Category Archives: memories

>Lest We Forget

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Victor

> Anzac Day

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>How good was Friday?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Victor

>Too often in my memory Sydney has endured wet Easters. And I mean really wet. I still remember Easter 1988 when it rained for the entire four day weekend…non stop. Mt stayed with me for that weekend and we visited … Continue reading →

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>School balls

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Victor

>Andrew’s reminiscence about his school days triggered memories of my own. For better or worse my parents sent me to an all male, very expensive, private school perhaps in unsuspecting prescience of my eventual sexual predilection. All the students, more than a thousand of … Continue reading →

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>*Remember me to Herald Square

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Victor

>(*‘Give My Regards to Broadway’ by George M Cohan) There is an interesting coincidence with the reference to Herald Square contained in the famous old tune celebrating New York’s theatre district, Broadway. Herald Square took it’s name from the New York Herald … Continue reading →

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>Walking the dog

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Victor

>I grew up living in apartments without the childhood experience of a house pet. For me, walking the dog was a trick performed with a Yo Yo. Not by me I hasten to add. I was hopeless at performing any … Continue reading →

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>A Pergola With A View

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Victor

> Autumn hit Sydney yesterday with cold and showery weather, at least in my part of the city. Duty called first as I visited my neighbourly polling centre to register my vote in the four yearly State election. As Andrew astutely … Continue reading →

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>The Connaught

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Victor

>The former Hoyts Paris Cinema  referred to in the previous post was located on the corner of Liverpool Street and Wentworth Avenue in the CBD. It was replaced by a high rise apartment block, The Connaught, completed in 1984. The Connaught photographed yesterday from … Continue reading →

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>One night at Paris

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Victor

> Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd In October 1957 when I was 8 years old my parents and I waited one night in Liverpool Street across the road from Sydney’s Hoyts Paris Cinema (long since disappeared) to catch a glimpse … Continue reading →

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>Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Victor

> A faithful friend to gay actors and the gay community…and a star!

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>My adolescence

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Victor

> A lot (too much?) of my adolsecence was spent in this lifestyle such that I could have written this handbook.

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