Terry Wooldridge of Mona Vale is another fan of the Australia Hotel’s Sportsman’s Bar (C8): “It served icy cold beers but the most notable fact was it was the birthplace of the Leprechaun Rugby Club in the early 1970s, which played in the Sydney Subbies comp for several years. Are there any old Leprechauns out there?”
“When shopping in Sydney as a young adult in the 1950s, I always felt a sense of pride if I was among those shoppers carrying bags with the distinctive black and white houndstooth pattern indicating a purchase from David Jones (C8),” recalls Christine Perrott of Armidale. “Is there an equivalent today? Perhaps a handbag by a certain designer? However, that’s not quite the same, is it?”
In an effort to move on from all this David Jones chat (C8), we’ve turned to Dan Aspinall of St Ives: “I’ve never been too fashionable, and not much of a shopper. But when I arrived in Sydney in the early 2000s, I found my retail nirvana. A quick trip to Gowings and I could get a pair of Aussie-made Blundstones, a flat white while having a haircut, secret Santa presents for the new workplace colleagues and a kayak! Puts the middle aisle at Aldi to shame. I’ve still not fully recovered from the closure, although I did enjoy dinner at its new incarnation, Gowings Bar & Grill, recently. I did like the DJs food court 20 years ago, but not enough kayaks to make a lasting impression.”
“While ‘articulate buses’ (C8) are all very well, I prefer the polite, relaxed ride that comes with a ‘courtesy bus’,” says Alan Marel of North Curl Curl.
Peter Russell of Coogee wonders if “ginger-nut biscuits (C8) have to be thinner in Queensland because of weaker teeth due to no fluoridation of water supplies in many council areas?”
“The newly launched Mariyung trains on the South Coast Line are named after the Dharug word for emu, the animal chosen for the Australian coat of arms because it isn’t able to move backwards,” notes Scott Illingworth of Kiama, “Ironically, a complaint from the many locals now using it is that half the seating is fixed so that passengers are stuck travelling backwards.”
Impressed by the Thai restaurant name Thaiger Wood (C8), Ross Bryant of Wynnum (Qld) feels that the establishment Get It India in his neck of the woods also deserves a mention.
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