Black and white photograph of the first Kmart in Australia . Situated on the corner of Blackburn Road and Burwood Hwy East Burwood.kmart, store, cnr burwood hwy & blackburn road east burwood

The first transistor radio (the Regency TR-1) was produced by Regency Electronics in cooperation with Texas Instruments in 1954. Transistor 4 , the AWA transistor radio was manufactured by Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited (AWA), Australia's largest and most prominent twentieth century producer of radios, televisions, audio and telecommunications equipment. Transistor radios went on to become the most popular electronic communication device of the 1960s and 1970s. Billions of transistor radios are estimated to have been sold worldwide between the 1950s and 2012. They were exceptionally popular amongst young people in Australia due to their portability, allowing them to be taken wherever you wanted to gather with friends or, due to the headphone attachment, without disturbing those around you. These pocket radios are representative of technological developments which had a vast influence on social life and activities throughout Australia.4 pocket transistor radios of various brands. No. 1 orange Sanyo RP 1280 manufactured in 1979/1980. No2. is white bakelite No. 2 K--181 pocket transistor made by the Kmart Corporation c1975 and No. 3 is a Nation Brand AM Portable Receiver made in Hong Kong c1980. No. 4 Is an AWA Radiola B121 Solid State pocket transistor. All of them include a socket to plug in an ear piece.No. 1 on the front "SANYO RP 1280 and tuning dial. On the back: "SANYO MODEL RP 1280/ DC 3 V 2 x "AA" BATTERY/ SANYO ELECTRIC CO. LTD." No. 2 on the front "K-181" and tuning dial. On the back "Code 600-857/ AM POCKET RADIO/DC-3VC (UM-3x2)/ART 181. HONG KONG" No. 3 AM Portable Receiver Nation Brand on front No 4. on the front: below dial - AWA Radiola B121 ad at bottom "SOLID STATE" On the back: AWA Thorn Consumer Products Pty. Ltd./Model No. B121/Batteries 2 x UM-3 OR AA Cells/AM 520 -1620KHz/ Serial No. 75686/ Made in Hong Kong"radio communications, transistor radio

A Kmart All Pro Super tennis racquet. Materials: Wood, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Nylon, Enamel, String, Leather, Adhesive tape, Plastictennis

Fast Forward was an audio-cassette based music magazine conceived and edited by Bruce Milne and Andrew Maine. Both had music programs on radio station 3RRR and Milne ran the successful independent record label Au Go Go Records. Michael Trudgeon joined them as the designer for the magazine. Each issue comprised a cassette tape interspersed with music and was packaged with printed artwork. The magazine was distributed in record shops for $3.50. Thirteen issues were produced between November 1980 and October 1982. Regular contributors included Jeff Holland, who created elaborate sound collages which were combined with elaborate illustrations in the booklet that accompanied the audio cassette. Many ground breaking Australian bands were first published on Fast Forward tapes including Hunters and Collectors. An international audience was first exposed to music from Australian bands including Laughing Clowns, the Go-Betweens, Rowland Howard’s ‘Shivers’ as performed by The Young Charlatans, The Scientists, the M Squared label, Dead Can Dance and Pel Mel’s ‘No Word from China’ recorded as a ‘demo’. Fast Forward was the world’s first audio-cassette music magazine. As the magazine’s presence and reputation grew, international acts began to submit material for publication including The Cure. Interview subjects included Nick Cave, The Cure’s, Robert Smith, Mark E Smith of The Fall, and the manager of The Clash.Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, one crossword, one subscription pamphlet, and one pamphlet titled 'The Kmart Herald'.music, design, magazines

Slide. CHS, Marong Shopping Centre, High Street, Kangaroo Flat (Bendigo). Also commonly referred to as Kmart Shopping Centre. View inside the Shopping Centre. Date: 7.4.79.slide, marong, marong shopping centre, chs, marong shopping centre, high street, kangaroo flat, kmart shopping centre, lansell plaza, centro lansell

Slide. CHS, Marong Shopping Centre, High Street, Kangaroo Flat. Re named Lansell Plaza then Centro Lansell. Commonly referred to as Kmart shopping centre. View inside. Date: 7.4.79slide, marong, shopping centre, marong shopping centre, high street, kangaroo flat. re named lansell plaza then centro lansell. commonly referred to as kmart shopping centre. view inside. date: 7.4.79

Slide. CHS, Marong Shopping Centre, High Street, Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo. Name changed to Lasell Plaza then Centro Lansell, commonly referred to as Kmart. Vie inside of centre. Date: 7.4.79slide, marong, marong shopping centre, chs, marong shopping centre, high street, kangaroo flat. lasell plaza, centro lansell kmart

A view of the newly completed (1979) Greensborough Centre (now called Greensborough Plaza). Shows the exterior KMart sign and multi storey car park. Also an aerial view of the complex. Several photographs of the central area.Digital copy of newspaper articlegreensborough plaza, kmart greensborough

Closing time for the Theatre Royal Melbourne’s Theatre Royal opened 16 July 1855 at 236 Bourke Street, between Swanston and Russell, in the heart of the city’s entertainment district and it was comparable in size to London’s Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It was rebuilt in 1872 following a fire, remodelled in 1904, and demolished in 1933, due in part to the Great Depression, and also to the growing popularity of moving pictures. On the site was erected Manton’s department store, then Coles, Target, and now Kmart. The Quaker Girl, a 1910 Edwardian musical comedy with long running success in London, Paris and Broadway, opened in Melbourne at the Theatre Royal on 22 July 1933. Stars Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott were to become husband and wife, their Sydney wedding photograph now an iconic Australian image of that time. The theatre closed 13 November 1933. MCK080 Published: The Age 4 November 1933 Featured in "Newsworthy: Melbourne in photographs 1933-1936" exhibition at East Melbourne Library, October to December 2023. Exhibition caption by project volunteer, Louise McKenzie. THEATRE ROYAL (1933, November 4). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved October 16, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203364238 Additional research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer and librarian, Fiona Campbell: The Theatre Royal closed on 13 November 1933. During demolition in December, a worker was pinned by the legs under two tons of collapsing ceiling concrete. Miraculously he escaped with only a broken leg. A commemorative plaque was unveiled in 1937, displayed at the front of Manton's department store. The event was covered in The Age on 20 Dec 1937. It was a beautiful blue enamel and brass with the comedy and tragedy masks, one crying and one laughing, at the top with a timeline of the theatre underneath. Its whereabouts became unknown after the multiple changes with department stores on the site. In 2019 Greg Sampson set out on a mission to find it and in 2021 eventually tracked it down, on a wall behind the door of a staff tea room in Kmart. After much arduous lobbying by Greg it was eventually relocated to the Kmart arcade on the site where the Theatre Royal was originally located. Annette Cooper's history of Manton's and the Bourke Street site described the process of acquisition and demolition of the theatre: "Around 1933, the theatre came on the market – ‘a gift from heaven’ for its enterprising neighbours. Manton’s acquired the theatre and started planning for its demolition to enable the expansion of the store. William Manton and his sons, Jack and Ivor, watched the final production at the theatre, Harold Fraser-Simson’s musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains. 'It was, for the theatre-goers, a nostalgic last appearance, an emotional night, the end of an era. There were those who were mortified at the prospect of a store taking the place of their palace of dreams.' Even Whelan the Wrecker sensed the importance of the occasion and donated four bricks from the theatre to the National Museum of Victoria. They are the oldest bricks in the museum’s collection and form part of its Whelan the Wrecker collection." UNDER BIG FALL OF CONCRETE (1933, December 8). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved April 14, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243215969 The Relocation of the Theatre Royal Plaque, Greg Sampson, https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/news/item/989-the-relocation-of-the-theatre-royal-plaque Photo of theatre interior, Arts Centre Melbourne, https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#details=ecatalogue.184409 OLD THEATRE ROYAL (1937, December 20). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved March 25, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205554847 AMATEUR ATHLETICS -- LIFE SAVING DISPLAY MEMORIAL PLAQUE UNVEILED (1937, December 20). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 15. Retrieved March 25, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205554863 It's smart to be thrifty: the story of Manton's department store, Annette Cooper, https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/3%20Annette%20Cooper%20-%20It%E2%80%99s%20smart%20to%20be%20thrifty%2C%20the%20story%20of%20Manton%27s%20department%20store.pdfPhotographer notations on slide: "Theatre Royale 1933 B4". theatres, 1930-1939, fires, musicals, films, department stores, demolished buildings, commemorative plaques, incidents, concrete, whelan the wrecker, bricks, kmart, bourke street melbourne, manton's department store, theatre royal, coles, target

7258 Cannon Arthur Rutter Stawell 24/6/1988 -1 Cannon Arthur Rutter Stawell 24/6/1988 -2 Carol Hughes, Michelle Harrington 18/6/1986 -3 Angela Murphy, Doug Hutton -4 CYNTHIA Peterson, Michelle Paul -5 Andrea Cooper, Ashley Cooper 30/12/1991 -6 Chris Reid, Stawell -7 David Lovell Stawell -8 Terri Scarsi, Helen Raitt, Colin Raitt, Kyle Raitt, Barry Cashin -9 Wedding Photo, Linda Hateley and Raymond Schampers -10 Paul & Carolyn Trowell of Stawell with Joshua. $1000 of Goods from Kmart -11 Richie Cashin Stawell F.C. -12 Christopher Miller 5y/o, Julie & Geoff Stawell. Santa -13 Marnoo breeders Ken and Helen Newall and their sons Andrew and David with one of the Oak-Lea stud’s show rams. -14 Master Pianist Alexander Semetsky. Student Jonathan Thomas, Great Western -15 Susan Lahie from Wisconsin USA. Brett Haumann from South Africa. Graeme McDonough Stawell -16 Helga Saunders. Stawell council wants new Telecom Tower. -17 Peter Marshall Stawell. Community Residents Health Department Wimmera Base -18 Stawell Builders Award Barry Larkin 27/11/1987 -19 Wedding 1/1/1988 Stawell -20 Norma Cosson Art exhibition Stawell 29/6/1987 -21 Mrs Morcom, Belinda Morcom, Geoff Morcom 11/7/1986 -22 Vesper Hewetson, Allen Templeton Stawell 11/6/1986 -23 Stawell Lions Club, Annette Johns, John Jones, Len Hunter, Colin Mibus -24 Mixer Lindsay Seehusen & mixer John Wilson, Stawell 11/12/1985 B/W Photographs