Summers Past: Golden Days in the Sun 1950 – 1970

Decked out in their favourite swimsuits the three placegetters in the 1952 Miss Pacific pageant post on Sydney's Bondi Beach

7 Feb to 15 March 2009

Summer holidays were always the best times and for today’s baby boomers the images in this exhibition are bound to stir distant memories of idyllic days spent at the beach. A National Archives Touring Exhibition.

Image: Decked out in their favourite swimsuits, the three placegetters in the 1952 Miss Pacific pageant pose on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Judy Worrad (right) won the competition, Mary Clifton Smith (centre) was runner-up and Pamela Jansen was third. Photographer unknown, 1952. National Archives collection, A1500, K1220.