A quick pictorial for Christmas.Three views of the intersection of two of Brisbane's busiest streets - Ann St and Wickham St at the lower end of Fortitude Valley.
1953
The building in the foreground is Metropolitan Motors.
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(Photo: Brisbane City Council; BCC-S35-97186)
1984
Same building, now housing Windscreens O'Brien. Whose idea was it to erect that awful monument to Brisbane?
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(Photo: Brisbane City Council; BCC-B120-15126)
Recent
Monument gone, thank goodness! The whole area has been redeveloped and is now one of Brisbane's finer shopping and eating precincts.
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(Photo: google.com)
(Click here for a Google Map)
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1953
The building in the foreground is Metropolitan Motors.
1984
Same building, now housing Windscreens O'Brien. Whose idea was it to erect that awful monument to Brisbane?
Recent
Monument gone, thank goodness! The whole area has been redeveloped and is now one of Brisbane's finer shopping and eating precincts.
(Photo: google.com)
(Click here for a Google Map)
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