Lovely painting! I spent 6 weeks there on holidays when I graduated from High School way back in 1970, and at that time there was a picture theatre positioned next to the pub. Because there was no aircon, they had windows open between the two buildings, and you COULD NOT HEAR A THING in the picture theatre (screening at the time was “Dunk Island”). The seating was oldfashioned canvas deck chairs – I kid you not! The local “convenience” store used to close whenever the weather got too hot, and they would hang a “gone fishing” sign on the door. A really beautiful part of the world, where my Aunty owned a pineapple farm and my cousin worked as a nurse at the hospital right across the road from the beach, my Aunt Livinia used to squeeze crushed pineapples in a tea towel over a plastic bucket for juice, and cooking stew over a tripod fire in the back yard to stop the house from getting too hot. I went to Yeppoon a few months ago, and it has definitely updated to 2011 standards – unfortunately.
Thanks Christine – I used to spend a lot of time in Yeppoon must have been around the same time you describe, and Emu Park and Cooee bay – I recall the can toad hunts, the old theatre! (The saggy canvas seating!) Certainly not as it was, time moves along – I am glad we were about then and have our special memories of a beautiful place. Your Aunt Livinia’s pineapple juice sounds delicious – images like that take me back immediately.
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wonderfull
thanks very much Doreen
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This cries out to be a coastal-scape but it yields to abstraction. Very lovely!!
thanks very much Bruce
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much more than a cloudy sky.. fine piece
oh thanks – as I admire your abstracted landscapes very much this means a lot to me
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evocative and strong
Thanks Egg
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OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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love this John…hope you are well buddy :)
thanks Adam, yes all well caught up in new work and not spending so much time on here – you’ve been busy I see
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nice work dude
hey thanks
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great work John !!
thanks very much Michele much appreciated
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I really like this
thanks very much
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Lovely painting! I spent 6 weeks there on holidays when I graduated from High School way back in 1970, and at that time there was a picture theatre positioned next to the pub. Because there was no aircon, they had windows open between the two buildings, and you COULD NOT HEAR A THING in the picture theatre (screening at the time was “Dunk Island”). The seating was oldfashioned canvas deck chairs – I kid you not! The local “convenience” store used to close whenever the weather got too hot, and they would hang a “gone fishing” sign on the door. A really beautiful part of the world, where my Aunty owned a pineapple farm and my cousin worked as a nurse at the hospital right across the road from the beach, my Aunt Livinia used to squeeze crushed pineapples in a tea towel over a plastic bucket for juice, and cooking stew over a tripod fire in the back yard to stop the house from getting too hot. I went to Yeppoon a few months ago, and it has definitely updated to 2011 standards – unfortunately.
Thanks Christine – I used to spend a lot of time in Yeppoon must have been around the same time you describe, and Emu Park and Cooee bay – I recall the can toad hunts, the old theatre! (The saggy canvas seating!) Certainly not as it was, time moves along – I am glad we were about then and have our special memories of a beautiful place. Your Aunt Livinia’s pineapple juice sounds delicious – images like that take me back immediately.
– John Douglas