![]() ![]() ![]() The cars never worked, families only had one car, there were no mobile phones, no internet and, as Richard told his son, there was no avocado! Work colleagues could sit next to you and blow cigarette smoke in your face – all day! Corporal punishment was rife in schools, the death penalty still existed crime rates were high getting a divorce was like pulling hen’s teeth and you could still find people without televisions.Īnd let’s not mention the food! Anyone who survived the 1970s will remember the food – not because it was so good but because it was so awful! And they were humble, as any boomer foolish enough to get into an argument about housing affordability with a millennial, will tell them. ![]() In The Land Before Avocado, Richard takes almost indecent pride in reminding the now swanky noughties-and-beyond baby boomers of their humble origins. It was a land, and time, of boundless contradictions and peculiarities – magnificent fodder for writers. From a global, nay, any perspective, if you were living in Australia in the 1970s, you might as well have been living on Mars. Richard Glover really knows how to pick his topics. ![]()
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