Universal Love Down Memory Lane

[Navara79]

Having my own footy marathon. So many great memories to look back on!
I made the banner in the background. I still have it. Blues Sweet 16

 

[MaddAdam]

I come in peace!

According to family legend, various elements of my forebears were at a Carlton v North game in the 70s at Princes Park in which a dying Bob Menzies was given a lap of honour in a Rolls Royce at Princes Park before the game/half time.

North being a traditionally ALP club the version I get is one I'll spare you as I'm on your board. Suffice to say he wasn't greeted warmly by the North fans in attendance. Though Carlton fans loved it, obviously.

But I've never found any record of this.

Can you guys confirm it did happen? And even better, was anyone here there?

 

[ESKIE]

Try the bluseum a Carlton historian has catalogued everything Carlton

 

[thylacine60]

www.blueseum.org

 

[Robbo's my hero]

I come in peace!

According to family legend, various elements of my forebears were at a Carlton v North game in the 70s at Princes Park in which a dying Bob Menzies was given a lap of honour in a Rolls Royce at Princes Park before the game/half time.

North being a traditionally ALP club the version I get is one I'll spare you as I'm on your board. Suffice to say he wasn't greeted warmly by the North fans in attendance. Though Carlton fans loved it, obviously.

But I've never found any record of this.

Can you guys confirm it did happen? And even better, was anyone here there?

I can't remember Menzies doing a lap of honour. I remember his Bentley being parked on a ramp between the grandstands so he could watch the footy. Later on, he would be carried up and down the stairs of the Social Club like Cleopatra. You stood to one side as Bob, in his wheelchair, required all of the stairwell. One day I was close enough to hear him speak but I'll keep the content of that conversation to myself.

 

[MaddAdam]

I can't remember Menzies doing a lap of honour. I remember his Bentley being parked on a ramp between the grandstands so he could watch the footy. Later on, he would be carried up and down the stairs of the Social Club like Cleopatra. You stood to one side as Bob, in his wheelchair, required all of the stairwell. One day I was close enough to hear him speak but I'll keep the content of that conversation to myself.

My version - and all history is subjective - is North women and surviving sons shouting at Pig Iron Bob.

History and thate.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

My version - and all history is subjective - is North women and surviving sons shouting at Pig Iron Bob.

History and thate.

Don't worry. Growing up among the working class of Glenroy, father passionate ALP member and Trade Union Official, it was Pig Iron Bob and more.

 

[HBF]

www.blueseum.org

Oh man I love this photo.

 

[thylacine60]

Elitist.

 

[passmark]

Oh man I love this photo.

I love the photo, it's extraordinary.

Don't love who's in it or the values it represents.

 

[MaddAdam]

Don't worry. Growing up among the working class of Glenroy, father passionate ALP member and Trade Union Official, it was Pig Iron Bob and more.

Never understood why Carlton has so many Liberal luminaries.

 

[MaddAdam]

Don't worry. Growing up among the working class of Glenroy, father passionate ALP member and Trade Union Official, it was Pig Iron Bob and more.

According to the versions I've heard, one of the particularly bitter old ladies North specialised in back then went over and shouted at him "My son died on the Kokoda Track and you never even had the guts in the first one".

 

[HBF]

I love the photo, it's extraordinary.

Don't love who's in it or the values it represents.

Exactly this.
Amazing the club used that tunnel between the social club and the Heatley Stand for him to drive through.

 

[thylacine60]

Oh man I love this photo.

The PM is sitting in his car at the ground but everyone is just watching the game, kids included. Today every ratbag and their dog would be phone snapping like complete idiots.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

Thought it was time to kick this baby back to life.

What is the first game you ever recall attending? I know for me I started going to the footy around 1978 or 1979. The first match I can still remember being at was the 1979 Grand Final. I know I went to other games prior but that match is the first one I vividly recall being at.

Let us know your earliest Carlton game memory to help pass the summer along!

 

[HBF]

One of my favourite photo's ever

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

One of my favourite photo's ever

This bloke actually got me interested in footy again. I went to nearly every match from around 1979 to 1987. Around 1988 to 1991 I lost interest as I was finishing year 12, starting working and nightclubs and girls became a big focus. Around 1992 a mate and I started going again and it was at the time when Fraser Brown started to blossom as a footballer. I loved that period and 1992 was where things started to click again for Carlton.

 

[HBF]

This bloke actually got me interested in footy again. I went to nearly every match from around 1979 to 1987. Around 1988 to 1991 I lost interest as I was finishing year 12, starting working and nightclubs and girls became a big focus. Around 1992 a mate and I started going again and it was at the time when Fraser Brown started to blossom as a footballer. I loved that period and 1992 was where things started to click again for Carlton.

Sounds like we're a similar age mate. I finished year 12 in '91.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

Sounds like we're a similar age mate. I finished year 12 in '91.

You are a bit younger HBF, I finished year 12 in 1989.

 

[HBF]

You are a bit younger HBF, I finished year 12 in 1989.

Well aren't we a couple of old buggers....
I only started going regularly in the late 80's. Growing up in the Dandenongs made it all but impossible for me to get to Princes Park, although my brother and I would regularly go to VFL to watch any game of footy.

 

[AceAndy]

Thought it was time to kick this baby back to life.

What is the first game you ever recall attending? I know for me I started going to the footy around 1978 or 1979. The first match I can still remember being at was the 1979 Grand Final. I know I went to other games prior but that match is the first one I vividly recall being at.

Let us know your earliest Carlton game memory to help pass the summer along!

Around 1983 I was in Melbourne and went to Princes Park to see Carlton play Hawthorn. I think it was Harry Madden's first year at the club and we were 3-4 goals down at half time and came out and kicked 7-8 in the third quarter and went on to win well. Think I still have the scarf I bought at the ground.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

Well aren't we a couple of old buggers....
I only started going regularly in the late 80's. Growing up in the Dandenongs made it all but impossible for me to get to Princes Park, although my brother and I would regularly go to VFL to watch any game of footy.

It is certainly feeling like that more and more HBF.

We were the opposite. I lived in the northern suburbs so Princes Park was easy but VFL Park was a long drive before the Eastern was extended. We went to VFL Park a lot. When they closed it down a mate and I played golf one day at Kingston Links and we could see the old Sir Kenneth Luke Stand. He was a Demons supporter and he told me it still sent shivers down his spine remembering the day Jimmy ran across the mark in the Prelim!

 

[AceAndy]

Sounds like we're a similar age mate. I finished year 12 in '91.

You are a bit younger HBF, I finished year 12 in 1989.

Pfft, a couple of young punks.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

Around 1983 I was in Melbourne and went to Princes Park to see Carlton play Hawthorn. I think it was Harry Madden's first year at the club and we were 3-4 goals down at half time and came out and kicked 7-8 in the third quarter and went on to win well. Think I still have the scarf I bought at the ground.

The Premiership quarter and the whistler!!!

 

[Chalky Blues]

Hey boys I'm not to much further behind in age finishing year 12 in "95" (what a great year by the way) and I used to go to PP every week and a few of the old boys from my high school used to sit behind the goals with a sex doll in a Carlton jumper and a blow up banana I think, do you remember that??