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Vale Lionel Rose
Lionel Rose disembarks at Essendon Airport, Melbourne on February 29th, 1968. Photo © Keith Loveridge
The recent passing of Lionel Rose reminded me of this slide I recently scanned from the family photo archives. It is of the the newly crowned world bantamweight champion greeting fans at Essendon airport after defeating ‘Fighting’ Harada in Tokyo on February 27th, 1968.
My father, who was working as an aircraft technician at the time was able to snap this as he disembarked from the plane triumphantly waving a souvenir sword in hand. (I’m not sure if you’d be able to get that one through customs nowadays!) It was estimated that over 100,000 people then lined the road on his way to a civic reception at the Melbourne Town hall.
Lightning
The Melbourne city skyline put on one of the longest lightning shows I’ve ever seen. These 20sec captures made during a display that went for nearly 1hr!
Lily Allen @ The Forum
UK popstress Lily Allen sold out the Forum theatre twice in Melbourne this weekend. Both she and her fans were in good spirits as she promoted the release of her second album It’s Not Me, It’s You.
Melboune Zombie Shuffle
It was a dark and gloomy October night in 2008 when hundreds of Zombies roamed the crowded streets of Melbourne looking for brains to eat…
Gutsy reporter Lawrence Leung (pictured 2nd row middle) attempts to escape the clutches of the hungry dead. Check out his article in this month’s jmag.