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A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for Black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination.
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, is Australia's tenth largest city 82 km south of Sydney, in a part of the NSW South Coast known as the Illawarra. Usage note: In Australia, " suburbs " are the official postal subdivisions of a city.
Wollongong Entertainment Centre (also known by its naming rights sponsor WIN Entertainment Centre and colloquially as the WEC) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, located in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The WEC opened on 5 September 1998 with a concert by Bob Dylan and Patti Smith; 4,935 people attended the event.
City Diggers Wollongong (current main venue) The Folk Club draws its membership generally from the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It has presented the Illawarra Folk Festival at Jamberoo from 1985/86-2006 and at Bulli from 2007 to 2020, resuming in 2022.
Shellharbour Airport, formerly Illawarra Regional Airport, also referred as Albion Park Aerodrome [2] or Wollongong Airport, [3] (IATA: WOL, ICAO: YSHL) is an airport located in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia. The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society is located at the airport. [4]
The Municipality of North Illawarra was a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. [ 1 ] The shire was amalgamated with the then-City of Wollongong, Bulli Shire and Municipality of Central Illawarra to form Municipality of Greater Wollongong on 24 September 1947.
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Thirroul (/ θ ə r ʊ l /) is a northern seaside suburb of the city of Wollongong, Australia. Situated between Austinmer and Bulli, it is approximately 13 kilometres north of Wollongong, and 73 km south of Sydney. It lies between the Pacific Ocean and a section of the Illawarra escarpment known as Lady Fuller Park, adjacent to Bulli Pass ...