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Emu Park Just a scenic 20 kilometer drive along the coast from Yeppoon, Emu Park is a peaceful coastal village. Once an exclusive beach resort at the turn of the 20th century, Emu Park is an idyllic seaside village with plenty of character. Emu Park is home to the famous Singing Ship sculpture. Set against a spectacular coastal vista, the majestic monument commemorates the area’s legacy of the historical explorations of Captain James Cook. A gentle sea breeze produces a musical sound through fluted pipes that will be long remembered. Source: www.visitcapricorn.com.au/service/emu-park

Emu Park, reflecting on its past, formed a history society and opened a museum in 1984 in a building that had been the Mount Chalmers police station and the Yeppoon courthouse. The town is located in the lee of low Emu Point, with attractive beaches on either side. The two main surfing beaches immediately south of Emu Point were called Ladies and Men's Beaches. The small Ladies Beach still goes by that name, while Men's is better known today as Emu Park and is the site of the surf lifesaving club. The main surfing beach is Emu Park beach, located on the south side of the point. The main surfing beach is Emu Park beach, located on the south side of the point, and offering a usually low beach break. A lifesaving reel was placed on the beach in 1917 and the Emu Park Surf Life Saving Club was founded in 1925. The modern clubhouse is located at the northern end of the beach and is fronted by a seawall. It is surrounded by extensive grassy foreshore reserves and parking areas. The reserve runs the full length of the beach, with houses set well back from the shore. Source: www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/files/qld-tropical/emu-pa...

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Down on the sands at Emu Park, Strolling along the beach: Watching the tide as it ebbs and flows, As far as the eye can reach. Watching the sea-gulls gliding by, Over the briny foam, Therewith the girl that I love best, That's where I love to roam. CHORUS Why sing of Mississippi And my old Kentucky home, And places far away from us Where lovers often Roam. Just give me the girl I love, The gum and ironbark, And a cozy corner on the beach Down at Emu Park. VERSE 2 Down on the sands at Emu Park, Happy and light and gay; Building the castle of life's long dream, And while the time away. Watching the breakers rolling in Out on the deep blue sea. Tasting the sweets of life untold, My little girl and me. VERSE 3 Down on the sands of Emu Park, There on the beach at night: Watching the silvery moonbeams rare, That shine with such radiance bright. Far, far away from city life, Joys fairer none could be; Therewith the girl, I desire, Down near the deep blue sea.

The song ‘Our Boys at the Front was composed ca 1918 by Queenslander M. Egan Mulry (1863–1934); this was dedicated to Lady Goold-Adams, the wife of Queensland’s governor. Source: www.miegunyah.org/pdf_files/2016%20Significance%20Assessm.

Fred Whaite - Composer, librettist, music director, musician. The son of Harry Whaite, one of Australia's leading scenic artists during the late 1890s and early twentieth century, Fred Whaite established himself in the Australian variety industry as a music director and composer. He studied piano as a youth under Henri Kowalski and gained his orchestral training with Gustave Slapoffski. Showing an early liking for operatic composition, he was encouraged and assisted by J. C. Williamson's music director Andrew MacCunn and Thomas A. Ricketts. Two of his earliest compositions to be published were 'The Coronation: Grand Galop de Concert' (1907) and 'Golden Wattle Schottische' (ca. 1909). Between 1906 and 1909 Whaite was largely associated with the British Pianoforte Depot in Sydney, being engaged as the society's pianist for its series of regular Apollo recitals. Although much of Whaite's career during the remainder of the 1920s is still to be determined, it is believed that he remained with the Fullers until 1929, at which time he joined the ABC as a music arranger and performer. Between 1930 and 1934, for example, he regularly appeared as a novelty pianist on Sydney stations 2FC and 2BL, with these often being relayed around the country on the ABC network. The 1930s also write and direct the music for a number of radio dramas - notably The Tin Soldier (1931, musical comedy) and Waratah (1931, pantomime) - as well as leading his own radio vaudeville company and orchestra. In addition to this, he collaborated (as composer) on the Clipper and Brown comedy detective radio series with author John 'Jock' Macleod. Fred Whaite remained with the ABC until his retirement in 1962. He died in 1964. Known to have written countless songs throughout his career, at least twenty-five songs are known to have been published, including 'Rose of My Dreams' (1924), 'My Wollondilly Home' (1925, with John Moore), 'Into the Barrel' (1940, which he dedicated to the Red Cross), 'In-doo-roo-pilly' (1940, with Billy Maloney), 'I'm Cutting up the Rainbow' (ca. 1947), and 'The Little Green Wood' (1953, with John Wheeler). Whaite also reportedly wrote two radio plays in collaboration with S. D. Douglas - Kabula Love Song and Moon. Source: www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A112240

Bohemia Theatre and Stadium This opened in March 1923 as a live theatre venue with a performance of ‘Mr. Rawdon Blandford’s ‘Classics of 1923’’. By the end of the decade, the theatre was struggling in the face of the thriving cinema industry, and during the 1930s the lease was held by Greater Brisbane Amusement, whose policy was not to compete with the neighboring Cremorne Theatre. The Bohemia was then predominantly used as a wrestling and boxing venue known as ‘Bohemia Stadium’. The last bouts appear to have taken place there in April 1940. In 1947 it was taken over by the Brisbane City Council and leased out for use as a depot and store before being demolished in 1954 to make way for a car park fronting Stanley and Grey streets. Source: mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/history-location/bohemia-th...