This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Economic history - great boom 1935-1966 (Te Ara)
- Teenagers and youth ; City styles; Rock 'n' Roll youth club (Te Ara)
- The Parker-Hulme case (Christchurch City Libraries)
Books
- Stephen Barnett (compiler), Those were the days: a nostalgic look at the 1950s from the pages of The Weekly News, MOA Publications, Auckland 1989
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
- Redmer Yska, All shook up: the flash bodgie and the rise of the New Zealand teenager in the fifties, Auckland, 1993
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