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which classification?

west: people
west: places
west: timeline

what's out east way, do you think?

Penrith Greater Sydney Nepean River Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Panthers World of Entertainment Parramatta Blacktown drive-in cinema Wet-n-Wild water park Arnotts factory Seven Hills (Superman, fields, bulldozers) Featherdale Wildlife Park Rooty Hill RSL (pre-2003 nicknamed ‘Vegas of the West’) Westfield mall High Street shops: op shops, party supplies, hobbies, new-age, bargains, independent retailers seventeen shopping arcades (1960s, 1970s) Parisian arcades Nazi-occupied France Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1920s High Street - tearooms, barbers, bakeries, estate agencies 1950s movie theatre, Greek milk bars, electrical stores 1970s arcades Memory Mall Woodriff Street sandwich shops and barbers Memory Park war memorial 1980s arcade memories evoke extended domesticity Nepean Walkway tobacconist and funeral parlour Lorraine’s hand made baby’s wear and pretty doll shop Maxim’s hair salon The Cottage Lane Floraison Design Power of Beauty Devine Creations Prima Ballerina ballet shop Behind the Mask Fancy Dress store New Age store NK Centre; milk bar & greengrocer; car park One Stop Cake Decorations shop Wool Inn haberdashery shop Nepean Pizzas and Charcoals Elizabeth Arcade Broadwalk Arcade Calokerinos Arcade Elizabeth Arcade bookstore Rod’s Hair Shoppe Jon’s Salon Male Look Hairdressing Man About Town Gents Hair Stylist Cherie Hair Fashions Pamela Hair Boutique Central City Arcade Afro Varieties Salon Parker Arcade Active Career College upstairs solicitors’ offices Station Street Penrith Centre Skiptons Arcade real estate coaching business guitar school City Centre Arcade guitar school Riverlands arcade, car park and hobby store Quilt Shop Hair Fanatics The Shoe Shed Bish’s One Stop Bowls Shop Derby Skates Westfield (formerly Penrith Plaza) Reuben F. Scarf Hand Tailored Suits Allen Arcade Henry Street Henry Street Arcade Shiptons Polly’s Bead Shop [[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] - which has an [[east arterial end]] and a [[west arterial end]].

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/46949424504/in/dateposted-public/" title="Par"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/46949424504_ee0232f42d.jpg" width="206" height="500" alt="Par"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]]

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/47738866771/in/dateposted-public/" title="ra"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47738866771_6bbd1214d8.jpg" width="207" height="500" alt="ra"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]]

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/47738875201/in/dateposted-public/" title="mat"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47738875201_deacc0c1df.jpg" width="207" height="500" alt="mat"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]]

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/33861654188/in/dateposted-public/" title="ta"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33861654188_af7390c275.jpg" width="234" height="500" alt="ta"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]]

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] Road is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]] You don't have to read the stuff about the [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] if you don't want. It's not essential. I'm still biasing some form of linearity even when I'm trying not to. Invaders and settlers are temporal beings. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/47738871611/in/dateposted-public/" title="R"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47738871611_e6b4c96de9.jpg" width="250" height="201" alt="R"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> I don't remember...

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] Road is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]] You don't have to read the stuff about the [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] if you don't want. It's not essential. I'm still biasing some form of linearity even when I'm trying not to. Invaders and settlers are temporal beings. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/40772383883/in/dateposted-public/" title="Ro"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/40772383883_1eb34d2786_m.jpg" width="178" height="171" alt="Ro"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> I don't remember...my time in Sydney...

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] Road is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. Go explore at either the [[east arterial end]] or [[west arterial end]] You don't have to read the stuff about the [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] if you don't want. It's not essential. I'm still biasing some form of linearity even when I'm trying not to. Invaders and settlers are temporal beings. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/33861809508/in/dateposted-public/" title="Roa"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33861809508_1f936acc4f_m.jpg" width="240" height="154" alt="Roa"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> I don't remember...my time in Sydney...due to voluntary electroconvulsive therapy not long after...

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] Road is an east-west arterial road that spans from the named directions and passes through Sydney's CBD, so Wikipedia tells me. You don't have to read the stuff about the [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] if you don't want. It's not essential. I'm still biasing some form of linearity even when I'm trying not to. Invaders and settlers are temporal beings. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/33861809598/in/dateposted-public/" title="Road"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33861809598_1dbba6fa03_m.jpg" width="240" height="119" alt="Road"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> But: I don't remember...my time in Sydney...due to voluntary electroconvulsive therapy not long after... ...my first and only visit there, c. 2012-4? Here ends our trip from [[west arterial end]] to [[east arterial end]], or [[east arterial end]] to [[west arterial end]], if you prefer.

[[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]], an east-west arterial road passing through Sydney's CBD. You don't get to control what's deleted or kept thanks to invasion: land, memories, culture. Many things were forced into linearities they didn't fit into. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/157646073@N07/46949422004/in/album-72157678003682417/" title="Parramatta Road GMaps screenshot"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/46949422004_3d80e23b72.jpg" width="500" height="306" alt="Parramatta Road GMaps screenshot"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"> go [[west]] or [[east]] or [[east]] or [[west]], your choice!

Barraory Central Station Coogee Devonshire Street Cemetery George Street Leichhardt Mackenzie Street Martin Place North Head quarantine station South Head South Reef Sydney Harbour Sydney Heads Watsons Bay Barracluff ostrich farm, Diamond Bay The Gap Gap Park Double Bay Rose Bay Camp Cove Cliff Street Hawkesbury Lady Bay Hornby Lighthouse South Head lighthouse Bondi Beach Coogee Aquarium South Head’s eastern cliffs, ocean and camera obscura HMAS Watson [[Par]][[ra]][[mat]][[ta]] [[R]][[o]][[a]][[d]] - which has an [[east arterial end]] and a [[west arterial end]].

which classification? [[west: people]] [[west: places]] [[west: timeline]] what's out [[east]] way, do you think?

Joan Sutherland Shakespearian actors Neil Diamond Walter Benjamin author as child, author as teenager sandwich consumers arcade shortcut/thoroughfare pedestrians Nicholas Kepreotis customer queue (Wool Inn) woman with two children inspecting sugar paste roses scruffy boys waiting for haircuts (Rod’s Hair Shoppe) woman having hair braided (Afro Varieties Salon) haircut apprentices (Active Career College) [[west: places]] [[west: timeline]]

1800s: Parisian arcades and Victorian-era arcades come into existence 1920s: German philosopher Walter Benjamin begins his work *Passagenwerk* (‘Arcades Project’ documenting Parisian arcades of his in decline; Penrith’s High Street sees tearoom, barbers, bakeries, and estate agencies appear 1940s: Walter Benjamin takes his own life after unsuccessful attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France post-WWII: Benjamin’s manuscript hidden away in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1950s: Greek milk bars, electrical stores and a movie theatre appear in Penrith 1960s-1970s: Penrith shopping arcades appear on High Street; Lorraine’s shop displays beauty guides in shop window from this time; Elizabeth Arcade bookshop has selection suggesting that many households had *Encyclopedia Brittanica* in the 1970s 1980s: Berry begins to have lived experience with arcades as extensions of public and private spaces, which continues into her teenage years; Lorraine’s shop displays 1970s beauty guides in shop window 1982: collection of Benjamin’s work is published 2003: advertising laws ban ‘Vegas’ mention in regards to the Rooty Hill RSL and its sign proclaiming it the ‘Vegas of the West’ 2010s: scruffy boys sit waiting for haircuts in Rod’s Hair Shoppe; a woman patiently has hair braided a few doors down at Afro Varieties Salon [[west: people]] [[west: places]]

which classification? [[east: people]] [[east: places]] [[east: timeline]] what's out [[west]] way, do you think?

people committing suicide at cliffside Don Ritchie ‘Angel of the Gap’ hundreds of people who wanted to attempt suicide at the cliffside beachgoers with towels on shoulders Tony Abbott tourists whalers military British Prime Minister George French Angas white invaders (as sea monsters, as described by Cora Gooseberry’s father) early British settlers nudist beachgoers walkers-by smoking men in uniform 122 people who died in Dunbar disaster (many labelled wealthy Sydney residents returning from a London holiday) James Johnson, sole Dunbar survivor and deckhand, eventual lighthouse keeper Icelandic apprentice watchmaker and Johnson’s rescuer Steph (engraved into padlocks by lover proposing) women wearing bikinis eating strawberries previous visitors to naval base (as evidenced by initials carved) Annette Kellerman, professional swimmer nineteenth-centure female bathers men protesting mandatory bathing skirts retired-looking couple with matching outfits woman tracing something in wet sand with stick man attempting to take photograph beach strollers sunbathers [[east: places]] [[east: timeline]]

6000 years ago: Birrabirragal people live and fish in what is known as Camp Cove; Barraory (South Head) indicates presence of whales, kangaroos, fish, and its peoples Triassic Period to 1788: 220 million years of history under which Hawkesbury sandstone forms from accumulated layers of sediment 21 January 1788: the aforementioned areas divided up by invading peoples 1833: prohibition of ‘daylight bathing’ in Sydney beaches 1840s: displaced Aboriginal harbour clans and Cora Gooseberry (Queen of Sydney and Botany) camp in South Head; descriptions of British invaders begin to be recorded 1857: Dunbar passenger ship disaster 1900s: H.A.B. writes a postcard to Miss Bury, Sydney under constant expansion; Australia becomes a federation 1903: 1833 law repealed 1907: mandatory for men to wear bathing skirts leads to protests 1910: close-fitting costumes outdoor swimming called ‘Kellermans’ designed and worn by beachgoers (one-piece close-fitting costume that resembles today’s swimsuits) 1950s: people no longer solely relying on the Heads to enter Sydney with advent of air travel [[east: people]] [[east: places]]