I'm working on a book to record, preserve and commemorate the sometimes ephemeral, sometimes enduring, phenomenon of the named student flat in Dunedin.
LINKS
Community Archive listing
Exhibition
Facebook group
Flickr group
Google map
Posters and reprints
MEDIA
ODT article 02.05.09
Scooper article 23.06.09
Otago Bulletin article 04.09.09, p7
Nine to Noon interview 24.09.09
University of Otago Magazine article October 2009, p50
CONTACT
Sarah Gallagher
flatnames@gmail.com
Following
We’re now 952 members and more flats are being tagged everyday.
I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s stories about their named flats and hope new members are fillign in the survey! - Check out the links section on the FB group.
Hernando’s Hideaway, 25 Queens Street, has a terrific sign.
It owes it’s name to the club about which the song Hernando’s Hideaway was written by Adler and Ross for the musical The Pajama Game in 1953. The clip above shows Carol Haney (Gladys Hotchkiss) and John Raitt (Sid Sorokin) in 1957 film version of The Pajama Game (1957).
I know a dark secluded place.
A place where no one knows your face.
A glass of wine a fast embrace.
It’s called Hernando’s Hideaway ole!
All you see are silhouettes.
And all you hear are castanets.
And no one cares how late it gets.
Not at Hernando’s Hideaway ole!
:::Instrumental:::
At the golden fingerbowl or any place you go.
:::Instrumental:::
You’ll meet your uncle Max and everyone you know.
:::Instrumental:::
But if we go to the spot that I am thinking of
You will be free, to gaze at me, and talk of love.
Just knock three times and whisper low, that you and I were sent by Joe.
Then Strike a match and you will know your in Hernando’s Hideaway OLE!
:::Instrumental:::
I know a dark secluded place.
A place where no one knows your face.
A glass of wine a fast embrace.
It’s called Hernando’s Hideaway ole!
:::Instrumental:::
At the golden finger bowl or any place you go.
:::Instrumental:::
You’ll meet your Uncle Max and everyone you know.
:::Instrumental:::
But if we go to the spot that I am thinking of
You will be free, to gaze at me, and talk of love.
Just knock three times and whisper low, that you and I were sent by Joe.
Then Strike a match and you will know your in Hernando’s Hideaway OLE!
:::Instrumental:::
http://www.cowtv.co.nz/content/hyde-st-keg-race-2009
Cow TV coverage of the Hyde Street Keg party 2009 - checkout the dressed up flats.
… offerings are:
The Love Shack, The Manor, The Rash, The Hilton, The Box, Brucie’s Beenjamin’ Butchery, Chip off the Old Block, The Last Resort, 8 Mile, The Palace of Phallus, The Shire …
22 more tags added just this evening on the Facebook flat names group!
Today’s offerings so far are: Whaha, Pink Flat the Door, 27 Steps to Heaven, Da Flat, The Lodge, The Manor, The Palace of Phallus, Hotel California …
9.25pm, and there’s an other 9 tagged: The Hilton, The Kelpfish, The Lodge …
Exams are definitely over! Students are tagging photos on the Facebook flat names group left, right and centre!
Today’s offerings so far are: The Rock Bottom, Beehive, Chip off the Old Block, Wahaha, Pink Pussy, Thirsty Boys, Palace of Pallus, The … Flat (aka Salmon), and Jurassic Park.
Maybe it’s the end of exams at Otago … whatever the reason there’s been a flurry of tagging of photos on the Dunedin named student flats group on Facebook: The Manor, Moe’s, Kelpfish, Beaver Lodge, Beehive, Chip off the Old Block, Fairlie Lodge, Wahaha, The Wandering Penis, Barcelona, The Moat, and the flat with the most beautiful sign, Howe Street Golf Club.
While browsing some old editions of Home and Building via the NZETC, I came across a wonderful article about the Caxton Press.
This is relevant to the project for a couple of reasons: the project on named flats has it genesis in a print culture study, and therefore owes a great deal to the history and culture of print in New Zealand. Secondly, Baxter’s poem “A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting” was published at Caxton.
A Small Ode On Mixed Flatting. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, [1967]. Brasch PR 9641 B3 S5.
Of additional interest to me is mention of Caxton and other NZ presses preserving the craft of printing by continuing the work begun by William Morris at a time where in the UK, industrialisation of the printing industry was subsuming it’s craft history. ‘“I began printing books,” said Morris, “with the hope of producing something which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should not dazzle the eye or trouble the intellect …”
View the article here: The Caxton Press / Brian Bell, Home and Building, Vol 18 No.1 1955, p15f
caxton pree james K baxter small ode on mixed flatting special collections landfall william morris
http://www.cowtv.co.nz/content/instigator-investigator-02-philippa-(hyde-st-special).wmv
So this is a clip via CowTV of the Hyde Street keg party. I’m not 100% which year this was (2008?), however the big question (and one that I’m interested in teh answer to) posed to participating students is “what is the history of this event?” Generally the answer was drink related. No real surprises there.
A more probing question by Instigator Investigator was: “So this is pretty much a representation of what Dunedin is?”
Answer by random student. “Yep”.
Pretty much sums it up. More detail woud be good.
A story on ghetto flats in Dunedin directed by Justin Hawkes for New Zealand TV Show ‘Space’ way back in 2003.
It shows some pretty grotty flats, the important thing is that some of them are named; Hilton on Clyde and DSIR.
