Dictionary of Sydney
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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Entertainment and Spectacle

Subject
Bodgies and African American Influences in Sydney
Breeding delinquents: Surf City 1963-1966
Harry Rickards's Tivoli
L'Estrange, Henri
Lenny Bruce's visit to Sydney 1962
Scandalous nights - Sydney's artists' balls
Trocadero
A dial like Luna Park
Stomp
Carousel Club
Coogee Aquarium and Swimming Baths
Crystal Palace Rink
Cyclorama
Gaiety Studio
Hordern Pavilion
Kinselas
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Trocadero Newtown
Big Day Out
Carnivale
Festival of Sydney
Hollandse Kermis
New Year fireworks 2000
Orange Blossom Festival
Royal Easter Show
Schools Spectacular
Shell National Folkloric Festival
Survival Festival Concert
Sydney Eisteddfod
Waratah Spring Festival
Warringah Eisteddfod
Booker T Washington Club
Brennan - Fullers' Vaudeville Circuit
Bud Atkinson's American Circus and Wild West Show
Chequers nightclub
Diamond Horseshoe Club
Foti International Fireworks
Hawaiian Eye
Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics
Jewel Box
Kandy's Garden of Eden
Karen's Kastle
Kit Kat Club
Les Girls
Livio's Striparama
Luna Park (NSW) Ltd
Pink Panther Club
Pink Pussycat Club
Purple Onion
Romano's
Royal Magnet Troupe
Ruby Red's
Seven Ashtons
Showmen's Guild of Australasia
Staccato Club
Stork Club
Syd Howard Fireworks
The Annexe
Venus Room
Village Roadshow
Whisky a Go Go
Ziegfeld Club
Abernethy, William
Angell, Victor
Atkins, David
Azella
Beaumont, William
Bendrodt, James Charles
Blondin
Bruce, Lenny
Cann, George
Cann, John
Carlotta
Cinquevalli, Paul
Clarke, Jacob
Colleano, Con
Drevar, George
Fox, Fred
Foy, Harry
Franquin
Hopkins, Ted
Houdini, Harry
Howard, Les
Jackson, Charles
Johnson, Ken (Kandy)
Jones, Ignatius
Kellett, Thomas
L'Estrange, Harry
Lachaume, Margaret J
Lee, Sammy
Lewis, Jack
Linmark, Harry
Nelson, John Dunbar
Petit, Philippe
Phillips, Harold
Smith, Frank
Vertelli, Signor
Waller, James
Wong, Denis
Wong, Jap Kuan (Keith)
Woolcott, William Prout
Athol Pleasure Grounds
Australia's Wonderland
Bondi Aquarium
Bullen's Animal World Wallacia
Clontarf Pleasure Grounds
Cremorne Gardens
Fairyland Pleasure Grounds
Ivy's Birdcage
Luna Park
Sir Joseph Banks Pleasure Gardens
Speakers Corner
Sydney Showground Moore Park
Sydney Stadium
White City
Coogee Pier
Manly Fun Pier
Snake Pit La Perouse
'Dante's Inferno' Ball, Paddington Town Hall 1962
'We Cherish the Rosary' tableau, St Patrick's Day pageant at Sydney Showground 17 March 1937
Advertisement for Casey the Marvellous Chimpanzee 1911
Amusements at Botany, St Patrick's Day celebrations in Sydney 1886
Audience of children at an afternoon matinee at Enmore Cinema 1951
Australian Olympic Theatre Advertisement 1842
Aviation week at Rosehill Racecourse ... the great Houdini to give a series of public flights 1910
Back cover of guide to 1978 Festival of Sydney events
Balloon Ascent, Wonderland, Tamarama January 1908
Band playing at a Popular Dance night at the Trocadero 1938
Blondin cooking on the tightrope c1874
Blondin, French tightrope walker, 1874
Bondi Aquarium c1895
Bondi Beach pleasure park, at Tamarama c1890
Bondi aquarium and grounds, Tamarama c1895
Brazilian Carnival poster 1979
Burtons Circus Royal poster, Parramatta, 1851
Capoeira at Darling Harbour 2009
Carlotta, Kings Cross 1970-71
Challenge to Houdini April 1910
Children at the ticket counter at Enmore Cinema 1951
Children outside Enmore Cinema 1951
Children running in to Enmore Cinema 1951
Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 1 February 2009
Chinese lion dancers at Sydney Town Hall for Pageant of Nations parade, February 1938
Chorus girls in opening night of 'Hollywood Hotel' revue, Theatre Royal 23 September 1938
Clyde Pavilion at the Royal Easter Show 1898-1909
Costume cavalcade at Artists' Ball at the Trocadero 6 November 1953
Crowd outside the Radio and Electrical Industries Hall during the Royal Easter Show 1957
Crowd watching La Traviata at the first Opera in the Park concert in the Domain 1982
Crowds and pavilions, Royal Easter Show 1930s
Dame Joan Sutherland performing in La Traviata at Opera in the Park 1982
Dancer Paula Pratt and snake expert George Cann at La Perouse 1947
Dutch float in the Waratah Spring Festival 1956
Dutch migrant Johnny Blanzee, 23, who works as a slack wire entertainer 1961
Final heat of the Grand Bicycle Steeplechase - the water jump. Anniversary Day sports at the Albert Ground, Redfern 26 January 1870
Gaiety Theatre 1881
George Cann with a bundle of mixed snakes 5 September 1934
George Cann, eyeball to eyeball with a black snake at La Perouse 5 September 1934
Gypsy Moth display at Prince Edward Theatre 1924-1950
Harbour bridge with 'Eternity' illuminated sign 31 December 1999
Harry L'Estrange c1877
Have YOU tried the Stomp? September 1963
Helen Wood, Miss Australia 1957, farewelled by Māori dancers at Mascot, 10 March 1958
Henri L'Estrange, The Australian Blondin 1876
Henri L'Estrange, tightrope walker, crossing Middle Harbour April 1877
Jitterbuggers at the Trocadero February 1948
Jones Royal Circus. New South Wales; Or, Love in Botany Bay, playbill from London 1798
Kandy and friends performing at Ken's Karate Klub, Kensington 1981
Kings Cross Theatre, Kings Cross 1939
Luna Park Shutter Blend experiment #1 2008
Madame Franzina, bicycle performer 1876
Miles of carpet for the Trocadero... 1936
Newspaper advertisement for Madame Sohier's Waxwork Exhibition at 222 Pitt Street 20 March 1866
Newspaper entertainment listing for the Coogee Aquarium 13 January 1895
Opening of Enmore Theatre 1911
Panorama of Manly Water Chute and Toboggan 1903
Philippe Petit walking along cable strung between pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1973
Prince Edward Theatre 1924-1930
Principals and cast in J C Williamson production of 'Idiot's delight' 1939
Radio station 2GB youth show, Trocadero, Sydney 1941
Ray Brown and the Whispers performing at a union picnic c1965
Restrictions on spectators for the first race meet at Hyde Park Racecourse in October 1810
Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944
Royal Agricultural Society's Show Grounds, Moore Park 1934
Sideshow alley at the Royal Sydney Easter Show 1957
Spiffliwinks, who has just received an appointment upon a Scientific Journal, takes lodgings in a street in Darlinghurst, anxious to secure quiet and seclusion from the turmoil of the clty 1882
Spruiker Again #2, Kings Cross 1975
St Patrick's Day parade, Sydney c1930s
Sze Yup Temple in Edward Lane, Glebe 1904
Tenka Troupe at the National Amphitheatre poster 1913
The Aquarium, Coogee, 1900-17
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Echoes band entertaining dancers at Surf City, Sydney 1963
The Grand Parade in the main ring, Royal Agricultural Society showground 1950
The Pink Panther Nightclub, 39-41 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross 5 July 1968
The glamorous showgirls at Chequers, one of Sydney's leading nightclubs 1968
The wheel of youth, Dee Why 1929
Tivoli program for 'Three Cheers for the Red White an Blue' show, featuring Con Colleano 1937
United States R & R men from Vietnam meet Aussie girls at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, 9 November 1967
When Manly's on the spree 1928
Wonderland City, Tamarama c1900
Zoological display at Watsons Bay 1860-1870
Con Colleano on tightwire c1939
Judy Burnett on drag venues in Sydney in the 1970s, recorded 2009