PopArchives: The Blog

Music and sidetracks of the 50s, 60s and 70s, more or less related, or not, to my Australian song history site "WHERE DID THEY GET THAT SONG?" at POPARCHIVES.COM.AU

05 July 2006

▶︎ Presto = Alfredo = Moco

Posting about Boofhead reminded me of Presto , a daily comic that ran on the back page of the Melbourne Herald in the 50s and 60s. Prest...

03 July 2006

▶︎ Boofhead

You don't have to look far to find examples of boofhead in Australian English. It's time for Bozo and Boofhead to go , says a Mel...

02 July 2006

▶︎ Comics from The Argus

Another comics page: this is from the Melbourne daily The Argus , 7 February 1952, the edition that announced the death of King George VI . ...

01 July 2006

▶︎ Little Sport and Pop plus The Potts at the Coronation

Here's a comics section I scanned from the Melbourne (Australia) morning daily The Sun , June 3, 1953. I believe Little Sport was usual...

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