#john w smith of footscray

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Happy 170th Birthday, Flinders Street Station! Found slide: Flinders Street Station decorated and lit up at night for its centenary, Naarm Melbourne, September 1954. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: Olympic Games street decorations at night, intersection of Bourke and Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, December 1956. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: Victorian Railways diesel locomotive B69 leads a northbound freight train across Sunshine Road, Sunshine, Naarm Melbourne, in late 1953. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: City Hall, Footscray, Naarm Melbourne, decorated in team colours for the Footscray Bulldogs’ first Victorian Football League Grand Final appearance, against the Melbourne Demons, September 1954. Photo by John W Smith. “Ah, optimism. There they were yesterday at the Footscray Town Hall working busily, putting up the premiership decorations…” - The Argus [Melbourne], 23 September 1954 (optimism justified: Footscray beat Melbourne 102/51)

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Found slide: Chevron Hotel,  Surfers Paradise, Yugambeh Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast, Queensland, 1961, in breathtaking CinemaScope. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: Flinders Street Station clock tower from the SEC Building, Naarm Melbourne, June 1956. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: A single deck suburban service leaves Milsons Point Railway Station on its way across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Gammeraigal Country, 1961, in breathtaking CinemaScope. Photo by John W Smith 

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Happy Wattle Day! Found slide: Wattle blossoms, probably in the Seddon, Footscray area of Naarm Melbourne, 1954. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: A long time ago, in an East Gippsland far, far away... even from Bruthen and Delegate… Suggan Buggan River, Suggan Buggan, Victoria, Bidawal and Nindi-Ngudjam Ngarigu Monero Country, 1960, in breathtaking CinemaScope™️. Photo by John W Smith. May the Fourth be with you...

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Found slide: The corner of Adelaide and Albert Streets, Meanjin Brisbane, as it was meant to be seen: in breathtaking CinemaScope™️, from Brisbane City Hall, circa August 1961. Photo by John W Smith