Australia How it Once Was
Part two in our weekend trip to "the other side" of planet Earth, as seen from Northern Europe
Please find the first instalment here:
In this second instalment, we’ll look at some of vintage picture postcards from “all over” Australia while the third (planned) instalment contains a wider variety of postcards.
As the 1956 Olympic Games took place in Melbourne, this postcard—and the ones below—hail from the late 1950s or early 1960s (although the reverse of the above postcard is another one of those examples of what I consider a “lost art”, if only because of the nice, cursive handwriting).
Here’s another one from Melbourne:
This view has changed a wee little bit, eh?
I, for one, think that cars looked better back then (this doesn’t imply they were “safer” or the like, I’m merely commenting on their aesthetics).
Crawley—or Matilda?—Bay, Perth
For whatever reasons, Google Maps directs me to “Matilda Bay”—can that be?
A Few More Postcards from the Same Series
I couldn’t reproduce the ± approximate point-of-view (due to development, bushes, and the limitations of Google Maps), but here’s a roughly similar view from 2017:
The two people enjoying the sunset are clearly doing something right!
More picture postcards coming your way “soon”, stay tuned!