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Oxford Street
Next Saturday Oxford Street in Sydney is going to be celebrating the Lgbt Mardi Gras. Within this story, Vanessa Wagner follows a brief history of the street, from the mere track to its fashionable notoriety today.
GUY NOBLE: For our final story tonight, a little bit of fun. Next Saturday, Oxford Street in Sydney will erupt into celebration because the Lgbt Carnival happens. But the street started out like a mere track between your settlement of Sydney and the harbour's entrance. The local businesses decided to allow it to be sound more genteel by calling it 'Oxford Street', after its London namesake. And eventually, the name stuck. We asked Mardi Gras celebrity Vanessa Wagner to tell us the story of the street which has ebbed and flowed in decorum, fashionability and elegance.
VANESSA WAGNER: Well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hello, my gorgeous punters. Here' am at Oxford Street in Sydney. You're probably only used to seeing it annually, full of a large number of revellers and froufrou frafra. Previously just be a dirt track that connected the city settlement to the harbour opening. They'd all have attended Oxford Street to do their daily shopping. Lots of people would have gone up to the ham and beef shops to buy their slices of ham, gone up to the refreshment rooms to have a bag. Women were going up towards the shops. The businesspeople that decided that what was then called Old South Head Road just sounded a bit -- probably daggy. That's possibly the best word for it. And they wanted something which encapsulated the truth that it was a commercial centre now. But eventually,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the name Oxford Street was chosen because Oxford Street in London is the most important commercial street working in london.
VANESSA WAGNER: So, darling, around the 1900s there was a real spruce-up in action here on Oxford Street?
CLIVE FARO: In 1900, Sydney got a case of bubonic plague. About 112 people died. The inner city using the terrace house,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where you lived really near to your neighbour -- you had common walls -- quickly became unfashionable.
VANESSA WAGNER: Rent control has been around since the 1930s, and the result was landlords let the houses become run-down. Some people considered Oxford Street to become a slum through the 1950s. However the chance of cheap housing was welcomed by many new immigrants.
DANIELLA BACIC, RESTAURATEUR: My name Daniella Bacic. I come Australia in 1964. I come here, cook,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], marry -- marry to my husband Ned.
JOHN BACIC, RESTAURATEUR: There is a lot of ethnic families and businesses here in the '70s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and now it's a very gay area, a gay clientele. 60 percent of our clientele is gay. Following a '70s, it had been more a working-class suburb, with a lot of ethnic families living on top of shops and operating shops. So the restaurant would cater for those sort of people.
VANESSA WAGNER: Robert Jones is really a gentlemen's bespoke tailor -- that means a made-to-measure tailor -- who started being an apprentice 40 years ago. Robert, how are you?
ROBERT JONES, OXFORD STREET TAILOR, ESTABLISHED 70 YEARS: Hello. What's your name?
VANESSA WAGNER: My name's Vanessa, darling.
ROBERT JONES: Very happy to setup a meeting.
VANESSA WAGNER: You also. This place is exquisite. I feel like I've stepped back in time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to use what of Kylie Minogue.
ROBERT JONES: It was the mid-'20s we remodelled the place. We put in our very own barber shop within the basement. I was the only real tailor shop, or men's clothing store, that had its own hairdresser. Back when When i first going in the '60s, it had been fantastic. There were many individuals and shops in the street. However it appears to be filled with nightclubs and 7-11s. And convenience stores.
CLIVE FARO: Terrace housing became fashionable again. Lots of younger single people moved in to the suburbs surrounding Oxford Street. A lot of those singles entering the city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], obviously, were fleeing suburban life. Many of them were fleeing country towns. Often propelled by sexual difference. And it is these people who would turn up on Oxford Street within the '60s and '70s, breathing new life into Oxford Street. Within the 1970s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when gays and lesbians first resulted in, most of the locals were quite antagonistic because this was, you know, the final straw. Finally you had poofters and lesbians arriving. Gradually most of the locals, the firms, started to realise that not only were these people actually quite civilised,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not only were they fun to get along with, but they were actually very, excellent business.
VANESSA WAGNER: Through the 1980s, Oxford Street was referred to as 'Golden Mile' -- a gay destination like no other. The annual Carnival grew and grew although not everybody was thrilled.
REVEREND FRED NILE: It's against God's creative purposes. God made men and women -- Adam and Eve,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not Adam and Steve.
CLOVER MOORE, MP, STATE MEMBER FOR BLIGH: I love Oxford Street. I've had an office here for 14 years and I think Oxford Street just hums. And there is a really special experience it in the weeks prior to Carnival. Probably the most exciting bit about Carnival is everyone preparing which feeling about the Friday and Saturday morning when people get their wigs on stands, and down every little back lane the thing is trucks being prepared for the floats.
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