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“I’d like to congratulate ABC’s Play School on its 60th anniversary,” declares Jack Dikian of Mosman. “It was the only show where choosing between the windows felt like the biggest decision of my childhood. But whichever one I picked, they ignored it anyway.”
Roger Hallett of Toowoomba (Qld) can “clearly recall a stunt for Sydney Uni Commemoration Day (C8) in the ’60s that involved publishing and distributing a broadsheet newspaper to city commuters with the masthead of the Sydney Moaning Herald, correct font, Granny column and all. The feature article included a ‘photo’ of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being towed out of the harbour on its way to New Zealand.”
“Allan Gibson noted that ‘depending on where you lived, ‘the talkies’ (C8) had different names’, ” observes Richard Payne of Urangan. “When I lived on Norfolk Island in the ’60s, we all went to Rawson Hall Talkies at Burnt Pine. I can well remember that a screening of Mutiny on The Bounty one night engendered vigorous audience participation!”
“My dad definitely didn’t go to the cinema, the pictures or the flicks,” declares Helen Lewin of Tumbi Umbi. “He only ever went to the ‘fleas and itches’ and enjoyed the looks that brought. He wasn’t Cockney either.”
This might explain why John Dawson of North Parramatta thinks “our Picture Show Palace was named ‘The Fleahouse’ by locals . Thus, the tale of the two fleas coming out after the show conferring: ‘Shall we walk, or take a dog?’”
“I well remember my first movie,” says John Crowe of Cherrybrook. “I was living in a small country town north of Toowoomba when the picture show came to town. It was a western starring Gene Autry ‘the Singing Cowboy’. Unfortunately, the noise from the generator providing power to the projector just about drowned out the singing.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of Pauline’s billion dollar backers brazenly relaunch the Bulletin magazine and roll out the old headline, ‘Australia for the white man’ (Donald Horne would be turning in his grave),” writes Phil Haberland of Perth (WA). “I’m told that the reason Ms Hanson’s fact-finding mission took her to the Dolce & Gabbana show in Sicily is because she is hoping to stage, on her return, a similar event in Ipswich branded as the ‘Dory & Grouper (D&G) Fishion Chups Show’.” Column 8 reckons nuclear-fancying PHONsters Malcolm and Barnaby might prefer fission chips.
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