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I Remember When With Milton Rendell

June 18, 2021

Remember When

Do you remember when you wanted find out about real estate, you use to pick the Realtor Magazine? The ads were all in black and white. You would pick it up from your local real estate office or make an appointment to go and talk to your local agent. When I started in real estate […]

I Remember When With Milton Rendell

May 21, 2021

Remember When

Do you remember when there was no shopping on Sundays, no late night trading on Thursday and shops used to close at noon on Saturday? How things have changed in those times. The local shop was your back up plan for basic items, sadly in many ways we miss the local shop. If you couldn’t […]

I Remember When With Milton Rendell

May 3, 2021

Remember When

Do you remember when you couldn’t wait until lunch time or morning play time at school. That was a time you had a run around with class mates. At Guildford Primary was pretty common this time of year, the boys would head straight to the oval which was part of the school where today is […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

February 26, 2021

Remember When

Do you remember when services that today we are told are extra were available once common in every town and free. Someone mentioned to Lynette who works with me that she remembers my family delivering bread to her home when she was a child back in the 1940 and 1950’s in a horse and cart. […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

February 4, 2021

Remember When

Do you remember your first day at high school I am a Govo boy and in the seventies it was an interesting time to start high school. I thought Guildford Primary was big then I walked into Govo it was huge and a complete different dynamic to what I was used to for school. My […]

I Remember When with Matthew Pavlinovich

December 11, 2020

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2020 marks the 125th anniversary since the municipality and town of Helena Vale was proclaimed from the backbone of the Midland Railway Company of WA establishing themselves in the town and commencing the construction of the railway line to Walkaway. 25 years ago, Midland celebrated its 100th anniversary while being still in primary school I […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

November 12, 2020

Remember When

Do you remember what you used to do to get pocket money?  As a kid growing up in Guildford when you wanted to make a couple of bob you would cross the Helena River to the back of the Rosehill Country Club and go looking for golf balls. There was a driving range on the […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

September 18, 2020

Remember When

Do you remember when there was no shopping on Sundays, no late night trading on Thursday and shops closed at noon on Saturday? How things have changed. In those times, the local shops were your back up plan for basic items and sadly in many ways we miss the local shop. If you couldn’t get […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

August 24, 2020

Remember When

Do you remember when as a kid you would go looking for tadpoles? We had a couple of spots, the main one being on Allpike Street in Guildford where there was an old open drain that used to flood up. This was near the East Guildford train station on the Guildford Grammar side. John, Peter […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

July 23, 2020

Remember When

Do you remember getting your first bike? Dad had some old bikes he said I could ride and seriously they were a death trap as they had what they called fixed wheels in those days and for the those who don’t know what that means is basically no foot brakes. You just kept riding in […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

June 26, 2020

Remember When

Do you remember when having a phone in your house wasn’t common, I grew up in a house with no phone and if I wanted to give someone a call I used to have to go to the old red phone box on the corner of Waylen and Swan Street in Guildford. There once were […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

May 15, 2020

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Do you remember your parents and grandparents talking about the depression caused during war times? I think my parents learnt a lot about survival and many ways how to be grateful for what they had. Mum used to say all the time “if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all”. Today […]

I Remember When with Matthew Pavlinovich

March 13, 2020

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Do you have memories of playing sport as a kid?  I began playing soccer as a five year old for the Swan Districts Junior Soccer Association at Swan View Park and can still remember the pair of leather Patrick boots and polish I received from my Uncle Damir.  Uncle Damir was probably the one that […]

I Remember When with Matt Pavlinovich

January 30, 2020

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Who can remember the humble corner deli or general store where they lived or grew up?  I can remember as a kid going into the Middle Swan Liquor Store and eyeing which lollies I would buy to fill a little paper bag full for a few cents each.  My favourites were Strawberries and Creams.  People […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

December 5, 2019

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I remember when each year my family in early December would drive into the city at night to see the Christmas lights. The big department store Boans was always our favourite as they had a terrific display and it was an annual event for many families. I know of many families who would also go […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

October 24, 2019

Remember When

Do you remember your first day at high school? I certainly do, I was a Govo lad in the seventies and what a transition that was. I grew up in Guildford and went to Guildford Primary School so I went from a school of around three hundred kids to a school of around two thousand. […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

August 19, 2019

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Do you remember how conversations start when you catch up with people you know from the past at reunions and funerals? A good friend of mine Dad passed away recently and at the funeral they went through his life and there were plenty of laughs and tears. His dad, Dan Teraci was a real character […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

July 3, 2019

Remember When

Do you remember when there used to be an afternoon paper and two Sunday papers? It seems a long time ago now.  There would also be a weekend sports paper on a Saturday afternoon as well. Hard to imagine now that these papers even existed as I was telling my daughters a while back. I […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

April 1, 2019

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Do you remember when the old dunny was out the back? I grew up in Guildford with one of those luxury loos, plus the wash house that was outside as well. It had an old copper mum used to boil clothes in and use to heat water for the bath tub. In a recent discussion […]

I Remember When with Milton Rendell

March 5, 2019

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Do you remember your last day at primary school? For some of us it was quite a while ago and for me 1972 was my last year at Guildford Primary School. I don’t know about you, but I find remembering what we did then pretty easy as most of the guys you grew up with […]