~ Auto Buzz ~: Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1961

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1961



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From the Queensland State Archives on Facebook comes today’s carspotting photo depicting what was then the Pacific Highway in Surfers Paradise. Today, it’s the Gold Coast Highway that runs through the middle of the beach town, and it’s high-rise apartments that tower over the road, not Qantas billboards, but it’d be hard to describe the 50-plus-year-old street scene above as sleepy, given all the traffic and cars parked along the street. What do you see here?

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