The call of a mispent youth and a yearning for home has enticed Bruce Cunningham back to Whanganui and the NZ Masters Games.
For the past 25 years the 62-year-old has managed a juvenile justice centre in Gosford north of Sydney.
After his children grew up and left home he was becoming increasingly homesick and began recalling his own youth down at the old Lawrence's Pool Hall tucked away in an alleyway off Victoria Ave.
It no longer exists, but lives on in the memories of many born and bred in the River City. It did become the Wanganui Rock 'n' Roll clubrooms for a time before being demolished just within the last few weeks.
"I used to go down during my teenage age years and play snoooker,' Cunningham said.