I can recommend The State Library's "til you drop shopping" exhibition. not sure that it's a major step forward in scholarship on the city, or even that revealing, but delightful all the same for the ephemera - ration cards, old shopping bags, the plans of a Bourke Street retail palace now-demolished - and for the pictures of old shops and lots of cool 1950s and 60s era dresses.

I took my Dad, who used to work at Myer (in the offices, not on the floor) and got a few memories from him as well; take an older relative to this show and the stories will flow....