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Catalina Park Pool

Notes: a quiet day at the old pool. Some scattered dwellings of the Gully residents can be seen in the foreground.

 

Format: silver gelatin print 17cm x 12cm

 

Date Range: 1956-60: the pool and fun fair opened and the Catalina PBY was installed 1948 - later removed 1954, BMCC acquired the land 1952 after the fun fair had closed, the racetrack was opened 1961 in the foreground

 

Location: Katoomba

 

Licensing: attribution, creative commons

 

Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au

 

Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 2465-1

 

Terms of use: please credit - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection

 

Provenance: BMCC

 

Links: CATALINA PARK, KATOOMBA AND THE PBY FLYING BOAT - bluemlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/catalina-park-...

 

Swimming Pool For Flying Boat (1948, July 17). Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 1 (DAILY). Retrieved August 7, 2025, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117106219

 

The Gully Aboriginal Place Garguree - rs.locationshub.com/Home/LocationDetail?rsLocationId=073-...

 

 

 

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Uploaded on August 7, 2025
Taken circa 1956