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yo…, yo…, you mean the precious native habitat of those little earless and legless lizards, the wonderful bushland… is really man made. It was never there. Wow, this opens up a Pandora’s box of interesting possibilities in the field of temporal mechanics… sorry, I mean this blows the Save The Ridge’s campaign away.

Look at O’Connor. No trees on the ridges!

Both NAA and ACT Heritage Library are part of http://www.pictureaustralia.org an aggregate site for images of Australia, including some flickr images.

December 1952, it says.

Indeed they did Soulman.

One little B+W must have been all the school had.
My memories are of just black and white blotches – little resembling actual pictures…

Other key memory of that event is the teachers constantly saying “Shhh”. I guess as 5y.o.s we didn’t get the import of the event.

The old man had a friend in PMG who worked in the Deakin Exchange and he sat with him listening in on all the transmissions between Honeysuckle and NASA.

As for now: we watch it live online on NASA TV and plugged into the big screen tele: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

That comment is also mine. Don’t know how, but even though I though I logged on properly at the National Library, my username is coming up wrong on posts.
I’m now using my laptop.

“Red Hill Primary in 69 (watched Armstrong step on moon there”

According to someone I know who went there, they bundled you all (or at least many classes) into the hall to watch it on a dinky B&W tv in the corner. Next time they walk on the moon, we’ll all see it on our big screen TVs as a CNN embeded reporter commentates. How far we’ve come.

I reckon this image of Lonsdale St is pretty eerie.

The building under construction is Bonner House. You can see Mawson and the Swinger Hill shops in the background. Construction of the Southern Cross Club, which was operating in 1972, has not yet commenced.

ala brand depot of 70’s… large(ish) shopping centre built in the middle of nowhere.