The "I remember series Part I"

I remember Perth 34 yrs ago [no not Scotland - WA] a sleepy little hollow that the eastern states giggled at - all the shops closed at midday on Saturdays for the footie - it turned from a sleepy hollow to a ghost town with wild yelling coming from behind closed curtains!

AlanHo wrote:

We could never have afforded marble. My parents couldn't even afford to buy me or my brother marbles - we had to make do with ball bearings nicked from the scrap at a local engineering works.

Ah, but dad was a Stone Mason. So him laying his hands on a piece would have been easy.