G'day Sandra,

I really need to dig out a preserved Sydney Street Directory from before the reconstruction of roads to accommadate the Sydney Harbour Tunnel traffic ... but I think I can roughly work out the area from my current map:

First of all, my guess on the actual inner-Sydney suburb was wrong.Tracing out the old exit from the Harbour Bridge crossing, I suspect I used to come up Crown St from the Bridge's "Eastern Suburbs" outflow, turn left into Campbell St and then right into Bourke St ... and that would be Surry Hills! I only noticed the old sign if I was stopped at the Bourke St lights - as I was turning right, but the sign was on my left ... on the south side of a building on the western side of Bourke St, just south of Oxford St.

I was usually heading out to photograph some damage /emergency / accident / fatality within the Sydney Electricity system at the time ... and I never stopped to grab a photograph of the sign. I haven't driven through that particular route for decades - but I have been through the area on other paths, but never spotted the sign in recent decades ... It may be that the building is still there, but the sign has been painted over.

Joybell: The term "Push" ([~]German = putsch) was quite commonly used for the inner-city gangs of both Melbourne and Sydney ... and was just one of the 'German' words in their slang. Remember that Australia received hordes of (roughly) "Germanic" refugees from religious, economic and military persecution in what became Bismarck's "United Germany". The Push member's girlfriend was his "cliner" (German = kleiner) ... and as far back as the Gold Rushes of the 1850s/'60s, a mine that produced no gold was commonly called a "shicer" (German = scheiser)!

Regards,

Bob