Helen Pitt

And there was talk at one point that Club Med might be involved in that too.

So this has been prized harbourside real estate.

So it is remarkable that it hasn't had any high rise on it.

It remained.

But by the late 60s, early 70s, it was getting a bit long in the tooth, that is for sure.

And the lease was only on a week-to-week contract contract.

So Leon Fink invited in some artists like Martin Sharp, Peter Kingston, Gary Shedd, Richard Liney, pop artists that did a new face to match the times, the 1970s, and painted it in different colours and so forth.

But it was starting to get slightly run down by this stage.

I think it would be fair to say he was quite obsessed with it.

He invited his friend Tiny Tim to break the world's singing record at Luna Park in 1979, which in fact he did.

I think...

He loved how it transported you to childhood.

He always felt that it was a microcosm of Sydney and he just loved it like nothing else.

And he convinced his friend, Peter Kingston, who by this stage had bought a house next door to the park, to become involved with maintaining it.

And I think he kind of never let go of his obsession with it all through his days.

Well, it was actually quite common for them to be blacked out for muck-up days, so back in the 70s and 80s, but these were actually teeth taken from the face.

And it turns out that they were University of New South Wales pranksters that were part of the uni scavenger hunt that...

Came down there one night, thought they only... Part of the list was you had to get a condom machine from Sydney Uni, a tooth from Luna Park.

They not only got one, they got six teeth.

Threw them in the Fielder's Bread getaway truck and raced back to Kensington, jumping over the medium strip to avoid paying the toll on the Harbour Bridge.