PAPARAZZI

Late fog:

It was 10am on Friday, June 29, and the fog still hadn’t lifted when DPN reader Monte Jones was walking across the Shibble Bridge over the Macquarie River near Dundullimal. Thanks for contributing your photo!

Entertaining:

Dubbo Photo News sales gurus Frances Rowley and Donna Falconer were walking along Macquarie Street last Thursday when they spotted some locals busking outside Myer. Frances decided she’d try joining in and being a buskette! She’s pictured far left, alongside Peter Kuhner. DPN reader Michael Lindsay brought this 1958 NSW phone book (right) into the Dubbo Photo News office during the week and thought we’d be interested in the advertisement for “Photo-news”.

That was the name of another successful newspaper, published during the late 1950s and early 1960s by Claude Smith Printers in Dubbo.

Just as interesting are some of the other business listed on the same page. Some are still here in one form or another (well done!) while others have moved on but will bring back memories for long-term Dubbo readers.

Listings include Shakespeare & Sons Funeral Directors of Talbragar Street, Singer Sewing Machine Co at 54 Talbragar Street, Skerman Motors in Macquarie Street, Stanwells Cordials in Wingewarra Street, Swansons’ Florist and Nursery at 29 Talbragar Street, and Harold W Taylor & Son, the Ford car dealer that was prominent on Macquarie Street or many years.