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'Potch Queen' on a ute in the Wolseley Parade by Penny Rohleder

A man dressed as a woman in a 1988 street parade on Morilla Street in Lightning Ridge. Likely to be the 'Potch Queen', a humorous, annual competition for men, in opposition to the beautiful, sparkley Opal Queen, who is annually chosen from a colourful field of women to represent opal.

 

Note: Potch is opal without colour........

 

Then photo 1988 courtesy of Lightning Ridge Historical Society

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Uploaded on May 22, 2012
Taken on May 21, 2012