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Garden Place at night
Saturday 17 September | Camera Obscura,
This was Garden Place at night in September 1993. We don’t know what time it was so have no way of knowing what we should expect.
A top performance
Saturday 10 September | Camera Obscura,
The Hamilton Civic Choir and Orchestra often combined for performances, and this programme comes from 1951 when the groups performed Faust by Charles Francois Gounod.
A glimpse of the past
Saturday 3 September | Camera Obscura,
The Vienna was the northern-most shop in the Bristol Building on Victoria Street which was built in 1925.
What's on the menu...
Saturday 27 August | Camera Obscura,
This a la carte menu is from Restaurant Vienna, on Victoria Street, and dates from 1959. Both Restaurant Vienna and Restaurant Chevron were owned and directed by George Vlasic.
Times are a changing
Saturday 20 August | Camera Obscura,
Hamilton as we knew it in October 1978. Crawford Street is off to the left having come away from Avalon Drive which goes off to the distance on the right.
Civic choir celebrates
Saturday 13 August | Camera Obscura,
In July 1956, the Hamilton Civic Choir celebrated it’s tenth anniversary with a concert at the Embassy Theatre. The concert was conducted by J.
Camping by the lakeside
Saturday 6 August | Camera Obscura,
A few weeks ago, we showed a photograph of four young people on holiday. This image may be a wee bit later and it is said to be near Taupo. We don’t know the location, but the hills suggest the ‘other side’ of the lake.
Waikato trounced
Saturday 30 July | Camera Obscura,
This flier lists the teams from Hamilton and Pukekohe who played a rugby football match at Pukekohe on 23 July, 1927.
Show on a grand scale
Saturday 23 July | Camera Obscura,
Last week we featured a piece of ephemera. It was a flyer for a production of Dick Whittington and his cat done in 1926.
A purr-fect performance
Saturday 16 July | Camera Obscura,
Nighty-six years ago, 50 performers from the St Peter’s Girl Guides performed the bright and sparkling operetta, 'Dick Whittington and His Cat’.
Smoothing the way
Saturday 9 July | Camera Obscura,
New asphalt in Hood Street. It’s always great to have a new surface to drive on – smooth and responsive. Only now the road marking to be done.
Band's proud tradition
Saturday 2 July | Camera Obscura,
The Hamilton Brass Band has a long and proud tradition of music.