New Zealand
Cities and Their Slickers
Everybody goes to New Zealand for its Natural Beauty. Some people won't go there because they expect nothing else!
But you'd be surprised. The cities there are much larger than you'd expect. Than I expected, is to say.
Art Deco decoration decorated
Napier
Napier has a well-deserved reputation of having been built in an Art Deco style.
And so it is; as a guy we met at the airport when leaving remarked: "It's like a Disneyland decor."
So not too much of that; not overly fond of that so-called style anyway.
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| 1/1000 scale Hollywood Bowl model | Rothman's | National Tobacco Company |
That 'baccy thing is supposed to have been influenced by Chicago architect Frank Sullivan.
It looks the part. Sullivan himself has long since expired, regretted by some.
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| Quay Street (go there for the Maritime Museum) |
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| from Auckland Museum | view on the Bridge | hazy view |
Christchurch |
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"Earthquake City" dem dam quakes just keep coming |
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| Of course we'd wondered if we really should go there with that whole lot of shakin' goin' on. What was totally unexpected: we wanted to drive up a hill overlooking the city, but all roads had been closed down. Not because of ghouls like us, disaster tourists so to speak, but because it was actually dangerous. Also, it's beyond my powers to give a photographic impression of the awful destruction. You see those pictures but they just don't do it justice. They can't. They couldn't possibly. So I gave up on that right away. That very hill, off which whole properties had slid down to the depths below, ruining their owners and killing 'em, one fell swoop, in the process was (quite cleverly) shut off by empty containers; these also limited new landslides. People who still lived on that Gold Coast had to climb down to a porta-potty and back up the hill for a bowel/bladder function, as the sewers were totally ruined. Talk about Filthy Rich. The second night we staid there we had 2 rumbles, fairly modest ones for Christchurch, fairly heavy ones for us— but we slept right through the first one. |
| City Scenes on the road |
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| Hokitika | these place-names! | drive-in liquor store |
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more murals more UFO's |
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| UFO-Loo | mural |
| Auckland, Mangere just like all over the world |
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only, it seemed to last more like a week
and such a fat lot of waste, too!
'That's All, Folks!'
Culverden
not what you'd call a 'city'
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