Two worst worthy items in curio shop William Street (Turnstyles) . A carving celebrating decapitation, and a whole roll of Boans wrapping paper. I was going to ask the price, but the shop person was absorbed in playing solitaire on the counter. The Boans paper would see you through a decade of worst Christmases and Birthdays. Old buffers will love it, especially those that called it Bo-ans.
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The Worst of Perth 
I am, actually, curious as to the price of the Boans wrapping paper.
This is the place near the Horseshoe Bridge?
(Those heads remind me of the Bob Hawke drink dispenser that I almost purchased off eBay a few years back, which looks a bit like this: http://i.ebayimg.com/19/!B5R1Lc!CGk~$%28KGrHqUOKisEyZpfQLuSBMt!kdTq+!~~_35.JPG)
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With “Cortez the killer” playing gently in the background, and that Boans paper is a guaranteed sale for a old duffer.
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fisher king jockey on the left
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Lurve the Boans wrapping paper. Not Worst.
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It appears there will be a race to get it from by old buffer TWOP fans.
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I say Bo-ans. Anyone who says ‘Bones’ is a philistine.
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Unless you are talking about the one in the Grove in Cottesloe, which is properly referred to as Bones in the Grave.
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Snapped up for $500.
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I only saw it last night. Can it be a TWOP related sale?
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No question: you should get a cut.
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So not worst !
I see the Round House, Barracks Arch, the Town Hall, and of course the home of the magical pneumatic sales docket delivery system.
And while I’m loitering down memory lane, a word of thanks for their gifts to the students of Iona, St Hilda’s, PLC, Loreto and MLC.
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“Old Duffer” not “Buffer”.
I should know.
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1. The fact that the warrior is wearing an actual cloth loincloth would suggest that the statue has been finished in the altogether.
2. The severed heads look not too traumatized by the experience–downright serene, in fact.
3. The wrapping paper, to my eyes, is not a worst. Does the department store still exist? What is the gothic towered building depicted in the lower left hand side?
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Barkeep, surely you’ve learned enough about Perth from TWOP to know we demolished those buildings years ago, and replaced them with the sort of crap that has provided nearly 4 years of content here.
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The store and building both sadly gone. The building bottom left is the town hall, still in existence. At the top left, is the round house in fremantle, also still existing. I think it may have been the site of the first hanging in the colony. Two of its inhabitants are at the bottom of this post.
I can’t remember if the town hall has featured. Wasn’t the book launch of that truckie chick there?
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Correct.
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Here’s a noo yoik reference from inside the new space that Boans used to occupy, now Myers.
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Egad.
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a lil sumfin I did on the old BOANS store http://yelpar.blogspot.com/2010/08/old-perth-9.html
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A shame. Handsome looking place, very much in the Burnham style.
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Wow. Some of the aggrieved nostalgia here starts to make sense beyond the usual “back in my day” syndrome…
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“Aggrieved nostalgia” I love it. LA that should be a tag.
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That’s lovely. I love the zombie mob celebrating the 75th birthday.
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Free wrapping paper.
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And I believe Boans had a special wrap commemorating that anniversary period of late 1970, with a suitably lairy pattern contemporary to that era, with a pink and yellow
rose motif, by then of which psychedelic design caught the imagination of the masses, albeit three years too late, which was typical of Australia at the time, where it has been said that we didn’t really experience the 1960s like North America, Britain and Europe did and that instead we had something of an extended 50s, dragged kicking-and screaming straight into the 70s. Which also explains the rose and lilac shades that made their way into bathrooms of houses built a few years each side of 1971 (my own 1968 home had lilac-coloured tiles in the bathroom, of which I had to scrap when I renovated it as some previous owner made a patch-up that wasn’t at all sympathetic to the era).
Now, that would a truly groovy thrift store find if a bolt of that wrapping paper did surface.
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I remember that paper. I think my Mum still has some, she never throws anything away!
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ah, I love being so young that I have no idea whatsoever what the relevance of that wrapping paper is.
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enjoy it, it won’t last.
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“So last year” has become “So last week” with the accelerating rate of change.
It is only human nature that remains entrenched in the Bronze Age.
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yes, obviously.
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And exactly what was it like to live in the Bronze Age, Rolly? It’s so rare I have access to a primary source for any era, but this is a scoop!
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Well, I’ll tell ya one thing, the Bronze Age didn’t end because they ran out of Bronze !
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No, indeed, but they are looking to mine it again and ship it off to China.
I’ll leave My Ning to explain.
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you know Bronze is an alloy and not a mineral, and quite difficult to mine, right?
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Ever heard of irony?
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http://videosift.com/video/Mitchell-and-Webb-Bronze-Age-Orientation-Day
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Can’t remember quite that far back, but this http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/default.asp?PID=261 is a bit similar.
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Been there. It was Not Worst, especially after Team RubyRuby had sampled some of the offerings in one of the herb gardens. I also liked the self-shearing sheep…
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The what … ?
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Pathetic, Rouei: next you’ll claim ignorance of what rostered petrol stations were.
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Purpose of rostered servos? buying dope mostly
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You mean Rastad?
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Oh, is that what they were for? As a New Australian in the mid 80’s, I never really got it
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Ahahaha I had to ask my parents. I was born in the late eighties, which is when I believe that was phased out.
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Please – I have no idea? Is this a Westralian thing? Or did I just not notice in my youthful innocence?
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Finding a rostered station as the needle hovered around the “E” was a constant source of frustration (or perhaps disguised excitement) for my parents.
Did I just do an accidental Winton?
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Rostered servos were a vile torture perpetrated on WA; a combination of the response to the 1970s oil and energy crises and WA’s haunting fear that someone, somehow, may be happy, to paraphrase Mencken.
Say you fancied a weekend jaunt. Not on your Bertie !
You were forced into white knuckled Russian Roulette, trying not to watch the fuel gauge bottoming out as you ventured further and further from wherever it was you might have wanted to go, from one closed servo to the next, in the vain hope that there’d be, like some head on a turnpike, a sign on a door hinting at where an open servo might be, before running out in the middle of nowhere then hitching home.
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Lists were published in newspapers (thus we can blame no more roster servos as another reason contributing to their demise…)
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Now you tell me.
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p.s. To be fair, it was worse in NZ. As well as a time when there were no weekend petrol sales; (taxis were exempt and would slip you a jerry can, for a price, and you should’ve seen the lines on a Friday arvo), Piggy Muldoon, NZ’s very own Joh, tried carless days, which profiteers promptly rendered a farce.
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I thought it was the fear of Sunday shopping, and the fear that god might smitest thou for being such a sinner.
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and remenber the pubs were shut on sundays, being the Lords day and all
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Yes: … the summer Sunday sun beat and baked their old Kingswood as it coasted into the heaven-sent Ampol, like a Freo gull lazily dropping upon an abandoned pile of fish and chips…
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Woman bears Daniel Kerr’s baby. Life ruined.
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He looks a little puffy in the face, like a footballer who had retired 5 years ago.
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steroids do that, and the diuretics to flush the masking agents cause muscle cramps,arrythmia, appalling fashion sense at the Brownlow, fatigue, depression and ultimately a Mainy suicide pact
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The baby was conceived while punching out an abusive Collingwood supporter in a carpark. true story.
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And in a tree, no less.
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If the Third World War is going to be about drinking, rooting, and throwing food around, count me in.
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I’d always envisaged a tad more bombing and shooting too.
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I’m in and all,
especially if the opposition havemobility problems and an average age of about 60
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Ben? Oh the humanity!
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The Eagles won the wooden spoon but scored big in September
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Stupid Crazy Statue.
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A MAN who bashed his gay housemate to death with items including an 8kg platypus statue has been found guilty of murder for the second time by a Supreme Court jury….
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/aaron-james-johnstone-guilty-of-killing-flatmate-phillip-william-higgins/story-fn7x8me2-1226080608859
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Joe Orton wishes he could have been beaten to death with a platypus.
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I’m sure you will be described as Ortonesque one day…
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In other weird-animal related violence news:
http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Police-Assault-suspect-mistook-marten-for-mink-1418553.php
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thank you defrock, i think you have just made my day.
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