Eric Riddler

Art Historian and Photography Tragic. He/Him. Wallumedegal country Eora nation

[Eric Riddler @eric_riddler]

@PulpLibrarian Mac.Robertson (the full stop is shorthand for company founder MacPherson Robertson) merged with Cadbury in the late 1960s…

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@PulpLibrarian “Mac.Robertson's Chocolate Freddo has become Australia's public hero — and in his honor every Friday night is celebrated as FREDDO NIGHT!”
[PSA: Freddo Night may not be an official public holiday… pre-Whitlam ads used Webster’s spelling…]
https://t.co/Q4U64UIrPo

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@fakehistoryhunt 1: I never realised that the 1970s London Bridge (visible in the background) was actually a painstaking recreation of its late 13th century predecessor and 2: it’s the viewing platform on Frankentower Bridge that gets me… “hey, look, there’s a plague victim floating over there!”

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@carlosyenrac @Brocklesnitch Come again?

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@PulpLibrarian I knew it was in trouble during the production: the money that was thrown at the London street scenes; blocking off whole blocks at a time, then digitally blending the shots with 1998-era cgi; just to recreate the original’s tight, no money for walk on extras, budget visuals…

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@la_riviere With the “Give or Take a Million” Christmas calendar date now only months away, I find myself wondering whether the props team misheard something innocuous in the pitch, like “the sixties, next century…”, as “sixty years, next century…”

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@Dene71 IIRC Blackadder (BBC) and After Henry (Granada) also benefited from the Seven Network’s benefaction at the time… the Seven Network had a run of success with ITC shows in the early 70s (notably Department S) and seems to have decided to invest heavily, if erratically, in UK TV

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@roodave @aussiewongm I’m not entirely sure but the third photo, with 3813, might have been taken at Tarana, NSW, in April 1974, during what was supposed to be the very last mainline steam excursion in the state (a ban which didn’t last a year). I remember two things: rain and a breakdown at Tarana

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@AussieWirraway I know this post is tongue in cheek but a hi-speed Wollongong to Wagga Wagga service would set me up for life…

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@fenwaycheapseat @PulpLibrarian @grok ‘Que Sera Mi Vida’ by the Gibson Brothers

https://t.co/Lw2N1KsnbD

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@AntonyGreenElec @kazza264 I personally feel that the fairly obvious use of a 93+ year old pre-opening specification document is an AI-rookie-bot mistake but, nevertheless, cannot rule out lazy human fact-checker, either…

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@fakehistoryhunt I remember when Australia’s ABC network first aired this episode they had to scroll through the viewer advisory warnings… then switching to using a single screen of unusually small text for repeat screenings

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@OzKitsch @elle_aussie I think the older character on location is played by Gordon McDougall (Les Whittaker on Number 96)

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@literar63 The most memorable trip that I’ve made on your map was going all the way to North Balwyn on a miserable rainy winter’s day in the late 1990s just because I wanted to see the site of a John Brack painting…

https://t.co/sYDwIH6tUT

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@literar63 Admittedly I haven’t travelled on a lot of the network but I’m pleased to see that neither of us have travelled all the way to Bundoora, Carnegie and that last little bit of the Wattle Park line

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@fakehistoryhunt It’s been a hard day’s night and Santa’s been working like a dog…

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@sacha_coward It largely depends upon how close “Play Parade” is to “Queer as Folklore” on your bookshelf (from an Australian art historian who has unintentionally found himself overseeing the visual archive of his second cousin once removed)

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@just_brash Not to cast shade on Auspol 40 years ago but I saw this interview go to air and it didn’t occur to me that I wasn’t watching a real Australian politician until the end… and I was just back from a school trip to see Federal Parliament House in action

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@bigbruiserbruce @fictillius This particular sign isn’t a roundel for space reasons but other signs at St James (and all of them at Museum, the next station) are roundels… yes, there are many other forms of roundels but a crossover panel of sans serif capitals on a station are LT’s

https://t.co/fCP4YkDWqz

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@whyteboxer @fictillius Some of the St James signs, like this one, don’t have the full roundel but others do (Museum, the next station along, has a full set of roundels)

https://t.co/fCP4YkDWqz