1980
Shop talk
With the passing of the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Act 1980, which permitted Saturday trading, we could go shopping on the first day of the weekend. Most shops closed at midday and Sundays were still a day free from consumerism. Trendy innercity cafés around the country started advertising “expresso” coffee. Given the cost of importing coffee machines to make this style of brew, many coffee shops, cafeterias and luncheonettes kept serving instant coffee, pots of filter coffee or if you were lucky, plunger coffee. As for the food in such establishments, beans on toast, ham steaks with pineapple, and mince on toast remained popular. Former butcher Rodney Wayne opened his first hairdressing salon.
