What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[peternorth]

Myer bourke street lifts. Operated by a life person.

 

[kickazz]

In these cups!

The secret of the crisp chip!

 

[the_interloper]

Myer bourke street lifts. Operated by a life person.

Probably a lift man back in those days

 

[blueboy25]

In these cups!

Too much vinegar and the bottom is falling out

 

[Cuzz09]

in the 80s/90s you could still go to Holly's Cafe in KMart

Crinkle cut chips with brown gravy was the bomb!

There was cafes like that in stores like Harris Scarf and Le Cornus too

For some reason as a kid stuff tasted better at those places

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[perthblue]

In these cups!

Paper cups are a sign of high quality when it comes to both hot chips and cinammon donuts

 

[Macca19]

Wasnt really until the mid 00s that Adelaide copped its first proper coffee revolution, when the owners of Cibo Ristorante closed their very successful restaurant to concentrate on the Cibo coffee franchises. People saw their success and others followed. Before them you could get good coffee in about 5 cafes in adelaide

 

[the_interloper]

Wasnt really until the mid 00s that Adelaide copped its first proper coffee revolution, when the owners of Cibo Ristorante closed their very successful restaurant to concentrate on the Cibo coffee franchises. People saw their success and others followed. Before them you could get good coffee in about 5 cafes in adelaide

Well Macker19 I do recall a good coffee place on Franklin St, actually might have been down a lane off there, best coffee i'd had in Adelaide by a mile. The Cibo does the job, it's not that flash though

 

[Gough]

Well Macker19 I do recall a good coffee place on Franklin St, actually might have been down a lane off there, best coffee i'd had in Adelaide by a mile. The Cibo does the job, it's not that flash though

Little coffee bar in the part of Adelaide Arcade that you come into off Twin St is the best here imo.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

Myer bourke street lifts. Operated by a life person.

Wonder if kids of today understand haberdashery and Manchester

 

[peternorth]

remember this vividly. Being very close to this even now brings back memories

 

[Macca19]

Little coffee bar in the part of Adelaide Arcade that you come into off Twin St is the best here imo.

Would agree

 

[Catfish Alley]

I read Kmart Australia might try buy into the Canadian market. Would be cool to see. Don't think it would work though. Target bombed within a year.

Department stores seem a thing of past decades really. Not many of them about.

 

[Gough]

Malls are disappearing all over America these days.

The decline of the American mall has left just 700 still standing. Soon there may be just 150 left.

In the 1980s, thousands of malls dotted the country. The online-shopping boom and the pandemic have accelerated their demise.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Catfish Alley]

Can't remember last time I was in a mall. At least 5 years.

 

[kickazz]

One thing I remember about the 80s in Australia was from a crime point of view, there seemed to be more armed bank robberies and gun violence in general. (Hoddle and Queen st massacres for example)

 

[GreyCrow]

When the only password you needed to remember was ''Terry sent me''

 

[Gough]

When the only password you needed to remember was ''Terry sent me''

 

[Cuzz09]

I vaguely remember a department store called "venture" similar to Kmart

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[Dogs_R_Us]

I vaguely remember a department store called "venture" similar to Kmart

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Yes, there was a Venture store in Camberwell, and elsewhere. They were variety stores, “department store” was reserved for Myer, DJs, McWhirters and the bigger more expensive stores.

 

[mr bagcroft]

One thing I remember about the 80s in Australia was from a crime point of view, there seemed to be more armed bank robberies and gun violence in general. (Hoddle and Queen st massacres for example)

Yep, the last of the crime gangs of the 70's before the gig was up with better security, and the advent of CCTV.

 

[the_interloper]

I vaguely remember a department store called "venture" similar to Kmart

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Mum used to buy my acid wash jeans there! That shop is a Rebel these days

 

[blueboy25]

Yep, the last of the crime gangs of the 70's before the gig was up with better security, and the advent of CCTV.

I worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland back in the early 2000's. The tellers had a seperate stack of money (1000 quid) which had dye in it and if we got robbed they were meant to give that to the robbers and it would explode as they went past a sensor at the front door and ruin all of the notes.

We had a new teller in the branch and in her first week she accidently gave that stack of notes in a envelope to a customer and it exploded in the foyer of the branch with dye covering everything.

 

[Mofra]

I still remember those two years in 90s when sun-dried tomatoes were in absolutely everything.

Pretty sure every focaccia in the old Myer basement food court (Melbourne CBD) had them.

 

[Gough]

Same thing happened with pesto in the 80s.