bitingmidge
11th January 2008, 10:10 AM
I've been slowly scanning my Dad's photos from the fifties, and have just uploaded a batch to my flickr site, taken between '57 and '60 on TI and in the Torres Strait.
I've got about 600 to go, so don't expect them to be finished this year!
Here's a pic of my Mum (holding my baby brother) and my sister and I (that's us standing) in the back of a Gummint Truck in Bamaga in FNQ.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2335/2179738450_bf56bf0b11.jpg?v=0
OK, it was 1958, but note the government graphic artist of the day cunningly designed a simple logo that could just be stencilled on.
Note that the tipper becomes a bus, just by adding planks for seats, spanning the sides too.
The tin trunk was my oldie's. They were off to bung on a puppet show for the kids at the Bamaga Show. If you want to see it bigger or a few hundred others like it, go to my Flickr TI Pages (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitingmidge/collections/72157603668260915/).
I really didn't know what to do with them, but I figured by exposing them on the web, someone may find them useful.
Cheers,
P
:D:D
I've got about 600 to go, so don't expect them to be finished this year!
Here's a pic of my Mum (holding my baby brother) and my sister and I (that's us standing) in the back of a Gummint Truck in Bamaga in FNQ.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2335/2179738450_bf56bf0b11.jpg?v=0
OK, it was 1958, but note the government graphic artist of the day cunningly designed a simple logo that could just be stencilled on.
Note that the tipper becomes a bus, just by adding planks for seats, spanning the sides too.
The tin trunk was my oldie's. They were off to bung on a puppet show for the kids at the Bamaga Show. If you want to see it bigger or a few hundred others like it, go to my Flickr TI Pages (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitingmidge/collections/72157603668260915/).
I really didn't know what to do with them, but I figured by exposing them on the web, someone may find them useful.
Cheers,
P
:D:D