Royal 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”
- 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
TAA 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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