Re: (OT) The new Jay Jay Jeans ads (the one with the ticket inspector)

[David McLoughlin <davemclAXETHIS@iprolink.co.nz>]

John Dennis wrote:

> 
> When I was a young man in the late 60s, commuting to the city to work,
> this is exactly what happened.  All stations were manned, and the
> attendant shut the gates as the train arrived.  That stopped last
> minute arrivals from boarding the train, and then after the gate was
> opened, the tickets were collected on the way out.  What a novel idea


When I was a child in the 60s and early 70s in Melbourne this was how
every station operated. Box Hill where I lived was particularly
efficient.

About 1971 I wagged school with a friend and caught a train from Box
Hill to Flinders Street with only a Box Hill-Surrey Hills ticket (which
enabled us to get through the gates at Box Hill) and we very quickly got
caught.

Oh the shame!

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand