This week's third Ashes Test between Australia and England will mark the 40th anniversary of Test cricket in Perth, and a young Hughes was among those packed into the grassed area on the western end of the ground for that inaugural Test match in December 1970.
Taking a trip down memory lane, Hughes still has very fond memories of watching that historic drawn Ashes Test at the East Perth ground all those years ago.
"Greg Chappell got an absolutely unbelievable hundred, and Snow bowled like the wind, it was just absolutely thrilling," Hughes recalled.
December 1975 saw Clive Lloyd and his West Indies roll into town just before they launched into their mesmerising era of world domination.
"One of the the first balls he faced, he got a top edge and it went for six over fine leg off Lillee," he said.
Years later, the first Test of the 1982-83 Ashes series in November also stood out for Hughes, but for all the wrong reasons.
West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose has struck fear into the minds of many a batsman, and on the fast and bouncy WACA wicket in early 1993, set up a series win in the fifth and final Test to claim the coveted Frank Worrell Trophy.
Lastly, but not least, Hughes chuckled when recounting the story of Lillee's aluminium bat farce from that December 1979 Test against the old enemy.
Here's hoping for some memorable, and happy, tales from this week's crunch Test, with Australia hoping to stave off another Ashes series defeat.
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