Bob Byrne from Adelaide Remember When - 17 June 2025

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Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellus.

Five past eight on five double eight Tuesday Nights Satellite. Remember when nights Bob Byrne is here to reminisce with you, with me, with us, Bob.

How are you hey, Matthew, hey going? Thank you? Are you well? You're looking well?

I'm very well.

Thanks, I'm glad you are too, glad you're in and cold nights making the trip in. Of course, if people want to find you, you're on Facebook, You've got a shop online. There's books in Dimmicks Satellite. Remember when Australia remember when.

It goes.

On and you know I've been doing it for a long time. Oh no, good face for radio. Never be on TV. I don't think no. They turned me down for television, unlike Graham Goodings. Yes Graham managed to get on TV, but not me.

Anyway. That's all right.

Here we are here, we are living the dream.

Yeah, we're on the wireless side.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So let's talk about what I'm going to write about in the paper next Monday. I'm doing a bit of research at the moment, so we might ask a few people to ring in and tell us about the job that they used to do that is no longer available, that is gone, disappeared, its vanished, and so many of those jobs. Oh, when do you stop and think about it. We live in a totally different world to when I was growing up. Now I have to tell you this, This is going to shock you.

Well it might not.

I got my first job in nineteen fifty seven, well nearly seventy years ago. That's a long time ago. I don't know whether to be proud about that, or i'd be proud I celebrate the fact that I can still remember it. Yeah, I started as a telegram boy, all right. Now I have to Now I find myself explaining to my grandchildren what a telegram boy is. First of all, they don't know what a telegram is. And when I explain a telegram to them, well, why would anybody, especially a fourteen year old kid, that's how old I was at the time, Why would they have to get on a pushbike and deliver it anyway? Like, I mean, who rides a pushbike anymore? Just in the text, that's right.

So it's a wonderful story.

Rabbi who was my uber driver in tonight, couldn't believe I was talking to him on the way in. I always get chatting to uber drivers and we were talking about I was telling him what I was coming in for, and I said, went, well, for example, I might, I might talk about a milky.

He said, well, what's a milky? As a man who delivered milk? What do you mean somebody who delivers milk? Don't you go to the supermargup for milk?

Well you do today, yeah, what you do delivers.

But in those days, of course, there was a well, well I call it a profession, a job, I don't know, and many of them behind a horse because they delivered by horse and car. In fact, here's a story I recall back in about nineteen seventy two. I was coming home from the mid dawn shift on five AD at the time, which is now mixed one O two point three. So that's the other thing. Thank god five Double A kept five Double A.

All the other radios that we've all disappeared. But I was.

I was doing the midnight to dawn radio shift, and as I was driving up find And Road, I saw the milky in front of me and the and the horse clip clopping along. I was ninety seventy two and the horse clip clopping along, and he stops, and the milky gets off, runs down to do some deliveries. The horse clip clops along and waits for him. The milky comes back, feels back, fills up his crate of milk again, and then the horse clip clops on.

The milk is off again. And that's how he did it.

I thought to myself at the time, you know I could be seeing I mean, this is not going to last forever, and what I'm actually witnessing here is probably the last of the old days when people delivered by horse and cart.

How long since you've seen a horse and cart in Adelaide?

Well, I mean the beer one used to go around here at the Cooper's one. But as a boy again mid seventies, I was walking. I used to go to Saint Michael's Primary School, which is on East Terrace at Beverly, and walking along East Terrace from the bus stop or the train station, there was the milky with the horse and cart, still in the mid seventies, and that's the only one I've ever seen horse and cart in terms of delivering anything. But they were still using that that local milky in the Beverly area, right through the seventies.

Yeah, and probably till the horse died.

I think.

I think the Milkies did it for longer than anybody else because the baker, the baker, I think, started to go to Baker's van, right, like I can remember the tip Top van, yeah yeah, yeah, and the various other vans. Yes, that came along, so we'd our bread delivered by van. Yeah yeah, and so that I think that changed.

A little earlier.

But certainly the Milkies it was within their interest to keep the horse and cart because the horse knew the it knew it up, you know, he knew where to go, knew when to stop, and he was an absolute ally. He was like he worked hand in glove absolutely.

With the with the milkie, and.

They would have worn gloves in winter for sure.

So artificial intelligence.

Yeah, that's right, catching up personifide Yeah, yeah, and you know poor old Raby there saying well, why wouldn't you go to the supermarket. I suppose in those days supermarkets weren't weren't around in that maybe the start well that was the startup, but they weren't open, you know, the way they are now. It was nine till five and weekends closed twelve pm Saturdays.

And you know the milkie used to deliver more than just milk. I can remember cream, okay, I think he also he might have delivered some custard maybe and other dairy product of the stuff that Amskull made, okay, not ice cream, of course, very low, especially in summer. But we thought tonight we might ask people to ring in and tell us about their jobs.

That they know will no longer exist or no longer exist.

Yeah.

For example, there's the tea lady m you know, like, yes, did you ever have.

A tea I had a tea lady in my early days in the nineteen eighties and full time work in an office. There was still a tea lady, but it only lasted two or three months and then she retired and that was it.

Had to go get my own cup of tea.

I worked at five d N when I came over here from Sydney to five d N in nineteen eighty three.

We had it. We had we had two really three laid three tea ladies.

Two extravagance.

But back in those days, you know, five d M was one of those really old kind of radio station.

In the Advertiser building. In those days, and.

Someone else DN was in yeah, tenth Street North, Yep.

They were in the CMO building at one stage, maybe before your time.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, that was a long time before me in nineteen eighty three, right, that's when I came back to work at five D N. But we had a tea lady at five A D. We had a tea laker by the time I got to five double A. I don't think no te ladies.

Anymore, I know.

But what are some of the jobs that you might remember. I mean, you remember the tea lady. She she'd bring a cup of tea.

And a biscuit.

Biscuit.

Maybe if it was somebody's birthday, should bring some birthday cake. You know, it seems almost unbelievable in this day and age that a company would actually hire somebody and pay them money for them to walk around the floor and give everybody a.

Cup of tea.

And these days, you know, you'd say, is it herbal? Is the milk from from goats from the acts on the southern side of the Andes or the northern side.

We were talking about other things just before I came on the air, and I mentioned bus or tram conductor. Yes, and I know that you had a bit of a end to be a tram.

Collect I just collect the tickets with the little meadows on the back. If anyone's got any, by the way, mailed them in.

Check that in. Yeah. But you know they used to.

They used to move through the tram or the bus as it was moving along, and they would take fares because you're paid on the bus. They would answer questions, they would help people with stops so that you know, you knew when to get on and get off. And the good conductors there were quite a few of faith. I think that there was one in Adelaide. Might have been an Adelaide or maybe it was Melbourne who was a singing bus or tram.

Conduct had a headache, yes, shut up, and.

He used to sing really yeah and entertained people.

Wow.

So it was that was a little bit of an extra and added bonus all night.

What about that?

I mean, you know, being a tram conductor going through the tram leisurely, taking money and giving a ticket and punching a ticket.

These days, you'd get robbed, wouldn't you.

Oh?

Quite probably.

I was a newsboy back in the days, job in the mediators. Yeah, for a while over a summer back in seventy five, seventy six and twelve cents of paper.

Wow, yeah you got twelve cents or is that how.

Much the paper was? Twelve cent?

Yea, yeah, yeah, you made about two cents. Yeah, probably you made about two bucks a day, I think, although.

A lot of the paper boys made money out of.

A tips.

You know, somebody's rushing for the tram or the or the bus or the train and the kid tells you the paper, or he gives you the paper, and well he said, and he gives you two shillings and they starts looking in his bag trying to find the change, and he says, oh, keep the change, I've got to catch the tram. So it was a good plot, yes, you know. And and you know the other thing about those kids they used to sell at stop lights run into the trams.

Crazy.

Can you imagine imagine today? Dangerous?

That would invest in a flag on your head.

So you know, there are there are a few jobs. Manuals, switchboard operator number. Please are you extending?

You talked to them even in public phones, wouldn't you? We had to push A and B remember that, And if you wanted long distance they connect to, you'd give them the number. It's crazy, it's weird. So what happened to that world?

Yeah?

I want to go back, all right?

Okay, well let's see people's memoriesbs that don't exist anymore, and there's a heap of people on the phone just like the good old days. Bob, we need to take a break, and we'll do that right now at sixteen past day and we'll get to your calls right after this.

Five double A Notes with Matthew pantellis.

A twenty on five double A adelaide.

Remember when Bob Burne is here, we're looking at jobs that don't exist anymore. Did you do a job that is not around because of technology or changing times?

Love to hear from you.

Bob's writing about it for his TiSER article in Boomer next Monday. Jeff at Gleneld North, could I, Jeff Gold they.

Sous because you people were a limousine chauffeur day. Yeah, I'm thinking back to probably before Bob, when a car was driving down the road in the early days, there had to be a person walking in through them with a fame.

Oh wow, that's coming back.

Andy, Well, I never saw it myself.

No, I was born.

At the end of this war, but I think sometime before the First World War that was actually a war.

Yeah yeah, Well what about I mean there were no such things as traffic lights, and when when they eventually started to control traffic, it was with flags, right, so a red flagman start okay, and the green flagman go.

Oh.

I won't talk about it, but I have been with taxi drivers, have taken a trip and these people were not born in Australia. Have either of you two got interesting or more interesting stories along the same lines wondering whether these people should would actually be allowed to draw it?

Well, I don't reckon, it's just any particular occupation. Really, you see some odd things on the road and the RAA. If you have a look at their website, they've got a whole heap of driving, you know, stupidities. But as for people walking along in front of cars with flags, I reckon. The Adelaide City Council wants to bring that back. They're talking about thirty kilometer an hour speed limit in the city.

It won't be long. That's the next step. It's we're only one off that. Thank you. Jeff Adele at Highbury, good Adele.

Yes, hello, good evening, love you to speak to you both. I do know Bob when his wife Helen, oh hey, she lived there. I remember when we had to stop for a funeral stop. Oh yes, and addressed that as a form of protocol for respect.

Yes, we did that.

And I remember Helen went to the same church that I did in Wyla.

Wow, that's going back a few years.

Yes, I know all.

I'm just trying to thank you. I'm just trying to think of who Adele my be. But anyway, chill.

Saint Martin's in Wyala, and her mother used to play the piano in the auburn when we were at Saint Martin's Anglican Church.

Yeah.

I also worked in the bank and we used to writing the past books. They do that now, of course, and children used to love to see what they had at the end of the week all months.

Well, that was something we talked about a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about, you know, how money is disappearing now and becoming just something on the internet, and we discussed how you know, when you'd go to the bank, there was your whole banking history in a little book.

Absolutely, absolutely, and I used to be the school bank lady for seven schools.

What were you?

The talent?

The money were the Greek and Italians and yugoslabs. I used to say, rashee you next week. But I loved it, because that doesn't happen now. Bank and I used to love it. And I also loved my job in the bank, which was the previous Savings Bank of South Australia.

And and of course bank tellers by and large don't exist very much anymore.

I was.

A bank teller and I progressed into the ledger machinists. Yes, and then went on and I and is there.

Is there such a thing as a ledger machinist anymore?

No?

No, n CR was a good one and we I didn't always enjoy them, always a clatter clatter clatter. But I'm a financial financial counselor now for a lot of people.

Wow, okay, we're still in the financial industry. Good I Verna, Pasadena, hi Vern.

Yes, good evening with you and Bob. I did the same as you. Bob, I was delivering telegrams in Narracourt.

There you go.

I was fourteen, a mild bicycle, one speed and narrow, courts fairly hilly, and I was delivering them and they got to see how they came in, which was Morse code. I had two or three young men doing that. I was fourteen. And then that was Christmas time and then I got to deliver parcels and that over Christmas and then they.

Said that was it.

I finished that, and I got a taste of work, and I walked down the street, walked into the first garage, which was a Ford garage, and signed up as an apprentice, and then went back to my mother, who was working in the dry cleaners, and said, Mom, I've quit school. I don't want to go to school anymore. And that was it. I gave over in and they came a mechanic, and then on the evenings I was actually assistant operator at the picture.

Theaters wells.

Now.

Then then let me ask you this. Can you still remember the number of your red PMG bike?

No, it was my own bike.

Ah, okay, I.

Had a red I had a red bike, and I can still remember the number.

Was two seven six s okay, four digits, four digits.

I could use it on my credit card, but I won't.

Take the film down to the railway station and put it on the train that was coming up from Aunt Gambia, the old steam train, so it could come back that I be there the next morning. So I had to lumbered these down those days. I didn't have a car, and I had to carry these two boxes of the film, the two.

Movies, and they were huge.

That was.

And I've got one of those boxes now, I still have one in the head.

Wow about that was.

That's my story.

Great story, Thank you, that is great. Let's go to Peter at Fulham Garden, Slow.

Peter, Heyning, gentlemen.

I was just saying the ladies.

Were used to drive the the lifts in.

Is that Myers or David.

Jones, John Martin?

All of them, yes, all the departments, yeah, Harris s Garth, Yeah yeah.

And the old lloyd Drinks what used to come around the street.

Yeah yeah, yeah, we'll see.

There's a there's a job that you'd never get anymore, that is delivering Lloyd's soft drinks.

I suppose uber deliveries have taken that over to an extent these days, I guess.

Yeah.

Not the same though.

And another one I did when I was a young lad was delivered a messenger paper.

Yeah, oh well, yeah, I mean we talked about that. I mean people selling newspapers on the street, corner news newsday news here, paper newspaper, and and they'd call out the headlines, you know, you know, whatever the headline might be, and people would go up and give.

Them their ten cents.

That you didn't call out, well, okay, you would have been a bit of a dud.

Yeah, I know nothing's changed, but.

It was gentlemen.

Yeah, good on your pap. Some great memories there. Keep the calls coming. We got Peter and David on the line. But lots of room eight double two to three, double O, double O. What job did you do? Maybe your mum or dad did relatives for whatever it might be back in the day that no longer exists.

Love to hear from you Tonight five.

Double A Notes with Matthew Pantellus.

And Bob vern on a Tuesday night Adelaide. Remember when you can find him on Facebook. There are books in Dimmicks. You can go to the online store as well. He'll give you the address. By the end of the show, we're talking about jobs that don't exist anymore, and gee, there's a lot of them over time.

Peter at Marlston.

Hello, Peter, Hello, before I get onto the jobs, Bob, are you free On Thursday July tenth. Janet and I run a five double A listener skit together and we have coffee and cake a Cafe Palatzo. We'd love to have you there because we all read your column on Monday's Advertiser and it'll be privileged to have you on attendance.

Wow, July tenth. I'm not sure. Yeah, I know that I was very close to my birthday.

Can that's not the root? Canal you having done that? No?

Look, thank you, Peter, and certainly I'll get Matthew to give me all the information.

Yeah, Bob, I spoke to when you're working at five d En in the early nineties. Now I do it before I go into what I always get distracted. I speak religiously every Friday morning to a former employee of five Double A. It's called the Court of Public Opinion. It's a podcast online. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah j C.

Anyway, we talk every Friday morning for about ten minutes.

I don't know.

He's got another guy there and they all hear me on double A.

Now mind what's your job?

Well, I had about four before I've graduated at Duck in nine jeen seventy five. Number one job was a car park attendant with Peter Marker and Fred Fillers Gleneld Champions on the corner of Johnson ap Newside Show Entrance, you know with the fairest fall witness the wavelet that seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, seventy five. My next job was an atl Automatic Totalizator limited at Theoriet Park race Course, Globe, Derby Park, Bolivar and Cheltenham from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty. And I'm currently looking for work, Bob.

I am okay, all right, well, a former a former tab operator, car park attendant. There may be somebody out there. Never no need somebody with your skills.

Peter, good on your Peter, David a park side.

Hello, Yes, good evening, gentlemen.

Hella can you hear we can? David?

Oh good?

Now.

I had three jobs in town, all pretty close together in the first couple of years after leaving school. My first was that giant Taylor's and Gilbert Street.

And what did you do there?

Sort of a clerical work you know, I was just sort of a train a keep and all the figures in the book and that sort of thing. And yeah, it was a boating store, you know, a bit of fishing gear, boating gear Jan Taylor's. It's pretty well where that that shopping little shopping center is now Gilbert Street, you know, you know the one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the I g A that's there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, my next little job was typewriter serviceman.

In there you go type write a mechanic.

Wow, hurdle square, you know, hurdle square.

And later it became eddler I think handler typewriters. And I to go around all the big buildings, all the nice girls there on their typewriters and service them, you know beautiful.

Yeah, that would have been a good job, it was.

And anyway, and then I went to Hiplex Plastics for a little while, which was just down in Carrington Street, pretty well opposite where the big cop cop shop is now Biplex Plastics.

They were run by the Menzil family. They started up, and yeah, it's just a little a bike, a run around bike boy, you know.

With a little cage on.

The front of the bike, doing here and get.

Here and there.

They did some amazing working and they apparently got the contract to reline all the sewers in Paris really well, so I'm led to believe.

That they had a big and they did it with plastic.

Really about that.

They had a big contract in Saudi Arabia.

Yeah, yeah.

Now my big break came a couple of years later because my stepfather year the head barman at the South Australian Hotel on North Terrace.

Beautiful okay, the old South Australia and a lot of a lot of a lot of the.

Big, the big.

High up boys you know from the all industry used to go in there and have a drink and he got to know him pretty well. And my stepfather, you know, I had to talk to his pared barmen, and that's where I got my first job in the all industry.

There we go three, thank you, some great memories there, you know here at five double A and David stillorry about the typewriter repair person reminded me we used to have this guy, this is back in the nineties even come into the building and he would come around and clean all the phones.

Yeah, I was going to say the phones, that's.

Right, that was his job.

He was the phone cleaner. Yeah, but he had this little case and it was in the shape of a telephone. So I don't know where he got that from. But he had a rag and I don't know, some spray and you think, why did you charge to do that? In hindsight, I mean, we just didn't pay any attention to it at the time, but it must That's a bit.

Like a tea lady. Yeah, I mean you know why.

I mean the tea ladies were lovely and God bless him absolutely. I don't know whether any of the tea ladies from five Danna is still alive, because you know it was it was quite a while ago, and they weren't young at the time. They might be, they might be, but an amazing job. What do you do for a living to make make a pot of tea?

Yeah? A big canis Graham at Hilly Beach Graham.

Hey, guys, how are you good?

Look?

I won't take up too much time, but I want to identify the era that I'm talking about, and I think Bob's kind of my vantage, which is either good or bad.

As a shirt, well, yeah, I mean we're all getting younger, No.

Exactly right now. I was fortunate enough to be brought up at Tennyson And can you do you know where Grange Over is? Military Road? Grange Over Grange Hockey Cat Military Road, the corner of corner Trim Okay, So I lived there. My parents bought a house. And this is before West Lakes was there.

So you're on the Andrew and basically have.

To tell you we're up here. I could overlook Grange when it was, when it got built. I was lucky enough as a kid to watch West Lads get built. I was only I was only pretty young obviously.

And this there was swamp reclaimed reclaim.

I used to play.

There was a kid. I used to play as a three or four year old, pick up tad poles, grab mushrooms and all sorts of stuff, you know, playing a swamp. That's what kids do.

Dodge the brownstone exactly.

And the weird thing is that I used to dry. I used to ride my pushbike down to and Praye. That was a dirt road to seat in high school.

Yeah, dirt trimmer parade, get it.

Yeah.

And the thing is my dad was very strict. He said, you know, summer holidays, you got six weeks off. You're not going to do nothing. I'm going to get you a job, And he got me a job with not the Charles Castle at the time, it was a wood Bill CAUNI when Westlakes was getting built and they needed all these mounds to be watered and there was no watering system. So my job, and I'll tell you it's still the best job ever had the kid that a fourteen fifteen year old kid was riding my pushbike around and move. You know, the sprinkles had the big arms and the cable agricultural. My job was to reset them and I used to ride around for about six hours resetting these sprinklers. And you know, there is a Facebook page that shows what West Flakes was.

The people that live.

There now they are young, I suggest they look at it and know that they're living what was a swamp.

Yes, yes, one.

Of the best schooling developments ever.

It is amazing when you go out and travel around West Lakes now and think back to what.

It used to be was just it was just waistland swamp.

It was absolutely My school bus used to go along there in the early seventiesh Graham and Military Road and we saw it come to life over years. Good on you, thank you. Just before we take a break, we'll take another call Harold at Moana, Good o.

Harold tell us I'm a ninety three year old nineteen thirty two models, so I can tell you to his stories.

Yes, you would. You would be able to tell me many stories.

Yeah.

I did sell papers on the corner and cross roads and after school lovely I think I used to get or something like.

That, probably good days.

Yeah, well it didn't last long.

Yeah.

When I got nineteen fifty one, my wife with the TMG and he was a phynophanus in the post office on the corner of King Willom Street and find the street. And as soon as I got married, the government said, well females are not a to be married. So if he lost the job, yeah, I don't think hot to go down to.

Will Can you mention.

That it's been so year.

I used to have a bloat deliver ice into the ice chests at night. And that primary school during the war years, we had trenches out in the yard where they'd signers center sirns off and all the kids have run in and getting the trenches for their rubbers and their mouths and everything like that, and I hide until the fall clear came through. That was about the time, must have been nineteen forty two or something like that. I reckon because to dow was Yeah, quite a little job on a bike. I used to be delivery this spat rider in the war years, what I mean twelve. Also, my first job was de living telegrams in the post office.

Well, there you go.

Telegram telegram boys were everywhere, and.

They didn't like it.

I think I think I got along all right with being a telegram boy. I probably did it for about three years ago until I was about seventeen, and then I got to be a posty.

Oh really, yeah, then.

I was fantastic.

Yeah, yeah, we're.

Good.

Good grounding. Good grounding to be a radio now.

Anyway, fantastic, Harold, Thank you, thanks for those memories.

Okay, have a great night. Cheers.

We'll take a quick break, Bob. There's some text messages. One of the last horse and carts a gentleman by the name of Kevin Woods. He serviced the inner western suburbs based in my Land, delivered wood and ice up until the late nineteen eighties.

There's another job, rabbit os. Yeah, the people who used to go out and catch rabbits and skin them and bring them around and sell them.

Christine says, I remember horse and carts delivering milk, the baker delivering bread, the posting twice a day and used his whistle, and once on Saturday.

Did you have a whistle?

Yes? I did.

I still got it, have you I've got it one night and I'll blow it for the acme thunder?

Is that what? It was quite possible? Okay? Was the best ones? I kept my using a telex machine, says Christine, and shorthand which I still yes, yes, that's ah wow.

Nobody would know.

No, no, suremore, put out the iPhone and record.

That's right.

What else have we got here?

Another one saying at the petrol station that actually come out and put petrol in your car, check the oil, clean the windows, filler up, yep, lift operators, people who polish your shoes in the street. And the pianist in David Jones.

Now the pianist in David Jon's his name. I just can't get any name at the moment. But he lived at Goodwood and he came originally from Port period.

I did it right here.

I can still see his face but yeah, someone will know. We'll take a break. Trevor's on the line, Trevor, hang on, there will be with you.

Next five double A notes with Matthew Pantellus Bob Burn.

If you've enjoyed this discussion tonight, you can read all about it in Monday's Boomer in the TiSER. Bob is writing an article on jobs that don't exist anymore. That's what we're talking about. Peter has called in from Glenunger. Bob bob Burn's here regarding the David Jones piano player.

Hello, Peyton.

Hello, Matthew is.

Lovely.

His name is.

Must Must that's rights.

Ye.

I don't know whether he was in the relation to Ali Roo.

Okay, No, I don't know. Yeah, I remember, yeah.

He always used to play very lovely people for me called Cavatina.

And did he come from Port Pirie?

I think somebody, Yes, I think somebody.

Kevantina was a very lovely piece of music from one of the most dramatic films, The Deer Hunter.

Wow.

John Williams composed that piece.

Yeah, I do remember the movie The Deer Hunter.

Yeah, and yes so but yees so. Anyhow, originally that piece of music was written for Pierre guitar piano, but then John Williams got listened from Michael Chamino and Stanley moore Is to do a guitar version to the Teer Hunter of the film, which was almost I supposed basically based on the Vietnam War.

Okay, thank you for that background, Peter, that's must You're right, Bob. He did come from Port Pirie. He was from Spencer Golf obviously up that way. His whole family music or his brother Leon, a pianist and bandleader. He had, let's see in Port Pirie. The family had a prominent store on the terrace. He trained at.

Order Conservatorium for Music at Adelaide UNI.

He would have been quite a talented yeh. A pianist, yes.

Leon Rodgers band became a fixture of Port Adelaide dancing in nineteen thirty seven as a piano thirty seven as a piano soloist. Must have been an older brother, all right. Leon Rudder featured at the opening of a hall for the company's band of Port Perry's main industry, the Broken Hill Association smelled it so there it is.

Thank you.

Peter Trevor at Hyde Park on jobs that have along gone, can I Trevor?

Gooday, here you go, good good program. I'm seeing the car, but it's team cold. Interesting I heard the name Bonner.

From Fort Pirie.

Was that correct of beying the piano?

No?

Oh?

Rider?

Okay?

Must and rudder?

Yeah okay, yeah. Well it brings back memories what I first did. First, I lived at Malvern initially, and I when I was a youngster back in this early sixties, I was the local courier. Man community courier was called, and my mum used to bring the papers up and I had a round between full and Road, cross roads, hoops and Abu Ruverdal and I was delivering the community courier and I was getting paid for that.

Is that like the messenger?

Yeah, the community courier. The next the next job I had lived in Diver Street and everyone in Dover Street doing my brothers. We worked for a gentleman called a chemist, John em Rey Tallic on Only Road. He'd be dead now, and we used to deliver the medicine to the local people. Wow, so I was a bit of an entrepreneur. We used to go down he was on Only Road. There another job I had. No one will believed this but at park Side. There was a tin pin bowling alley on on Glen Osman Road near Young Street, near the post office. And it used to be a timpin bowling alley and we had the job I had. There was the pin.

Pin.

We had the pinball pin, the pin picker upper.

Yeah.

Yeah, you used to you used to reset the pin wow.

Yeah, And that's true.

And I was a little cid to where to pick them up three at a time, throw them in the in the triangular type of thing, pull a cord down. And as we pull them a cord down some some idiot. Another job I had was lost some train of thought. Man, I was the lolly boy Adelaide Oval. We used to walk around with the riverbank stand with ice creams and drinks with a scrap on. I think we've got to quit or something.

Out of the terrific stories.

Yeah, the memories come back to West Lakes was interesting story. The Grange I can remember that was just a lane two road with the rabbits run across the road, sand hills, et cetera. And the final one. A couple other ones. The memories of ice cream not ice cream, ice and bread can't with horse and car, the milky, the rabbits. And the funny thing about is, you know only there's a lot of streets. They're called lines, like marrying line, and what that was was the back alleys for you know, the.

Series for the for a Nightmare for the dunny.

Man, and people can't can't bully, they.

Cannot believe it.

So there's a lot of a lot of memories. That's p mg. I can remember the red bikes.

Yeah, that's right, good Trevor, great memories. Thank you for all of those. Yeah, the the pooh Man. Yes, well then of course there's a job that probably thankfully doesn't And they used to hold them on their head, didn't no, no, no shoulder, Yeah yeah, they had big brown of course, leather leather aprons.

They probably started as white. There are lots.

Of stories about the dunny Man, how the dunning Man fell over and dropped everything, and one of the housekeepers.

Ran out and said, oh, are you okay? What you've dropped the name? He said, no, I'm just doing a stock take.

Brilliant Dan of Plimpton, He Dan, gentlemen, how are we good? Good? Thank you?

So one of my old one of the young listeners, but one of my jobs was working in the video shop.

And putting him back on.

The shelf and trying to get people to rewind them.

That was one of our jobs, rewind that takes.

You know, it's funny.

We've talked about jobs that have lasted literally generations, and there's an industry that came and went in the blink of the night virtually.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a good thing. Was the least I got to see the release?

Yes, oh that's good, thank you. All Right, all right, we'll talk later. I'm sure Dan the riddleman calling it a bit later on. Now, let's try and get We've only got a couple of minutes left before news, so we've got Faye and Lily, so let's go.

Faye, Hello, Yes.

Good evening for the both of you. My first job was in nineteen sixty six when I was a switchboard operator at one of Adelaide's rehabilitation centers for people with disabilities coming and the name quickly bed for the industry, whom I'd like to give thanks for because they were my first employers ever, and I was with them for almost two years, and then I moved on to what was the one of our blindness agencies again, can I name names again? For the Good Royal the Royal Institution for the Blinders it was known and then and we used to sell our goods to all the public's public department stores like you're Johnny Martin that sort of place, and then the other when the blind people moved out to Gillis Planes about twenty years later. This was in the middle nineties. I had a job down at Camden Park which only lasted two years back then at the Bryan Society at Killis Planes at that time, and I was there until I retired, and it will be eighteen years since I retired on the twentieth of December.

Of this year.

Good on your faith. Thank you for that. Switchboard operators. Yeah, that's how long gone. Job is, not as we were saying earlier. Thank you Faie Lily at Enfield our Laus Caller hold Hi, Yeah, thank.

You for putting me on. I love Bob Burns's I have to buy your book, Bob.

Now.

I was a former switchboard operator and a mailroom manager at Defense Center Adelaide was Kewick Barracks, Florodale Barracks. Now, when I was at Kenzick Barracks, that was my first job in nineteen eighty four till nineteen ninety five. We used to make tea and coffee for the lieutenant colonel, me and the other my colleague in that typing we had a typing pool, just me and my colleague. Then we had another big typing pool in the opposite one that you know the big buildings on Ansac Highway.

It was still there, Yeah, the main building.

Yeah, that was a bigger typing pool. Well, we're on the smaller typing pool. But we used to fill up and earn to make tea and coffee. And the men's toilets which was just next to the typing pool, so you'd have to knock on the door loudly just to check whether nobody was in the toilet. But I did get mistaken once and I did didn't knock loud enough, so I had to get red face and really walk out.

Because I didn't hear.

Here was accidentally. And then then we had Doug Littercut come and do you remember Doug the Littcut typewriter to cleaner. Doug Littercut. It was a company in the city somewhere and he would come and clean our our manual typewriters.

Out and greets them up.

And then in the mid nineties, we were so happy we got the electronic typewriter, the Smith Corona, and we were extremely happy with that new found, newfound technology that was so amazing where we didn't have to get our fingers stabbed inside the stats of the manual typewriter. And I've been collecting typewriters. I'm a bit like Tom Hanks. He collected typewriters, and I love them because they are absolutely, absolutely unreal pieces of technology.

I've got my dad's typewriters somewhere here and they're worth a lot of some of it worth a lot of money.

Really, yeah wow.

And we'll become more so as time goes on, because there won't be very many of them.

Lat great memories, Lily, Thank you typewriters. And remember the golf ball ones that came out, Yes, you look at those were in our news room and when I started here at five double eight typewriter and we'd all fight for the one that had the eraser ribbon on it. Oh, yes, that was that was one. You didn't have to do the wy That's right, Bob. It's been a great chat tonight. Been fantastic If people want to find out more details, of course, Adelaide, remember when on Facebook probably the place to start.

Yep and the Remember when shop dot com dot a U that's where you can go and find all the books.

Fantastic, bubb we'll speak next week. Got on you, Bob BYRN Adelaide. Remember when