Rough with a good heart

Bruce Hyland seems pretty browned off with the 50s (Peninsula News, October 2), but I found the 50s nice.

The culture was sweet and bland and the streets were clean and safe and exciting things were just around the corner.

We young blades used to drink wine, eat macaroni pie at Lorenzinis on Elizabeth St and then watch foreign movies at the Savoy.

The movies from Sweden, Japan, Italy, France and India gave new insight and a startling new direction on the screen and as art.

As a people in those times, Australians, despite a Depression and two World Wars, were still fairly innocent.

Even though on the surface we seem a bit crass, I agree with Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's comment that "Australians are a rough lot, but I believe they've got a good heart".

Letter, 3 Oct 2012

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy