With Lyn Collingwood, April 2023, from Bulletin 2/2023
It’s 1937. Where are we?
Please send your suggestions to history@glebesociety.org.au.
See the answer to last month’s mystery photo.
And the answer is…
Dinah Ajd, Helen Carter, Stella Farmer, Nerida Kikken, Catherine Young, Carole Strange and E A Clarke recognised the distinctive initials of Grace Bros. One guess was a tiled entrance doorway, but it’s the lift to the foyer of the department store’s auditorium.
The auditorium was a popular venue for daytime lunches and teas and night-time entertainment, especially ballroom dancing.
(Images: The Hood Collection, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales)
3 comments. Please add yours.
This is a wild guess. Is it a Grace Bros. Broadway lift. My mother worked for Grace Bros Broadway when I was a young school girl.
Hi,
Think it’s a lift in the old Grace Brothers building
Grace Brothers on Broadway. My mother worked there as a casual for many years and it was a great place to play for us Glebe kids with not only the public areas but behind the scenes in the store rooms etc. We were hunted out many many times but the staff seemed to tolerate us as we were only kids. Many fond memories of Christmas, Easter and school holidays.