Helen Pitt

I wish I had some answers.

If there's anyone out there that knows, please tell us because it's one of those unsolved mysteries, which is at the heart of this book and maybe one of the reasons why I wrote it because as much as a place of fun it is, it's also a huge place of sadness for me and my generation of Sydneysiders.

Yes, and he did become quite obsessed with this whole sort of avenue of investigation.

Occult link, all sorts of things that he went down.

Well, what happened was they were actually at Circular Quay and that was on the front page of the Sun newspaper and the boys, the Godson boys, were photographed with them before they got on the ferry there.

So there's so many lingering mysteries that came out many years after the park and

People forget, you know, it closed immediately after the fire, the day after, and it was closed on and off for 17 years.

So this laid an open space for lots of gossip and controversy about what actually happened because it was just this sad, sad place, this sad face.

And

Even people forget that the harbour was without a Luna Park face for seven years.

So that was quite some time.

And one of the remarkable stories is the protest movement that Martin Sharp formed with his friend Peter Kingston.

to save the park.

And we really have that band of merry artists and the various other people like architects like Sam Marshall and various other people that banded together to fight for the cause of Saving Lunar Park.

It's quite a heroic achievement.

It was absolutely heroic.

And you've got to look back at it as one of the greatest accomplishments of the urban environmental movement in Sydney.

They had protests.

They had mental, as anything plays, something is missing.

They had people walk across the Harbour Bridge to Macquarie Street.