“Contrary to Wolf Kempa’s parents not being concerned when he got home from Luna Park at 1am when he was a youngster (C8), my parents freaked when I didn’t come home after the end of Hair at the Metro Theatre in Kings Cross last century when I worked there as an usherette,” says Dorothy Gliksman of Cedar Brush Creek. “They were so worried, that they turned up and parked behind my Mini at around 1am to wait for me. I’d been chatting to a friend for some hours and had no clue of the time. They calmed down once they saw I was alive and well.”

It was easier for Lance Dover of Pretty Beach: “Wolf is so right that times have changed. When I was nine, I was allowed to go on the then new air-conditioned North Coast Daylight Express to holiday with my grandparents in Taree. I remember the train

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