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“When our children were in primary school, we discovered the Willoughby Leisure Centre was showing Jaws (C8) in the evening,” writes Anne Cook of Ermington. “Cost included a flotation device to watch it with while in the pool. The best entertainment in a long time.”
“People may groan at the Cenny Coast pothole puns (C8),” says Paul Koff of Glenhaven. “But I’m Entranced by them and find them quite Avocative.”
“Further to Lance Dover’s unaccompanied train trip to Taree (C8), growing up on Norfolk Island in the late 1960s, my five-year-old sister was dispatched on her own by plane to Sydney as an unaccompanied minor,” recalls Bronwyn Horton of Balgownie. “After a five-hour flight on a DC-4, she was duly collected by my grandmother from Mascot for a month-long visit and returned the same way. Needless to say the hostesses and fellow female passengers spoilt her no end. She loved it.”
“At age 11, my journey from Oldham in Lancashire to my boarding school near Newport, Shropshire meant: walk, bus, walk, train, train, train, bus, walk, carrying a suitcase with no wheels,” says Barry Riley of Woy Woy. “It took me half a day. Now it takes an hour and a half by car.”
“Someone a bit more rural (C8), Ted Richards? Don’t kid, man,” denounces Jim Dewar of Davistown. “After experiencing a short cruise and some urban living, Nicole should remain Dead Calm and refuse to be Beguiled by thoughts of meeting someone To Die For at a Bush Christmas.”
Alison Brooks of Hope Island (Qld) remembers when “at primary school after our teacher had read Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (C8) to us, we were instructed to write a book review. I was puzzled when most of my classmates asked me how to spell my first name.”
“My partner and I owned a restaurant in a central western county town,” writes Duncan McRobert of Hawks Nest. “At the time, our phone service was provided by a manual exchange (C8), staffed entirely by ladies. We were only open four days a week. If, on our days off, someone called to make a reservation, the operator would take their details and phone them through when we were back on deck. True country hospitality.”
“Can you imagine what fun social media would have had with party lines?” posits Caz Willis of Bowral. “More rapid distribution than recipes at a CWA meeting!”
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