Bathers' pavilion opening awash with nostalgia

By Emma Spillett
Updated March 19 2013 - 3:19pm, first published September 30 2012 - 6:01pm
Circus Wow girls Michelle Woolley, Amanda Davenport, Charlie Truscott, Ellen Curtis, Jenny Webster and Josie Bonaz. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Circus Wow girls Michelle Woolley, Amanda Davenport, Charlie Truscott, Ellen Curtis, Jenny Webster and Josie Bonaz. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
 Layback Longboarder Dale McCombie sitting on his board as Bryce Caine walks by. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Layback Longboarder Dale McCombie sitting on his board as Bryce Caine walks by. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Layback Longboarding surfer girls Alannah Harris, Brooke Farrow and Georgia Henderson. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Layback Longboarding surfer girls Alannah Harris, Brooke Farrow and Georgia Henderson. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Richard Campbell performs at the opening. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Richard Campbell performs at the opening. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Circus Wow girls Michelle Woolley, Amanda Davenport, Charlie Truscott, Ellen Curtis, Jenny Webster and Josie Bonaz. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Circus Wow girls Michelle Woolley, Amanda Davenport, Charlie Truscott, Ellen Curtis, Jenny Webster and Josie Bonaz. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sisters Alyssa and Brooke Lukasiak of Figtree. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sisters Alyssa and Brooke Lukasiak of Figtree. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Members of the Arcadian Minstrels. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Members of the Arcadian Minstrels. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Matt Tucker, Dawe Harridge and Greg Delavere dressed up in retro swimwear. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Matt Tucker, Dawe Harridge and Greg Delavere dressed up in retro swimwear. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Members of The Glamma Rays, from left, Malika Elizabeth, Jodi Phillis, Tiffany Sinton and Genevieve Davis. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Members of The Glamma Rays, from left, Malika Elizabeth, Jodi Phillis, Tiffany Sinton and Genevieve Davis. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Hundreds of people turned up to the opening. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Hundreds of people turned up to the opening. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
The Glamma Rays perform. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
The Glamma Rays perform. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER

Wollongong's North Beach was a sea of boater hats, polka dots and retro swimwear yesterday as people took a trip back to the 1930s, in honour of the opening of the long-awaited North Beach Bathers Pavilion.

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