Comments on: Kay Linton-Mann (nee Sunners) remembers…

By: eddie goode

eddie goode — Wed, 16 May 2018 08:34:41 +0000

The first photo of the girls and Stuart Wagstaff , third from the right , was Susan Roll who then remarried to Eddie Goode (me). She passed away on the 15/5/2009 .

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:50:30 +0000

I have the original photo at home of the girls sitting on Stuart Wagstaff’s lap. I also remember Karen Pini winning the Australian Beach girl and she had an idiot boyfriend who tried to organise everything for her … next I knew she was posing for Playboy …. Great pix, thanks Kay.

By: Luise Borsje

Luise Borsje — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:36:19 +0000

How fabulous seeing all these memories…..we really were so lucky in having the best jobs in town, and working with the greatest people. With all the local content those days it was such a pleasure to be part of everything and the staff were always included.

By: Mahree Marrier

Mahree Marrier — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:47:35 +0000

I am trying to compile a history on the Miss West Coast Beach Girl competition but am finding it difficult to get any info (yes I even rang Ch 7 about it) … a case of then and where are they now and the rise and demise of this local bikini pageant. Roughly which month was the grand final held (March?)… I can recall watching heats on the beaches and the grand final at Beatty Park Pool. What was the youngest age one could enter in those days …. 16? 17? 18?

thank you for any info

By: Gloria Pearce

Gloria Pearce — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:00:13 +0000

Trying to get photos of semi Final Port Beach Miss West Coast that Karen Pini won with othetd. I was in it and would love to see photos

By: Alan Chadwick

Alan Chadwick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:47:54 +0000

I’m trying to date a similar photo to that of the “beer can” one above. Does anyone know the month/year?

Thanks

Alan C

By: Bret Treasure

Bret Treasure — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:31:48 +0000

I believe Russell Watkins is second from the left in the Karen Pini photograph. (Or the Greg Byrne photo if you prefer). Graeme Plummer advises that Russell worked at Channel 7 Sydney, then went to LA to represent the Nine Network and subsequently opened his own programm purchasing office. He’s now retired and lives in Pebble Beach.

By: Lyndell Carter

Lyndell Carter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:39:58 +0000

Kay I also remember the Miss West Coast recruitment days. Myself, and another girl, forgotten her name, and I think it was Peter Perron would go to the beaches in the mini moke and look for young pretty girls to enter the competition. We did this for many weekends. Peter was known to flick a bit of sand around as he parked the moke close to a pretty girl. I’m sure he had a licence, I think I was too young to ask. We always had lots of fun and laughs. Great days and memories.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:46:02 +0000

Marie van Maaren went to Melbourne to host The Early Bird Show in the late ’70s and ’80s for Channel 0/10. The show ended in 1989 (after it had been briefly re-titled ‘Club Ten’) but whatever happened to her after that..?