Olden Sydney

Saint Mary's Cathedral on College Street in 1908.

beautiful Crown Street Public School between 1880 & 1890.

Saint George Church on Glenmore Road with Gumer Street curving East - in the 1930s. 

Saint Vincent's Hospital circa 1905. 

Pacific Highway in North Sydney at Christmas 1951, during the public transport strike. 

Synagogue on Elizabeth Street in 1922. 

The Synagogue dwarfed by the Manchester Unity Independent Union of Odd Fellows, looking from Park Street across to Elizabeth Street, immediately prior to the slicing open of Hyde Park for the 2 train stations. 

early 1930s. 

Hercules Street, Ashfield, 1938; Lindsay & Co. at # 12 on the left-hand side. 

Hercules Street, Ashfield, 1956; no remnants of the tram lines closed in 1948. 

Archibald fountain in 1940.

Hotel Kurrajon photographed by Emil Otto Hoppé, 1930; with Saint Mary's Cathedral in the background.

AWA Tower in 1938, by Arthur Ernest Foster. 

June 1937.

South Dowling Road with Flinders Street in 1888.

Town Hall in the 1950s.

Trams & Trains

Parramatta Road in the 1950s. 

when tram was king...

crowded red-rattlers of Sydney...

single deck electric set at Central Station. 

single-deck electrical set.

Red rettler in the stretch between Como and Jannali stations in 1965.  

Railway Square in 1929... surprisingly not much has changed...

Orchard's Corner in the 1960s.

The Orchard's Corner in 2010. 

Richard Benjamin Orchard, watchmaker & jeweller, owner of The Orange Orchard Building on 793 George Street, Sydney. He was the 8th child of a blacksmith, born in Maryborough, Vic. in 1871. He died in 1942 and soon after the shop became Kings War Surplus. 

Theatres & movie-houses

Hoyt's Regent Theatre on George Street in 1964. 

Hoyts Complex on George Street in 1977. 

State Theatre showing 'To killa mockingbird' in 1962.

Grand Foyer of State Theatre showing 'Duel in the sun' aka 'Lust in the sun' in 1948.

Civic Theatre on George Street showing 'Texas trail' in 1938.

'Indeed an eerie scene' it was in the underpass of Burwood Station back in 1939. The advertising board for the local showing of 'The son of Frankenstein' would have seen all pedestrians in the area walking 'briskly' with some 'spring in their step' to clear the area. 

Her Majesty's Theatre.

 Regent Theatre in 1937.

Saturday night in the city, 1960 - by Max Dupain.

St. James on the east-side of Castlereagh & Market Streets playing yet another film starring Fred McMurray: 'Follow me, boys' a Walt Disney production released in 1966.

Hoyts Mayfair Theatre on 75 Castlereagh Street, in 1963.

Royal Theatre on Castlereagh Street in 1939.

Kings Theatre in Clovelly.

Newtown

City Road, Newtown, 1957; see Grace Brothers' towers in the background.

Grace Brothers on Broadway, 1904.

Newtown, 1906.

City Road & Broadway in 1954.

Broadway & City Road in 1952.

King Street, Newtown, 1954.

Newtown Station being modified in 1919.

Enmore Theatre on Enmore Road.

City Road, Newton in 1976.

Newtown Town Hall.

King Street, Newtown under a November storm...

Arab cuisine Rowda Ya-Habibi Restaurant on King Street.