Everyday people retell their Newcastle Earthquake stories of tragedy courage and community spirit after 30 years in photo exhibition.
"The photo that I'm holding in the exhibition is a photograph of the old Junction Motor Inn," Mr Douglass said."We didn't really understand it as well at the time, but it's known as a soft storey failure, because the columns weren't robust enough."
In 1989 Justin Collins, pictured holding an image of signage outside an earthquake-affected music venue, was the singer in Housequake. "I don't know if someone took [the photo] with an ironic twist, but there's all sorts of [band names] like Housequake and Big Bam Boom."
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