Nostalgia

[Buttface]

Yes, true, worth heaps.

I’m not allowed to use them. It’s never really been said but I don’t even know where they are so she must put them away somewhere. I’m just glad it wasn’t me who broke the lid.

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

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.

 

[tiger_one]

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface, 1983.

 

[hank37w]

Here is a single seater I have got in storage in original condition. Picked it up in a private sale on the old Trading Post.

I picked up the bakelite ink well at a market when they were still running years ago at Menangle Trotting Track.

The daughter used to love this when she was a little girl and she is a school teacher these days. I can't part with it because the daughter wants to keep it forever.

 

[hank37w]

You may have noticed a part of this in the background in one of the desk photos.

I got my niece to paint this for me on an old piece of tin and I framed it using some old Western Red Cedar architrave that came out of an old place at Glebe or somewhere that my Builder Brother in Law was working on many years ago. Takes ages to remove 100+ years of coats of paint.

 

[jadtiger]

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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That was the only lottery in our countries history when you didn't want your number (birthday) drawn out.A pox on the LNP for bringing in conscription for men who were too young to vote (18) to fight in Vietnam.

 

[hank37w]

Remember the old cast iron and wood theatre seats. Restored this bank of seats many years ago.

Used a golden shellac and wax finish to get the colouring, the arm rests were made out of Tasmanian Oak with a bit of a ball end and they would have original been screwed down to the floor so I have used a pair of Cypress Pine floor boards to screw it down to so it can be moved around as needed.

Reupholstered with the bare minimum of padding - no wonder they always had an intermission so your butt could recover.

People were a lot slimmer back in those days as they aren't all that generous dimension wise.

Love some of this old shit.

 

[hank37w]

A couple of other old frames I just dug up out of storage.

 

[Todd Packer]

Remember the old cast iron and wood theatre seats. Restored this bank of seats many years ago.

Used a golden shellac and wax finish to get the colouring, the arm rests were made out of Tasmanian Oak with a bit of a ball end and they would have original been screwed down to the floor so I have used a pair of Cypress Pine floor boards to screw it down to so it can be moved around as needed.

Reupholstered with the bare minimum of padding - no wonder they always had an intermission so your butt could recover.

People were a lot slimmer back in those days as they aren't all that generous dimension wise.

Love some of this old shit.

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Yeah nobody went to the gym and yet fat people were an oddity. There was only one fat kid in every class at school. I think it was the law.

 

[tiger_one]

 

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[Buttface]

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Hours of fun.

 

[Buttface]

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I used to tape a few pens together so I was doing multiple lines at a time.

 

[coivtny]

Happy birthday to actress Beverly D’Angelo! Beverly appeared in numerous films in the ‘80s including the Vacation series alongside Chevy Chase & Coal Miner’s Daughter.


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Didn't mind revealing the 'girls' in her movies.

 

[hank37w]

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Did you do the old trick of sticking a few pens together?

Just realised that Buttface was awake to that old stunt.

 

[Halbrowne61]

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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I was at Stakes Day at Flemington last Saturday and whilst I saw several, what looked to be perfect 10s, Nadia wasn’t among them.
Gotta love the Melbourne spring racing carnival!
PS happy birthday Nadia.

 

[hank37w]

Geez I'm having a bit of a day out today. I've even got one of them.

 

[tiger_one]

Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen died on this day in 2016.
(Saw him in concert in Sydney a few years before he died - great experience)