Helen Pitt
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steeplechase funny face is the motto for that park.
And his face was above the entry spot.
So Dundee and Thompson started their own amusement park next door, Luna Park, not named for the airship, not named for their ride.
But Skip's younger sister was called Luna Dundee.
And she was a world champion whist player who lived not very far away at
37, not very well known to the rest of the world, but everyone assumed that it was named for the moon.
But no, it was for his younger sister.
And you find that in her obituary that was written, sadly, only three years after the park opened because she died at 40.
It's amazing.
It is, yes.
And it's not really had much closure other than it closed in World War I. It
Well, like many amusement parks all over the world, it was destroyed by a terrible storm and which ended up becoming a fire.
But T.H.
Islick was quite the character.
He had been involved in the creation of Luna Parks all over Europe.
And White City also was another popular name.
There were white cities all over the world.
And this one in particular, he'd chosen to be around Rushcutters Bay in Paddington and he actually ran...
for the local seat of Paddington as a politician didn't win the seat.
So he had great political ambitions.