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Judith Black - Life Experiences from Many Jobs

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Judith Black - Life Experiences from Many Jobs

Judith recalls her early working life..including changing 17,000 paybooks into decimal currency.

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Joyce Pounsett - My First Jobs

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Joyce recalls her early jobs in typing and retail - including walking around Adelaide wearing expensive jewellery..

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Graham Maskell - Career Advice

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Graham recalls the career advice he got from his father and his first job.

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Graham Maskell Adelaide South Autralia Career Advice 1950s

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Bill Corey - Railways in South Australia

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Bill Corey - Railways in South Australia

Bill talks about the importance of railways in South Australia before the Second World War. He recalls all the different types of trains that passed through Tarlee and Hamley Bridge in the days before road transport took over.

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Annette Lorenz - My Parents in Law War Years in Germany

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Annette Lorenz - My Parents in Law War Years in Germany

Annette tells the story of her parents in law and how they survived the Second World War in Germany...(5 second delay at beginning)

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Polish Refugees Parents Annette Lorenz Germany WW2

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Alice Domagalski - My Dearest Friend Isabel

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Alice Domagalski - My Dearest Friend Isabel

Alice remembers Isabel, her best and dearest friend for 20 years...

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Cynthia Hood - My day as a 'garbo' - part 2

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Cynthia Hood - My day as a 'garbo' - part 2

Cynthia continues her story about her day as a garbage collector - March 02 1984.

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Garbage Collecting 1984 Cynthia Hood Adelaide South Autralia

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Ruth Payne - Co-workers and Colleagues

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Still on the subject of work Ruth recalls some co-workers and colleagues when she worked in the typing pool of a government department.

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Ruth Payne Typing Pools Co-Workers Adelaide South Autralia

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Shirley Brown - War Work

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

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Seventy years on Shirley remembers finishing her job at Myer and having to do war work in a munitions factory..

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My First Job

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Margaret Crowe

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Margaret talks about her first job in the 1940's.

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Kowulka - Final

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Alice Domagalski

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Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.

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Polish Refugees 1949 Migration to Australia Kowalka South Australia

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Women's Jobs - 1950's style

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Joyce Pounsett

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1950s Wage Discrimination John Martin Adelaide South Australia Jobs

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Jobs were easy to get then...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Pat Carlson

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There was a time when jobs were easy to get. Pat recalls those days in the late 1950's and early 1960's.

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Pat Carlson Jobs Adelaide South Australia Starting Work

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The land across the sea - poem

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Lisa Calabria

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Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old

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Edwin Eluene Kapaona Tampos, Sr.

Tampos 'Ohana

Thursday, 04 July 2013

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Bill Corey - Fighting the weather and the Japanese in New Guinea

Wednesday, 03 July 2013

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Bill Corey - Fighting the weather and the Japanese in New Guinea

Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...

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Ruth Payne - Friends

Wednesday, 03 July 2013

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Ruth talks about her friends when she was younger..

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Cynthia Hood - A Day as a 'Garbo'

Wednesday, 03 July 2013

Campbelltown Library Life Story Circle

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Cynthia recalls the days when there were garbage collectors who accompanied the garbage trucks. These 'garbos' as they were known collected the garbage bins and loaded them on to the truck for emptying - and then they rweturned them to where (approximately) they had collected the bin from. Cynthia spent a...