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1jz

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The can says "test roll melbourne 1935". Can anyone living there confirm the places shown?

Film is "perutz" and looks amazing on a lightbox so theres way more detail there than these scans show but imacon scans where i live are $50 each.

Photos are unedited except for the border.
Take a close look and view at 100%, theres more going on in these than appears at first glance.

Password is melbourne1935
http://s1187.photobucket.com/albums/z390/metalrideroz/
 
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What's with these old Australian Photographers?? Was there a Costco or Walgreens boycott back in the 30s??!!
 
Wow ... they're popping up like mushrooms! :D

I always though Lunar Park was in Sydney ... perhaps Melbourne had one too?

There was a roll of Perutz in amongst the rolls I scanned ... it seemed quite similar to the Panatomic.
 
That's Luna Park in Melbourne...don't recognise the rest as I'm from Sydney...but all look very Melbourneish
 
Surprising to see how deserted the streets look. Like these shots were taken on a Sunday afternoon, right at siesta time.

Were they well exposed? Did you have to perform some Photoshop magic? Just wondering... And thanks for sharing them with us!
 
ampguy said:
What's with these old Australian Photographers?? Was there a Costco or Walgreens boycott back in the 30s??!!
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Never was, never has been, isn't now - Walgreens or Costco in Australia.
We have got K-Mart and Woolworths but neither is owned by the American 'parent'. They're just brand names.

I do remember seeing the name Perutz but I never saw it in store or used any of it. Probably ceased being available during or after WW2 although some small quantities seem to have re-emerged in the 60's and 70's but not available now apparently.

As others have identified the shots are recognisably in Melbourne.
 
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Leigh Youdale said:
Never was, never has been, isn't now - Walgreens or Costco in Australia.
We have got K-Mart and Woolworths but neither is owned by the American 'parent'. They're just brand names.

I do remember seeing the name Perutz but I never saw it in store or used any of it. Probably ceased being available during or after WW2 although some small quantities seem to have re-emerged in the 60's and 70's but not available now apparently.

As others have identified the shots are recognisably in Melbourne.
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Leigh is correct about the time frame of Perutz on the Australian market 60s-70s. Perutz 50 asa transparency film was introduced onto the market about 1961 by Hanimex, processing was done at the Brookvale plant. Perutz was dropped by Hanimex in the late 70s in favour of Fuji and the rest, as they say is history.
 
its really odd looking at these familiar views of melbourne without all the larger buildings especially the second image looking from the shrine towards the city basically the entire skyline is missing except for st pauls cathedral and a few other buildings.

also we do have a costco in melbourne now not that i have ever been.
 
will-i_am said:
also we do have a costco in melbourne now not that i have ever been.
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Yep! As luck would have it there was an item on ABC news tonight about the battle Costco are having with Coles and Woolworths getting established, and claiming dirty tricks as they try to get ten branches started here (in addition to the Melbourne one). I wonder if they'll start selling film? Somehow I doubt it. Must check Aldi out - maybe they do?
 
In the shot looking back from King's Domain towards the city, the dark buildings on the left are the bluestone Victoria Barracks. The Shrine would have been very recently finished at this time. There is an interesting shot with palm trees on the horizon left in manicured gardens and they are the very interesting St Kilda Botanical Gardens, near Luna Park. The first shot shows Government House and its tower, nestled next to the Royal Botanic Gardens, right on the Yarra River.
 
Francisco, even now deserted streets can be a feature of Melbourne on a Sunday morning. A beautiful sunny day and the parks might be empty, and six inner city tennis courts in a light breeze and a bit of shade, empty. But the 'tan' now runs around the parkland in these shots and people and dogs and cyclists that run on this are a reasonably constant feature.
 
SolaresLarrave said:
Surprising to see how deserted the streets look. Like these shots were taken on a Sunday afternoon, right at siesta time.

Were they well exposed? Did you have to perform some Photoshop magic? Just wondering... And thanks for sharing them with us!
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I think the lack of cars on the road would be about normal for Australia at the time.

All shots were well exposed, some were slightly over which you can see but i left them as-is, no photoshop.

I find it interesting that there's several people on horses, can you imagine New York or Paris in the 1930s with people riding down the street on their horses?

A clue about what camera it was shot on. Frame spacing throughout the roll is pretty even but there are two frames (which i didn't scan) where the photographer has wound on not quite all the way and made a panoramic-type photograph. So i guess this means a 35mm folder of some sort?
 
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1jz said:
I find it interesting that there's several people on horses, can you imagine New York or Paris in the 1930s with people riding down the street on their horses?
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Photos by my relatives of Paris and Berlin in the period show a lot of horses. In the collection of the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (I use this as an example because I was there recently), photos from the period between the wars also show a lot of horses, including working in San Diego and San Francisco pulling carts to deliver milk and other goods.

Marty
 
Melbourne didn't really come of age until the 1956 Olympics so the slightly laid back look of these photographs doesn't surprise me. I was down there a few weeks a go and I think it's a great city that has far more appeal than Sydney ... I can see Sydney siders flaring their nostrils as they read this! :D

When I came to Brisbane in the mid seventies you could go into the city on a Sunday and it was near deserted and the whole place felt like it was asleep ... not so now ... it's frantic all the time and I hate it to be honest! The growth in Brisbane has been phenominal and someone described the place recently as similar to visiting a building site!
 
In my hometown in the late 40s, I can remember a farmer who brought produce through the neighborhood with a horse drawn wagon.
 
Freakscene said:
Photos by my relatives of Paris and Berlin in the period show a lot of horses. In the collection of the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (I use this as an example because I was there recently), photos from the period between the wars also show a lot of horses, including working in San Diego and San Francisco pulling carts to deliver milk and other goods.

Marty
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Spose i was wrong on that one then.
 
Keith said:
When I came to Brisbane in the mid seventies you could go into the city on a Sunday and it was near deserted and the whole place felt like it was asleep ... not so now ... it's frantic all the time and I hate it to be honest! The growth in Brisbane has been phenominal and someone described the place recently as similar to visiting a building site!
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I was a kid in Brisbane then - up until the mid 1980s kids like me could catch a bus into the city on a Sunday and see all sorts of things that seem unimaginable now; King George Square empty, Post Office Square with the odd family picnicing and people sunbaking, but mostly just quiet and that blinding Queensland sunshine. Maybe a few people leaving a movie at the Regent, George or Albert cinemas, and after they built the Queen St Mall there were always more people out and about, but a block away the place was mostly eerily deserted.

If you caused any trouble or disturbance and the police decided to go after you, however, that was another situation altogether and the idyll of my description above was quickly shattered in a mad scramble to get away.

Weird time and place. When I go there now the old Brisbane is like a echo that I can hardly believe was ever there.

Not mine and before my time:
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but very evocative for me.

Marty
 
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