Travel
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Last week I spent two days in Darwin to attend the opera I was involved with at the Darwin Festival. It was one of the most incomprehensible things I’ve ever seen! Never mind. It was enjoyable all the same. William Boyd/Hopalong Cassidy visited Darwin in 1954. However, if he came back to life and visited Read more
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CHICAGO The Jay Pritzker Pavilion by Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect. No conflict of interest there. S.R. Crown Hall (the Architecture Department building) by Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT by Rem Koolhaas with Mies van der Rohe watching the comings and Read more
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In January 2014, Ping (hereafter known as “Daisy Bates”, the Australian adventurer/explorer) and I visited Central Australia on one of those 3-day camping trips. Day one: Uluru. Day two: the Olgas. Day three: Kings Canyon. Very good. Very interesting. Can now cross that one off my list. Glad I did it when I did though, Read more
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Los Angeles, California The star of William Boyd/Hopalong Cassidy on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The grave of Topper, Hoppy’s beautiful white horse, in the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery. The grave of Andy Clyde, Hoppy’s loveable sidekick, California Carlson, at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The Colburn School designed by architects Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (opposite the Walt Read more
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Anna May Wong’s ashes and also her sister Mary’s ashes were buried with their mother, Lee Toy Wong, at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. It’s a Small World, Disneyland, Anaheim. Toon Town in Disneyland, Anaheim. More Disneyland, Anaheim. Clifton’s Cafeteria has closed for renovation. Thank goodness it hasn’t closed for good! Gene Autrey statue Read more
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After testing the tarpaulin’s strength, Wally needed a jar of “Pileless — Wonder Relief for Piles” … Joseph Stalin — Still a hero in Kerala! Read more
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In 2010 I visited Iran, courtesy of a travel grant from the Iran Heritage Foundation, to look at Iranian brickwork. What marvellous brickwork I discovered there! But that is another story. Travelling around Iran (which I found to be quite different to that usually depicted on the six o’clock news, by the way), photographing some Read more
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The cover of Anna May Wong’s Lucky Shoes designed by Huey Groves The book is published by the Culicidae Press and is available via Amazon.com or Culicidaepress.com A review of the book by Zoe Nikakis in Voice in The Age, 10 October 2011 ANNA MAY WONG’S LUCKY SHOES: 1939 AUSTRALIA THROUGH THE EYES OF AN Read more
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Clifton’s—One of my favourite places in Los Angeles A step back into the 1930s Westwood Cemetery—Another favourite place in Los Angeles No caption required Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor, the stars of Green Acres Loretta King & Thor Johnson in Bride of the Monster (1955) A new plaque for Don Knotts since I was Read more
Derham Groves 