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Description: 1) High jinks on new year's eve in the early days.
It was a New Year's Eve in Levin in the early days when 100 peopele was a big crowd for the town. On the Post Office side of the street was Dick Butt's butchery business, a wheelwright's shop and W.M. Clark's drapery. There was an alleyway between the shops. All the young people were in the streets with the same high spirits as the night demands today.
2) Levin "Buys" train.
Levin made railways history in 1930 when the proprieters of the De Luxe Theatre (now the Regent) decided to "buy" a train to bring patrons from as far north as Palmerston North to see the talking "Broadway Melody." Levin got the picture when it was still screening in the main metropolitan theatres.
3) Groceries tendered for theatre in naming of town streets.
Patrons attending a matinee performance of "Girl Crazy", a musical comedy with Wheeler and Woolsey as the chief fun makers, paid for their entrance to the Regent Theatre in Levin by tendering a parcel of groceries.
4) First Mayor overlooked in naming of town streets.
Early indentities, counties in distant England, wartime leaders of Allied countries and forces, and a past mayor or two are recorded for the posterity in the borough of Levin. But residents today can search in vain, as the writer did, for the name of Gardener above any street in Levin.