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Re: Favor to ask



Thanking you and everyone else who has posted.

Seriously off topic but I am grateful anyway.

Choo Choos

There we are back on topic

:)

cheers Peter

Bradley Torr <btorr@bigpond.SPAMTRAP.com> wrote in message
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> Peter Berrett wrote in message ...
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> >Liverpool
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> Not sure if this is the one referred to here, but there was a drive-in
> theatre located in Casula, on the Hume Highway, north of Myall Rd. and
south
> of Kurrajong Rd. for many years. I think it was usually called "Prestons"
> though (even though the suburb of Prestons doesn't begin until 1km or more
> to the west.)
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> It closed around 1985 or so - I definitely remember going there and
watching
> "E.T." and "Romancing The Stone" around that time. The area was developed
> over from 1987 onwards, and is now a lower middle-class housing estate and
> retirement village called "Maple Grove", I think.
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> Now, how great it would have been to get the Main South rail line off the
> Georges River floodplain, up "Killer Hill" and to where people actually
> live - up on the plains to the west of the Georges River and to the south
of
> Liverpool! Casula is actually quite a nice place to live (well nice
compared
> to, hmmm, Claymore or Bidwill or Macdonaldtown), and it annoys me that
> people judge it by that crappy little station that looks like it's in the
> middle of nowhere in a graffiti-infested hollow with that old power
> station....
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> Regards,
> Bradley.
> Resident, suburb of Casula
> 1983-1999
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