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| The 1950s to 1970s; Bankstown and the Western Suburbs, New South Wales, Australia, cars, streets and landscape. |
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Above:
Bankstown, looking south from Hume Highway lookout,
c1961. Stacey Street just out of frame to left. Nuclear power station in the distance. BANKSTOWN STREETS 1970s, 1960s,
1950s Left: My first set of
wheels - 1950. Bankstown movie film screen captures from 1967 and 1969 on my Nexo site. http://triang.nexo.com/bankstown1967 |
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| Above: 77 Sir Joseph Banks Street, c1961. Opposite our house. |
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| Above: Looking up Sir
Joseph Banks from no.74, c1967. Keith's old FJ ute, Ted's Wolsley 1500 in which I learnt to drive. The street was just a strip of tar in the middle with no kerbs or gutting, typical Sydney Western Suburbs! |
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| Above: Looking down
(south) Sir Joseph Banks Street, 1968. JB's Morris Minor "sidbasher", with Ford Customline in carport at no.69. |
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| Above: Same
location as the previous photo. JM's Simca Vedette V8. The old house visible at 67 (other side of the Ford) was moved to a battle-axe block at the rear. |
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| Above: Our place, 74, in 1968. Two Holdens, 1964 EH and 1963 EJ. |
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| Above:
Bankstown's first Holden Monaro in 1968. Boyded Holden,
Hume Highway. Dale-Ford occupied this spot in 2001. Who's there now? |
| If you have
photos similar to these, ones which show cars on
Bankstown streets before 'The FJ Holden' movie was born, please let me know. Snail mail address: CBandM, PO Box 781, Katoomba, NSW 2780
Dig out those out B/W photos taken on Bankstown and Western Suburbs houses and streets. Here's a place to show the way it was in the days of 'The FJ Holden Movie' and earlier. HOST SITE: Back to Collecting Books & Magazines INDEX. |
