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Rita Bradd
from Dunbar.
Posted 2 Dec 2003.
My Dad and Mum owned the Empire Cafe. We had the first juke box and pin tables in town and the girls used to jive in the cafe with their beehive hair-do's. The lads used to make silver paper cups and throw them up to the ceiling and they would stick there - they'd get chucked out if they were caught.
Cairns Boston was the best organiser of entertainment in the town and we had bathing beauty contests - one lass from the west coast used to get me to rub on her fake sun tan cream! Jack Mulroy and Rikki Flton would come down regularly and judge the contests and I got Rikki's autograph. The Salvation Army used to have crowds of kids standing round them on the beach singing happy songs. The sun always seemed to shine in those days. The Empire was demolished in January 1996 - very sad to see it go, and my Dad passed away 18 months ago.
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