Hi listers, I am wondering if there is anybody on list who would know what dance hall/s & movie theatre/s there were in Nambucca Heads at the end of WW2. My WA Grandfather met my Grandmother (a Buckman) in Nambucca Heads (where she lived) while he was in NSW with the army. When he was discharged he went directly to Nambucca Heads to a dance hall where she was & told her sister to go inside & get her. Apparently she came running out & he opened his great coat to hug her as she ran into his arms. Soon after that he proposed to her in a movie theatre, married her & took her home to WA. AAAAW!! So romantic! Anyway, I would love to know where these places could have been. I don't know whether there was only one movie theatre there in those days? Would there have been more than one dance hall in the area. My aim is to find pictures/photos of these places. Any books which may have info/photos? Can anyone help? Thanks, Deb (WA)

Hi Deb, What a great love story. These are the things that make family history come alive. My parents who lived in the Dorrigo area (Tyringham) also had a dance hall kind of romance, Mum though she was too young to date but Dad thought differently, so after cricket one night he arrived in his whites, walked into the hall and threw a bag of live chickens into the middle of the dancers. This didn't get Mum's attention, so he went outside and hitched up the parson's horse and sulky for him. Only trouble was the horse was on one side of the fence and the sulky on the other. There were several other crazy attempts over a period of time, until finally Mum decided enough was enough and they started courting. She was 17 when they married and he 21. I was not born till 2 years later, so she must have been pretty stubborn. Laurel