Interview with Vallis Peet, Dennis Quinn and Bruce Withell, about dances at Newbury Hall near Palmerston North, in the 1950s.
Summary of interview
0.00 - Recording details and introductions
0.35 – What sort of dances did they have? (Bruce, then Dennis)
2.37 – Vallis describing who went, who ran them, refreshments, etc., how many attended.
4.44 – Bruce on behaviour of boys and girls, the “supper waltz”
7.45 – “courting in those days”
9.13 – paying for entry
9.44 - alcohol, none within 3 miles of a dance, but…
12.12 – smoking
12.37 – clothes
13.57 – hairstyles
15.00 – type of dances and music
16.32 – Johnny Devlin
18.52 – waltzes, etc., learning in primary school
20.07 – “Ladies’ choice”, “excuse me” dances
20.38 – difference between country and city dances
21.35 – religious sensitivities
22.18 – lighting
23.35 – were they chaperoned?