Before or after Eddie McGuire lived there?We might have been Neighbours, I was in that general area until my early 20s.
Was a bit too young to be around those underworld figures in the area, but we had the "3047 Boys", "Black Dragons" and "Fordgate Wogs" (they were the gang names - I'm not being disparaging). I can identify with Jake too.
My brother made nunchuks and baseball bats in woodwork class. By the time I grew up, we made stools and coffee tables in woodwork...different times!