A photo I took on December 27th, 2002 at 11:49am… but where?
I believe its on the northside of Brisbane as we were visiting someone out that way and an hour or two later I took a photo of JB Hifi at Chermside, but buggered if I can work out where this is exactly.
Did a lap down Gympie Road using Google Streetview but its not old enough. Nothing looks exactly right anyway.
COULD have been from the southside as we lived in Mount Gravatt at the time, so really anywhere between there and Chermside’ish via main roads I guess.
Apologies for the photo quality. It was 2002. Digital cameras weren’t much chop back then.
I’ve uploaded the original file (and a few from afterwards which are definitely from the Northside, EXIF data shows they were taken a few hours later) here in case another pixel or two can be gleaned from the original: https://www.palad.in/uploads/aussie.zone/mystery-location-2002/
My first instinct was to say Gympie Rd even before I saw any of the text explaining the location. But at the same time, I can’t think of where on Gympie it’d be. I can’t think of where there’s a shed like that, or a slip lane—Gympie doesn’t have too many of those coming off it.
In 2002 I lived just up from Gympie Rd and traversed it daily. Will send the photo to my parents and see if they have a better idea.
It reminded me so much of the Rode Road / Gympie Road intersection sort of area, but that church on the corner has been there since 2001 so there went my initial great theory.