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Socialising and having fun in my youth

Judith Black

Judith talks about her life in Brisbane, Canberra and Nambour as a young women. She shares memories of her favourite music, dances and other interests as well as the friends that she partied with.

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Mamie G

Brenda Tirrell

Our family had a close relationship with the Price family from as early as I can remember, but the relationship became much closer when my sister Jean became a caregiver (a word we didn't use in the 1950's) for Mrs. Ramage. She sat with Mrs. Ramage after school (after Anna, the...

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Elva and the Infamous Segway Tour

Elva Roy

I happily left my job in corporate America on Friday, September 23, 2011. Being “free at last,” I decided to take a trip to the wild side of life (you must understand that the greatest risk I normally take in my life is cooking without a recipe ). Anyway,...

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Working, living at home and paying board

Joyce Pounsett

Joyce tells us about her years as a teenager working in her first job, living at home and contributing to the development of the new family home at Rostrevor South Australia

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My first professional job and living away from home

Judith Black

Judith tells us about working in Brisbane with her first professional job in the Department of Air. She flatted with her brother and his friends and they had many an adventure travelling to and from Nambour along the Bruce Highway in her brother's Triumph Herald. She also shares a story about...

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Footprints Become Trouble

Dick Pellek

On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Footprints Lead To Trouble When family and friends asked out of curiosity why the Footloose Forester was in the Republic of the Comoros one year, they became doubly curious in the following years after...

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My First Pay

Alice Domagalski

Alice remembers her first pay and her first job and her first pay packet.

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Working in Dept of Air and flatting in Brisbane

Judith Black

Judith joined the Department of Air in Queensland in 1966 and soon after joined the Federated Clerks' Union. She shared a flat at Wiindsor initially with her brother and two of his friends, and after they left she then shared with 2 hairdressing apprentices, one of who remains a close friend...

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My interests and activities as a young person

Ruth Henderson

Ruth's interests as a young adult included ten pin bowling, ice skating and going to the beach. She was a member of Legacy and met her friends mainly through her church. Her interests were embroidery, crochet and different crafts. Endless Summer was one of her favourite movies. She is still in...

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My days away from work and meeting friends in my youth

Jill Sayner

Jill was living in Clare South Australia when she was a teenager and her interests were table tennis and tennis and going to local balls and dances in Clare and Jamestown. She tells us about moving to Adelaide and finding the right place to board and going to dances at Burnside...

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Annette's first date

Annette Lorenz

Annette tells us about meeting a boy named Scott at the school social. He was a very serious boy and she was very shy. On their first date they went to the drive-in theatre to watch a movie, or so she thought....................

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Untold Stories

Janet Holt

Every day in my practice as a counselor, I see how our lives are defined by relationships with others. Relationships shape, sustain and strengthen us. They give our lives meaning—our very identities. And relationships are still, as they always have been, enhanced by sharing our personal experiences and stories. Several years...

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What I did on my days off work

Margaret Crowe

Margaret tells us that she didn't have many days off while working for her father in 1943, however she and her sister were silver medallist dancers and attended the school dances (even though they had left school). They also went for walks and did a lot of reading. When she joined...

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My first jobs as a Nanny and Governess

Judith Black

Judith relates two very different experiences in her first two jobs as a Nanny and Governess in her gap year in 1964.

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On Being A Name Dropper

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Name Dropping The Footloose Forester has been a practicing iconoclast for most of his adult life. No, make that most of his entire life. As a teenager, he spent plenty of time musing about...

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How I Got My First Job

Joyce Pounsett

Joyce talks about her first job and how she secured it...

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'The Man In The Dusty Worn Sandals"

Golden V. Adams Jr.

In 1994 my wife, Diane, was called as the Relief Society President in our LDS ward. In preparation for her first Relief Society Visiting Conference (for female members of the church who have been called to visit the homes of the sisters in the ward each month), she was at a...

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Holiday Activities: Labor Day weekend 2012

Golden V. Adams Jr.

This week's prompt - "Topic: Holiday Activities. So much can happen in only a few short days but there is always one thing that should stand out. By reflecting upon the weekend" . . , I will share a memory while it is fresh on my mind. On Labor Day, Monday...

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My five years in the Infantry during World War II

Bill Corey

Bills talks about his long service in the Infantry during the Second World War, serving in Tobruk, Libya, Alemain, New Guinea and Borneo. He also tells us how the War dominates his thoughts as he gets older.

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Alice Domagalski

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