In 2017, Know Your Nation put a callout to former and current York residents to share their recollections of growing up and living in York. 24 people volunteered their stories for the exhibition York Conversations which was presented at the 2017 York Festival.
On a Saturday night you might get into York. You’d come in with 10 bob, buy a packet of smokes, have a couple of beers, go to the dance, and go home with a bit of change in your pocket. The dances were mostly at the Masonic Hall but there were always dances at Talbot, Quellington and around the district. There’d be a fight or two, mostly over some girl or something, but not much larrikinism.