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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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Tagged 1936, cleaveland street, exhibition park, redfern, wirths circus
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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
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
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
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
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
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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Tagged 1916, 6o'clock swill, abortion, city road, darlington, hub picture theatre, ixl jam factory, king street, newtown, north newtown
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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
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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Tagged 1920, balfour street, chippendale, glengary hotel, henrietta street, queen street, redfern
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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