Do you ever wonder what happened to the Aussie hamburger, backyard chooks, or your local soft drink factory?
Where has the country bank manager or the local co-op gone? Remember when we listened to the jukebox at the local milk bar on the way home from school as we sipped on our "Bodgie Blood"? Life for the average Australian has changed a lot over the past 50 years, no more so than in the country.
Travel writer, popular music commentator and social historian Bruce Elder reflects on many of the changes that have affected our lives since the 1950s, walking with us down memory lane and providing a poignant, evocative and often amusing account of how things are different now.
While answering our many questions about how and why some things have changed, Bruce also explores the wider issues of Aussie mateship and that sense of community we shared in years gone by? Do these characteristics still exist today?
