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b"Henry talks with Dorothy Nicol about her vintage dresses and gowns.\\nDorothy is 87 years old. She has lived her entire life in the small town of \\xa0Lismore which is located in Victoria Australia. She absolutely loves her hometown and she wanted to do something to help the town and the community when she retired.\\nDorothy says her hobby is living in the 20th century\\nDorothy has an amazing\\xa0collection\\xa0which includes thousands of 20th-century vintage dresses and gowns. She began collection many years ago and the collection grew so much, she needed more space! Henry and Dorothy talk about how she purchased a property\\xa0she had cherished since she was a young girl, and turned it into a small tourist attraction.\\xa0Sometimes Dorothy feels like she is unorganized because she has so many items! She admits she isn't like a boutique shop, she prefers the quaint, charming feeling of her store. She likes for people to come into her shop and be able to look around and touch the items. Touching most often is not allowed with vintage garments.\\nThere are a lot of fascinating stories that go along with vintage dresses and gowns\\nDorothy is very sentimental. You can hear her well up with emotion as she talks about these stores and the wonderful people she has met throughout the years.\\nHenry also takes a walk down memory lane with Dorothy as she reminisces about growing up in the town she loves so much. She began working at the age of 16 as a\\xa0telephonist which was a manual switchboard Operator. She held that same job until she married in 1950 and never worked anywhere else. If you have seen old movies where the operators are pulling plus, that is what Dorothy did!.\\nShe has never learned to use the computer and is full of nostalgia. She prefers a time when lives were a lot more uncomplicated and there was more of a community feeling.\\nThis post\\xa0about retirement and\\xa0Retirement Lifestyle first appeared on\\xa0http://RockYourRetirement.com"