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Lining up outside the Monaco

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Lining up outside the Monaco

Queues outside popular nightclubs often stretched down the street, and in the days before mobile phones provided a convenient meeting place for friends. The queue shown here is outside the Monaco in Auckland, which opened in 1963.

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Paradise Publications

Reference: John Dix, Stranded in paradise: New Zealand rock 'n' roll, 1955–1988. Wellington: Paradise Productions, 1988, p. 5

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Redmer Yska, Nightclubs – Loosening up, 1950s and 1960s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39165/lining-up-outside-the-monaco (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Redmer Yska, published 3 December 2012.