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Inspired To Get On With it! – Booth Photo – 2 November 1997

January 1, 2013
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After reading the post 365 Days, 52 Weeks from WordPress’s own blog, I felt inspired to get back to
my personal chronology of booth photos, which was the inspiration for my starting this blog in 2011. I will endeavour to add at least one strip of photos from the series each week for the 52 weeks of 2013. So with that in mind, I start the year with the next in the series, below.

Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2013 is inspirational and fun for us all.

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2 November 1997, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne

This strip was taken at a Melbourne train station, after I had been to visit my friend Liarne. I went to stay with her at a house she was renting at the seaside town of Torquay, where she still lives.

This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.

A Visitor From London – 27 July 1997

March 19, 2012
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27 July 1997, Luna Park, Melbourne

Rosie, the daughter of my friends Del and Linds of London, came to visit me in Australia just before her 17th birthday.

Adjectives to describe Ros –

  • beautiful
  • intelligent
  • sensitive
  • compassionate
  • quirky
  • funny
  • articulate
  • exasperating
  • loveable
  • gorgeous
  • messy
  • loyal
  • messy
  • adorable
  • messy

With reference to the repeated appearance of the word messy to describe my adopted sister, I was still finding jelly tots in odd places in the room in which Rosie slept, three months after her departure.

This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.

Kunis Restaurant – 25 January 1997

March 9, 2012
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25 January 1997, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne

On the way to meet friends at a favourite Japanese restaurant in Melbourne, Kunis.

I was introduced to Japanese food in the early 1980s by a school friend’s much older, extremely sophisticated (in my eyes) boyfriend. At the time there were only two authentic Japanese restaurants in Melbourne. Now there are dozens.

Kunis was the first Japanese restaurant I went to and is  Melbourne’s oldest having opened in 1978. It is a special event to go there even now.

This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.

Cheeky Chicks At Melbourne Railway Station

January 3, 2012
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Here are two chirpy Aussie chap-ettes, having fun on a day out in Melbourne. Looking distinctly middle-class and dare I say it, very private-school, no worries seem to have ever clouded their young faces. I wonder how life is treating them thirteen years later?

Despite the photo being torn and crumpled, I can’t help feeling this photo was lost rather than deliberately tossed. There is nothing really wrong with it, that I can see. Still there loss is our gain.

I found this at Melbourne Central underground railway station on the 9th of October 1999.

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