Tweed Regional Museum Murwillumbah is currently displaying nostalgic beach images in an exhibition titled ‘Holidays and Hokey Pokey: Beach Images of the Tweed’ until the end of summer.
“We are nearing the end of another bumper summer holiday season, and our first in the newly renovated and expanded Tweed Regional Museum Murwillumbah,” said Museum Director Judy Kean.
“We thought a great way to see out the summer and to extend that summer holiday glow would be to enjoy the nostalgia of holiday seasons past, with a selection of some of the best beach images from the Museum collection.”
Ms Kean said the display included postcard images from the early 1900s, when the area first became popular as a holiday destination.
“They show that covering up at the beach is definitely not a new idea and that we should be thankful that camping is no longer as basic as it once was.
“It’s also interesting to see how crowded many of our beaches were during the 1950s and ’60s.”
The images include holiday makers promenading in Tweed Street, crowded campgrounds at Tweed Heads around 1910 and images of the famous Boyd brothers hauling in nets full of fish off Greenmount beach around 1950, as well as Hokey Pokey contests and girls trying out Malibu boards at Greenmount in 1961.
Each of the images is projected onto the Museum’s new ‘Images of the Tweed Wall’, providing a theatre-style trip into beach culture of yesteryear.
“The Keith and Norman Tong Images of the Tweed Wall enables us to project many of the fabulous historic photographs and moving images that are part of our collection, and to change these regularly,” Ms Kean said.
“This is the first of a number of such displays that we’ll feature throughout the year.”
(Below):Many of the district’s surf life savers in 1923.
