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Speaker 1: Lo where that I lost shops, lost shops, you know.

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Speaker 1: Funnily enough, in the early ish eighties, so I made

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Speaker 1: my way to Bon Marche Arcade in the city to

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Speaker 1: visit the glorious Memory Lane vintage clothing boutique. As we

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Speaker 1: all did. It was an outing, even if you weren't

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Speaker 1: at a bas so you just wanted to be there.

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Speaker 1: And Gail Pather is the former owner of Memory Lane.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Gail.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Good morning Liza.

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Speaker 1: It all started in Bon Marche Arcade, didn't it, in

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Speaker 1: the city, not.

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Speaker 2: Quite well before that. I started collecting vintage in the

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Speaker 2: seventies because and then I had the vintage shop, and

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Speaker 2: then I bought out another Vina shop which was called

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Speaker 2: Memory Lane, and I kept the name. And then we

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Speaker 2: started offering Bob Marshe Yeah, Bob Marshaw was at that time.

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Speaker 2: We had every band that came to Perth. Every you know,

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Speaker 2: everyone came there. Because not only at that time we

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Speaker 2: started doing HighRes as well as sales. We were making

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Speaker 2: a lot of things, you know, for bands and that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. It changed from the beginning because we

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Speaker 2: got so busy with the vintage, we decided to go

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Speaker 2: into higher as well and you know in Bonon Marsha

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Speaker 2: for probably fifteen years or something like that, and we

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Speaker 2: did have you know, we had people like Paula Yates

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Speaker 2: that came into bonb Mache Humphrey. She used to come

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Speaker 2: in regularly because they used to collect momos. You know,

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Speaker 2: we had had a lot of regular customers, especially people

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Speaker 2: like marsh Heim, Wendy Matthews. Yeah, Boon Marshaw was the

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Speaker 2: start of the getting bigger and bigger.

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Speaker 1: You had all these incredible people coming in, but you

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Speaker 1: also had Gail me and my schoolmates who had to

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Speaker 1: change buses in the city and would find some time

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Speaker 1: to pop in and we would just try stuff on,

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Speaker 1: and you were so patient with us, and you let

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Speaker 1: us run around trying things on and having the time

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Speaker 1: of our lives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did have the bus stops. Yeah, so true.

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Speaker 1: So Barry Humphreys collected kimonos.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, every time he came to Percy, he'd come

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Speaker 2: in or he'd send somebody in to say, look, I mean,

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Speaker 2: what have you got in and kimonos? But I think

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Speaker 2: whether he was buying him for his wife at that time,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but this went on for a few years.

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Speaker 2: Actually him buying kimonos.

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Speaker 1: Hmmmm.

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Speaker 3: You were the place to go for a kimono, There's

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Speaker 3: no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, But there wasn't much around in those days, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean there was a few, probably small vintage shops.

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Speaker 2: But because I've been collecting from the seventies, I did

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Speaker 2: have a good collection, you know, because I always loved antique,

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Speaker 2: venture vintage clothing in my blood. Yeah. But then when

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Speaker 2: we left by Marsh, we just got bigger and we

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Speaker 2: went to East Perth and then we ended up in

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Speaker 2: Mount Lawley.

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Speaker 4: Yes, which is where I went one time because I

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Speaker 4: had you know, when you have one of those parties,

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Speaker 4: theme parties that you've got to go.

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Speaker 3: To, and that was a place to go.

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Speaker 1: It was the go to place when you had people

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Speaker 1: like bony M coming in to get some good Did

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Speaker 1: you ever get a bit star struck?

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Speaker 2: No, not really. Bony M. They first came to me

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Speaker 2: because they'd lost their luggage and transit and they had

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Speaker 2: to do shows, so they were rushed in to me

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Speaker 2: to put costumes together for them for their tour. And

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Speaker 2: then when they were here after that they'd always call in,

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Well, and when you see the videos of them you can.

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Speaker 1: You can see what happened to all the stuff after

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Speaker 1: you did decide to you decided it was time to retire,

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Speaker 1: spend time with the family, So what happened to all

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Speaker 1: the gear that you still had.

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Speaker 2: It was really hard for me. It took me probably

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Speaker 2: about five years get the carriage up to but you know,

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Speaker 2: it was it was tough. But yeah, what I did

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Speaker 2: is I sold off stuff, originally to my corporate clients,

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Speaker 2: you know, like Channel seven, just people that got regular costumes,

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Speaker 2: you know, like with the Christmas page himself and all

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Speaker 2: the schools and people. And then with the more valuable

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Speaker 2: stuff I in my private collection. I did donate a

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Speaker 2: large amount to the Screen Academy because of me, I had,

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Speaker 2: you know, thirty years as a costume designer in the

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Speaker 2: film industry, and I wanted to keep you know, some

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Speaker 2: a bit available for the film industry. So they took

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Speaker 2: it on. But that will now go to the new

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Speaker 1: That's brilliant and I'll live.

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Speaker 2: On, yeah, take on. And then the rest of the

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Speaker 2: private collection, I did have somebody come and buy it

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Speaker 2: because they are suppose to be still going to open

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Speaker 2: up a big higher premises for again for the film industry.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love that you can watch locally made productions

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Speaker 1: and go, oh that's there's much. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining yesterday to walk figuratively and literally down memory Less.

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Speaker 1: It's been really lovely to talk to you. And as

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Speaker 1: I said, so sorry we drove you mad back in

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Speaker 1: the early adies running around like silly idiots, but it

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Speaker 1: was so much fun. Thank you, Gail, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: There you go, our first lost shop Memory Lanes.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Debbie, Debbie. Did you used to go? Deb I did?

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Speaker 2: I did? And I have still my lace parasol that

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Speaker 2: I purchased from memory name from my reading in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty in my wardrobe.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a lace parasol.

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Speaker 3: Everyone needs a lace.

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Speaker 1: Once in their life.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you never know when you're going to need it.

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Speaker 1: That's no umbrella. No, that's a lace parasol in the race. Debbie. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I love that you've still got that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very pretty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Were you a regular visitor to Memory Lane or was

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Speaker 4: it just, you know, it just happened to be looking

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Speaker 4: for a parasol?

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Speaker 2: No, well, I used to catch the nine bus which

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Speaker 2: was across the riad exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's what Gail said, a lot a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that would swap buses there. Waiting for buses there would say,

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Speaker 1: might just pop into Memory Lane and see what's in

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Speaker 1: there today. Thanks dev great memory a lace parasol. We

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Speaker 1: just had a little text from one of our colleagues, Charles.

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Speaker 1: This says one of our ninety six a m Roadies

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Speaker 1: moms used to work at Memory Lane as her Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning job while at school. That is, everyone would have

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Speaker 1: that would have been a prem o job. Yes, Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning work.

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Speaker 3: No, wouldn't have been for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Memory Lane to just try stuff on.

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Speaker 4: You would have been one of the people they had

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Speaker 4: to tackle. Yeah, coming in off the bus. Yes, don't

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Speaker 4: touch that, you break it?

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Speaker 1: You buy it?

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Speaker 3: How many times did.

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Speaker 1: You lovely to look at? Delightful the whole?

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Speaker 3: That's right?

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Speaker 1: If it's broken, consider it sold that in Belden Hello, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? Memory Lane?

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Speaker 6: Really not for me, but it was kind of like

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Speaker 6: a daycare for.

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Speaker 3: My wife when I needed.

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Speaker 6: To when I needed to do some emails and all

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Speaker 6: that stuff on my computer. I used to drop her

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Speaker 6: off for a couple of hours and then go next door.

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Speaker 6: There was a there was a cafe or two there

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Speaker 6: and I used to catch up with everything.

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Speaker 5: I'd have to come in and grab her, Yeah, because

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Speaker 5: she'd just be just be looking through hundreds and it

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Speaker 5: was just unbel and then she'd have a little collection

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Speaker 5: or forty or fifty that she'd ask about at the end,

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Speaker 5: if this looks.

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Speaker 6: Good on her, and that's another hour.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was good memories for you.

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Speaker 6: So that were really nice people. And yeah, all they

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Speaker 6: need is a couch or a seat. That's what I

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Speaker 6: used to ask for so I could sit down.

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Speaker 5: And not do anything.

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Speaker 4: Cheapest daycare around or was it how much did she

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Speaker 4: buys time you went?

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Speaker 1: That's daycare for the wife. So true, it was like

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Speaker 1: that