Old Adelaide

[wristwatcher]

gah, Keefy you just beat me to it! This was my Saturday skate hangout

Saw this on Pag's Facebook page last night. Great stuff

[Keefy]

[wristwatcher]

There used to be one across the road as well.

[Footy Chick]

that one closed (and Tilt opened in it's place I think..correct me if i'm wrong) to open this one, then this one closed down to open the one down the road,which is also now closed

[Keefy]

[Footy Chick]

I did figure skating on Saturdays after the morning skate, I still have one of my badges which I found when I moved house

[Dogwatcher]

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Boys leaping from diving boards at the Adelaide City Baths swimming pool in January 1956.

What, no life guards saying one at a time.
Was this sit abandoned because they built the aquatic centre in North Adelaide or was it because they wanted the site for the festival centre.

I would have done that jump a few times about then.
My first formal swimming lessons occurred there in a primary school group in about 1954.

IIRC correctly the place was getting a bit run down and in need of a lot of maintenance and it was decided to build the new pool instead, but alternative uses for the old site were possibly already in mind. I never did go to the new pool.

One of my memories of the old pool was meeting a well known 20-something stripper/dancer there when I was about 16, and applying her sun tan lotion.

[Dogwatcher]

well here is the dreaded britannia roundabout

Bully, it looks like there were two roundabouts there?
The new set-up wasn't as innovative as has been spruiked, if that's the case.

[Dogwatcher]

well here is the dreaded britannia roundabout

shows how we've come full circle, so to speak... we've recently gone back to this set up.

some wanker traffic engineer was probably paid big $$$$$ to come up with the solution too

The story is that having given up on paying consultants to come up with a solution, staff at the transport department were asked to come up with something. A regular staff member, your everyday, garden-variety public servant, came up with the idea of two roundabouts, surprising everyone with its simplicity. And...it worked.

[Dogwatcher]

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Oh, kinky *David Brent voice*

[Dogwatcher]

I saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade there, as part of a Holden staff party with my uncle.

[Footy Chick]

same same, but not with holdens

[Dogwatcher]

same same, but not with holdens

How did you know my uncle?

[RustyCage]

Flinders St, Earl of Zetland Hotel, 1875

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[RustyCage]

King William St, 1880. Notice the clock is yet to be installed in the town hall

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[RustyCage]

Corner of Rundle and King William, 1880

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[Mr Beefy]

Adelaide City Baths.jpg

Boys leaping from diving boards at the Adelaide City Baths swimming pool in January 1956.

What, no life guards saying one at a time.
Was this sit abandoned because they built the aquatic centre in North Adelaide or was it because they wanted the site for the festival centre.

I would have done that jump a few times about then.
My first formal swimming lessons occurred there in a primary school group in about 1954.

IIRC correctly the place was getting a bit run down and in need of a lot of maintenance and it was decided to build the new pool instead, but alternative uses for the old site were possibly already in mind. I never did go to the new pool.

One of my memories of the old pool was meeting a well known 20-something stripper/dancer there when I was about 16, and applying her sun tan lotion.

Did ya give her one?

[RustyCage]

West Lakes, 1980

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[Footy Chick]

King William St, 1880. Notice the clock is yet to be installed in the town hall

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I dont' think the clock went in until the 1930's

[Lightning McQueen]

I was waiting for it.