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This clip shows a young girl and boy riding their bicycles to the local milk bar where they join their younger sister and drink milkshakes at the counter.
Curator’s notes
This self-contained home movie sequence shows a classic example of an Australian milk bar from the early 1940s. Usually also a local corner store where you could buy common grocery items like milk and bread, milk bars enabled young people to socialise and purchase non-alcoholic drinks (such as milkshakes). Frederick Simpson Dyer often captured semi-staged footage of family members to edit into sequences such as this one.
