![]() ![]() ![]() Amazing, but somehow we survived without mobile phones. Unlike today’s kids (Generation Z), we weren’t wired in to computer technology. Just about everything we did for fun cost little or no money. This was an era when a child’s proudest possession was not a Playstation but a second-hand bike. My story traces the demise of Crackernight through the 70s (until it was banned in the early 80s) in parallel with the passing of our childhood. For children of the 1970s (Gen-X), this one night of the year rivalled your birthday and Christmas. For anyone slightly too young to remember, ‘Crackernight’ was, until the early 80s, Australia’s annual fireworks night, when kids and adults alike would set off fireworks (or ‘crackers’) in the back yard, on ovals and reserves in every suburb and country town across Australia. "Goodbye Crackernight" - My inspiration to write this book was the across-the-board and instant enthusiasm I received from anyone of my own generation or older to whom I ever mentioned the word, ‘Crackernight’. ![]() ![]() GOODBYE CRACKERNIGHT by Justin Sheedy – Tale of a Lost Era. ![]()
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