Glorious Oz
And here comes a third instalment--enjoy!
Please find the first two “chapters” in this series here:
And now we shall explore some of the other picture postcards in the Erich Sonntag Postcard Collection.
Shown is the General Post Office in Victoria Square, Adelaide, Australia. As the below image from Google Maps shows, much has changed, with both the “skyline” in the background and the concrete desert in front of it being the two most obvious ones. Sadly, Victoria Square was greener fifty years ago than it is now.
Greetings from Sydney—including the “Overseas Terminal” and, most notably, the absence of the Opera House (whose construction commenced in 1959).
Yes, I understand that Australia is so much “more” than its main cities (and, after having spoken to quite a few Aussies, Canberra doesn’t qualify for that moniker).
Below, the western Australian city of Perth is shown on this undated postcard.
And, since it’s late summer, we may as well conclude, for the time being, this trip to Australia by enjoying a picture postcard trip to the Northern Beaches, Sydney.
We shall now travel elsewhere before too long—stay tuned!
It was over a century that the penal colonies in America were shuttered from the Crown exporting all undesirables. The backup plan was OZ. Now even that is too overpopulated for them. The plan always to put their undesirables down, humanely of course. Enoble their deaths in wars, create famines, roll out drugs, but put them down.
OZ is ripe for revolt and should have ditched the Crown and redistribution of wealth a long time ago. Postcards only tell a travelers tale.
Well, that’s disheartening. Victoria Square was a beautiful place.
My first reaction was, Why would they do that?!? But concrete is cheaper than a gardener, and that beautiful garden would have taken a full time crew. What a shame
I do love the Sydney Harbour Bridge