Re: Memory is so tricky!

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:38:22 +1000, "tony bailey"
<mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au> wrote:

>On ABC Local Radio this morning in Sydney, whilst they were running "One
>Hundred Days - One Hundred Stories" - which is about people's memories of
>other Olympic Games - usually Melbourne in 1956 - a woman gave a fascinating
>example of how trick the human memory can be - those interested in Oral
>History should find this fascinating.
>
>The woman recounted going to the Melbourne Games - she started from
>somewhere up the Armidale end of the Northern Tablelands and produced a
>couple of classic statements -
>
>1) We travelled by train, first to Sydney - a 16 hour journey with a
>breakfast stop at Willow Tree (!) (followed with a rant on about the
>waitresses uniforms.)
>
>2) We arrived in Sydney in the afternoon and took the Southern Aurora on to
>Melbourne!
>
>
Hearing is tricky too. I heard her say they arrived in Sydney in the
MORNING and took the Southern Aurora to Melbourne. Was the Daylight
running in 1956?, I think it was, with a train change at Albury, of
course.

Geoff Lambert