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    JIM BENDRODT

    Jun 30, 2022 3 minutes

    This article was published: in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, 1993 online in 2006

    James Charles Bendrodt (1891-1973), roller-skater and restaurateur, was born on 26 June 1891 at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, son of James Peter Bendrodt, a Danish sea-captain, and his wife Emily Caroline Delphina, née Swanson. Having attended school at Vancouver, Jimmy worked his passage to Sydney as a stoker, arriving by 1910 with only £5. Dark, lithe and muscular, he claimed

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