Darwin in the 80's
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Shed Captain, if you didnt know him perhaps your better half did....
Sacred site
remember Caseys Corner at the Berrimah lights?
Shed Captain, if you didnt know him perhaps your better half did....
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remember Caseys Corner at the Berrimah lights?
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NTAC - Graham Ball (used to fight with Ozzie all the time!) Aaah, Graham! Scored my first job with NTAC and before I even went in for the interview, the CP and another senior pilot told me to do myself a favour and just walk away.
Still, I was grateful for flying the C402 IFR as the replacement for "George" up the Top End during the Wet.
Still, I was grateful for flying the C402 IFR as the replacement for "George" up the Top End during the Wet.
Silly Old Git
TENTOTEN agreed.
Another of a familiar craft around the Top End in the 80's
Probably the same man seeing as how its unusually configured
Gosh, 26 years since Luigi and Owie were were lost in Sydney.
Another of a familiar craft around the Top End in the 80's
Probably the same man seeing as how its unusually configured
Gosh, 26 years since Luigi and Owie were were lost in Sydney.
Silly Old Git
I've been a prisoner in Darwhine 30 years in Oct .apart from a foray to the big smoke in 86
My how its changed, not all for the better, but it is still somewhere to live thats far away from the rest of OZ without actually leaving.
My how its changed, not all for the better, but it is still somewhere to live thats far away from the rest of OZ without actually leaving.
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can't really believe this thread has got this far without references to some of the worlds great nightclubs
Regines/Crystals (casino), Darbys, Fannies
(these were class establishments), Hot Gossip, and Le Club 
Regines/Crystals (casino), Darbys, Fannies
(these were class establishments), Hot Gossip, and Le Club
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NTAC - Graham Ball (used to fight with Ozzie all the time!)
while looking at me with an intense "now-how-can-I-fcuk-this-guy?"
look of a used car salesman.
Then I wandered across the lane to Ossie (Arnhem Air Charter) and
that went ok. Lasted about 2 months on the Barooon (TOV) then
Armpits gave me the arse for something minor - like calling her kid
(Eddie?) a fcuking idiot, among other things.
Headed to the Alice after that.
Can't recall the name of the CFI over at the aero club but I remember
that I got on rather well with him. Was it Don something?
Silly Old Git
Good Lord, how many pilots did Ozzy turn out?
Hurlingham. Dix til Six.Now Reece plumbing store. .Spellman still in town, done very well thank you, sold a restaurant on land somebody built multi $millon apartment tower on
Hurlingham. Dix til Six.Now Reece plumbing store. .Spellman still in town, done very well thank you, sold a restaurant on land somebody built multi $millon apartment tower on
Hurlingham
When I knew of Morgan, he was ensconced in the Tuminello (Fannies) crowd and in vicious competition with Spelman.
But that was in the period pre-dating this thread (the late 70's) and he may have changed sides after falling out with Tuminello. However, I always thought of them as competitors.
The NT News gave Morgan the full "royal" treatment when he passed on.
Cooda - DJ at Beachcombers, the Verandah Bar, Fannies and a few other places; but banned from Dix for not being gay. (1978-82)
When I knew of Morgan, he was ensconced in the Tuminello (Fannies) crowd and in vicious competition with Spelman.
But that was in the period pre-dating this thread (the late 70's) and he may have changed sides after falling out with Tuminello. However, I always thought of them as competitors.
The NT News gave Morgan the full "royal" treatment when he passed on.
Cooda - DJ at Beachcombers, the Verandah Bar, Fannies and a few other places; but banned from Dix for not being gay.
(1978-82)
Silly Old Git
Er...Cooda. John let me in?????
Old bugger still goin' strong
World feeds on 'thongage' | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au
Who was the English bloke had the Forge? Mike.....????
Old bugger still goin' strong
World feeds on 'thongage' | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au
Who was the English bloke had the Forge? Mike.....????
Silly Old Git
Har har..Cooda wifey just yelled out perhaps "Phyllis" (resident Dix tranny) didnt fancy you.....
Man if you hadda been DJ at Lims Cage bar I would have been impressed
Lots of others The Dolphin, Sunday Prawn and Porn Nightcliff hotel,Sweethearts, Maranga for strippers (and Parap)
THE BEST STEAK Jessies, Petty Sessions, (Sweaty Passions CLP ministerial briefing room) Darbys Hookers Ball...Christ on a stick and we used to FLY as well???
Man if you hadda been DJ at Lims Cage bar I would have been impressed
Lots of others The Dolphin, Sunday Prawn and Porn Nightcliff hotel,Sweethearts, Maranga for strippers (and Parap)
THE BEST STEAK Jessies, Petty Sessions, (Sweaty Passions CLP ministerial briefing room) Darbys Hookers Ball...Christ on a stick and we used to FLY as well???
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Er...Cooda. John let me in?????
The Forge is definitely taking us back to the 70's. Seem to recall it's closure led to Dix opening on the site.
DJ at Lim's?! Nah, I had hopes of a long life and didn't want to jeopardise my chances.
Was an interesting time to watch the changing face of drinking in Darwin.
Beachcomber closed at 11.00pm and those kicking on went to Fannies, Dix or the Cave. Never saw a fight.
Then they went to midnight close and there was a sense of tension in the air come closing time.
Finally they went to a 2.00am close and it was on for young and old every night.
Did not surprise me when the 0400/0600 closures led to mob violence in the earky hours.
Anybody know what happened to 'Gundy'. A real character. Hit a Buffalo on the head with a wing-tip once, frantic repair job in secret, late at night, with spare wing-tip but wrong colour. Quick spray-can paint job and owner/operator none the wiser until flying in heavy rain, only to land and discover one wing-tip blue the other mysteriously red. Kept me smiling for weeks that one. There's something in the water up there, funny days.
Silly Old Git
Gundy is alive and well and is probably plotting another closing down sale as we speak