For gemfyre, an old street map of Perth around the area of the proposed Stephenson Highway. Amusing if you're familiar with the modern Osborne Park area. Dated late 60s/early 70s. It should be possible to pin down a publication date if necessary.
I'm sure there are now plenty of people that don't even remember Odin Rd connecting to Erindale Rd (or hand-lettered street directories, for that matter). :P
We've had this conversation before:-) You were scanning photos the night before your wedding? Including first communion photos... the sign at the front (and the jungle gym in the background) were a giveaway:-)
Ooh, that's really interesting. Does the yellow shading indicate paved roads? My parents' place is marked out and unshaded, and I know it wasn't bitumenised (sic?) until the late 50s at the earliest.
They first lived in Konnongorring... which pretty much didn't exist once they left... Dad closed a number of school's. Then they lived near emma_in_oz's folks, before going to the house we lived in for most of our childhood. They moved from there a couple of years ago.
I didn't realise the Freeway (up to Hutton Street) was so young! I guess I had assumed that it was built around the same time as the Narrows. I suppose it serves as another reminder of how rapidly the city is growing.
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:41 pm (UTC)That's really interesting:-) I'd forgotten that La Grange didn't go through, and that Hertha did:-)
And our house would have still been in Woodlands—even though I have the paperwork from about 10 years ago when it changed suburb _to_ woodlands!
Lots of things that are just a little bit different:-)
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Date: 2010-05-03 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 02:06 am (UTC)as someone who grew up in Balcatta, I remember it well :)
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Date: 2010-05-03 07:23 am (UTC)Haha, I'm a young'n. I remember when Reid Highway didn't exist, and when they built the Tonkin Highway/Walter Rd overpass.
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Date: 2010-05-03 11:39 am (UTC)If only Nearmap was invented 70 years or so ago. :P
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Date: 2010-05-03 11:52 am (UTC)No where on _these_ maps!
They first lived in Konnongorring... which pretty much didn't exist once they left... Dad closed a number of school's.
Then they lived near emma_in_oz's folks, before going to the house we lived in for most of our childhood. They moved from there a couple of years ago.
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