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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 13:37:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 13:39:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 13:41:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 13:43:31 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 15, 2013 0:59:24 GMT
It's nice to know the colonel was there to keep you nourished.
I really like the fifth photo above.
Some of the buildings in your photos remind me of those in rural towns of he southeastern U.S.
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Post by bjd on Aug 15, 2013 5:42:19 GMT
My thoughts exactly -- the scenery is a bit different, but the streets look like N America. This is one of the main reasons I have no great desire to go to Australia.
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Post by mez on Aug 15, 2013 14:49:56 GMT
It's funny to see some of the old signage we used to have. I am not sure about other countries but it's no longer called Kentucky Fried Chicken here. It's KFC. They have done a lot to remove themselves from that "fried" word...but we all still know it's fried chicken. ;D
I love the photo of the sheep that seems to be looking towards the camera.
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Post by htmb on Aug 15, 2013 18:15:15 GMT
It's now KFC here in the U.S., too.
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Post by wombatrois on Sept 24, 2013 7:44:14 GMT
Nice pix Jack. My guess is quite a few from QLD (it's the way the cars are parked).
The Loaded Dog is a famous short story:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 9:36:43 GMT
Strangely enough, the French use diagonal parking exactly the same way.
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Post by stickybeak on Dec 12, 2013 23:26:28 GMT
Thanks for the look back. My new Aussie husband and I moved to Australia in 1991. It looked quaint to my American eyes--the cars, clothes, buildings, etc. When we visited in 2008 so much had changed--things looked more modernized and the demographic was more diverse.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 20:21:43 GMT
Yes, the demographics have changed enormously. One thing that I remember from my trips there is that when people detected that I did not have the local accent, they would ask when I had arrived (as an immigrant). Outside of places like Sydney and Melbourne, they could not imagine that anybody would come that far just to visit their country.
Stickybeak, do you have any photos to show us regarding "before" and "after"? They are always the most interesting.
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Post by stickybeak on Jun 5, 2014 0:52:01 GMT
Hi Kerouac2, it only took me 6 months to get back to you, heh heh sorry about that...
I don't think I have photos of the same places showing before and after, just of new and rebuilt places such as Federation Square and the Spencer St. Station in Melbourne, for example. Insides of new, fancy restaurants. New highways. Stuff like that. They're already 6 years old and by the time we get back there (tentatively planned for 2018), they'll be the "before" pics, probably! There's a lot going on in my life right now so hopefully when things settle down I'll post a few pictures from that year.
(BTW it's funny but my kid is reading "On the Road" right now.)
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Post by tod2 on Sept 23, 2021 10:03:13 GMT
It's amazing what you can find out by simply looking up an Anyport members birthday details.
For instance: Today's birthday Wombatrois, notes the person would be 122 today, being born in 1900. OK, so next I saw the one and only post was made on 24 September 2013. They were already dead ha ha!
But that's just what some folks do - give wrong details either by mistake or on purpose. But the actual interest I gleaned was that I never knew Kerouac had been to Australia until today!
Then clicking on the little video posted by Wombatrois, I learned about a wonderful writer and poet Henry Lawson. I was so intrigued I started looking up more of his wonderful stories on YouTube.
Thank you Wombatrois!
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