Is this the Rose Garden. Found in unidentified slides from a trip around the NT in 1966. A roller skating rink is visible. If not the Rose Garden, where is it? Laichikok Amusement Park perhaps? IDJ <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1966
Its amazing that the rain storm water could be so deep at this point as the seawall was nearby berthing the Walla-Wallas. You would expect it to quickly run off into the sea. The Mandarin Hotel is in the background and the adjacent pedestrian underpass was flooded to its roof. IDJ <Read more ...>
Daimaru in the 1960s used to sell a Japanese brand of whiskey whose label proclaimed that it had been "Matured in the cellars of Buckingham Palace". I took a few of those back to the UK as presents over the years. IDJ <Read more ...>
