tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post3094557348835774071..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Sharing nostalgia in an internet worldJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-73097468885408991842011-11-02T22:47:58.946+11:002011-11-02T22:47:58.946+11:00I always find other people's lives interesting...I always find other people's lives interesting, kvd. While I am older than you, there are quite considerable experience overlaps. I can imagine being the Major's son might have been difficult.While I do have connection with place, there were somewhat similar issues growing up in area with complex social structures with prominent father and grandfather. <br /><br />I still miss our fuel stove.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-76744797508448729922011-11-02T17:22:34.940+11:002011-11-02T17:22:34.940+11:00ps remember 'The Tied Test'?
That is a v...ps remember 'The Tied Test'? <br /><br />That is a vivid memory - glued to the radio in our kitchen beside the old fashioned wood fired stove. 1960, and 6-12 months before I first saw a television.<br /><br />I don't remember where I was when some things 'happened' but that is clear as a bell.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-63067197206001508392011-11-02T17:13:53.411+11:002011-11-02T17:13:53.411+11:00Moved to Lithgow from Seymour Vic 1955 just in tim...Moved to Lithgow from Seymour Vic 1955 just in time to start school. Moved from there to here (within 30 miles) in mid 1962 when father retired. Just in time for the last six months primary school, then life as I know it actually began.<br /><br />That's why I sometimes envy your deep family connections to 'place'. Not available to the itinerant soldier family. Esp. if you're 'The Major's son' - envied, but despised, and kids are good at that.<br /><br />Addicted to tv? No. Sport and outdoors anything - yes. Night time - books and comics. Must have read Swiss Family Robinson five times over in those years, plus all the Biggles books. But there's a sort of veil over earlier stuff, because around the time dad retired and we moved, my then 20 year old brother who I basically idolised was dying of leukemia, and the family focus was that, nothing else. My 'good' memories are of dogs (including that one) and hunting and sports and blackberries - the edible kind.<br /><br />Thinking back on it now, I don't think I went to 'the pictures' much at all in those years. But Saturday arvo tv at a friend's house was certainly a feature for maybe a year before we moved out.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-72662623843865319192011-11-02T16:21:06.635+11:002011-11-02T16:21:06.635+11:00Interesting, kvd. Another TV deprived child. Did t...Interesting, kvd. Another TV deprived child. Did that lead to initial addiction when you did get your own?<br /><br />Interesting case, for on the surface if you don't have TV and rarely go to the movies, it really must have been just peer group influence. I should remember, I think that you have mentioned it before, but when did your parents move to Lithgow?Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-55185362990345167462011-11-02T12:12:17.706+11:002011-11-02T12:12:17.706+11:00Jim this and your history post are very interestin...Jim this and your history post are very interesting, and caused me to stretch my mind back.<br /><br />I don't think I was at all influenced by tv, more probably just an early form of peer pressure: everbody had a DC hat; everybody liked HC and cowboys and indians. My parents did not have tv until my father retired from the Army, and moved to the South Coast in 1962. <br /><br />Explained to me many times that a tv was a "big investment, to last for many, many years", so they weren't going to buy one in Lithgow then move away some six hours by road at that time.<br /><br />So my tv was gleaned from other peoples' houses - mostly Saturdays - with said cowboys and indians the favourite fare, followed up with a good dose of World Championship Wrestling - but all of which was unavailable in Lithgow until late 1959, or maybe 1960 - i.e. well after the various crazes came to be.<br /><br />The local picture theatre - The Theatre Royal - was a once in a blue moon treat, and the only two films I remember distinctly are High Noon (probably a re-release from its 1952 original) and Oklahoma! which songs I knew by heart from listening to the LP record for a couple of years prior to the film's release in mid '50s. Could probably still 'mouth along' to most of them today if I tried..<br /><br />Anyway, thank you for stirring up these memories.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com