Adelaide Remember When

by Bob Byrne

Remember childhood visits to the Adelaide Zoo with a ride in the elephant cart, school lunches and a glass bottle of sun-warmed milk, spending Saturday night at Downtown or Tilt to play arcade games or go roller-skating, or rides at Magic Mountain or Dazzleland? Adelaide Remember When started on Facebook in March 2013, and within 12 months had more than 17,000 followers and spawned a regular weekly newspaper column in the Adelaide Advertiser . This book brings together the best photographs and commentary from the recent past of South Australia’s capital city.

Genres: Historical, History, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published December 1, 2014

About the author

Bob Byrne had a long career in commercial radio, particularly 5DN Adelaide, before becoming a columnist / blogger at The Adelaide Advertiser, writing about Adelaide of the recent past. He set up the popular 'Adelaide Remember When' Facebook page, the inspiration for this book.
[from 'Adelaide Remember When'].

Reviews

[albie_of_nonfic · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars, rounded up.

A Facebook page turned into a book, this book has the strengths and weaknesses of its parent site.

As a selection / random dump of memories submitted to a nostalgia page on Facebook, the photographs are good, as are some (though not all) of the explanations / summaries. The book is a mess, however: there is no structure whatsoever. One location (the City Baths) appears three times, probably lost in the dump-like nature of the selection.

This book desperately needed sorting into categories (buildings, people, bygone social affairs, technology, etc.) or, at the very least, an index.