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Somehow a taxi tour of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic was not on the Island Excursion list and I'm sure my family has second thoughts about my choice. As for me, it was one of the best excursions I went on. I've always been fascinated with repair shops and motorcycle repair seemed to be the national pass time in the city, it went on everywhere.
I spotted this magnolia tree in the garden of the Whitfield Pub in the King Valley. It was the biggest magnolia I've seen, and fortunately was in flower.
Features visible include The Glen shopping centre top centre, neighboring housing and petrol station through to High Street Road (now all part of The Glen), the Mountain View Hotel, left and down from centre.
See locale on Google Maps.
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Monash City archives via City of Waverley.
Pioche, Nevada; built in 1895 by Ely Valley Mines to house their guests.
Pioche was founded in 1869 as silver mines developed in the area. The town grew quickly and became one of the most violent and boisterous mining camps in the west. The population peaked in the 1870's at about 6,000. By the turn of the twentieth century Pioche was nearly a ghost town. Now, it still is a live town with around 900 residents.
Among the day tours is Route 1 to Burwood and Glen Waverley (with a scenic stop at the Mountview Hotel) and another trip to Ferntree Gully that passes through Oakleigh and along Ferntree Gully Road via Notting Hill and Wheelers Hill.
Information from Museum Victoria:
Single-page flyer featuring an image of an early bus with open sides and covered roof, crowded with well-dressed passengers. Originally folded into three. The flyer, titled 'Beautiful Melbourne, Motor Char-a-banc Trips', advertises trips by charabanc radiating out from Melbourne. The company boasts '28 HP Milnes Daimler Cars'. The tours are operated by (Albert Arthur) A.A. Withers & Sons of 333 Richardson St, Middle Park, with bookings possible through Ronald's Floral Studio of 99 Swanston Street, City. His sons were Arthur, Ted, Syd, Peter, Percy & Reg.
Withers is offering Extended Afternoon Tours from 1 November to 30 April. 'We beg to thank our numerous patrons for the liberal patronage extended to us in the past, and hope the new trips now introduced meet with the success they merit...All-day Runs are also now introduced', as is an Evening Run. The evening runs travelled from South Melbourne to St Kilda along Beaconsfield Parade during the summer months.
Four afternoon routes are offered: Burwood and Glen Waverley; Blackburn and Doncaster; Heidelberg and Greensborough; and Cheltenham and Beaumauris. Each leaves St Paul's Cathedral corner in central Melbourne at 2.30pm and costs three shillings, with family discounts. The services run virtually every day of the week and sometimes twice per day. Calendar dates for departures are included, together with a map of the routes, crudely drawn.
The flyer details the attractions of each route. The Heidelberg and Greensborough route visits the Houses of Parliament, the Exhibition Building, the Gas Works, the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Fairfield, the Austin Home for Incurables at Heidelberg, and on the return journey the Bundoora Park Stud Farm and Mont Park Lunatic Asylum. The Blackburn and Doncaster route continues the theme of insanity and gloom, with visits to the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylums [sic] and the Boorondara Cemetery.
The flyer is not dated, but the style of the coach depicted is a pre-World War I model - possibly a 1911 petrol chassis Milnes-Daimler. This is one of four such vehicles acquired by Withers in 1911. One of the dates on the flyer is Sunday 18th February making 1912 the most likely date for the flyer.
The flyer is significant for the insight it provides into tourism in Victoria in the 1910s or 1920s. Apparently a rare survivor of an ephemeral advertising campaign, it details the routes and dates offered, offering a valuable resource for tourism research. The reach of the services out of Melbourne, as half-day trips, is of particular interest, as are the attractions identified for each route. It complements the more extensive photographic record of charabancs, held in collections at Museum Victoria and elsewhere.
Withers & Co advertised Char-a-banc trips from at least 1911 right through World War I (in spite of fuel shortages) and beyond. A.A. Withers' company is noted elsewhere as Pioneer Tourist Coaches Pty Ltd (for example, The Argus, 18 February 1924, page 9).
A. Withers (several of the Withers family were involved in the business) made a name for himself operating a range of charabanc services. On 14 September 1927, the Brisbane Courier reported (page 17) that he led a had party from Victoria 'on what is claimed to be the longest organised tour of its kind so far held in Australia'. The tour had 'arrived in Sydney in a Nash char-a-banc to-day after a visit to Central Australia. They left Melbourne on July 30, and since then have covered 4400 miles, visiting every Eastern State of the Commonwealth, and the Northern Territory. The tour was organised by Mr. A. Withers, of Melbourne, and his nephew, Mr. Alf. Withers, is driving the char-a-banc.'
A.A. Withers was a vocal proponent of the charabanc industry, too. On 27 June 1928, his letter published in the Argus (page 9) complained about the lack of licences issues to operate 'touring omnibuses' and notes that higher taxes have been imposed. He worries that 'this will have a serious effect on country tourist resorts, because the touring motor-omnibus has done much to keep tourists in Victoria, giving them an alternative to touring in other states.'
Charabanc travel could be risky, however. On Saturday 17 February 1924, a charabanc operated by Withers carrying 27 passengers overturned on the road to Mount Dandenong from Croydon, killing two women and injuring 12 others. A.A. Withers explained that it was the company's first accident, and that the type of coach used was not the same as that which was used 'for tourist trips to Sydney or the Alps'. It was a 'large International wagon', travelling the road for the second time that day. (The Argus, 18 February 1924, page 9)
Donation from Constance Tout-Smith, June 2010
Source: Museums Victoria
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1775672
Accessed 13 January 2017
Copy of photograph showing miners at Black Flat gold fields.
Gold was panned in the creeks and shafts sunk in the land behind and to the west of the Mount View Hotel. There is a memorial plaque acknowledging the discovery of gold in the area on the north west corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. Another plaque is on the site of the Holland's shaft on the corner of Waverley and Springvale Roads (south side Waverley Road, east of the Bowling Club).
Black Flat is now known as Glen Waverley.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID 410
Copy of photograph showing men seated and standing around table under tent. On reverse is adhered note reading in part "Revenue from sports behind Mountain View Hotel to pay hospital costs for young Moylan who was hurt in mine accident opposite hotel." At the time the establishment was called Moylan's Mountain View Hotel.
Although the Library's catalogue cautiously gives the date as "1910s?" for this image, it may be earlier and the context of "young" Moylan's injury tragically different.
To quote from an article in the Geelong Advertiser, 22 Jan 1896:
"The city coroner to-day investigated the circumstances surrounding the Black Flats tragedy, when Mrs Moylan, the wife of a local publican, killed her little boy and dangerously injured her little girl... The mother was unfit to be present, and a certificate was put in from Dr Shields, gaol doctor, to the effect that she was in a dazed condition, and unable to give evidence. Her husband testified that after hearing the children screaming he saw his wife with a hammer in her hand."
More background detail can be found in a Leader article from 25 January, 1896.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID.411
The Mountain View Hotel is still located on the corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. See locale on Google Maps.
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Copied images and text of people at Mountain View Hotel and nearby gold mine, Black Flat (Glen Waverley), plus poetry.
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Shows group of people standing in front of the Mountain View Hotel, Glen Waverley, with caption below: "Railway. Glimpses of the railway opening ceremony."
Printed in "The Leader" to mark opening of railway line, 5 May 1930. Donated by Mrs D.J. McCarthy, 1990.
See locale on Google Maps with Street View.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID 270
Denham & Murray Streets, Tooraweenah.
Established 1886.
The pub has a restaurant, but different community groups also cater for meals on certain nights, and most of the town seems to turn up for a social evening. I had an evening meal of steak and salad for $6.
Tooraweenah is a tiny rural village of about 130 people on the lower western slopes of the Warrumbungle Ranges. It is 4 km off the Oxley Highway between Gilgandra (43 km south-west) and Coonabarabran (58 km north-east).
The 16 000-acre Tooraweenah Run was taken up by squatter Andrew Brown in 1837. The first store was opened in 1841 and a village began to develop though it was never more than a small centre. The Land Settlement Act of 1861 encouraged closer settlement of the area. A school opened in 1884 and the hotel in 1886. Most of the town's buildings remain as they were in the early 20th century.
One event memorialised in the town's history is the Kookaburra March, wherein 23 men set out in 1916 from Tooraweenah on a march to Bathurst to recruit men for service in World War I. There is a veteran's plaque on the village common. (See also the Coo-ee March from nearby Gilgandra to Sydney.)
From www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-factsheet/tooraweenah-200811...
The Mountain View Hotel was built in 1895. President Herbert Hoover spent the night here in 1930.
The silver mining town of Pioche reached it's peak in the 1870's, when it had a population of about 6,000. Today around 1000 people live in town. It is a wonderful and historic frontier town to explore.
A view atop the Niagara Escarpment overlooking Hamilton, Ontario. At the far right is the upper station of the Hamilton & Barton Incline Railway (aka "James St. Incline"), launched by my ancestor Watson G. Walton. It may be unclear, but the brown thing with the postcard-maker's number is the passenger compartment of the moving platform, propped up on a triangular trusswork above the rails and wheels. The upper station also contained the steam powerhouse—two engines of 125 horsepower. Having two cars on parallel tracks counterbalancing each other reduced the need for larger engines.
The Mountain View Hotel was the site of the railway's lavish opening-day banquet, June 11th, 1892.
Milwaukee Lumber Co., St. Maries. Daily Capacity 250,000 feet.
HOTEL MOUNTAIN VIEW.
O. M. Vang, Gent's Furnishing Store.
Date: 1911
Source Type: Book
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Fred D. Straffin, Straffin and Day, Western Photo and Publishing Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Information Source:
Straffin & Day. 1911. Souvenir of St. Maries, Idaho. St. Maries, Idaho: Western Photo & Publishing Company.
Copyright 2018. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
If I had the chance, I would go back to Sapa in an instant.
In the background, you can see Vietnam's highest mountain, Fan Si Pan, rising out of the clouds.
Sapa, Vietnam
(December 2009)
Holiday inn express Mountain View Hotel Lobby - Holiday Inn Express Mountain view hotel - for more information visit our website: www.hitowncenter.com
W.H.Swinburne - proprietor. This hotel was destroyed by fire in 1916.
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Copy of photograph showing miners at Black Flat gold fields, behind the Mountain View Hotel.
Gold was panned in the creeks and shafts sunk in the land behind and to the west of the Mount View Hotel. There is a memorial plaque acknowledging the discovery of gold in the area on the north west corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. Another plaque is on the site of the Holland's shaft on the corner of Waverley and Springvale Roads (south side Waverley Road, east of the Bowling Club).
Black Flat is now known as Glen Waverley.
Image sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID 406
The Mountain View Hotel was built in 1895. President Herbert Hoover spent the night here in 1930.
The silver mining town of Pioche reached it's peak in the 1870's, when it had a population of about 6,000. Today around 1000 people live in town. It is a wonderful and historic frontier town to explore.
Copy of photograph showing miners at Black Flat gold fields. Black Flat is now known as Glen Waverley
Gold was panned in the creeks and shafts sunk in the land behind and to the west of the Mount View Hotel. There is a memorial plaque acknowledging the discovery of gold in the area on the north west corner of Springvale Road and High Street Road. Another plaque is on the site of the Holland's shaft on the corner of Waverley and Springvale Roads (south side Waverley Road, east of the Bowling Club).
See the locale on Google Maps.
This image is sourced from Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre. ID: 407
Copy of auction flyer for 1896, subdivision of Moylan's Mountain View Hotel Paddock, High Street Road and Springvale Road. The land is being sold by the trustee of the estate of the late Brian Reily and includes the corner lot on which sits the Mountain View Hotel. See locale on Google Maps.
Image sourced from ephemera collection of Monash Public Library Service, held at Monash Federation Centre.
Ethiopian Airlines recently hosted a group of GSA agents on a historical famil to Ethiopia.
Participants got to experience the land of natural contrasts and were stunned by the countries scenery and treated to luxury accom, such as the Mountain View Hotel and Kuriftu Resort and Spa.
Highlights of the trip included tours to Addis Ababa, Gondar, Semien National Park and sightings of Gelada Baboons.
Pictured above at the Gondar Castles from left are: Samrawit, Travel Ethiopia; Kit Ling, Ming Pao Daily News, HKG; Rebecca, Gold Joy Travel HKG; Hino, ET GSA Japan; Chung, ET GSA Seoul; Nansi Gidiess, ET GSA Australia, Product Manager; Amit Kumar, ET GSA sales Melb.; and Hailu, ET ADD.
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com
I stayed at this hotel in November 2008, and the owner asked me to take some shots for them of rooms, lobby, dining area, outside, etc. It is a brand new hotel (not finished yet, but rooms are finished and very nice). Great views and a very friendly and quiet place stay when in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Highly recommended. Their web site with contact details is www.mountainsviewhotel.com
I can also recommend Binyam Ayelew as guide in Lalibela. Contact him at biset21@yahoo.com