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    Retro Australia – Random Remembrances

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    • louiefly19Royal Easter Show at the Showground
    • Manzil Room nightclub
    • School excursions to places like Warragamba Dam, Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and Old Sydney Town
    • Cracker Night
    • Louie the Fly. First introduced in television advertisements for Mortein fly spray in 1957, it was declared that Louie “spreads disease with the greatest of ease – straight from the rubbish tip to you”.
    • Telstra was known as Telecom
    • Russell Fairfax, Arthur Beetson, Ian Schubert, Eric Simms etc and Rex “The Moose” Mossop
    • Al Grassby’s colourful ties
    • Radio 2SM with Ian Mcrae and Frank Hyde calling the Sunday football “its high, its long, its a goal”
    • “C’mon Aussie C’mon
    • Ugh boots
    • World Championship Wrestling with Mario Milano, Steve Rachman & others
    • Joe The Gadget Man
    • “You Need Uncle Sam”unclesam
    • Romper Room
    • Colour television was introduced in 1976, and at first very expensive
    • No Eastern Suburbs railway, but green double-decker buses where from the top you could look down the glass at the driver
    • The “Happy Little Vegemites” jingle first appeared in radio ads in 1954 before moving to TV in 1956. The jingle is still used in Vegemite advertising.
    • Introduction of calculators to replace the logarithm tables and compasses
    • elcaballoTAA and Ansett were Australian domestic airlines
    • “Slip, Slop, Slap” from the Anti-Cancer Council
    • Smoking was allowed on public transport
    • Chiko Rolls
    • Nude bathing at Lady Jane Beach
    • Streaking at cricket matches
    • Stud Cola
    • World Series Cricket
    • El Caballo Blanco
    • Orange People
    • Safari Suits
    • JAG Jeans
    • “Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars”
    • Pashing Off and Going Around
    • Cyclone Tracy Christmas 1974
    • Advance Australia Fair replacing God Save The Queen as National Anthem
    • Belinda Green being crowned Miss World in 1972
    • Spunky, Scream and Sweet magazines
    • Sister Janet Mead
    • The dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 11 November 1975
    • Duke cigarettes advertised by Norman Gunston
    • Bullens Animal World and the African Lion Safari
    • “Sic ’em, Rex!”

     

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