverpool road was a good place to muck around

Th e things we got up to as kids on the streets I see some of the younger gen missed... They've lived sheltered lives

Lol what a hero.

 

[Buttface]

NRL Grand Final Day 2023 is Here

so what about a quick look back to one of the great Grand Finals that the Magpies played against Saints, all those years ago:

(Picture of the Western Suburbs Magpies Team and Early Incarnation of a Magpie Mascot in the 1961 Grand Final vs St George Dragons)


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Do you know what the player is holding on to ? Some kind of mantle piece display thingy?

 

[Demps]

Lol what a hero.

Boys will be Boys.

Did every town have an abandoned servo that the lads use to play around in?
Swear down 😆

Ah the golden days...

 

[tiger_one]

Do you know what the player is holding on to ? Some kind of mantle piece display thingy?

I really don't know, but I'll try and find out.

 

[tiger_one]

The old bench seat - long time since we had 3 people in the front.

 

[tiger_one]

Robert Palmer videos, Addicted to Love and Simply Irresistible

 

[tiger_one]

The CHAPPELLs!
Trevor, Ian and Greg with their Dad.

 

[tiger_one]

You're goin' home in the back of a Paddy Wagon..........

 

[tiger_one]

 

[jadtiger]

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I can even remember having to book all overseas telephone calls through a person in the PMG on the phone

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

I like you Tiger One.

 

[Tucker]

Boys will be Boys.

Did every town have an abandoned servo that the lads use to play around in?
Swear down 😆

Ah the golden days...

Golden Fleece

 

[tiger_one]

On this day, 5 October (1949), the man who gave us Vegemite, Cyril Callister, 56, passed away. He invented the all-time Aussie favourite, Vegemite, in the 1920s and went on to be one of our greatest food technologists.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

Vegemite. I remember travelling to Los Angeles years ago. There was Vegemite in the fridge. I asked her why. She said you were an Aussie. Never touched the Vegemite. But felt the love and let her know.

 

[Halbrowne61]

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Hi TO, had to reply coz went for coffee whilst on a Sunday drive recently, and PRC was just leaving the coffee shop in Lancefield, country Victoria. He and his wife shuffled off down the street whilst everyone stood there trying to work out who he was. I read he’s 88 now and he looked every bit of it but was dressed like a real bohemian with beret and all.
Was quite a character on telly in his day.
Keep up the interesting tidbits.
Cheers, HalB