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Welcome to "The Beat Goes On" Gallery. Select an image to enlarge it and learn more. Enjoy exploring the story of Ladysmith and the music that helped shape our community.
Two colour photographs, before and after restoration, showing an oblique view of the frontage of the same flat roofed commercial building. The ‘Before’ photograph shows the walls coated in shabby white stucco, windows obscured by signage, and a continuous cedar shake roofed awning over the doors and windows. The ‘After’ photograph shown the walls cleared down to the original bare brick, the second story arched windows free of covering, and separate awnings over the ground floor commercial windows.
Colour photograph looking down a commercial steet with a variety of heritage buildings on either side, some with colourfully painted wooden siding, some grey stucco and others red brick.
Colour photograph of a large group, many clad in t-shirts and shorts, in a sports ground on a beautiful summer evening dancing and listening to music.
Colour portrait photograph of a smiling clean shaven young man with red-blonde hair cut above the ears parted on the left side and with a prominent swept back fringe wearing an orange sweater, light yellow shirt and dark green narrow tie looks directly at the camera The words “Thanks to You” feature prominently in white flowing script in the top left corner and the words DARYL QUIST are printed in yellow uppercase simple font along the base.
Black and white photomontage featuring a smiling Red Robinson and early 1960s Rock and Roll stars including Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano, Buddy Knox playing electric guitar, Bobby Curtola singing into a microphone, Roy Orbison playing electric guitar and Conway Twitty smiling into the camera.
Oblique colour photograph of a two-story rectangular gable-roofed building built into a slight slope, the lower story being below grade at the upper end of the building. Walls are clad with medium brown wooden shakes and feature four rectangular ‘portrait’ windows in the upper story. The roof is dark grey asphalt shingles. At the downslope end a prominent set of steps leads to the upper story entrance.
Black and white photograph, oblique view, of a spoke-wheeled open box long wheel based truck bedecked with Union Jack and Canada Red Ensign flags on the hood and running boards. The driver, dressed in white with a white cap, sits at the wheel. Behind him, the box with sides adorned with fabric sporting crosses contains at least five seated nurses in white uniforms including white head scarves.
Black and white vintage photograph of an unpaved street lined with two and three story commercial buildings along which a parade is led by a uniformed brass band of about 15 musicians followed by over a hundred children, many dressed in white with white hats, walking in rows three abreast. These followed by a file of vehicles stretching beyond the field of sight.
Two sequential black and white photographs showing front and rear views of a parade float consisting of a mock-up of an armoured military vehicle towing a gun carriage.
Two covers to patriotic sheet music. The first features a vertical Union Jack over which near the top the words “The Best Old Flag On Earth” is prominently printed. The second cover, also predominantly red, white and blue, features the song “I’ll be a long, long way from Home”.
Colour photograph of a street scene showing three clusters of modern commercial buildings.
Black and white photograph of a sandstone boulder carved with the stylised two dimensional sideways-outline of a mythical creature with triangular head consisting of a long snout, prominent teeth, large eye and pointed ear connected to a circular body from which protrudes a stylised front leg and an erect pointed tail at the back.
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