Comments on: On the trail of ‘Cooinda “75” Beauty Street’ https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-868483 Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:55:04 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-868483 In reply to Peter C.

I found a mention of the Skyhooks concert in an old newspaper article posted on Facebook.

https://wongm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sunshine-Advocate-Skyhooks-at-Cooinda-75-festival.jpg

]]> By: Peter C https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-867407 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:47:55 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-867407 In reply to Marcus Wong.

Ian Mill and Don McKay were 2 councillors who didn’t particularly like each other on either side of the political fence.
Do you know Skyhooks played at that Cooinda Festival at Skinner reserve in Braybrook?

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-867334 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:28:24 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-867334 In reply to peter C.

Managed by a state-appointed commissioner from November 1976 until 1982:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Sunshine

Just like the later Brimbank council in 2008-2016!

]]> By: peter C https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-867223 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:19:08 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-867223 Hi Marcus, Coolamon St in Albion was also a Cooinda 75 beauty street. Maybe Hayden Cres was as well. I seem to remember the local council was sacked and an administrator put in to replace council ( Alex Gillon ???) at around that time. Cost cuts may have had something to do with it.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-694325 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:48:25 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-694325 In reply to Stirling.

Unfortunately I didn’t find an answer to it – maybe something eventful happened at the 75 festival, and it scared off the organisers? The Sunshine Advocate might have something about the reason, but the digitised editions end at 1954.

]]> By: Stirling https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-693905 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:25:07 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-693905 Did you stumble across any idea why the festival wasn’t continued in your research. Seems crazy something that was obviously quite big in 75 just stopped.

]]> By: Andrew https://wongm.com/2020/09/cooinda-beauty-street-sunshine-festival-1975/#comment-693712 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:36:04 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=15784#comment-693712 Angry Anderson with hair!!!

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