A Walk Backwards

We love our shopping here on the Gold Coast.

In fact the city boasts one of the highest retail space per capita in the country.

Such a pity they feel compelled totear down perfectly good retail spaces to builder even more retail spaces.

But that is the fate which befell The Walk sometime in the late 1980s. Great period character expunged for bland white facades - it's the story of Surfers Paradise.

The Walk was two streets back from Surfers Paradise beach and about 400 metres north of the iconic Cavill Avenue.

Built in the 1950s, the arcade provided a thoroughfare between what is now Surfers Paradise Boulevard to Orchid Avenue.

Judging by this 1960s image of The Walk, perspex covered, (source: GC Local History Library) Nick and Nora's souvenirs must date from the late 1950s.

See the mural on the building on the right? Go to the link for a clearer view) If memory serves correctly it was a tiled fresco.

Intriguing but what does it mean? It covers everything from Aboriginal dream time paintings, ancient Egypt to the industrial revolution and the space race.

How educational. Weird, but educational.

Where is it now?

Who knows, probably smashed to bits on some landfill somewhere.