Helen Pitt
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 May
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Conversations · The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city · 17 Apr 2026
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So Ted really understood that.
So smells are as important a part of childhood and those rides as the feeling and the sensation you get when you're on the rides.
Absolutely.
And most of the nights that Luna Park was open, there was a bigger staff at night than there was in the daytime.
It was the daytime when maintenance people.
It also shut during the winter.
So it was only a summer thing from September, October to May.
So it was quite a sunny, happy time and pleasant evenings to be out there.
So it was all part of the theatre of the park.
Well, he had a ball in the barrel of fun.
He fell over and he actually made the front page of the Daily Telegraph, but he also went for a ride on the river caves and stood up and was escorted off the ride.
Ha!
But he was sort of just... Really?
Yes, he was only Prince Philip of Greece at that time, so he wasn't particularly...
particularly well known as, you know, the wife of the Queen Elizabeth II.
But it was the sort of place that people wanted to go to when Alfred Hitchcock visited Sydney.
He went to Luna Park.
When famous people came, they'd heard about it because it was a very American style thing, particularly people from America came.
That's why it was so popular with servicemen because they saw, oh, there's a Coney Island here.
Well, we must go to that too.
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