This is what the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show used to be like. My dad, Frank Rouse and my Uncle James Rouse (J. & F. Rouse Potato Growers, of Cora Lynn, telephone Iona 331 ) demonstrated the washing and packing of potatoes, on machinery provided by Port Implements. You could buy the finished produce, 4 pounds of potatoes for 2 shillings and six pence. The spectators were very formerly dressed compared to today.
Show special advertisement in The Age September 23, 1960
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That's Dad, leaning on the machine with his back towards the rollers.
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Love it - you'd really love to be lumping a bag of spuds around the show. :) Gorgeous pics.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. It was true that they didn't actually sell that many spuds! I love these photographs, back to the time when the show really was an Agricultural show.
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