An excursion etched in the memory

Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook’s first visit to Luna Park (C8) came a little bit later than 1935. His earliest memory of the Milsons Point icon “was an end-of-year trip with classmates from 2D at Gosford High in 1961 and coming away with a caricature created by S. John Ross the Silhouette Man”.

“Desserts of flummery and homemade ice-cream, both from whipped Carnation milk [C8], were staples of my childhood years,” writes Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “From one tin came enough to feed our family of seven. Likewise, as the basis of a curry or mornay, one tin provided many a main course.”

Back in ’69, Josephine Piper of Miranda noticed the following sign on the door of the Intensive Care Unit at Prince of Wales hospital: “All babies in this unit are on EBM [expressed breast milk] or Carnation.”