GOING TO THE THEATRE NOW CAN BE A PAPERLESS EXPERIENCE, THE TICKET IS SCANNED FROM YOUR PHONE AND YOUR THEATRE PROGRAM IS DOWNLOADED. IS THIS AS MUCH FUN? Not compared to this ticket for … [Read more...]
Coming out in the 70s
UNTIL 30 MAY 2021, IF YOU ARE IN SYDNEY YOU CAN VISIT A MANY DIMENSIONAL EXHIBITION ABOUT when gay and lesbian life went public in the 1970s. Speaking up and standing out, gay men and women took to … [Read more...]
Record of live music scene
RECENTLY FOUND & ENJOYED AS IT WOULD BE BY OTHER MUSIC OR CONTEMPORARY EPHEMERA COLLECTORS, Hi God people : Melbourne music flyers from the late 70s to last week / compiled by Lisa … [Read more...]
Living in the 70s
Protest marches? Women’s Liberation? Migrants? Music? Theatre? The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is preparing an exhibition exploring 1970s Melbourne. The exhibition aims to cover … [Read more...]
1970s greetings from North Eastern Victoria
FEWER CHANCES TO FIND INTERESTING GREETING CARDS IN OP SHOPS, but here is a lovely set with a number of interesting features. This lovely series of cards called The Bush Track Australia Series, … [Read more...]
Remembering Hiroshima
The centenary of World War 1 has been well marked; time to look at the ephemera of other war events. The atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945. Here is … [Read more...]
This man kept a record of daily life in small pocket books
WE HAVE TEMPORARY OWNERSHIP OF 3 BOXES OF SMALL DIARIES KEPT BY A MELBOURNE BUSINESS MAN. We have been searching them unsystematically. We would like to do them more justice one day looking at them … [Read more...]
Hippies unite: you have nothing to lose but this society
IT IS A HIPPIE THING FROM THE VERY TAIL END OF THE MOVEMENT. Yellow poster with flowers and hands shaking from San Francisco and perhaps unsurprisingly without any issuing organisation … [Read more...]