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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Every loving outer suburb looked like this no matter which city this is so much better than this hell 
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spaceblancmange posted:this is so much better than this hell You're not wrong. With some basic changes that looks like half of north America
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spaceblancmange posted:this is so much better than this hell I'm surprised the streets are straight and not that windy cul-de-sac bullshit
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Jan 12, 2023 03:52
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Australia has been making some improvements to the decor though
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Outrail posted:You're not wrong. With some basic changes that looks like half of north America The roads are too straight and there aren't enough weird walls surrounding the whole thing.
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Jan 12, 2023 03:58
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webmeister posted:Yeah 100%, there's some great looking buildings in there alongside a cavalcade of poo poo. I'm a big sucker for Federation-style housing, when they're well maintained they're just beautiful, although a bit of a pain to live in (small rooms, impractical layouts and so on). Yeah, I walk through a lot because my main job is there, I particularly like Bulwara Rd, especially when you get around the Lord Wolsely, there's definitely a community vibe there. Inceltown posted:I'm surprised the streets are straight and not that windy cul-de-sac bullshit Can't stuff as many houses into windy cul-de-sac bullshit.
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Inceltown posted:Australia has been making some improvements to the decor though 🫡
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Jan 12, 2023 04:13
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Pinny arcade, George St Haymarket, Sydney. 80s ish? One of many trams that got away on the steep ascent to Athol Wharf below Taronga Zoo.  There are so many Railway Hotels that I cannot put a location or time on this picture, but would say it's the south end of Queensland in the 70s.  Unknown, just a fantastic picture.  "Could have been worse" after Cyclone Tracy, Darwin, Christmas 1974 
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Jan 12, 2023 04:18
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My cousin was named after that cyclone. You shouldn't name people after cyclones, it's just tempting fate.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Yeah, I walk through a lot because my main job is there, I particularly like Bulwara Rd, especially when you get around the Lord Wolsely, there's definitely a community vibe there. Hah, I worked basically opposite the Lord Wolsely for a few years in the early 2010s (ironically just after I'd moved out of Pyrmont), and it's a cool little spot down there as well assuming you stay away from Harris Street. I lived mainly in the point area, north of Union Street which was super quiet - no real reason to go there unless you lived there (or it was NYE).
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Jan 12, 2023 04:38
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Funky See Funky Do posted:My cousin was named after that cyclone. You shouldn't name people after cyclones, it's just tempting fate. So you've heard this a lot? 
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Jan 12, 2023 04:39
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Not as often as she did.
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Jan 12, 2023 05:04
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I lived in Highgate Hill in 1990 and had no idea it ever had a train line. It's being "reimagined" now, but parts of the original Goods Line were still in place until a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goods_Line#/media/File:The_Goods_Line_November_2016.jpg
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Jan 12, 2023 05:08
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Bloody nice photos, appreciate the little write ups
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Old Como rail bridge. South of Sydney, NSW. Opening in 1885, duplication of the lines eventually lead to "...The tracks across the bridge were altered into a single gauntlet track, which enabled trains to cross in either direction without points" in 1894. The bridge was decommissioned when a new bridge was opened in 1972, it reopened and a cycleway in 1985.  A derailment of car carriers writes off several brand new Holdens, dropping them from a birdge over Menangle Rd and the Nepean River near Menangle, southwest of Sydney, Mid 70's  A shipment of brand new late 70's Fords, however, travels without incident. (location unknown)  Alfred Street, Milsons Point, nearing the end of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (approx 1930)  Tram control box, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.1950's 
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gently caress it, I am enjoying this so I'll keep blowing up this thread with mildly interesting images Afteramath view of the previously posted Paddington tram depot fire in Brisbane.  Ford Factory Lot, Geelong, Vic, 1970. 105,785 XW Falcons were built, 12,513 ZC Fairlanes.  Punt Rd, Richmond, Dec 12, 1962. Multiple water spouts formed over Port Phillip bay during one of the many powerful storms that hit the city on the day. A few of the spouts made landfall and bought with them cloudbursts of saltwater rain, flash flooding multiple suburbs.  A burnt-out and ransacked '62 Valiant surrounded by crumbling derelict buildings in Pyrmont, Sydney. 70's/80's  A boat being bombarded with giant hailstones in Rose Bay, Sydney, Jan 1, 1947. "...over 5000 roofs were damaged in Waverley by the lumps of hail which weighed up to 1.8 kg", beachgoers were pelted with stones the size of cricket balls in Bondi, the storm was the most severe in Sydney's history since records began in 1791. The incident was not matched until the 1999 storm. 
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Tooheys "The Standard" Brewery, Elizabeth Street, Sydney. (Unsure of time, but probably 30-40s) The second brewery Tooheys established after their Darling Harbour site (Built in 1860) was deemed too small to meet rising demand, photo shows the building after expansion and art-deco revamp of the original 1875 architecture. The current brewery was established in Lidcombe in 1955.  Looking east along Parramatta Rd at Taverners Hill from Lewisham (Near the pub) approx 1973. Millers Brewing was established in 1942, was purchased by Tooheys in 1968 but ceased brewing operations in 1975. The building has since been owned by Kennards and functions as a self-storage warehouse and remains a giant, bright orange landmark you can see from a considerable distance.  Looking west along Parramatta Rd on Taverners Hill from Leichhardt, post 1975 purchase of Millers Brewery by Tooheys.  Pyrmont Bridge, Darling Harbour, approx 1980. Still functioning as a main road before substantial rezoning of the area.  Milsons Point Tram Platform, Mid/Late 50's. The bridge was built to have trains running along the west side, trams running along the east side, and road vehicles between them. The platform was demolished in 1958 and the tracks lifted and the way converted to widen the roadway. Decommissioning the Sydney tram system still remains known as 'The greatest transport bungle in Sydney's history...'  1976 Ford Fairlane LTD P6 fastback concept. Considered for a continuation of the Ford Landau, a "luxury" coupe version of the early/mid 70s Falcons. It never eventuated, leaving the 1385 Landaus produced between 1973 and 1976 to be one of the rarest unique Fords Australia produced that wasn't a repackaged standard model. 
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:
Was it a car audio place (maybe Strathfield car radios?) in the 90s? Always quite a landmark.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Unknown, just a fantastic picture. Solid mad max poo poo on the first one there. Apparently, my dad knows a guy who saw someone get lopped in half by a sheet of corrugated iron during Cyclone Tracy. But I suspect about half the posters in this thread know a guy who knows a guy who saw something like that happen 
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Was in Woolies and they're playing Blue Sky Mine in there as you shop. Not sure I want that much Peter Garrett that early in the morning, but I very much appreciate them playing a protest song about asbestos mines in WA as supermarket muzak.
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Outrail posted:Apparently, my dad knows a guy who saw someone get lopped in half by a sheet of corrugated iron during Cyclone Tracy. But I suspect about half the posters in this thread know a guy who knows a guy who saw something like that happen Sounds like one of those stories. I have read the report on the victims of Tracy and the cause of death, can't remember if there was anything significant that could be interpreted as that particular incident, most deaths were a result of blood loss, organ damage or crush asphyxiation. Might do a dump of Tracy pics later. Chrpno posted:Was in Woolies and they're playing Blue Sky Mine in there as you shop. Not sure I want that much Peter Garrett that early in the morning, but I very much appreciate them playing a protest song about asbestos mines in WA as supermarket muzak. Based on Wittenoom, WA. The town has been deregistered and only recently the last few inhabitants were made to leave. The area is still contaminated with blue asbestos tailings. Back in its day, the sheer ignorance to the danger was insane. Pic: Unprotected workers shovel loose tailings into drums 
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:
Top marks to the Oils for getting such a subject into the charts all around the world. Hopefully it helped the cause. I'm quite fascinated by Wittenoom, how a town can be literally erased off the map. I guess there's others, Cribb Island in Brisbane for one. My father said once he went to visit the rels in Kyogle, some of whom worked at the nearby asbestos mine, and they had a head-sized lump of blue asbestos on the dining room table, just to pass around and have a look at. 
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Pic: Unprotected workers shovel loose tailings into drums whoof i started coughing just looking at this. asbestos doesn't gently caress around, it's gotten two of my friend's parents who were old tradies that only started properly protecting against it way too late
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Looking east along Parramatta Rd at Taverners Hill from Lewisham (Near the pub) approx 1973. Mad Barrys is gone but Tooheys lives on
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What hits me is not much the differences but just the same everything looks besides the car models. 50 years later and that bit of Parramatta Road is still a lovely bit of strode where small businesses go to die.
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Chrpno posted:I'm quite fascinated by Wittenoom, how a town can be literally erased off the map. I guess there's others, Cribb Island in Brisbane for one. Sounds like what happened in Falston, NT
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Funky See Funky Do posted:What hits me is not much the differences but just the same everything looks besides the car models. Not a lot can be done with a dead zone like that, development was never going to be worth it. Chrpno posted:I'm quite fascinated by Wittenoom, how a town can be literally erased off the map. I guess there's others, Cribb Island in Brisbane for one. Look up the Christchurch Red Zones, whole neighborhoods were deemed uninhabitable after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.  There's also depression-era shantytown suburbs that no longer exist like Happy Valley in La Perouse  And some that became attractions like the huts at Crater Cove in Balgowlah heights.  And the hidden beach shacks on the coast in the Royal National Park near Helensburgh  Not to mention a number of villages and homesteads that were abandoned or disappeared above the Goyder Line in South Australia. 
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One day I gotta do an effort post on how the ACT got it's shape
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Not to mention a number of villages and homesteads that were abandoned or disappeared above the Goyder Line in South Australia. This house is still there and doesn’t look much different - I drove past about 18 months ago. It’s just off the Barrier Highway north of Burra in SA It’s on private land though so you can’t get that close to it, unfortunately
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webmeister posted:This house is still there and doesn’t look much different - I drove past about 18 months ago. It’s just off the Barrier Highway north of Burra in SA Just as well there's like a dozen identical ones in the region.
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Darwin CBD, post-Tracy, probably 25th Dec 1974 Fort Macquarie Tram Depot, Bennelong Point, Sydney Harbor. Served from 1902 to 1955. Demolished for some reason to build something else.  A HQ Holden, one of the number of wrecks recovered from the Derwent River when a span of the Tasman Bridge collapsed after it was hit by the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra. Jan 1975  Regent Theatre, 487-503 George Street Sydney, Jul 1980. Built in 1928, demolished in 1988, the site remained undeveloped until 2004 because Sydney is a loving idiot. 
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Darwin CBD, post-Tracy, probably 25th Dec 1974 When I first went to Darwin 10 years ago, I stayed in a 10-story hotel on the esplanade. Had a look at the plaque and it said "opened in 1968". I was like "whaaa? Surely all of Darwin was flattened by Tracy, how is possible??"
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Chrpno posted:When I first went to Darwin 10 years ago, I stayed in a 10-story hotel on the esplanade. Had a look at the plaque and it said "opened in 1968". I was like "whaaa? Surely all of Darwin was flattened by Tracy, how is possible??" Tracy flattened the northern suburbs and made a majority of houses uninhabitable across the city. Commercial buildings fared better, but nothing went without damage.      
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     Many survived by hanging the gently caress on to their toilets...
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For nearly two days, the survivors had to fend for themselves with no utilities, what clothes they had left and what water and food they could muster that wasn't contaminated or rotting in the tropical summer.  Most were evacuated within the next few days on commercial and army planes, mostly the vulnerable, able men and certain vital staff were left to aid in the cleanup, reuniting with families months later. Many who left never returned.  
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Somehow less than 100 people died. Here is the final path of cyclone Ellie. It only managed to be declared a cat 1 cyclone for a few hours and just dumped rain for 3 weeks over land.
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spaceblancmange posted:Somehow less than 100 people died. There's long-standing debate on the true number of people who died. Mostly because there were many indigenous folk who would flow in and out of the area, as well as undocumented transients (Mostly hippies and Vietnam vets). I can't imagine it would be much higher than the official number, though. Ellie was a weird one, remained cyclonic for almost two weeks inland. I don't know if that's something that has happened before. EDIT: Turns out it could have been MUCH higher because of a situation during the evacuation process, according to one story of a survivor who had her two young sons evacuated with her mother. A Hercules had loaded up with a few hundred evacuees, and about an hour into the flight the plane was struck by lightning, frying the instruments, though the plan could still be controlled and fly. The pilot made the decision to turn back for Darwin, but flew somewhat off course because of thick cloud cover and then darkness, they couldn't find Darwin because there was no electricity to light the runway, and they couldn't radio the Airport at Katherine for directions. The locals had heard the plane fly back and forth, and soon realised the plane might be lost or in trouble in the dark, so they lit the runway with car headlights. Low on fuel, they landed safely in Darwin. Much to the chagrin of the evacuees who, for the most part, had fallen asleep through the whole ordeal. The plane was repaired enough to fly out again the following day. Maximum Sexy Pigeon fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jan 14, 2023 |
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This might also explain why more people hadn't perished. Note: There are some distressing moments in this. quote:It occurred to us that we also should check on the condition of our friends' house in the next suburb, in case we could salvage some of their belongings. We had no doubt that their house would be badly damaged, being in the hardest hit northern suburbs, but we did not expect to see what we did. Without any landmarks to orientate us it was difficult to find our way to where their house had once been. The whole area had completely changed so you got lost.
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