1970s: Katie Williams of Cronulla was crowned Miss Southern Suburbs in the 1972 Miss Australia Quest.
However, the coveted Miss Australia crown eluded the shire girl, with the title being won by Gay Walker.
The contest, which was conducted for 45 years by the Spastic Centre, later renamed the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, was one of the nation's longest-running and most successful charity events.
In 1992, the name was changed to the Miss Australia Awards "to reflect more closely the attitudes, achievements and aspirations of young Australian womanhood".
Men entered the Miss Australia Awards in 1993.
The event came to an end in 2000.
1960s: Cronulla RSL Club's new bowling green overlooking the beach and Cronulla Park was constructed in 1961.
A crane lifted concrete columns and beams into place to support the green, consisting of seven inches (nearly 18 centimetres) of topsoil on top of aggregate filling.
1980s: A 13-year-old schoolgirl was injured when she jumped from a moving train at Rockdale in 1980 because she was afraid she would be late home.
In those days, the old "red rattler" trains did not have automatic closing doors.
Passengers would often leave doors open, particularly in hot weather.
Caroline Freeman boarded a train at Hurstville that did not stop at Rockdale, where she wanted to get off.
In a panic, she leapt from the train on to the tracks.
The following day, Caroline was reported to be recovering in St George Hospital from head injuries, shock and severe cuts and bruises.
1990s: The Shark Island Challenge, possibly the top event in world bodyboarding, started at Cronulla in 1997 as a competition among local surfers.
After gaining increasing attention in following years, it became an international world tour event in 2002.
1990s: Video stores were a gold mine for many years, but they are few and far between these days.
In February, 1990, there were long queues at Video Ezy in Hurstville during a spell of wet weather.
2000s: As summer approached in 2004, Rockdale Council said there would be a lot more sand along Lady Robinson's Beach following good progress in a $8.5 million remediation project.
A dredging operation, coupled with the construction of five more rock groynes, had restored much of the beachfront between Monterey and Brighton-Le-Sands, which was lost by erosion due to building of the airport runways.
Bill Woodcock, Rockdale City Council's manager technical services, said there would be "a heck of a lot more beach this summer".
Completed areas would have a 10-20 metres wide beach at high tide, compared with a situation where waves pounded long sections of the seawall.
Mr Woodcock said that when the project was finished between March and May 2005, people would be able to walk along the sand from Sans Souci to Cooks River.
"The seawall, which was built in 1934 as a labour-creation project during the Depression, was close to collapse when work started," he said.
In an earlier operation, the council restored the beachfront from Georges River Sailing Club to Ramsgate.
