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The Offset Alpine burnt-out building, the Accounts Dept with Judy, and Rod holding what was left of a monitor, on Christmas morning, 1993.

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Publié par	Balboa Press AU
Date de parution	21 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781982295332
Langue	English

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ONE LIFE

Rod Vincent

Copyright © 2022 Rod Vincent.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 06/27/2022
Contents
Dedication
Chapter 1Australia’s History
Chapter 2Great-Grandfather Eichler
Chapter 3Chart of the Eichlers
Chapter 4Chart of the Vincents
Chapter 5My Grandparents
The Eichlers
Gwennie Eichler
The Vincents
Chapter 6My Parents
Chapter 7Life in Sydney
Deliveries - Bread
The Milkman
The Ice Man
The Fruiterer
Paddy’s Markets
The Tivoli Theatre
The Prop Man
“Rabbitoh”
Home-Grown Chooks
The Insurance Agent
Cooking
Shopping
Working at Home
Family Pets
The Plane in the Back Yard
Playing With Fire
Swimming Holes
Bankstown Olympic Pool
Blackheath Baths
Bondi Baths, Redleaf Pool and Rushcutter’s Bay Baths
Carss Park Baths on the Georges River
Ramsgate Baths and Slippery Dip
Wylie’s Baths, Coogee
Katoomba Baths at Leura in the Blue Mountains
North Sydney Olympic Pool
Saturday Movie Matinees
Fear
New Caledonia
Living Hobbies
Cicadas
Silkworms
Guppies
Adrenaline Strength
The Cowboy Guns
Pain
High School in Sydney
My Broken Arm
The Ford Zephyr
The Sydney Cricket Ground with Dad
The Langs of Cronulla
The YMCA
Chapter 8My Famous Sister Julie
The Bikini
Earliest Recollections
Julie The Mermaid
Living in Glen Davis
Nurse Julie
Script Writing
City Shopping
Spearfishing Champion
Living at Mona Vale
Diving with Sharks at the Zoo
An Honour for Julie
Lord Howe Island
Heron Island
Fairfax Island
Wreck Island
Return to the Mainland
Chapter 9My Brother Norman
Norm’s Picture Show
Norm’s Jazz Nights
Norm’s Cars
Off to Greener Pastures
Chapter 10Migrating to Canada
Making The Arrangements
Underway
High School in Vancouver
The End of My Schooling in Canada
Earning Pocket Money
Norm’s Wedding
The Drive
Chapter 11Homeward Bound
Trail B.C. to New York
Leaving on the Queen Mary
England
France
Italy
Egypt
Yemen
Ceylon, Now Called Sri Lanka
The Equator II
Indonesia
Back in the Lucky Country
Chapter 12The In-Between Years
Nights at the Movies
John Briggs
Sunday Nights at the Sheraton
Borrowing John’s Mother’s Car
The Bush Fires of 1957
Fishing
Rock & Roll
Taking Up Smoking
Maureen O’Keefe
Weightlifting
Time in the Army
A Throat Infection
Restaurants in the ’60s and ’70s
The Cann River Experiment
Peter and Fran
The Wedding and The Honeymoon
The Moon Landing
Our First Car
The Granville Train Disaster
Giving Up Smoking
Chapter 13Starting Work in Sydney
An Apprenticeship
Mail Boy at Radio 2UE
Chapter 14Blue Star Line Shipping
How It Came About
Chapter 15A Career in Accountancy [1959-]
Chapter 16Australian Consolidated Press
Chapter 17Lawyers
Leon Goldberg
Jim Poulos
Frank Walker
Chapter 18SWSRSDC
Chapter 19Neil
Neil Marries
Chapter 20Donna
Chapter 21Floodbound on the Gold Coast
Chapter 22How I Took Up Cooking
Chapter 23Norm & Bev Visit Australia
First Visit for Beverley
Second Visit
Chapter 24The Retirement Holiday
Leaving Home
Chapter 25Work & Play with Judy
Offset Alpine Printing Pre-Rivkin
West Pennant Hills
Castle Hill
Winston Hills
Chapter 26The Fire at Offset Alpine Printing
Chapter 27Life with Judy After Offset Alpine
Jan and Dave Harding
Chapter 28Federal Publishing Company
Chapter 29Time Research
Chapter 30My Last Partner, Wendy Ann
Living and Working in Sydney
Unexpected Holiday in Victoria
Moving to the Gold Coast
Looking for Work on the Coast
A Job Interview in Brisbane
Darwin – To Avoid The Brisbane Heat
Banks and Credit References
Chapter 31Back to Sydney for Work
Chapter 32Retirement, Phase II
Chapter 33Music as A Way of Life
What Determines Our Preferences
The Diversity of Live Music
Chapter 34Links by Religion
Obituaries
Author’s Note
Dedication
The ultimate self-indulgence of man is to write an autobiography to pass on to his descendants. There is an assumption that it will be appreciated and by default, that the writer will be appreciated, whether during his remaining years or thereafter. The last chapter will be the most difficult to pen, as it will involve conclusion, and most of us don’t really wish to stare at death with glazed eyes, to succumb to the inevitable end to our private place in the universe. And yet, not to sum our lives up gives rise to a meaningless existence – of occupying a cubic metre of precious space for no purpose worthy of note.
As for longevity, I am a firm believer that we will live to attain at least the same age as our parents. As a teenager, I had a heart murmur and imagined I would not live past 30.
In my 30s, I was examined by a doctor who assured me that I no longer had a heart murmur.
In life, difficulty has its rewards, from winning a personal achievement to championing a cause for others. Best to ignore the toil of it and concentrate on what circumstances are likely to bring about the right outcome. Frankness and truth are the two main ingredients used in this book with a touch of discretion concerning elements of the journey that are unworthy of a place in the hall of remembrance.
To my daughter Donna and my son Neil, I leave these memoirs for their indulgence, and when I am no longer around, they may wish to refer to these pages as a history of some of their forebears and of what shaped my life. I hope too that others who come into contact with my book will find it an interesting read.
1 Australia’s History
In the scale of nations, Australia and the states/territories beforehand had little history due to their short existence.
The United States, right now, has only existed for 235 years, but Columbus discovered the Americas almost 300 years earlier and gave the continent a long history postdating the tribal Indian nations. Britain’s history is over 2,000 years old, using the Roman invasion as a starting point, and most of Europe is also well endowed with a very long cultural history.
So, we in Australia have been thought of as lacking in history. Warring armies haven’t invaded our island continent, we have never been occupied by aggressors (save the Japanese incursion into Darwin during WWII), and our only history of warfare was offshore as an ally of others. We have been fortunate in only losing a hundred thousand service personnel during all conflicts in which we have engaged since federation, more than half being in World War 1, and no nations look to us for battle or incursion. Our neighbour to the north, Indonesia, although a Muslim nation with ten times our population, is a moderate nation and spends no time looking south and indeed only focuses on its neighbours to the north (which I was told by an Indonesian). Thus, we seem blessed with good neighbours and allies. So how do we portray ourselves historically? New ways must be found, or we will continue as a ‘new nation’ for hundreds of years hence. Apart from creating our own industry, albeit it from lands occupied by indigenous peoples, we have room for continual change and improvement by opening up new towns and creating cities on unoccupied lands. The recognition of our aboriginal heritage continues to open up a history for us that is rich in culture that most non-indigenous Australians don’t understand but, it seems, are willing to engage.
Much of Europe is old and developed to a standstill. Few new cities or towns are likely to flourish and all structures that exist will only be replaced in micro form, one at a time, here and there, as t