A large jar of mayonnaise, ‘Praise’, cost $1.17, a large container of the pills, ‘Ford’, $1.24 and a copy of ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ newspaper, twelve cents.
The old Pacific Hotel, which faces the ocean at Manly, is being demolished. Only about three floors remain. We walked the length of the promenade to Queenscliff and sat on “our” green “engagement” seat, in front of the modern block of units across the road, where I had gotten down on my knees — one knee was deemed to be insufficient, after I had lost so much money on the punt — and successfully proposed to Tiki, on the 4th of November in 1975, the day of the Melbourne Cup. I had to also solemnly swear to never place another bet.
Just as we had done on the evening of our engagement, we dined at K’s Snapper Inn on South Steyne: calamari entree cost $2.50 each; sand crab (two) $6.60, a whole lobster mornay $8.00; wine trifle $1.00, banana fritters with ice-cream, cream caramel sauce and crushed nuts $1.00; cappuccino fifty cents each.
Later, we walked around the shops and Strata Centre, at Cremorne, and stopped for a cup of coffee, at a cost of thirty cents each, at McDonald’s, in San Souci, during the drive home. Sydney’s maximum temperature was twenty-nine degrees Celsius.