These are some seperate shots I took of Luna Park when I was going around the other weekend photographing Milsons Point (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=235799) etc. One thing I never realised was how close the park is to a large number of apartments. At the northern end of the park you could seemingly walk up to peoples balconys.


http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1972.JPG

http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1973.JPG

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http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1979.JPG

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http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1981.JPG

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http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1994.JPG

http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1997.JPG

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http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF2046.JPG

Beautifully crystal clear shots Ipggi!!

Looks so well patronised, which is good to know.

Luna Park first opened in 1935, and the original was apparently built mainly by many workers who had just completed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The spires on either side of the entrance face were modelled on that of N.Y.C.'s Chrysler Building's crown:

http://www.new-york-photos.net/photos/chrysler_from_street1.jpg

http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1973.JPG


The wall of apartments in this pic is just unbelievable:

http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1992.JPG


Art deco meets art deco:

http://defacto2.zftp.com/photos/mpoint/Luna%20Park/DSCF1979.JPG


All the Turkish onion dome/orb work is great too, like my fav on the 19th C. Lands Department near The Quay:

http://www.ingrids-welt.de/reise/aus/bilder2/sycity2.jpg

Something perhaps of interest...from The SMH from Sept., 1994:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/502/379lunaparkfaces2.JPG

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great stuff! Luna par kwould have to be the finest location for theme park in the world!! amazing atmosphere.
thanks ipggi

Great pics Ipggi!

Muse, some of those faces would be terrifying for a small kid

^ ippgi posted the photos not me.lol
yes i reckon the face would be bloody scary for a kid.
if you think Sydney's is scary, check out the god damn ugly face in St Kildas. eeiii

http://flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

http://www.users.bigpond.com/thepates/stkilda/lunapark.jpg

^ wow! so uhh.. wrinkly?

Btw, nice pics.

his getting old!

^ ippgi posted the photos not me.lol


lol thanks Culwulla, sorry Ipggi, great pics!

Great pictures, I remember going to Luna Park years ago, back in the pre-ghost train fire and Big Dipper accident days.

It's a shame some of those apartment owners are so against the park, and also managed to get the other roller coaster closed.

Yeah without the roller coaster Luna Park is really only a place for pre-teenage children.

As for those faces, some of those are very odd looking indeed, specially face four that was built just after WW2. It looks so suspicious lol. And don't even get me started on the St Kilda face. Maybe they were just modelled on popular clown poses of the day? :P