Twenty Ways to Love Your City - Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

Colloquial expressions, folklore and other nonsense relating to Sydneysiders and the Emerald City. This episode is part of the 'Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey' series.
Sydney abounds with curious history. Some stories are known and many have disappeared over time. Cultural historian and storyteller Warren Fahey has created a dozen video stories of the city's past; each offering a unique slice of Sydney’s hidden history.
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Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey features footage from the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. It was created with assistance from the City of Sydney Creative Fellowships Fund and support of The Vine Foundation. The grants were under the auspice of the Folk Federation of New South Wales.
TWENTY WAYS TO LOVE YOUR CITY
- The curious story of Sydney’s colloquial slanguage.
Synopsis
What is a Sydneysider?
We come from all points north, south, east and west. We celebrate our great ‘stew pot’ of over 250 ethnic and cultural groups and our main languages are English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic, Greek, Vietnamese and Slanguage. And we love to ‘take the piss out of ourselves’ - and others. This program takes a folklorist’s view of Sydney and its inhabitants. Warren Fahey has been collecting Sydney folklore for over fifty years.
Easties live in the east - Double Pay, Bellejew Hill, Nose Bay, Bondi Junkland, The Bra, Slurry Hills, Darling-it-hurts, The ‘Loo, Betty Bay, Poof’s Point, and it’s naughty little sister, Kink’s Cross. Others prefer to be southies in ‘god’s own’ - The Shire - surf at Cronullfornina or travel the BBQ belt along Transylvania Waters.
For some the inner west is home sweet home - Hippendale, Zootown, Marrickvile, Cankerberry, Trashfield and out to Stratty and Lebkemba. Take a right wrong turn and you end up headed for Effing and the Hills District: Baulkham Hillsong up to Pimple.
Or you could head north to Mordor (anywhere over the bridge) to the North Snore, up the Wanker’s Parkway, through Chatswoo, and right up the Bilgola Bends to the Insular Peninsula Narra and Palmie.
Then there’s the west, home of the famous westies although no one seems to know where the west starts or ends…- Directions - take the Middle Eastern Distributor past suburbs like Scramperdown, Hashfield, Burwoo, Vietnamatta (Stabramatta) and further afield to Gangstown, Scarrytown, Scrambletown and, as many of us know, the ‘other city’ - Parra Does’n’t-Matta..
Wherever you live - as several people have observed - including Norm Erskine and Paul Keating - “If you’re not living in Sydney - you’re camping out!”
One thing’s for sure - we love slanguage and our colourful colloquial expressions.

[@marknelson5929]

Terrific stuff! Most interesting as all your films are. I have a feeling the gent in the white jacket and silver hair eating a pie at 1:52 into the film is Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Chicken! He passed away in 1980 which would make the pic taken in the 70s judging by the dresses in the background. He clearly made a trip down under... wonder what he thought of the famous Harry's Cafe De-Wheels pie and peas?

[@lynettekomidar2819]

Tanneries at Woolloomooloo!

[@lynettekomidar2819]

good one Warren