“Growing up in Wombarra in the ’50s, I remember the home-delivered ice, bread and milk (C8),” writes George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “I reckon we also had the first takeaway, of sorts. Our next-door neighbour was the dunny man who drove the red truck and swapped the pans. We local kids took great delight in gleefully boasting that it was the fastest truck in the world because it had 40 pistons and flies.”
Peter Miniutti of Ashbury recalls that “Back in the ’80s, milk was still delivered in the morning where I lived. My dog would help himself to the cartons delivered to houses in the street. My neighbours were aware of this and would quickly retrieve their milk when it was delivered. I answered a knock on the door early one morning to find the milkman, who informed me my dog was now jumping on the back of the truck and helping himself to milk cartons out of the crates.”
Not everyone got their ice delivered, according to Sharon McGuinness of Thirroul. “In the late 1930s when my dad was a boy in Canley Vale, the iceworks was at the end of their street in The Grove. Always handy and indeed a problem-solver, he built a little cart and hitched it to his trusty blue heeler, Digger, making my dad’s task of collecting the ice a snack.”
“I’m so impressed by Column 8 contributors who can remember their Argonauts (C8) name and number,” says Pam Rawling of Freshwater. “I joined at eight and promptly lost the piece of paper. Seventy years on I’m still looking for it.”
“I was lucky enough to be at Anzac Cove a few days ago,” reports Steve Hulbert of West Kempsey. “Preparations were well underway for the dawn service. The stage was all set, including the podium, so we couldn’t resist a photo-op. The governor-general will give an address, but I beat her by four days, and yes, security told us to get off the podium.”
Frank McGrath of Bulli advises that “Mr Buckley from Minnesota can still hear Margaret Throsby’s (C8) mellifluous voice on ABC North Coast wireless on Saturday mornings. I do so via the ABC Listen app.”
“Intrigued by the unusual surname Musk, I went searching for the derivation and found it to be from the Sanskrit mushka, which translates as scrotum,” says Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “Now for Balzac.”
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