Memories of the 80’s - Do you Remember Any of These?

[Mr Shhh]

I remember them all except Bullens animal world.

Remember El Cabello Blanco an Sega World?

El Cabello Blanco!!!
That place was a shit hole
I remember the ad on TV.

 

[The DoggFather]

El Cabello Blanco!!!
That place was a shit hole
I remember the ad on TV.

Yep, still remembered being dragged to it and it sucked harder than a Dyson.

 

[DaBulldog]

Is that the one near Cockburn road or something just of the highway?

It’s in the suburb of Bibra Lake.

 

[DaBulldog]

A random fact that you may or may not known. In the 1930’s in Scarborough WA there used to be a Luna Park. https://www.facebook.com/LostPerth/...nd-by-1939-it-was-in-full-sw/685714138166310/

 

[DinkumDog]

We have Adventure World with some Water Slides. Overall it’s a pretty good Theme Park. But with Winter - it’s currently closed.

With thanks to Doctor Google I think the old Wet n’ Wild is now known as Kalamunda Water Park:

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The Kalamunda Water Park is located in Kalamunda, WA. This amazing facility offers guests a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, wading pool, toddlers pool and two exciting tube slides!

www.kalamundawaterpark.com.au

 

[DaBulldog]

With thanks to Doctor Google I think the old Wet n’ Wild is now known as Kalamunda Water Park:

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The Kalamunda Water Park is located in Kalamunda, WA. This amazing facility offers guests a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, wading pool, toddlers pool and two exciting tube slides!

www.kalamundawaterpark.com.au

Your Kalamunda Waterpark details are in Kalamunda. Adventure World is in Bibra Lake. Definitely two separate places. The one you found looks good. Might take my kids there in summer.

 

[DinkumDog]

- Flemington Markets Sydney (that was massive)

FYI it’s still there :

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The Sydney Markets are a commercial enterprise in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Markets are located in the Inner West suburb of Flemington, 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield. The market is the...

www.sydneymarkets.com.au

 

[DaBulldog]

FYI it’s still there :

Sydney Markets - Home

The Sydney Markets are a commercial enterprise in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Markets are located in the Inner West suburb of Flemington, 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield. The market is the...

www.sydneymarkets.com.au

Last I remembered a long time ago, they ended up dominated by fruit and veggies. In the early 80’s (as you know) their was no internet and buying online. So the Flemington markets was where you could get anything. I used to always be on the hunt for the latest Game and Watches. Do you remember those? Those markets you could get lost in for hours.

 

[DinkumDog]

Last I remembered a long time ago, they ended up dominated by fruit and veggies. In the early 80’s (as you know) their was no internet and buying online. So the Flemington markets was where you could get anything. I used to always be on the hunt for the latest Game and Watches. Do you remember those? Those markets you could get lost in for hours.

Yep, it’s largely the same today: F&V and a smaller Paddy’s Market (the bigger Paddy’s is still in Haymarket in town). Yep, Game & Watch was huge. In our house we had Parachute, Oil Panic, Donkey Kong and Popeye. Primitive by today’s standards :

 

[CroydonDog]

We have Adventure World with some Water Slides. Overall it’s a pretty good Theme Park. But with Winter - it’s currently closed.

When i was a kid there was a water themed park in Perth called Atlantis? It was out of town a bit back then (late 80s) but probably not anymore.

 

[south of heaven]

It’s in the suburb of Bibra Lake.

Ah yeah I know the one not far from cogee?

 

[SPEARTAKVIDREFS]

Butterfly farm, we use to a have our end of year soccer or league presentations days out there, bbq's and all the parents would be on the piss.
Use to be mud baths northern side of the nepean river bridge. Walk up around the bend for half our or so, use to be on the left.
We use to jump off the pylons on the Nepean Bridge, dont know if people still do. Do people still swim in there?
Magic Kingdom, Waterworks etc, fun times.
Bidwell/Shalvey and other schools use to fight one another. Made the news which was a big deal to us living out the back of bumfuck Sydney.
There where no suburbs behind Bidwell/Shalvey, just bush for days.
I barely recognise western Sydney whenever I visit.

 

[Gene Krupa]

But had space invaders on it.

 

[N4TE]

I remember them all except Bullens animal world.

Remember El Cabello Blanco an Sega World?

This was the 90’s but Sega world Crush Parties we’re absolute scum pits lol Nick Skitz playing and 35 year old Lebos picking up 16 year old sluts.. The Asians and lebs use to
Always punch on there as well but the Viets didn’t fuck around in those days and would get stabby

 

[N4TE]

What about the hotdog kebab man that use to set up half way down from the Canterbury Leagues club and Belmore Oval so you could get a cheap feed before or after the game.. Still remember the smell it was the first time our family had tried things like kebabs being third gen Scottish heritage Aussies. We couldn’t get enough. I would have been about 7.

 

[N4TE]

Four Corners (of the world) food court which was Australia’s first food court at Roselands. I remember it from late 80s to mid 90’s but it was there since the 60s and it was seen as quite posh to have curry prawns from the Chinese stall.

 

[Kung fu man]

I hated Wonderland with a passion it was an overpriced shithole

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

View attachment 28926Four Corners (of the world) food court which was Australia’s first food court at Roselands. I remember it from late 80s to mid 90’s but it was there since the 60s and it was seen as quite posh to have curry prawns from the Chinese stall.

That, place and a virtually similar one at Bankstown Square. Loved it.

 

[N4TE]

That, place and a virtually similar one at Bankstown Square. Loved it.

Bankstown square in the mid 90’s with that arcade bit where the Maccas is fuck some shit went down there in the days Tongans would come down and start shit with the Bankstown Boys and the 5T would all hang out fight play arcade games deal drugs and eat maccas. As an Aussie I was sweet there because I knew all the Telopea Street boys because I lived close and grew up playing footy with them.. The Fijians from Punchbowl were the most hectic they never lost a fight..

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

Bankstown square in the mid 90’s with that arcade bit where the Maccas is fuck some shit went down there in the days Tongans would come down and start shit with the Bankstown Boys and the 5T would all hang out fight play arcade games deal drugs and eat maccas

Was it called City Limits, or something? It became quite a cesspit. I remember in about the early to mid-90s, that Guardian Angels group was trying to get a foothold in Australia. They came out to Bankstown Square one Thursday night, to "make it safe". They ended up so intimidated by the locals, the police had to come and safely escort them out, back to the railway station and out of Bankstown... and they were never heard of again in the area.

But, prior to that, I had fond memories of the old food court, called the World/s Fare (or something similar)... very much like the one at Roselands.