Yes - and I could (but wont) tell a few stories about Ma.
This is the story of how the Norgate Servo became an all-nighter. It was a normal Servo running under the local 'roster' system - where by all the Servos had an agreement to only operate during normal trading hours - and to have 2 or 3 allowd to close later during the week and open on weekends - all worked on a roster system.
Anyway (supposedly) Norgate were closing up one afternoon when the old constena doors on the workshop fell off its tracks. So - being late afternoon - no one avail to fix it - so they stayed open for secutity reasons. Which resulted in them getting blown away with the amount of A/Hs trade they did that night.
That workshop door never ever did get fixed - and it became an all-nighter from that day on - until they sold it.
Norgate Servo brings back some memory's on a Saturday night do a few laps of Flinders Street and the boys in blue be would sitting at the strand where we would do a U turn to head back up town and call you over and say 'that's 4 laps leave' so where did we end up 'Norgate' used to be a big crowd around there on Friday and Saturday nights
Ian
