Shay Gap 02

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   Angelo Doulas 23/02/2016 — 00:48

   I WORKED IN SHAY GAP IN THE EARLY 70’S WITH MY FATHER WHO WAS HEAD CHEF AND I WAS A CAMP CLEANER BEFORE MOVING INTO THE KITCHEN.
   THIS WAS WELL BEFORE FLY IN FLY OUT AND YOU WORKED 12 HOURS a day 7 days a week and the only form of entertainment was the wet canteen and the outdoor picture theartre and the footy team the shay gap hawks I think. The one thing I did do before I left was scale that mountain ok going up a lot harder getting down but certainly woth it for the view alone
   I vividly remember how clean well layed out and maintained the Township was with well established gardens and the gardener at the time purchased a new yellow ford convertible Mustang.
   I had the pleasure of meeting with and working with a great bunch of blokes and was a little saddened by the dismantling of Shay Gap

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      LordBeariOfBow 23/02/2016 — 10:57

      Thank you Angelo, good to hear from somebody else with memories of Shay, I was there in the very early days as you probably saw, the first chef was Swiss and he didn’t stay long after I stopped his habit of coming into my wet and drinking all he wanted for free. The next chef was a giant of a man, a Canadian who was used to cooking for men in the logging camps but he was also a big time hotel chef.

      It was indeed a clean town and that was with thanks to the miners who when the town was first established voted to always keep it so. I still have the first editionof the “ShayGap Gazette” or whatever it was called, I did get a very nice mention in that edition.

      Hope you enjoyed the series I did on Shay; I never got around to finishing it.Thank you again for visiting and commenting. 😀

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