Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook’s first go to to Luna Park (C8) got here just a little bit later than 1935. His earliest reminiscence of the Milsons Point icon “was an end-of-year journey with classmates from 2D at Gosford High in 1961 and coming away with a caricature created by S. John Ross the Silhouette Man”.
“Desserts of flummery and selfmade ice-cream, each from whipped Carnation milk [C8], had been staples of my childhood years,” writes Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “From one tin got here sufficient to feed our household of seven. Likewise, as the premise of a curry or mornay, one tin offered many a important course.”
Back in ’69, Josephine Piper of Miranda seen the next signal on the door of the Intensive Care Unit at Prince of Wales hospital: “All infants on this unit are on EBM [expressed breast milk] or Carnation.”
“Reading of the raised platform for butchers [C8] jogged my memory of Wicks’ Jewellers in Broken Hill, a nice artwork deco retailer of black marble and chromed metallic, the place a lady, dressed within the store’s sensible scarlet uniform, was perched excessive close to the doorway, whence she would direct prospects to the correct division,” remembers Donald Hawes of Peel. “Jack Wicks reportedly had a pool on the roof for workers utilization and despatched patrons to the cities to search out one of the best jewelry. They additionally produced small sterling silver miner’s shovels (as spoons). Now that was a store.”
Remaining with the Silver City, Reg Richardson of Mosman remembers “as a child going to the Broken Hill butcher store over 75 years in the past, the place I used to surprise if the Vienna schnitzel was made with a slice of meat and the sawdust on the ground. I by no means did discover out.” At least you bought your fill of fibre, Reg.
“So, the loser of the AFL Feline remaining [C8] may undergo a disaster if in Geelong, however could also be lionised in Brisbane, or vice versa?” muses Ross Smith of Waverton.
“On the topic of guide phone exchanges [C8], a few years in the past I wanted to phone my sister Robyn, who resided on Norfolk Island,” says Richard Gulley of Woollahra. “I used to be linked to the operator, and on asking to be put by means of, I used to be knowledgeable she was taking part in tennis on the time and was not out there. However, the operator can be becoming a member of her for a success later and would inform her I had known as.”
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