Nostalgia

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7 February 1968, eighteen-year-old British-born Australian singer Johnny Farnham promotes his new song 'Sadie the Cleaning Lady' at the Americana Hotel in Kings Cross, Sydney.

Sadie (The Cleaning Lady) was Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham's first solo single. The novelty song was released in November 1967 and was No. 1 on the Go-Set National Singles Chartsfor five weeks in early 1968 (six weeks on the Australian charts in 1968 based on the Kent Music Report).

It was the largest-selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in the 1960’s. 'Sadie' sold approximately 183,000 copies in Australia and was the highest-selling Australian single until "Up There Cazaly" was released in 1979.

 

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The debut of Vain, October 12, 1968.
Shako was the heavily backed favourite at 4/9, finishing second.
Vain started at 6/1 and won by 2 lengths with a further 6 lengths back to Big Scope in third.

 

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When Roses WERE Roses .....

 

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Have a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down...............

 

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"Take Vincent's with Confidence!"

 

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Normie Rowe and Johnny Young

(They were once young talent .... 😉 )

 

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Before the 1960-61 tour by the West Indies, Australia’s cricket selector Don Bradman asked the nation’s captain Richie Benaud for a sit-down.
In Benaud’s room at Lennon’s Hotel in Brisbane, Bradman told him: “The selectors will look in kindly fashion on players who play aggressively and are clearly thinking about those who pay their money at the turnstiles.”
In the previous decade crowds had dwindled and interest in Test cricket was beyond waning.
“Bradman made it clear to Benaud that the drabness and dullness of the game could not continue, it needed to be attractive,” Australia’s leading cricket historian, Mike Coward, said.
“Benaud took that on board. He spoke to [rival captain] Frank Worrell, who also took that on board.”
What followed was one of the most famous Test series in the game’s history including the tied Test that stands today as the most exciting match played, because both teams attacked for the win rather than defending for the draw.

 

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McHale's Navy

 

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The last Australian male to win the Australian Open pocketing $8,156.

Mark then went on the be the last Grand Slam tournament winner to clean my tennis court when he owned a tennis court maintenance company about ten years ago. I can't imagine that record ever being broken.

 

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They said she was too old to compete and too much of a mother to win. At 30, she showed up to the Olympics and won four gold medals in eight days.
Summer, 1948. London, England.

Among them was a 30-year-old Dutch woman named Fanny Blankers-Koen.
She was a wife. A mother of two young children. And according to most of the world, too old and too distracted to compete seriously.
She had been running since she was a teenager. She'd competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics at age 18, but didn't medal. Then came war, occupation of the Netherlands, years when training meant running through bombed streets and competing seemed impossible.

By 1948, she had two children—Jan and Fanny Jr. She trained while managing a household. She ran early in the morning before her children woke. She fit workouts between cooking and childcare.
Her husband, Jan Blankers, was her coach.

On July 30, 1948, she lined up for the 100-meter sprint final.
She exploded from the blocks and crossed the finish line first in 11.9 seconds.
Gold medal. First event.
The crowd was stunned. The "old" housewife had just beaten the world's best young sprinters.

Three days later, she competed in the 80-meter hurdles—a grueling race that required explosive power and technical precision.
She won again. Another gold.

The press started paying attention. This wasn't a fluke. This was dominance.

On August 4, she ran the 200 meters in pouring rain. The track was slick. Conditions were miserable.
She won by a full meter. Third gold medal.

By now, the entire stadium was watching her. The Dutch fans chanted her name. Even critics were forced to acknowledge they were witnessing something extraordinary.

On August 6, she ran the anchor leg of the 4×100 meter relay.
The Dutch team was in third place when she took the baton. Fanny exploded down the track, overtaking two runners to win by mere inches.
Fourth gold medal.

In eight days, Fanny Blankers-Koen won four Olympic gold medals—100m, 200m, 80m hurdles, and 4×100m relay.
She became the first woman in Olympic history to win four golds in a single Games.

(She could have won more. She also held world records in the high jump and long jump, but Olympic rules limited athletes to three individual events. If not for those restrictions, she might have left London with six or seven golds.)

 

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Batman January 12 1966
The TV show Batman show debuts on ABC (US).
It starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin who protected Gotham City from an array of supervillains, portrayed by such famed actors as Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Roddy McDowall, Art Carney, Shelley Winters, Vincent Price, Liberace, Milton Berle, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, among others.




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Holy Time Warp, tiger_one 🤪 🍷 🦇