Interview with Vallis Peet and Dennis Quinn about their teenage years, including dances at the Newbury Hall near Palmerston North in the 1950s.
Summary of interview
0.00 - Recording details and introductions
0.18 – Vallis dressed to be different
0.35 – Bodgies and Widgies
1.57 – Newbury Hall
2.18 - mention of Centrepoint production (Alison Quigan’s play “The Newbury Hall dances” set in 1965)
2.30 – musicians
3.37 – drinking and smoking?
4.10 – beer in the boot of the car
4.35 – Red Band beer
4.51 – drink driving
5.27 – asking girls to dance (and being turned down)
5.55 – the supper dance
6.32 – the last dance
6.48 – what the girls wore (dresses with hoops!)