Hosted by Bob Byrne, former radio personality on Radio 5DN from 1983 to 2004 (previously heard on 5KA and 5AD)
Bob Byrne, Radio 5DN (1995)
What started out as a bit of fun, sharing on Facebook some of my memories of Adelaide and of growing up from the 50's to the 80's, has developed into a fun obsession! In just over 6 months we have almost 10,000 fans on the Facebook website/page, thousands of people viewing and sharing the daily posts, hundreds joining in with comments and their own memories plus many thousands of likes for the individual posts.
When I started to get a big following on the page I began to worry that I would soon run out of ideas and memories to post, but then I was reminded of something I learned from all my years on radio, "one programme at a time". By that I mean that each day something will present itself as a reminder of the years gone by. Somebody will write a comment on the page, there'll be something in the paper, a friend or colleague will say something which in turn will start the old memory juices flowing and before you know, there's a memory from the past to write about.
Adelaide Oval, "The Prettiest Cricket Ground in the World"
The purpose of this blog is to give some of the daily popular posts and photos a more permanent home. As you may be aware Facebook only allow a certain number of posts to be on a page before they begin to remove some of them. I am being constantly asked for photos, or to produce a post on this or that, and although we have already created a post about it, it is no longer available to view. With our blog, those posts will be again available to read and comment on.
Please come back and visit the blog often. There will be new content almost every day as we bring back some of the old photos, old posts and add new ones as well.
Beatles Arriving at Adelaide Town Hall 1964
So many people have contacted me to express their thanks for starting and continuing with Adelaide Remember When, we have had lots of suggestions about what we could do with all the stories and comments that are coming in everyday. Thank you for those suggestions and your support in continuing to read the posts every day and for regularly commenting.
There are some exciting times ahead! I believe that at sometime in the future we may be able to produce some kind of contemporary unofficial history about the Adelaide we remember growing up as kids, as young adults and later as parents to our own children being brought up in Adelaide.
Times have certainly changed and who knows at this early stage where the story will take us and where it will all end!
"You know you're from Adelaide when you know that a red hen has nothing to do with chooks"
Just finishing reading your book it was fantastic it reminded me of how we lived in such carefree and simpler times, how things have changed for better and worse in some cases, Adelaide has become so corporate now neighbours don't talk anymore with each other technologies have taken the fun of communication with real people, greed runs business now, it's a sad state of affairs we were more social back then we cared about our appearances, music was great as was society then. Only things you missed in your book Golden Fleece service stations, the self serve petrol station where you put your 2 dollars in the slide drawer & the good old drive in theatre, well done in your book really loved it
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