Scarborough Beach
Popular surf beach with a beachfront strip once home to a legendary rock and roll dance floor.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Scarborough Beach in Perth follows the corner kiosk that Don and Rosina Errichetti bought in nineteen fifty three, and the jukebox that turned it from a quiet beachfront cafe into the city's rowdiest dance floor. You'll meet the self-appointed Pit Boss who kept the peace among the bodgies and widgies who flocked there, and hear how a young Johnny Young once played its courtyard. It's a story about a beach culture built on rock and roll, colored shoelaces, and a nickname nobody can quite explain.
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