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Trocadero Building and Investment Company business and legal records, correspondence and photographs relating to the purchase and sale of the Trocadero, 1960-1970, and Ezra Norton’s house at Vaucluse, 1956-1970
Call numbers
MLMSS 8334
Record identifier
Yold3Ay9
Record permalink
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold3Ay9
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Trocadero Building and Investment Company business and legal records, correspondence and photographs relating to the purchase and sale of the Trocadero, 1960-1970, and Ezra Norton’s house at Vaucluse, 1956-1970
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Trocadero Building and Investment Company business and legal records, correspondence and photographs relating to the purchase and sale of the Trocadero, 1960-1970, and Ezra Norton’s house at Vaucluse, 1956-1970
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1956-1970
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8334
Record Identifier
Formats
— Physical Description
Contents
1.7 metres of textual material (6 boxes)
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed : Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Subjects
More information
— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
Includes records relating to the Trocadero Night Club.
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Trocadero Building and Investment Company business and legal records, correspondence and photographs relating to the purchase and sale of the Trocadero, 1960-1970, and Ezra Norton’s house at Vaucluse, 1956-1970
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
— NOTES
Description source
Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2011-2012
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999
Administrative / Biographical history
Ezra Norton (1897-1967), newspaper proprietor. He established the Trocadero nightclub in George Street in 1936, and was Managing Director of the Trocadero Building and Investment Company Pty. On 11 June 1953, Norton had married Emma Georgina ('Peggy') Morrison, his 38-year-old secretary. They lived at Carmel, Albert Street, Woollahra. Having sold Carmel, he built a house at Vaucluse, with an Olympic-sized, salt-water swimming-pool.
The Trocadero Ballroom opened on 3 April 1936, on the western side of George Street, south of Bathurst Street. It was designed by the architects Robertson and Marks, in the Art Deco style, and operated as a site of dances, charity functions, debutante balls, receptions, gala parties, radio broadcasts and pageants until 1970. The entrepreneur Jim Bendrodt, who oversaw its creation, advertised it as a 'large Palais /Restaurant'. It closed on 5 February 1971, and was eventually demolished to make way for the new Hoyts Theatre complex.
References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au (viewed 15 March 2012)
Dictionary of Sydney. http://dictionaryofsydney.org (viewed 15 March 2012)...
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8334
Record Identifier
Yold3Ay9
Permalink
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yold3Ay9
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
403360
