A selection of stories
Published on June 6, 2011
Stargazers often complain that the brightness of our cities causes ‘light pollution’ across the night skies, making it harder for stars to be clearly seen. There is another dimension to this – that the city itself has its own nocturnal constellation – signage.
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Finders Keepers / The Lost Music
Published on June 6, 2011
“One day I had to go and inspect the huge Sitmar Cruises neon at the end of Elizabeth Street on Flinders Street Station. It was about 50 foot long (15 metres) and displayed three different messages, including a great big ship revolving around. It had blown a fuse, and I thought, ‘Oh bugger, where’s the fuse for this thing?’ Because, of course, the railways had bloody switchboards all over the place. So I got on up on the roof. I was walking along the roof following this conduit to one of those little beehives along the side of the railway building. There was an old rusty lock on the thing. I just ripped it off with my screwdriver and I went in. There was a little trapdoor up in the roof and the bloody conduit went up into that and I thought, ‘You bastard!’. So I had to go downstairs and get a big pair of steps and drag it up. Got them into the bloody thing, got up, pushed the trapdoor open and stuck my head in.
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