Summer's here (or over there)...

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Now that winter is in full swing here on our side of the world, let’s not forget our Antipodean friends for whom the hottest days and nights usually occur during January, right now. It’s there that this sunny picture was taken in what must have been the mid-1960s, we would  think.

The location is the town of Surfers Paradise on the Australian Gold Coast, and just look at that duo speeding along the Pacific Highway with their surfboards ready to be used. The town is certainly living up to its name. The Austin Devon is followed by an MG TF with youngsters on their way to the beach having made an ingenious rack for the rear bumper on which to carry a board. Who needs a station wagon, anyway?

There’s a lot to see here: Café Cathay with a balcony in the shade of palm trees, a teashop curiously named Chelsea Tea Lounge and another shop selling cigarettes under the name Smokers Paradise. Oh, and plenty of 1950s motors, of course. We like the Wolseley 4/44, but how about the Land Rover next to it? It looks as though it’s a Holden dealer’s works hack, coming to the rescue for the Holden saloon driver, carefully parked to the side after a breakdown! What happy summer days…

Words: Jeroen Booij; picture: archive
 

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