Moorabbin 1969

[Reggie]

Found a slide today as I was Archiving my fathers old slides. written on the slide was that it was 1st semi final 1969 vs Geelong. this is clearly wrong but it is from 1969 I would have been 3. Great to see Moorabbin packed

[kosifantutti]

Hi Reggie,
It looks like you have linked to a picture on Google+. You will need to save it and post it somewhere else if we are going to see it.

Try saving it to your computer and then uploading to http://tinypic.com/

[Reggie]

I'll give this a go Hope it works every time I preview I'm only seeing 1/2 the image

[8856brother]

Palm trees? I would have thought Junction. I may be wrong though.

[Harvey To Hayes]

Those palm trees don't look very familiar? Clearly we're playing Carlton, so must have been Princess Park if not Moorabbin? Doesn't look like there either... We didn't play finals in '69 so has to be one of those two grounds...

[Mr Magic]

It may be the last H&A game of the year when we beat Geelong to make it into the Finals.
The following week we played Geelong again in the 1st Semi Final and got beaten.

[8856brother]

Those palm trees don't look very familiar? Clearly we're playing Carlton, so must have been Princess Park if not Moorabbin? Doesn't look like there either... We didn't play finals in '69 so has to be one of those two grounds...

Away team always wore white shorts in those days. Blues wearing white shots. Plot thickens.

[oh when the]

Its Saints Home game - must be Junction Oval - we played finals in 1963 I think.

[Reggie]

Got it to work!
Now where is this?

[oh when the]

St Kilda 7.8 7.9 12.12 14.12 96 Sat 03-Aug-1963 2:20 PM Att:30,100 Venue: Junction Oval
Carlton 0.2 4.5 5.7 7.13 55 St Kilda won by 41 pts [Match stats]

[ozrulestrace]

That's not Moorabbin- no sign of the Philip Morris factory in the background.

It's the Junction Oval, the fence is the give away.

[Reggie]

Thanks everyone it's beyond doubt it's junction oval. All I had to go off was what was written on the slide.
Many thanks

[Con Gorozidis]

terrific stuff.
well done regis. great photo.
definitely the junction!

[kosifantutti]

St Kilda 7.8 7.9 12.12 14.12 96 Sat 03-Aug-1963 2:20 PM Att:30,100 Venue: Junction Oval
Carlton 0.2 4.5 5.7 7.13 55 St Kilda won by 41 pts [Match stats]

Why that game?

[Wayne42]

The Junction oval, a ground we'd left by 65, why the romanticism about a ground that epitomises our failure as a club..

I hope we stay away from the dump, why should we help out cricket Vic, they may use us to help them get their centre of excellence and then make it almost impossible for us to get any value out of the dump.

[PADDLEPOP1001]

The AFL and us would not be that stupid we have a good board in place and some very smart businessmen and potential sponsors involved!

[philtee]

I'm only guessing, but it looks like that white tower to the far right of the full photo would be the now departed Junction Hotel,
as in this 1930's photo of St Kilda Junction...


(I think I prefer the old St Kilda Junction)

[SaintPav]

It's clearly the Junction.

Good work philtee.

Great photos. I'm a bit of an old photo nerd.

[philtee]

And more on the Junction Hotel from this site - http://www.skhs.org.au/SKHShotels/Junction%20Hotel.htm

"The Junction was famous for always flying the St Kilda flag high when the St Kilda football team won and at half-mast when it lost."

"The hotel was ultimately demolished in 1973 following a 1970 decision to widen High Street, between the Junction and Carlisle Street.
The bulldozers that ran through its main bar, once lined with photos of local sporting heroes, ended an era in St Kilda."

[GrumpyOne]

I'm only guessing, but it looks like that white tower to the far right of the full photo would be the now departed Junction Hotel,
as in this 1930's photo of St Kilda Junction...


(I think I prefer the old St Kilda Junction)

I think that's Stinger in the foreground wearing a coat and hat.

[stinger]

I'm only guessing, but it looks like that white tower to the far right of the full photo would be the now departed Junction Hotel,
as in this 1930's photo of St Kilda Junction...


(I think I prefer the old St Kilda Junction)

i see my old car in the fore ground there....or one very much like it......cost me 25 quid in 1963.....


ps...i was at that match....

[avid]

Excellent photo Reggie!

And excellent photo Philtee of the old Junction Hotel.
I've not seen that one before.
(Its tower is definitely is the right location for the hotel in the Junction Oval pic. Good get!)

My only memory of the Junction Hotel is driving back from the '66 GF in the family Holden stationwagon, and seeing RW+B flags and banners flying from every window as we drove through the junction. What a sight!

I'm running an urban design competition for uni students next semester on the future redevelopment of StKilda Junction. The old Junction was great. We need to to recapture some of that greatness in any design for the future.
Any more historic photos of the Junction would be fantastic to have.
Reggie and Philtee, if you could tell me where I could source yours, that would be very useful and much appreciated.

[stinger]

for the record....saints did play in a semi final in 1963.....at the mcg........we got done by melbourne by 7 points.. the brother of one of my old teachers umpired the game....one r brophy....think melbourne went on to win the flag.......we thrashed them the next year which was the start of their fall from grace....

[Bernard Shakey]

for the record....saints did play in a semi final in 1963.....at the mcg........we got done by melbourne by 7 points.. the brother of one of my old teachers umpired the game....one r brophy....think melbourne went on to win the flag.......we thrashed them the next year which was the start of their fall from grace....

Geelong were premiers in '63 and the Dees in '64.

For a lawyer you're pretty loose with facts!

[stinger]

for the record....saints did play in a semi final in 1963.....at the mcg........we got done by melbourne by 7 points.. the brother of one of my old teachers umpired the game....one r brophy....think melbourne went on to win the flag.......we thrashed them the next year which was the start of their fall from grace....

Geelong were premiers in '63 and the Dees in '64.

For a lawyer you're pretty loose with facts!

just a simple mistake wobble boy....you are quite right. but i did say i think...not i know.......and it was 1965 that we creamed them.....