Futuristic computer banks, now classic cars and a Sydney skyline without the opera house are all part of a new book taken from Nathan Mete’s popular ‘Retro Sydney’ Instagram account
Woolworths at St Ives Shoppingtown, 1961, the latest shopping centre to sprout up on Sydney’s growing upper north shore. Photograph: National Archives of Australia
A couple take in the view of Sydney Harbour from the southern pylon lookout on the Harbour Bridge in the early 1950s.A trainee data-entry clerk inputting information into the new IBM 1401 super-computer in the AMP building in Circular Quay, 1963.Milsons Point patrons have a swim and a lie in the sun at the North Sydney olympic pool, against the backdrops of Sydney Harbour and the Harbour Bridge during the summer of 1956.
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