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a woman in a bathing suit standing next to a parking meter and wearing a blue sash

Vintage postcard of a Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast Australia) meter maid in her official gold bikini & tiara. 1964-present. Meter maids top up the parking meters in the tourist areras, to avoid fines. They leave a courtesy advertising brochure & accept donations for photos. (minkshmink) #goldcoast #surfersparadise #australia #metermaids #sixties #goldbikini #tourism

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people are on the beach and in the water near palm trees, sand and buildings

Surfers Paradise, a coastal resort 75 km south of central Brisbane, is the best-known of the settlements on the Gold Coast. It includes the canal suburbs of Isle of Capri, Paradise Island, Paradise Waters and Chevron Island. Since the 1950s Surfers Paradise has entered the Australian imagination as the ultimate beach resort.

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On 17 February 1942 there was a Japanese reconnaissance flight over Sydney Harbour by “the Glen”, a float plane that could be dismantled and stored at the front of a submarine. Despite the brownout in Sydney at the time, the Japanese were able to see the lights at the Garden Island Naval base and at dawn count 23 ships in Sydney harbour, including five submarines and three military ships. They did take a while to find their own submarine, however, but did finally locate it off the north…

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