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    Retro Australia – Random Remembrances

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    • Advance Australia Fair replacing God Save The Queen as the National Anthem
    • Al Grassby’s colourful ties
    • Anyhow* have a Winfield (with Hoges)

     

    • Belinda Green being crowned Miss World in 1972
    • Big Rooster

    • Bullens Animal World and the African Lion Safari

      • Chiko Rolls
      • “C’mon Aussie C’mon
      • elcaballoColour television was introduced in 1976, and at first very expensive
      • Cracker Night
      • Cyclone Tracy Christmas 1974
      • The dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 11 November 1975
      • Duke cigarettes advertised by Norman Gunston
      • El Caballo Blanco
      • Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars
      • “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.
      • louiefly19JAG Jeans
      • Joe The Gadget Man
      • KB Lager
      • Life. Be In It.
      • 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”.
      • Manzil Room nightclub
      • No Eastern Suburbs railway, but green double-decker buses where from the top you could look down the glass at the driver
      • Nude bathing at Lady Jane Beach
      • Old Sydney Town

      • Orange People
      • Paradise Gardens, Cattai, Sydney

    • “Pashing Off” and “Going Around”
    • Radio 2SM with Ian Mcrae and Frank Hyde calling the Sunday football “its high, its long, its a goal”
    • Romper Room
    • Royal Easter Show at the Showground
    • Russell Fairfax, Arthur Beetson, Ian Schubert, Eric Simms etc and Rex “The Moose” Mossop
    • Safari Suits
    • “Sic ’em, Rex!”
    • Sister Janet Mead
    • “Slip, Slop, Slap” from the Anti-Cancer Council
    • Smoking was allowed on public transport
    • Spunky, Scream and Sweet magazines
    • Streaking at cricket matches
    • Stud Cola
    • TAA and Ansett were Australian domestic airlines
    • Telstra was known as Telecom
    • Ugh boots
    • World Championship Wrestling with Mario Milano, Steve Rachman & others
    • World Series Cricket
    • “You Need Uncle Sam”unclesam

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