“While planning a dinner visit with friends on Anzac Day, I asked what we could bring,” says Helen Lewin of Tumbi Umbi. “They replied just bring our sense of humour. But I said Anzac Day is no laughing matter. Then I read in Column 8 of Don Bain’s research into the name ‘Musk’ (C8) and I know how to open proceedings.”
Wendy Crew of Lane Cove North is an influencer, but not as we know it: “As a technologically challenged Luddite, it was amazing to cause such excitement by using my small Panasonic transistor radio when walking. A group of teens, with buds stuck in their ears, spied it and were amazed at how well it worked. They even wanted to know where I bought it. Quite a thrill to be the object of their curiosity and even admiration!”
Former ABC luminary Margaret Throsby (C8) has been in touch to set the record straight: “Not guilty! Your correspondent Frank McGrath says he listens to me broadcasting from ABC North Coast on Saturday mornings. But it’s not me, it’s the wonderful Angela Catterns that he is hearing. I’m honoured to be mistaken for her. She is one of the best broadcasters at the ABC. I hung up the headphones several years ago.”
Bryce Templeton of Mudgeeraba (Qld) “used to listen to Margaret in the ’70s. Unfortunately, at the time I was employed in the control room at 2GB’s new studios in Liverpool Street. I sat with one hand on the switch ready to change back to the 2GB program if anyone came in, relying on the alarms to tell me if there was an on-air problem.”
“I was a paperboy with Avoca Street, Randwick on my run,” says Michael Ford of Malabar. “Every day I’d sell the baker from Sunshine Bakery (C8) a newspaper, and he’d give me a free bread roll straight from the oven. Those were the days.”
Noel Birrell of Dundas Valley was thrilled to see such representation of memories from the villages of the South Coast in Friday’s column. “My late mum was born and bred in Wombarra in the ’20s and ’30s and lived just above the beach. Times were tough, and the sea offered the cheapest meal if you could fish. Her main complaint was having to eat lobster four or five times a week. Tell the kids these days, and they’ll think you’re dreaming.”
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