Capture: Two Tales of a City
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Children spoke about their sorrow of losing their schools, mates and teachers they relied upon during their darkest days after the quake.
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Megan Woods supports two primary school children at the protest.
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Too sad to speak.
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While privileged children of a similar age in other parts of the country might be crying for the latest i phone, these children are bereft that the minister of education sees it fit to close their school.
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Friendships formed will be torn apart by the decision to close their school.
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Yaldhurst Model School children wanted to learn sign language so they can translate for their deaf classmate.
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Rino Tirikatene spoke of a big mountain we shall climb and conquer, a mountain called Hekia Parata and a lake called John Key that will have to be navigated.
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Say NO!
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These are not empty sentiments. Cantabrians are aggrieved and deeply disappointed in a ministry that dictates what it plans to implement in the coming years
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The Rotunda disappearing.
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People making their way home after five. Colombo Street - St Asaph Street
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Armagh Street between Manchester and Colombo St.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Armagh Street between Manchester & Colombo St.
and with the Twilight Zone Filter we
can see what's really going on...
;- )
(apologies for photonic tinkering) -
Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Tinker away.
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Hebe, in reply to
apologies for photonic tinkering
What tinkering? Snafu.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
Love it!
(But what is REALLY going on? The over-sized daleks were hoping for a Costa's souvlaki, double chicken, with a chocolate thickshake. Having travelled half a galaxy, they are righteously peeved.
Mmmm. Where are the Costa's of yesteryear?) -
Hebe, in reply to
They shoulda gone to Its All Greek to Me, corner Waltham and Shakespeare Roads then. No thickshakes but all sorts of yum. Best souvlaki.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
a Costa’s souvlaki, double chicken, with a chocolate thickshake. Having travelled half a galaxy, they are righteously peeved.
truly intragalactic OB skewer objects of desire...
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Surely Costas’s*? Best falafel ever, in any Universe.
Speaking of which, who remembers the souvlaki place on Barbadoes St next to the Armagh St dairy, around the corner from the laundromat? Those lentil souvlakis got me through late nights at design school many times.
*there was a suggestion today on Twitter that people with names ending in “s” be barred from owning property, to save difficulty with apostrophes. :-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
and with the Twilight Zone Filter we
can see what’s really going on…The Daleks are running round saying 'Rejuvenate! Rejuvenate!'
Great tinkering.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
the souvlaki place on Barbadoes St next to the Armagh St dairy, around the corner from the laundromat?
Mm yes. We lived just round the corner for a few years. The owner of the corner dairy, a very sophisticated Iranian man, I think, encouraged his wife to set up the souvlaki shop.
It was a strange bunch of ‘local shops’ that corner: the second-hand bookstore; the diary, targeted by racist idiots for a while; the one-time strange bike shop on the opposite corner that looked like a demented magician had retired there, bringing with him the contents of a medieval midden. There was a second-hand furniture shop round the corner (by the souvlaki shop) and a low-grade fish’n’chip place? And the endless clanking rotations of the laundromat…. -
Moment of Chch nostalgia. Streetview is amazing! And so strange… drove through here yesterday and it's very different.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
I remember the laundromat never aware of anything else. Maybe it was one of very few .would be fascinating if people who lived in any street would meet up one day and tell their stories. Just businesses within the four avenues.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
... the one-time strange bike shop on the opposite corner that looked like a demented magician had retired there, bringing with him the contents of a medieval midden.
A pity that Streetview didn't catch the bike shop while it was open. There was usually a range of mostly 70s vintage bikes for sale out on the footpath, with non-medieval prices. The grey-haired guy who seemed to function as the public face of the operation was in the habit of riding his bike straight off the street and in through the front door. His response to any mildly technical question was "I'll ask Dad," followed by his popping out the back to the presumed workshop.
Anyway, that shop featured in a remarkable photo exhibition at the COCA galley in about 2006. Unfortunately it's too far back to be archived on COCA's website. I believe there was more than one photographer involved. There were at least one hundred pictures, all black and white, each with a detailed accompanying description, sometimes of several paragraphs, often quoting the subject of the shot. Some featured people in their home or business, for example Alice's Video, while others, like the bike shop, were simply streetscapes. I do hope it's safe somewhere, because it's a fabulous record of a vanished world.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Kings of the rode...
A pity that Streetview didn’t catch the bike shop while it was open.
Next best thing is this small piece from The Press in 2009
this flickr stream
and this interview from National RadioThey fixed many a broken spoke, or worse, for me over the years...
a remarkable photo exhibition at the COCA gallery ...
Part of Glenn Busch's excellent ongoing photographic social record The exhibition was made into a book also (the King Family grace the cover) available from Canterbury University Press
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