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Move from gaslight was electric
FOR many years some of the streets in Dandenong were lit by 33 gas lamps, which had to be lit and extinguished by hand. This…
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Real social media
FOR Joy Kent the weekly publication of the Dandenong Journal was a social event. As a young secretary at stock agent Dan Godfey and Co.…
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Neighbours get famous
TWO neighbouring central Dandenong laneways pay tribute to local businesses past. The Journal office was once a weatherboard building at 1 Scott Street, Dandenong, where…
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Habit of a lifetime
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH THE Dandenong Journal might not be their local newspaper anymore, but Judith and Keith Bramich make sure they are kept in the…
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Peter’s Sun Showgirl pursuit
By NARELLE COULTER JOURNAL reader Peter Hartin sent in this photograph and clipping of his wife, Maureen, being crowned Miss Sun Showgirl at the 1959…
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God was with us
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A car torn in two by a train at a Noble Park level crossing, its driver Michael Bojic, 23, emerged relatively unscathed…
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Life in the pages
By NARELLE COULTER GREATER Dandenong Citizen of the Year Bev Douglas admits she feels “hard done by” if her weekly Journal doesn’t arrive in her…
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Gwen followed the paper trail
Journal reporter RUSSELL BENNETT talks to his grandmother, Gwen Jarvis (widow of former mayor Maurie Jarvis, and one of the City of Greater Dandenong’s Living…
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Family woven into history
By CASEY NEILL THE Tharle family and the Journal have been intertwined throughout their time in Dandenong. Both arrived 150 years ago and Dandenong and…
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Milestones still make good reading
By NARELLE COULTER MANY of the major milestone’s in Joyce Polman’s life have been recorded in the pages of the Dandenong Journal. A photograph of…
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Life set on paper path
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD IF SHE hadn’t worked at the Dandenong Journal, Susan Riley reckons her life would have taken a vastly different path. The Deputy…
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Facing a human tide
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THERE have been times when the waves of new arrivals drove Peter Jarrett crazy. At flood’s peak, hundreds in a month have…
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