We Saw Shirley Bassey!

Peg and Ted  saw Shirley Bassey in a Sydney nightclub  during the 1950's. "She's a screamer" said Ted driyly.


Relish Shirley Bassey's big sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqUJrFNQgM well before she was remixed for younger generations with  the  Propellorheads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_1tCasi_Q
...Or KanYe West  toyed with Bassey's 70's Bond hit 'Diamonds Are Forever:'  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SyuMokY8Hc

New Homes: New Living Arrangements

Peg recounts  moving in with her sister because of a fear of squatters moving into the house when her brother-in law left for the war: http://www.archive.org/details/WomensLivingArrangementsWwiiwilloughbysquatters

While Grace and Rita talk about learning to live together with other women when enlisted at Duntroon, Marge remembers raising two children on her own: "you had to be mother and father," and cooking cakes in a makeshift  kerosene oven in the laundry - in the then new suburb of Revesby:

http://www.archive.org/editxml.php?type=audio&edit_item=RaisingChildrenInTheNewSuburbOfRevesbyWwiiReminiscence

A New Ride for an Old Tram!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJp2TKPtb8&feature=geosearch


Quite a few of the stories recorded involved journeys  on  a tram in either  Melbourne orSydney. Here's an old Melbourne tram, speeding like a juggernaut out of  the pages of history, through Flinders Station. Click on the link.

Let's Dance

    Peggy speaks of dances and how she'd get to a dance:   http://www.archive.org/details/LiftsToSydneyDancesC1940-Carstruckshearses

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I told him to Mind His own Business!

Click on the link  to hear how Peg and Ted first met in a pub on  Anzac. http://www.archive.org/details/AnzacDayRomanceSydneysNightclubsC1950s