ladyHawkau
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Reged: Jun 10 2007
Posts: 416
Loc: Perth, Western Australia
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Did anyone buy one of those blowpipes they were selling on the streets in the 80s? I bought one and customs took it off me and sprayed it when I got back. It looked a right mess when I picked it up off them.
Yeah we brought the blow pipe and bow and arrow and no one even questioned us when we got back to Perth but once I found out how deadly they really where I got rid of them.
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hatch5
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Reged: Aug 09 2002
Posts: 4288
Loc: Under Heaven...
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http://travel.webshots.com/album/111605426VCEOyt
1983 for me
Qantas flight 20.......
Full of hot chicks and surfers. We always flew over Ulus and the surf would be pumping and the entire plane would cheer.
Drinking all out duty free before landing
Legian Village Hotel..and the Black pool
Maxis, Chez Gado Gado, Koala Blue, Sand Bar with the sand dance floor, another bar that had the pool in the middle???
Having to carry the damn passport around to exchange the travelers cheques
Writing your order down on a little piece of paper for them, and never getting what you ordered.
Lodgi Garden supermarket on Legian Road..The Umbrellas..all would meet here and have pre dance drinks...
Ulus...45 min walk from the road through sharp thorn bushes.Hearing the chant of the young Balos "I carry your board"
You would be on the bike and they would run and still beat you to the beach. The board would be waxed up and ready to go
The Arak bar...somewhere down Poppies with Mick Jagger
Pizzaz, the only fashion shop in Melasti st.....all the colours running in your clothes
Jack Pak Jackets
Brazillian soccer teaMS.....OH I could go on
Widya at Bemo corner...the best Travellers salads and banana, coconut and peanut butter smoothies...
no milk only cans of condensed milk
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hatch5
Master
Reged: Aug 09 2002
Posts: 4288
Loc: Under Heaven...
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Found these in my favs
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bistrobabe
Crazy Poster
Reged: Oct 27 2007
Posts: 215
Loc: batemans bay
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So thats what they're called Jak Pack Jackets. I was looking at some old photos of me and Garry at the markets looking at these jackets....were they the ones you could wear, and then when you take it off, it becomes a bag....handy invention, but one that I just couldn't bring myself to wear.....but then when I have a look at some of the things that I was wearing....I sort of thought to myself....girl what were you on when you bought that.....must of been the after effects of one of those Arak Attack nights.
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GLASSY
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Reged: Aug 28 2002
Posts: 1637
Loc: Ulladulla, N.S.W. South Coast ...
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Yes The Travelles Salad at Widya, I remember them Trace, they were the best. I wanted to take a friend there one trip and we walked up and down, up and down looking for it and guess what I had gone , I was so disappointed cause I was hangin for that salad.
What about KayuApi, had some big nights there, and the Arak Bar.
Happy's restaurant I would write down I wanted Baked Beans as it was on the menu, and you guessed it never any Baked Beans and I would do it everyday, knowing full well there were no Baked Beans, just had to do it to get a laugh.
The bike pit at Maxi's, try and find your bike at the end of the night haha, so that you could ride to L Parata for a pizza at some ridiculous hour of the morning and then walk back to Logi Gardens when all the ladies were heading off to the markets.
God I loved it back then
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bintangbob
Grand Master
Reged: Jan 09 2005
Posts: 5671
Loc: Sydney
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Rum Jungle restaurant late '70's. Anyone go there?
Loved Happys, Glory and also Fatties on Jl Legian in a rice field. Best crab and corn soup to this day. 
The Pub in its old location at Bemo Cnr. About the only airconditioning available to us. Staying Jonies losmens, yeehaa.  
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Levi
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Reged: Feb 12 2004
Posts: 1981
Loc: in a small hole
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Holidaying with my parents  and good to see Yanies get a mention, all those birds flying around in there and the owner's thunderous Harley
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cooltongite
Fast Newbie
Reged: May 15 2008
Posts: 98
Loc: Cooltong, via Renmark, Riverla...
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I was always fascinated by my younger sister Robbi's trips to Bali in the 70's. She used to tell how she stayed in a hut on/near the beach at Kuta/Legian - very cheap in those days - cost her $1aud/day which included her rent and food! Then some nights she would head off to a disco(don't know any names sorry), and dance by herself - various guys would come up and have a dance with her - until she flitted off elsewhere, LOL! Must get her to send me an essay re her 70's Bali trips and put it up here eh? Cheers Cheryl
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Bort
Insane Poster
Reged: Oct 04 2005
Posts: 390
Loc: Melbourne, Oz
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The memories I have of my first trip to Bali consist of things like: that smell, gamelon music, geckos, timeshare hawkers ... Ah, memories ... 2001: A Bali Odyssey.
Oh, hang on, everyone else is talking about decades old memories! Those I also have but they are all second-hand. My mother first visited Bali in 1975 or 76. She went for a month with friends who were already Bali-regulars. One of her first letters asked us to give her a list of music we'd like her to buy, as cassettes were cheap. My sisters and I shot off an aerogram full of Want Lists.
When they came back the friends were telling me that next time my mother goes to Bali I should also go. Her next trip was 2 or 3 years later, but I didn't go. If that trip was in 1978 I didn't go as I was doing VCE (or whatever it was called back then.) If the trip was in 1979 it was because at the end of the year I was going to North America for four months.
In the early 80s my youngest sister travelled to Bali, and my other sister and my father a couple of years later. By the time I first travelled to Bali my mother would have been then 15-20 times, my father about 10-15, and my sisters two or three times each. I do enjoy hearing their (and your) stories of what Bali was like back then, looking at the old photos, etc.
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DB
Grand Master
Reged: Apr 07 2002
Posts: 8341
Loc: Istana Anggrek
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Oh, hang on, everyone else is talking about decades old memories!
My great great great great great great grandfather went to Bali in 1720 as VOC member and never went back.
My family stayed in Batavia till they got kicked out in 1948 by Ahmed Soekarno
I came to live Bali in 2006 and will never go back 
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