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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Graham ReidGraham Reid

There's a very good case to be made that The Jimi Hendrix Experience album of 1967 was the most accomplished and innovative debut of the rock era...

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Fifties family fun

When things were simple: a few planks and a crate...

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This'll fit the bill!

Fair dinkum, it's the best reading you'll get this side of the Black Stump and if you don't believe me you're a nong. When we like a book we're not mingy eh?
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Rice pudding

BadAunt

I haven't had rice pudding since I was a little girl, when my mother used to make it sometimes. It was always a great favourite in my family...

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Ads from the past...

Progress is not all bad - as you  can see from these two ads…

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Santa Claus is coming to town…

Max Cryer

...but from where ?

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Sandy Edmonds

Graham ReidGraham Reid

New Zealand pop culture harbours few mysteries, but the disappearance of Sandy Edmonds on the cusp of the 70s is certainly one.

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A ripping good yarn



Disappointment Island



Why don't they produce books like this any more? 

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Whoops! Memory Lane...

It's a shortcut from Auckland's Dominion Road to Sandringham Road and I took it as if by habit - though I hadn’t passed this way for years.
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Now is the hour...

Swiss Cradle SongIn the era when the piano was king, sheet music of just one song could sell thousands of copies...
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