KINGS'S CROSS '50s
Originally known as Queen's Cross is at the junction of Victoria & William Streets and Darlinghurst & Bayswater Roads.
Originally known as Queen's Cross is at the junction of Victoria & William Streets and Darlinghurst & Bayswater Roads.
'The Cross' was home to a multicultural array of misfits for decades: Razor gangs, pimps/prostitutes, criminals/strippers. Beatniks and bohemians; jazz/folk/blues/classical and rock musicians. Poets/artists/ actors/authors. Widgies/bodgies, rockers/mods, surfies/bikies.. camps, junkies and runaways.
All have congregated here at one point in time.
The Rex Hotel, Hasty Tasty, Dunbar's Delicatessen, Orange Spot, Chinese Cafes, trams, Kings Cross Theatre, Metro, King's Cross Newsreel, folk cellars and attics all gone .. and the Cross is bland.
Peter Finch, Chips Rafferty, Norman Lindsay, , Brett Whiteley, Martin Sharp, Rosaleen Norton, Beattie Miles are no more ..
'50s
2004
Photographs: Courtesy Paul Bottinger
See Pavements of Kings Cross short video clip
Our start in life is jam-packed with oddities and stuff of stories. We lived in 22 Yurong Street. The ladies-of-the-night would take shelter under our front terrace verandah. I liked them because they would push pennies through the green shutters so that I would tell mummy they were there. Made good money from keeping hush I did :) Made no sense to me not to tell because they told me they were going to the pictures and just waiting for they boyfriends to pick them up. I couldn't see what the problem was until mum caught them one night and gave them one minute to leave or she'd call the police. At the time I though my mummy was really mean.
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