TAGGED: 1950s
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Amber Mae Cecil stars as Chichi in the serial Life Can be Beautiful, also starring Roger Climpson and Lou Vernon.

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Amber Mae Cecil (as Janie) in the 2GB comedy Life with Dexter, also starring Ray Hartley.

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Listen to Binny Lum's radio interviews with the Beatles, Barbra Streisand, Dame Joan Sutherland, Fred Astaire and more.

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Composed by Dee Jay members John Greenan, Dave Owens and Johnny O’Keefe himself, 'Wild One’ was originally released in 1958 on the EP Shakin’ at the Stadium.

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Excerpt from a 1951 episode of popular crime series D24 (1951–60).

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Fred Astaire, American film and Broadway stage dancer, singer and actor, interviewed by Binny Lum in Ava Gardner's dressing room during the filming of On the Beach in Melbou

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More than a million train passengers a day go through the gates at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Claimed to be the largest one station traffic in the world.

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Made by the National Film Board 1953. Port Augusta, South Australia, is distinctly an individual town with a character all its own.

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Once a week the Tea and Sugar Train leaves Port Augusta and heads west along the Nullarbor with all the supplies needed by the track maintenance workers and their families that live along the route

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This ginger cat puppet, named Amanda, appeared on Australian television in the late 1950s.