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By Phil Jarratt

One-time Laguna House girl Una Johns remembers the halcyon years of Noosa Heads village.

“When did we decide we didn’t want to live on Hastings Street any longer? When couples started having sex on our front lawn!”

The wonderfully colourful Una Johns, once a Laguna House girl and a belle of Main Beach, tells it like it is, or was. That’s her style, has been since she came down from the hills at 15 with her sister Marie to work at Noosa’s poshest guesthouse, and at 86 she sees no reason to change.

This writer encountered the lady’s frank approach many years ago when the French were exploding nuclear bombs in the Pacific and I foolishly suggested in an allegedly humorous column that people…