24-Oct-34 [people picnicing at Como Park on the day of its official opening]

ID: 11919
Photographer: Lucke-Myer, W.L.
Creator: Lucke-Myer, W.L.
Copyright: This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced for other purposes without the prior permission of the Stonnington Local History Archives
Org ID: 8647

Description: Black and white photograph of people picnicing at Como Park on the day of its official opening - 24 October 1934. Over 7000 people attended. The park was originally swampy land - part of the Como Estate. In the early 1930s, the Myer family gave money to council to pay unemployed men to drain and recontour the land in order to develop it as a park.

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