Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's / edited by Susan Blackburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackburn, Susan, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen fifties.

Adelaide (S.A.)--Biography.

Adelaide (S.A.).

Adelaide (S.A.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

291 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brookvale, NSW : Hale & Iremonger, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didn't know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us.'.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Table of Contents

Map of Adelaide in 1959

Introduction

1. Developing a 1950s imagination in Woodville Gardens

2. Growing up in 1950s Mitcham

3. From country to city

4. Growing up in multicultural West Adelaide

5. A terrifying, contagious virus

6. A boy's life in transition in Adelaide, 1957-1960

7. Our migrant neighbours

8. Into Goodwood Orphanage

9. Freedom

10. Food

11. Primary school in the fifties in a post-war new suburb

12. Growing up in a musical Quaker family

13. Leisure activities in the 1950s

Notes on the authors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-86806-929-9

OCLC:

843642440