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 Wellington - (updated 4/22/2001)
Wellington in the late 70s
were Cable Car at the Kilburn; tulips at the Botanical
Garden, gusty wind howling through window sill; 'ugly'
unfinished B.N. Z building, pedestrians at the Cuba Mall, pigeons
(droppings) near public toilets at Lampton Quey, windings Plimmer-steps to
the Terrace, butchers shops / fruit stalls at Lambton Quey and double Decker
- red electric bus, giant pillars at the Railway stations, fireworks
at Oriental Bays, enjoying sun on Museum entrance ( my school Wellington
High was just nearby), Saturn rising against the Mount Victoria sky line;
drawing lines on parked cars on early morning frost on way to
school, battering cold winter rain and the climbed the 'slope' late
Friday shopping.. |
| Twenty years later I revisited this
place and here are some pics of it. Could not recognized my high school,
the fruit stalls/butcher shops were gone, fast food - the Big M were
everywhere, milkman still do their rounds but in the evening, my old
dwelling place in Mt Victoria still stand. one nearby dairy shop
owner claimed she knew me.., i could not find the cable car
entrance, the wind is still there, there are no more Radio Windy 98... |
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| The Railway Station - where many of us boarded the
train to factories in the Lower Hutt Valley during our Summer Vacation. |
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| Cable Car and a view of Mt Victoria in the distance. |
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| Cuba Street - Gone were the butcher shops/ fruit vendors.. |
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They torn down the old Wellington High School - I took a pic
of the familiar building from a display on the hall. I remembered the high ceiling and
indoor assembly hall, lockers on the corridors.. |
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Hey - these are my fellow Wellington High
'schoolmates'. On a larger foto you can see the pierced tongue... Oh my god -
things DO change after these years. Where is the deep green uniform? |
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