Helen Pitt

That was definitely questionable characters that hung out there.

So that is one of the reasons why it failed.

They packed it all up in 1934, put it to auction, but there were no buyers.

So the Phillips brothers decided, okay, what are we going to do?

In conjunction with David Atkins and a young Tasmanian engineer that

that had started the same week that the park opened, called Ted Hopkins.

They took careful plans and dismantled everything and put it all in a steamship, 1,300 tonnes of fun, all the rides like the Big Dipper.

The Big Dipper was there, the Noah's Ark, a whole load of rides that were part of that very first...

Right, dismantled and put onto a steamship?

Piece by piece, bolt by bolt, put together.

Very careful pictures were made for their reassembly when they came to Sydney and they packed it up.

And what happened was the Phillips brothers said, well, we better find somewhere else.

Why don't we go to...

Sin City, Sydney.

David, you've been working in Coogee.

Could you find us preferably a beachside suburb that would be at the end of a tram or train line that we could set up?

Now, because of the failure of White City and there was another amusement park in Waverley Council area at Tamarama called Wonderland City.

that was only briefly there, but it absolutely irked the locals, particularly the Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club, because it took up prized beachfront area, only left four metres of the beach.

And its main ride, the Aram Scaram, kept breaking down.

So there was a lot of resistance in the beachside suburbs for an amusement park.