The records of a Canberra life that no longer exists

Key points

• A writer has found old keepsakes from her youth in Canberra, including a 1994 Salt-N-Pepa concert ticket costing $46.90 at the Royal Theatre. The collection also includes a $4 Cosmopolitan Twin Cinemas ticket, a Ghetto shoe box, and a Triple Treat coupon from 2000 for bowling, swimming and a McDonald's burger at Tuggeranong.
• Later items include a card from the Insomnia nightclub.
• The writer says the items together record a Canberra that has largely disappeared, and a version of herself she had thought was gone.