Jealous of G’Day from Wa’s good fortune, as he received this lovely object recently. He shows it in display mode and in natural environment. 
Calum has also been the vitim of the condom on the letterbox bandit. This time it’s in bedford. When is Klag O’Callamity going to stamp out this problem? 
And speaking of birth control, this photo of Leisure Island freaks found by Brer Bento would put anyone off family life. 
Worst well.
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Can anyone tell me what “Leisure Island” is.
Other than contraceptive.
TLA: Where and Where
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Leisure island is the timezone sort of place next to the cinemas in Galleria. Pinballs &cetera.
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And “french letter?”
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Klag needs to be on the lookout for this guy, I think.
p.s. The trolley really makes that shot.
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Chic Catholic groups?
Can I just state for the record, in my humble opinion, Kelly Thatcher is a stupid, old, woman. And possibly a cunt.
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I deliberately made sure the trolley was in frame. I’m glad you appreciated it.
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Gallerian family out shopping, abandon the trolley on being seduced by the chance of fun every day.
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Sorry. The lower case threw me.
Yes Snuff. I didn’t notice till you mentioned it…
and because I know you like trolley shots…
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That family sure look like they know how to have a good time.
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Where do you find models like that?
A certain club in Maddington?
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Church, I assume.
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They smile like door-to-door believers, that’s for sure.
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I like the authenticity of the taps in the 1979 period display.
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LA, when you write “in natural environment”, do you mean a low security prison?
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Hey, that’s my office kitchenette!
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I’m just jealous.
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I’m now singing the Rolf Harris classic Back to WA and probably will for the rest of the afternoon.
On the topic of iconic WA images, Mr Cimbali has just been interviewed and photographed for the Sunday Times regarding the boxing kangaroo.
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I wondered what he thought of it being caled “rubbish” in the press last week.
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You should be more like “Brad.”
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why does that dad have his hand clenched into a fist near the boys head?
the before or after shot?
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Maybe there’s a liquor store at Galleria ?
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just underneath leisure island.
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wow! thanks for the utoob link snuff. I just spent 2hrs in Indi heaven. I had forgotten about JBE and went toobing through Scientists, early gurus, laughing clowns etc. but ended up with Perth band The Bamboos (the old one not that silly funk band) and they were playing your tune.
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oh yeh, and I also came across this
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A red-hawt ol’ flame in Melbs is great mates with the really cool lookin’ little chick in that clip, mez, whom by all reports is still just as hawt.
p.s. Lovers of hot pants might enjoy more than just two hours of heaven here.
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Woof!
bookmarked
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And that’s just part of Guido’s amazing collection of miniskirts, bellbottoms, hairstyles, sunglasses, boots and miscellany.
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Russ Meyer. He’s obsessed with breasts. That’s really hard to say.
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Easier done than said, Bento.
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Olivia, for mine, isn’t working those pants.
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She’s certainly no Daisy Duke, shaz, unlike our Kylie.
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Kylie’s mangled those shorts into an (almost) cuntkini Snuff.
I’m a Rachel Welch girl myself.
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double chins and bad haircuts derigeur for leisure island
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And so it’s loser’s day at the Galleria and
Jamie’s there in elephant jeans and
A baseball cap backwards on his head and
Inside he’s seven feet tall and smooth glossy black with
Legs that can propel him to the sky and
People call him Shaquille or
Air or anything butJamie because
Jamie’s five foot nothing in
His stolen Nikes that came from
The last day he wagged school to
Hang out with Marnie at
Her place when her parents were away and
They did it but
Now Marnie wont talk to him and
That makes him shove and push and bustle past
Gina on her lunch break from
The checkout at Coles where she
Doesn’t quite know how
She got there but knows she’s lucky because
Most of her friends haven’t got jobs at all even
The cool ones who knew they’d be
Okay once they got out of that school where
The teachers all hated them because
They were young abd they were cool abd they knew-
But Gina’s running late on the Doc Martins which
Somehow aren’t really as comfortable as they were when
She didn’t have to stand up all the time and before
She put on all this weight that
She’ll get rid of as soon as she –
But it’s late and she hasn’t got the time and
Her navel ring hurts where it catches
Against the fabric of her blouse and
Maybe the nipple rings wouldn’t be such a good idea after all
Even is Sam thinks they’d be a turn on so
Just get the hair tipped in green and red because
It’s her fucking life and she’ll look how she fucking wants but
The supervisor warned her so she doesn’t even
Notice Terry as he wonders what happened to all the
Pension money in his account as
He stands in front of the ATM and
He only had a few drinks with his mates and
jeez he feels crook and
A couple of cold ones would be good now but
It’s bloody cold outside and
He’s only got on thongs and his old
Flannelette shirt that they gave
Him at the hostel and
He meant to get a pair of shoes and
Maybe good boots y’know,
Work boots so
He could get a job and a man can’t turn up
For work in thongs but
Some bastard’s taken five hundred dollars out of the account and that’s about all there is for this fortnight so
What’ll he do for a meal and a drink and that
Bitch passing by doesn’t care and
She’s got her own problems trying to make ends meet for
The kids and herself and
That bastard that pissed off when
She was pregnant had better front up with
Some bloody maintenance money or
She doesn’t know what she’ll do so
She looks around for all the things that
Are close to code.
Reduced to clear.
Ready to be tossed out on the dump like
Her and Terry and Gina and Jamie and
All the others under
The glittering sky in front of
The glossy shops with things that
Glow and are
Bright and clean and new like
Hope and dreams with
Prices on them and
Everything has a price that’s always too much except the
Screaming nail that;s
Hammered through their heads and
Bodies and into the ground to
Pin them where they are forever
Beaten in with a golden hammer in
Someone else’s hands as
They spin and gyre here forever
and it’s loser’s day at the Galleria
(Ian Nichols)
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thats good but I thought that
Gina works the diner all day
Working for her man, she brings home her pay
For love – for love
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And the only one who could ever please her was the cork soaking son of a preacher man?
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I seem to remember swimming in a pool that had a tile mosaic of the WA 150 swan on the bottom of it when I was a kid. Possibly in Maylands. There’s a lost worst that I’d love to see.
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I seem to remember that mosaic from a lame water park just across the river from Maylands in Ascott, which had shallow wading pools lined with tiles (Hyde Park has a few similar pools). My memories of said park are very hazy – does it still exist?
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Hyde park had concrete dinosaurs in those ponds which now have mosaics and little fountains for kiddies.
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I think you are referring to the Ascot Water Playground.
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Hasn’t someone sent pics of that now derelict place? Maybe I haven’t posted them.
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There’s a few here, folks.
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Awesome pictures – really brought some memories to the surface.
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Thanks Snuff.
Our youngest unmarrieds and we took refuge there on many occasions on days of intense heat.
A great and much used asset now lost.
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That’s a sad state of affairs.
I enjoyed a summer afternoon there in my childhood. I remember being enthralled with the place.
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Good to see the Leisure Island billboard sign getting some attention. I’ve been walking past it every so often for the last several years, and have often remarked to myself or my companion regarding some of its more disturbing features:
(1) The boy’s left ear is pierced. I often cross the street to avoid boys with pierced ears; a sure sign of young thuggery.
(2) The angle of the shot. The father-son, mother-daughter symmetry. The father-mother, son-daughter symmetry. The photograph and design is a study in composition.
(3) Why Leisure ISLAND? I struggle to find anything remotely island-ish about Leisure Island itself or the Galleria, except in a vague way the entire complex as surrounded by its vast oceanic car-park.
Perhaps there was a connection to the large brass statue of dolphins leaping from the water which once occupied the central Galleria hub, now occupied by a coffee shop (the statue itself begs many more questions, and is surely a forgotten Perth worst).
(4) Can’t remember how long ago the Galleria opened (15 years ago?), but as far as I recall the Leisure Island sign has been there since day one. Here’s the creepy thing – while much advertising tends to date very quickly, the LI sign has not. One continues to see such people, and such advertising, and will presumably do so for considerable time to come.
I often get told that I tend to over-analyse things….
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3. They used to (and perhaps still do) have an ‘Island’ theme, which was particularly well developed in the Morley Galleria venue. Think fibreglass palms, rattan everywhere, and a somewhat unusual ‘blue-skinned pacific islander’ corporate mascot. This appears to have changed, however Leisure Island remains one of Perth’s premier locations for playing ‘DEAL OR NO DEAL’.
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The palm trees, of course!
Don’t remember seeing the mascot, and not sure what you mean with the DOND reference.
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The mascot was basically an Ooga Booga Man with a bone thru his nose.
DOND promo here
http://www.leisureisland.com.au/new.html
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I really want to see that Mascot now! Can’t find any trace of it now – perhaps it was erased when Centro took over from Westfield in 2003.
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I’ve scoured the net, but alas it was a fruitless search.
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Still marveling at this billboard. I’d nearly forgotten the clenched, raised fist in the foreground, bottom left.
Does it belong to the father or the son? In any case, if not merely triumphant, it completes the image of thuggery I alluded to earlier.
The people have names for me:
Father – Terry
Mother – Terri
Son – Tod
Daughter – Toni
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the longer I stare at their glistening, gurning knobs, the more they resemble a collection of emphatic, skyward rectal prolapses
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