Just a South Sydney Lad

<p><em>The year that I was getting ready to leave Maroubra the Beatles were getting ready to leave each other; and so begins the tales of a South Sydney Lad.</em></p><p></p><p>Just a South Sydney Lad is a boyhood memoir about a family who loved a gamble loved the football and who always walked 'briskly with no skylarking' to Church on a Sunday. Exploring the Sydney suburb of Maroubra in the 1950s and 60s the memoir tells a series of whimsical and nostalgic tales reminiscent of the era.</p><p></p><p>It was a time a time when rock began to roll when the radio talked back when a bush kangaroo saved more lives than the emergency services and the national service lottery sent an Australian pop idol Normie Rowe to Vietnam without so much as a 'que sera'... and oh ... when the world nearly blew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis.</p><p></p><p>As he revisits the memories of his youth Anthony will tell you exactly why he was glad to be a South Sydney Lad!</p>