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Story: Men and women in the city

Street flirtation

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Street flirtation

Two passers-by capture each other’s eye on a city street in 1999. Such flirtation can be an affirmative, if usually fleeting, feature of city life.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1999/3934/11

by Maarten Holl

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Caroline Daley, Men and women in the city – Nights, sex and love, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24621/street-flirtation (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Caroline Daley, published 17 December 2009.