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Postby Bully » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:10 am

Some people said that trains would never go through the city ;)

Taken late 1890s/early1900s. King William Street
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby GWW » Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:32 pm

That doesnt look 1940s to me.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Bully » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:23 pm

posted the wrong date for the wrong picture. Says its late 1890s early 1900s on the facebook page
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby RustyCage » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:40 pm

Bully wrote:posted the wrong date for the wrong picture. Says its late 1890s early 1900s on the facebook page


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Re: Old Adelaide

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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Dogwatcher » Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:55 am

Frearsons Survey of Adelaide and Suburbs 1874 – 1878 shows the area north of Gepps Cross.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Footy Chick » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:06 am

Nice one, I can see Hope Valley in the bottom right had corner.

I wonder what the "grand junction township was (just left of where it says Grand Junction hotel.)
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Bully » Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:23 pm

Pulteney Street from North Terrace looking south, circa 1950
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Bully » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:26 pm

funny seeing what was there before the hungry jacks and car park above it lol
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby RustyCage » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:39 pm

That building was before my time but seems a big beautiful building. Anyone know why it was demo'd?
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Postby RustyCage » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:46 pm

This is another building that should never have been demolished. The Jubilee exhibition Building which was where UniSA now is on Nth Tce. The fountain that is now in Rundle Mall used to be in front of this building

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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby heater31 » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:47 pm

RustyCage wrote:That building was before my time but seems a big beautiful building. Anyone know why it was demo'd?

At a Guess going by the style of Architecture of the building there now would be late 1960's/early 1970's
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby heater31 » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:50 pm

RustyCage wrote:This is another building that should never have been demolished. The Jubilee exhibition Building which was where UniSA now is on Nth Tce. The fountain that is now in Rundle Mall used to be in front of this building



Didn't this building get demolished for the Adelaide University Law Building? Located between Bonython Hall and the now UniSA's Brookman Hall?
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby RustyCage » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:26 pm

I believe so yes.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Leaping Lindner » Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:00 am

Footy Chick wrote:Last Adelaide icon from me for now, I'm assuming they don't run these little beauties anymore

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Gees that bring back some memories. For the last two lessons of school on friday our class use to go Ten Pin Bowling at Hindley Street as an end of week activity. We'd catch the bee line at Victoria Square and go to the end of the line just off Hindley Street near the brewery (which smelt of hops every friday arvo) and walk the rest of the way. Then I'd get off at the Railway Station on the return trip to walk up to the festival centre to catch the 7F or 7G home.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Lightning McQueen » Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:11 am

Gee Craven was a popular brand of durries back in the day.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Magellan » Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:40 pm

RustyCage wrote:That building was before my time but seems a big beautiful building. Anyone know why it was demo'd?

That's the old Foy and Gibson department store, IIRC. A glorious old building. Like a lot of old buildings by the 1970s I think it had been unoccupied for a while and was in such a poor condition that it was easier to demolish than preserve. Perhaps more lucrative to stick a car park in its place. Also it was a time where heritage protection was less prevalent than today, so it was probably easier to simply bowl it over.
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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Magellan » Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:42 pm

heater31 wrote:
RustyCage wrote:This is another building that should never have been demolished. The Jubilee exhibition Building which was where UniSA now is on Nth Tce. The fountain that is now in Rundle Mall used to be in front of this building



Didn't this building get demolished for the Adelaide University Law Building? Located between Bonython Hall and the now UniSA's Brookman Hall?

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Re: Old Adelaide

Postby Magellan » Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:56 am

Speaking of the old Foy's building, I think it was initially a fancy hotel before it became a department store.

Here's a couple of pics of it in its former glory...



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Re: Old Adelaide

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