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Speaker 1: You lost chops, Lisa. There certainly was a time in

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Speaker 1: on the TV without hearing or seeing this. Fella. M mummy,

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Speaker 1: I louis it in big trouble.

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Speaker 2: I'm always talked, So I'm going on liquidate everything. Lock

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Speaker 2: grip loops one ninety five, rubber thongs are dollar forty nine,

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Speaker 2: novelty money boxes one fifty, light shades three dollars ninety five,

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Speaker 2: grown beat ninety five cents, many fans two dollars, glass

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Speaker 2: balls from two fifty, and storage baskets from ninety five cents. Mom, mummy,

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Speaker 2: you what the pagan so coming out to the bas

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Speaker 2: liquidation stuff and save lots of money?

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Speaker 3: It was it was liquidation sale. It was no Hearns, No, no,

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Speaker 3: it was Noah Hearns. But before there was Red Dot,

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Speaker 3: before there was the reject Store, and in fact, before

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Speaker 3: there was Bunnings, there was Wa Salvage. Belt Out Times

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Speaker 3: did a story on WS Salvage and said it's essentially

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Speaker 3: a cross between the Bunnings of Red Dot and the

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Speaker 4: Was a bit like that.

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Speaker 3: There was always saw dust all over the floor. It

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Speaker 3: was always a bit of a mess. The most of

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Speaker 3: the stores would leak when it rained. Wa Salvage Co

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Speaker 3: commenced business in the West Perth Markets area in early

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Speaker 3: nineteen thirty one. I'd say that was a bit before

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Speaker 3: Luigi's time. The founders were Horri Day and Tom Cullty

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Speaker 3: and they bought the joint for about two thousand pounds

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Speaker 4: Went from there.

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Speaker 3: Luigi was in fact Italian migrant migrant, a claudiavor psycho.

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Speaker 3: He was thirty five when he started doing those ads.

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Speaker 3: He retired from the role in nineteen ninety five at

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Speaker 3: the age of sixty eight when the shop shut down,

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Speaker 3: having played the cheeky alter ego for more than thirty years.

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Speaker 3: He would blue singlet and a hanky on his head.

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Speaker 1: Hanky on the head, I don't want to say stereotypical,

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Speaker 1: but stereotypical very well stereo, you.

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Speaker 4: Know I mean.

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Speaker 2: And he lived it.

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Speaker 1: He loved it.

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Speaker 4: I guess he inspired a later spungshed guy.

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Speaker 1: To he did, you know, in a way, just without

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Speaker 1: the hanky.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, without the hanky. No, he took the hanky off and.

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Speaker 3: Put thee got the eyebrows on. He put his own

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Speaker 3: slant on it. But the blue singlet remained, didn't it?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely so? Yep. His catchphrase it every people still

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Speaker 1: use it today.

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Speaker 3: Get that on the people absolutely still use it today.

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Speaker 4: We want to know your memories of Way Salvage. We

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Speaker 4: all went there. I remember. I'd always go there.

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Speaker 3: I'd want one thing, one simple little thing. I'd come

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Speaker 3: out well, whatever it was, I'd come out with like

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Speaker 3: seventeen different things that I didn't know.

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Speaker 4: A front of a dollar, all fronder a dollar. And

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Speaker 4: if something's under a dollar, it's very just got very

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Speaker 4: hard to resist.

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Speaker 1: It's an impulse buy, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yes? And not fancy starring Luigi Save it the money.

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Speaker 3: We loved Luigi, and I think Ricky probably knew Luigi. Well,

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Speaker 3: Ricky's from Edenhill and he worked there. Hi Ricky, Hey,

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Speaker 3: how you doing good? So tell us did you know Luigi?

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Speaker 5: Ah?

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Speaker 6: Yes, so he did. He used to actually come into

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Speaker 6: the store and do appearances, so we didn't know him

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Speaker 3: I've heard him say that he used to go in

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Speaker 3: at Christmas and see Christmas carols.

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Speaker 6: That is correct, but sometimes you'd go a bit rogue

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Speaker 6: and he'd be too busy trying to chat up girls.

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Speaker 1: Did he always like on the on the ads. Did

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Speaker 1: he always have the hanky on the head.

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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, he was always in costumes, hoping.

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Speaker 1: That was no costume.

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Speaker 3: I hope he never used the cool Casita's his chat

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Speaker 3: up line, you're not You're not fancy, But.

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Speaker 4: That wouldn't have gone down too well.

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Speaker 3: Ricky, I believe you made lifelong friends working at WOS did.

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Speaker 6: I think for most of them now in touch. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: Like it was such a great place to work. Probably

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Speaker 6: one of the best jobs over had. Yeah, yeah, it was.

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Speaker 6: We all just were so tight, so close, and it

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Speaker 1: All moving the buckets around for the leaky.

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Speaker 6: Roots, leaky ruts. Yeah, sweeping the water out nine buckets.

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Speaker 7: By the ways of the lids are all on top

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Speaker 4: Good time.

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Speaker 1: At least you had at least you had the stuff

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Speaker 1: they're ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Did you get a staff discount on the already sixty.

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Speaker 1: Discount that stuff? How do you make it e bit cheaper?

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Speaker 3: Adds up over the course of a shop, I guess.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Ricky for share.

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Speaker 1: Ricky has very happy.

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Speaker 3: That's great that she still stays in touch with people there.

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Speaker 4: Peter on the text text in Pamelia says, I loved

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Speaker 4: that place. Used to go to the lug Store regularly.

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Speaker 3: I still have tools that I still use today in

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Speaker 3: a bench grinder that still works in mint conditions.

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Speaker 1: So you didn't have to spend top dollar now to

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Speaker 4: And still is going. Paul and Jundler, Hello.

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Speaker 8: Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Yeah, well we used to. We

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Speaker 8: used to go there for their degrees. It was always

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Speaker 8: ninety nine pressure packs, always ninety nine cents a can,

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Speaker 8: didn't matter what the world economy was, any recession than anything,

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Speaker 8: it was always ninety nine cents. And it was really

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Speaker 6: Too, okay, so it had a bit.

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Speaker 8: Of a funny smell. I mean they still make Australian

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Speaker 8: export degrees are now, but it's biosoluble, so it's not

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Speaker 8: as good and not the same.

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Speaker 1: Right and.

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Speaker 8: After you put your your good car, your Valion in

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Speaker 8: the burnout on weekends, yes, way, yes, it was the

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Speaker 8: best for getting rubber slap off the sides and all

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Speaker 1: And that all the Valiant drivers know exactly what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about there, Paul, tackling the slap.

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Speaker 8: Show up to pull someone's tree stump out slap of.

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Speaker 1: Course not you wouldn't be seen doing that, and that

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Speaker 1: you could do it with a dollar note and get

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Speaker 1: a one cent coin back. Yeah, how good is that?

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Speaker 4: Nice? Memory?

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Speaker 1: Thanks? Thank you? Memories of w A Salvage and Valiants

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Speaker 1: and Valiants pulling out tree stumps.

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Speaker 4: Must ask Paul what color is Valiant?

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Speaker 2: Was?

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Speaker 1: I reckon it was orange with a black stripe down

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Speaker 1: the side. Yeah, I'm just guessing, but I'm going with

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Speaker 1: no purple? Wa Sir, but.

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Speaker 4: Ted Bulpit's son had a purple I know.

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Speaker 1: But that was TV. That wasn't real.

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Speaker 4: That wasn't really he said, country was not can you

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Speaker 4: believe it? Thought it was a reality show.

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Speaker 3: WA Salvage were not fancy, but we're cheap, as we

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Speaker 3: were told over and over again by Luigi saving the Money.

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Speaker 1: Who was actually a warehouse manager for WA Salvage stores,

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Speaker 1: and then they roped him into doing the advertising. You know,

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Speaker 1: he never got paid any extra for all the ad work. Really,

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Speaker 1: even though he was probably the most recognizable person on

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Speaker 1: Perth teav it was just recognized. Rick and soon I

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Speaker 1: think they were getting a little more than he was.

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Speaker 3: It only was Wa Salvage Oka in Singleton on the Texas.

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Speaker 3: W A Salvage had the best variety of kids craft things.

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Speaker 3: Used to take the kids regularly to go and look

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Speaker 3: at and buy stuff. Spent an hour or so in there.

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Speaker 3: You can do that. That's like me going to spotlight.

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Speaker 3: I have to put aside some time.

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Speaker 1: It's to search the store.

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Speaker 3: Robin in Denmark, good morning, good morning. What are your

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Speaker 3: WA's Salvage memories?

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Speaker 5: Very very quick one. But you would go to the

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Speaker 5: paint's department and there was a sign up there saying,

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Speaker 5: gentlemen must have a note from the missus before they miller.

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Speaker 1: They were stupid lover.

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Speaker 6: I thought it was hilarious.

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Speaker 4: That is funny.

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Speaker 1: That's good. Thank you, Robert bye bye. Oh. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that. That is so Wa Salvage, isn't it

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Speaker 1: It is? That's one of the things that made them

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Speaker 1: so unique, Lisa. Today we reached the end of our

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Speaker 1: list of lost shops. Today it's the great WA Salvage.

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Speaker 3: Talking about our memories of Wa Salvage. David and cooble

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Speaker 3: Up says it was an awesome place I like to

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Speaker 3: build things with wood. In the wood there was the Seconds,

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Speaker 3: the stuff not good enough for the larger hardware stores,

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Speaker 3: but the Seconds always had more knots and details which

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Speaker 3: made it, you know, one of a kind. And Mitch

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Speaker 3: and Yanship said, I met my wife at w A

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Speaker 3: Salvage and Belmont she was working on the counter, and

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Speaker 3: twenty years later we have four kids.

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Speaker 4: So that worked.

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Speaker 1: Well, there you go. The guy I was that was

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Speaker 1: worth the trip for something under a dollar. Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's worth the trip to w A Salvage. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he won won the lottery. There's nothing wrong with what

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Speaker 1: I've said. He knows what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Jessica and Bays, Hello, Hello, what's your memory of WA Salvage?

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Speaker 5: Yes, so it's hard to believe it's been over twenty

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Speaker 5: five years, but yeah, me and my best friend used

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Speaker 5: to live not even five hundred meters away from w Salvage,

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Speaker 5: and every little bit of pocket money we've got we had,

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Speaker 5: we had to go down there. We would spend hours

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Speaker 5: just roaming through the aisles looking at everything, coming back

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Speaker 5: with stilly little trinkets and toys and just you know,

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Speaker 5: our bedrooms full of all sorts of plastic, and I know.

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Speaker 4: That was.

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Speaker 3: All those things that you think, well, this is a

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Speaker 3: dollar sixty five, I need this, I need one of

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Speaker 3: the when.

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Speaker 5: I that, yeah, definitely. And I was a sucker for

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Speaker 5: Stationary and so it did, yeah, every little thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it was awesome. So we would spend hours there and

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Speaker 5: it was just sad to see it go. And my

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Speaker 5: thing that's been so long to think about is that

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Speaker 5: a good?

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Speaker 3: Is that a girl thing? I was a sucker for Stationary.

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Speaker 3: We were a sucker for Stationary.

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Speaker 1: Oh not a girl soccer for it. We just loved it.

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Speaker 1: But did you buy enough of You're still getting through

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Speaker 1: all of it?

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Speaker 5: Well, actually I still buy a Stationary. I still just

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Speaker 5: buy it and don't use it.

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Speaker 4: Still sniggle now.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot more expensive than no saw dust

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Speaker 1: on the floor.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Jessica, Jessica