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Milk-bar cowboys (2 o 2)

Milk-bar cowboys

Auckland motorcycle club members pose with a bike in the 1950s. Young people at the time modelled much of their appearance on Hollywood films. In New Zealand, young motorcyclists who parked their bikes outside milk bars were known as ‘milk-bar cowboys’.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Carl Walrond, 'Motorcycles - Customisation and production', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21806/milk-bar-cowboys (accessed 26 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010