Memory for the month

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HERE IS THIS MONTH'S MEMORY.

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RADIOS, RECORDS PLAYERS AND VINYL RECORDS

This month it is time to remember listening to the radio and all those favourite old vinyl records.

Here are a few memories to get you started.

Listening to the radio of an evening with the family.

What was your favourite radio show and why did you like it?

Who remembers having a transistor radio, often called a trany or was it trani?

Each week listening to The American Top 40 on the radio to hear all the new songs. Was it on Saturday or Sunday night?

Playing your favourite records on a portable Record Player or the family record player

The excitment of buying a single or album when it was first released.

What was your favourite record and do you remember some of those great album covers?

I hope you have enjoyed this month's memory and it has brought back some fond memories.

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Anthea from Springvale, Victoria born 1955	On the hottest of days keeping cool meant lying down on the lino floor of the bathroom - the coolest spot to be found. Our slow combustion stove in the kitchen heated our hot water so had to run all year round. Another lurk was to place a wet sheet over the clothes horse and place the electric fan behind it - the movement of air through the damp sheet created some cooling effect. Home made icepoles and, yes the sunny boys or jubblies were a real treat. Comment posted: 4th January 2012, 08:38:39 am
jeff from browns plains born 1957	Summer always meant going swiming at Black rock beach with the family two brothers and two sisters for Sundays which was great . Comment posted: 3rd January 2012, 06:53:49 am
Robyn from Browns Plains born 1954	Summer always meant helping mum to make plum jam and tomatoe sauce. Our job was to cut up the fruit on the kitchen table and the couple of pounds of onions needed. We tried all different things but always ended up with tears rolling down our faces cutting the onions. The kitchen was like an oven, very hot, as the wood fire was going as that was were mum cooked the jam and sauce. Icecreams - I remember Eskimo Pies, yummy and I do not remember the name but it was an icecream in a rectangle block that you ate between 2 wafers Spiders the drink were a rare treat, never made at home, always bought from a milk bar and my favourite was BLUE HEAVEN It was always great when a cool change came although it would sometimes take a day for the house to cool off. Comment posted: 1st January 2012, 11:19:53 am
Graham from Coffs Harbour born 1953	I can remember as a kid going with my father to the hardware shop to buy some items for his latest project. In those days you could buy enough nails for your project rather than having to buy 500 nails knowing it would be another five years before you needed the same nail. Even today long after my father has died I still don't know what to do with his 10 buckets of mixed nails. Comment posted: 6th December 2011, 06:27:06 am
janelle jackson from west heidelberg born 1959	According to my immunization record book and my baby health centre book ( that I still have ) I lived in brunswick for about 2 and a half years , living with family friends till my dad found us somewhere to live. Which turned out to be in Tullamarine, I lived there 5 years , we lived next door to a milk bar and our front yard was huge, my father was a carpenter (jack of all trades ) he made a cubby house, single swing, plank swing, a trampoline made out of a spring bed base and he brought a iron rocker that seated 6 children at once , I also got 2 more sisters during that time , we also had bikes and a sand pit to keep us amused. We also had an out door dunny and a chicken house with chickens to look after. I have some photos to remind me of our life in Tullamarine , which we get out occasionally and show our own children what it was like to live there during those years also my three sisters and I tell stories about what games we played there too. . Comment posted: 19th November 2011, 02:05:21 pm
Jim from Mandurah born 1950	Yes I remember 'Brandy' at school, you always made sure your shots counted - lower back was the best- because you knew what was coming when you were on the other end. And Saturday afternoon movies - Cisco Kid and Three Stooges - obviously the movies did the rounds. All good clean fun though - the worst thing you did was to get tossed out for making too much noise! Comment posted: 29th October 2011, 11:34:49 pm
Crezette Fletcher from Maryborough Qld born 1951	Sing song in the car on the way home from a day at the beach. Especially when Dad sang to Mum. Wonderful! Comment posted: 6th October 2011, 03:25:59 pm
Helen Woodhouse-Herrick from NHILL Vic born 1950	I loved it growing up at Nhill, halfway to Adelaide-Melbourne and as a young teenager in early 60's and the Vietnam War was well and truly happening, we would entertain ourselves, catch up with the gang (harmless in those days) at the local Central Cafe on a weekend and play the Jute Box, have banana splits with chocolate and nuts, Blue heaven milk shakes and Spiders made with Coke and Ice cream and flavouring, then we would be home in time for tea and yet we never put on weight in those days. My nick name was Twiggy as she was the famous UK model in the 60's and I tried to follow in her footsteps with the halter neck short shift dresses, flair pants and short cropped hair with fringe and teased up on top. WOW was I a sort!!!! ha ha Oh yes, they were the days believe me and you know what, we were never bored. Comment posted: 6th October 2011, 09:50:58 am
David from Carrickalinga SA born 1952	Jennie, Bacchus Marsh, 23rd August. Thank you for so beautifully describing one of the games my friends loved to play. As boys we were sometimes teased about playing a "Girls" game but that didn't matter as we enjoyed it so much. Another game we enjoyed was "Brandy". I do not know if it was only a South Oz game but for those who do not know of it, a group of combatants would from a circle with our feet splayed sideways touching those of the person on either side of us. One of the players would drop a tennis ball into the ring. If the ball hit your foot first then you were "IT". The object of the game was for that person to hit or "brand" another person with the ball then they would join in and throw the ball at the others until everyone was "branded". The last person to be "branded" was then the one in control of the bounce for the next round. It sounds silly but we had great fun. Comment posted: 16th September 2011, 12:12:37 am
Crezette Fletcher from Qld born 1951	Oh yes the saturday movies. I hated the three stooges, I thought they were some sort of horror show. So, while they were on I (being a real chatterbox) would go out and talk to the usher. I would tell him all the family secrets. Even down to how I couldn't understand why when Daddy came home from work, their bedroom door would get locked. Any way years later when I was 17 I went on a date with this guy and meet his parents, yes the father was the usher. How embarrassing for Mum and Dad. Comment posted: 6th September 2011, 10:47:11 am