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Speaker 1: Time to find another of perths shops lost to time, you.

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Speaker 2: Lost chops, lost live clothing. Yes. That was established in

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four as an authentic street where an urban

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Speaker 2: fashion retailer. It was known for its dark stores and

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Speaker 2: it's very loud music.

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Speaker 3: Yes all right.

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Speaker 2: You could buy tickets to festivals like Big Day Out

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Speaker 2: in the same way from their stores. Their women's clothing

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Speaker 2: was very very small, it was Their men's clothing was

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Speaker 2: very very shiny, which is.

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Speaker 3: Why I never found anything on the rack that's.

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Speaker 2: Suited the same. It was known for offering, positioning itself

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Speaker 2: as an institution for young shoppers. Indeed, with the in

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Speaker 2: May two, the company went into liquid citing the impacts

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Speaker 2: of COVID nineteen lockdowns. We'd all been at home meeting

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Speaker 2: not fitting into those tiny sizes government mandates, and the

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Speaker 2: postponement of major youth events as the primary reason for

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Speaker 2: their inability to carry on. But this morning, we are

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Speaker 2: lucky enough to have the man who was known as

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Speaker 2: the live guy on the line with us. Emerson Doyle

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Speaker 2: was the store manager of the City Store, which was

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Speaker 2: on Murray Street underneath Meyer, which.

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Speaker 1: Would have seen all the actions.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Hello Emerson, Amazon good morning. How long did you.

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Speaker 2: Work for live.

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Speaker 4: Doubt right?

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Speaker 2: Well that's a that's a fair amount of time. And

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Speaker 2: how did you get the nickname the live Guy?

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Speaker 4: That was pretty organic. It just happened to be that.

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Speaker 4: And I'm to be honest, I'm not the only one.

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Speaker 4: Surely there's a couple of other fellows that I'm sure

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Speaker 4: lived the life a lot better than I did. But

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Speaker 4: it was more just line enough to go into a

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Speaker 4: nightclub on a Friday, Sunday night or whatever it might

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Speaker 4: have been, and some customers may have recognized you and

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Speaker 4: you just hear the memorines, probably like yourselves when you

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Speaker 4: go out your name and yeah, it's just the live guy,

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Speaker 4: the live guy, or you get a bit comming with

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Speaker 4: a couple of the bouncers and you didn't have to

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Speaker 4: worry about the lineup.

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Speaker 1: Ah, skip the c Were you wearing live gear when

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Speaker 1: you were Was it all live gear on you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, there was a business.

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Speaker 3: Something shiny to get you into the front.

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Speaker 4: Door once and it depends. Here's absolutely something shiny. Yeah

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Speaker 4: the rest of the stuff, No, it was fantastic with

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Speaker 4: this or guys and girls, So yeah, just love the place.

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Speaker 2: There was no it was no accident. Live was designed

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Speaker 2: to be a really hip store for hip people to

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Speaker 2: go to, is it. Did Carousel have its own smoke

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Speaker 2: machine or an accident?

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Speaker 4: No, Well, the background there is we just opened up

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Speaker 4: the Carousel store and I was in there and got

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Speaker 4: shown how to turn on the smoke machine. As you know,

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Speaker 4: they were trying to sort of be a bit edgy

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Speaker 4: and industrial or whatever else is like a nightclub, I guess.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I got instructed how to put on the

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Speaker 4: smoke machine and the little the liquid that you put

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Speaker 4: into it and whatnot. So and I was told don't

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Speaker 4: put it above three D not a propure. Well what

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Speaker 4: does he do on Thursday night? You want to be

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Speaker 4: the best in the ground, loudest and whatever it might mean.

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Speaker 4: So I'll just crank this thing up and see what

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Speaker 4: we can do. And yeah, about five eight minutes later,

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Speaker 4: I pretty much gasped out the whole carrousel wing with

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Speaker 4: the fund I think it was on the area And yeah,

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Speaker 4: I got scolded.

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Speaker 2: To that one because you spinal tapped the smoke machine.

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Speaker 3: Before.

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Speaker 2: Did you get a good discount?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely. There's staff discounts and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 4: and also bonuses for monthly targets and stuff, so that

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Speaker 4: it all came in where they encouraged us to wear

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Speaker 4: their gear. We didn't have a problem with that because

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Speaker 4: we all knew it was the latest and greatest.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Emerson, talking about discounts, there was this was

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Speaker 1: the five finger discount. There was apparently a shop lifter

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Speaker 1: when you were at the City Store which you had

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Speaker 1: to give chase to is this is this trade?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Is?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I was at some of the stores. I was

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Speaker 4: a pseudo bouncer. I think sometimes as well, you know,

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Speaker 4: if there's a bit of ref raffle or whatever, and yeah,

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Speaker 4: so I've been somewhere near the front counter and all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden the alarms have gone off and some

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Speaker 4: girl has legged it straight out the door and hanged

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Speaker 4: a hard right heading up towards the post office area

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Speaker 4: and my boss. I just turned to the boss and

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Speaker 4: she goes, get So that's just like, okay, got onto it.

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Speaker 3: Pers dress bouncer. Pers best dress bouncer was on his way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Once I got up to her, I just ran

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Speaker 4: next to her and just said, sure, come on now,

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Speaker 4: if you kind of steal something and run away with,

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Speaker 4: at least get the right shoes. You wear some and

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Speaker 4: some strapless in your head, so they should finally put

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Speaker 4: a tar between the legs and walk backwards. Me to

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Speaker 4: the store and we tell where it is.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, well John the live guy to the rescue.

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Speaker 2: What a time to be our live Thanks for the memories,

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Speaker 2: Emerson pleasure, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's the live guard, the live guy, the one and

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Speaker 1: only Well apparently there was a few of them, but

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Speaker 1: he was, he was. He was the biggest of the

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Speaker 1: live guys.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool place to work and to shop.

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Speaker 1: I did swing by a store once a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: Actually once it was a carrn up. They didn't have

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Speaker 1: my size or my style. Another time another time I

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Speaker 1: walked in and I.

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Speaker 2: Don't think we have anything for you. You're obviously in

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Speaker 2: the wrong place.

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Speaker 4: Please leave.

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Speaker 1: Roger David's just down the down.

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Speaker 3: Go to the next door.

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Speaker 2: Diana in Hill.

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Speaker 3: But good morning, morning Diana.

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Speaker 5: Good morning. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: What are your what's your memory of live?

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Speaker 5: Okay, So back in nineteen ninety eight, I think it

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Speaker 5: was they were having they were holding a competition where

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Speaker 5: you could win three thousand dollars shopping springs cool and

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Speaker 5: my sister in law actually won, and I was so

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Speaker 5: jealous because I was oning, like eighteen at a time,

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Speaker 5: like the biggest and greatest you can get all the

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Speaker 5: beds from? And yes, I went into a bed dream

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Speaker 5: and she had everything laid out on her bed. What

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Speaker 5: she got too, it was amazing. Yeah, so yes, got

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Speaker 5: that and then yeah, so that's my memory of life.

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Speaker 1: And that was a lot of money in nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. Yes, it was.

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Speaker 2: Did she slip you everything? Did she say, oh, you

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Speaker 2: have this one?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 5: I don't think she did. At the time, she wanted

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Speaker 5: to keep everything self, which I could totally understand. Did

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Speaker 5: you do it that age?

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Speaker 3: Well you do?

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Speaker 1: You want to keep it all for yourself for that

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Speaker 1: age you haven't entered them sharing stage of life?

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Speaker 2: No, mine, that's right, thanks Diana.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and the memory.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure if you guys remember, but the store Crazy.

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Speaker 3: Tea, which was down the road crazy to Ye.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but they sold all funny said work there.

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Speaker 3: All right, you could mix and what you brought up live.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Diana.

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Speaker 3: Shiny Shiny Pants and Crazy Tea. That was a lust

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Speaker 3: shop inside of Lost Shop.

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Speaker 1: It was