Monthly Archives: November 2010

day ten

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Bev Karonidis was born in 1936 in Redfern. It seems miraculous to me, but she remembers waking … Continue reading

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day nine

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Henry Brown was born in Erskineville in 1919. He talks about some of the mischief local Erskineville … Continue reading

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day eight

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Zena Sachs was born in 1913 in Darlinghurst and moved to Newtown when she was 4 years … Continue reading

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day seven

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Glad Willis was born in 1917 in Kings Cross. Unlike other interviewees from suburbs such as Newtown … Continue reading

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day six

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Leo Hannon was born in 1923 and grew up in Newtown. His earliest memory of the suburb … Continue reading

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day five

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Les Cross was born in 1916 in Newtown. When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in 1932, Les … Continue reading

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day four

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Compared to Ted McDermott’s excitement at the fights that used to break out around 6 o’Clock in … Continue reading

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day three

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] We’ve all heard of the Six O’clock Swill, but I had never heard of the phenomenon of … Continue reading

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day two

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Jane Lanyon was born in 1920 in Balfour Street, Chippendale. Growing up poor in Depression-era Chippendale, Jane … Continue reading

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day one

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Jean Jurd was born in 1925 and grew up in Darlinghurst before moving to Woolloomooloo at the … Continue reading

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