DID IT START LIKE THIS? YOU CUT OUT THE CHARTS FROM A MAGAZINE SO THAT YOU COULD BE UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST HITS? This was part of a collection that came to the Ephemera Society looking for a home. … [Read more...]
Top top 40 charts – a collection – part 2
CONTINUING ON FROM THE EXPANDED LOOK AT TOP 40 CHARTS STARTED IN PART 1. Here we look at more of the versos as they move further from simply promoting the music in the charts. Here are charts … [Read more...]
Bit of drama from the 70s
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...]