Nostalgia

Buttface said:
Those ads trick me into thinking VB was a good beer, and a box of twisty’s was only about $18, so as a 16 year old with a couple of mates you could afford to get a box and walk the streets till it was finished. Then I got into a pub and had a New on tap in a Schooner glass, now that was heaven compared to vb.
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VB n New having price wars on the 30 pack, brand loyalty went out the window
 
hank37w said:
I think she could have been but from the late 50's up until the 70's they lived at (I think it was) 32 Albert Street Cabramatta and I lived in Lovoni Street which ran parallel to it.

Margaret was a staunch Labor woman and actually had a very strong influence and played a huge part in Gough's political life.

Gough was the Federal Member for Werriwa and their Daughter, who I knew as Cathy (actual name may have been Caroline or something like that) was a very tall girl like her mother and I think was a year ahead of me at Cabramatta High School and was there until I think probably 4th form (year 10 these days in around about 1970) and then disappeared probably to attend some fancy Ladies College somewhere.

I think it was a cousin named Dennis that may have lived with them at some stage because I recall him attending Cabramatta High School for a short period back around that late 60's, early 70's period as well.

I was only 16 at the time but I was outside the Cabramatta Civic Centre with a couple of mates handing out how to vote cards on Saturday 2nd December 1972 and was in the Whitlam's back yard having a couple of beers that night with the locals having a victory celebration that night.

I actually souvenired a beer jug from the night that I still have to this day. I believe that the Ireland's from the Sunnybrook Hotel provided the refreshments and glasses etc for the occasion and were chasing payment for a while. Don't know if they ever got paid for their part of the catering.

Have some fond memories growing up in Cabramatta back then when it was a totally different place to what it is now.

Incidently it didn't take Gough long to give Cabramatta the flick after becoming Prime Minister.
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I was referring to Germaine Greer. I thought she was a Melbourne girl. My wife lived in Longfield St, Cabramatta from aged 12 until I married her. They were English immigrants who lived on the Cabramatta hostel for a few months until they bought the house in Longfield St. I believe Rocky Gattelari was also a famous Cabra resident.
 
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