Gary Vines' personal blog, mostly about archaeology and history, and some stuff about the world around me.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Peanut Butter Christmas
The former ETA Peanut Butter factory in Ballarat Braybrook is pretty much gone now. Once a shining modernist coloured glass box, designed by Frederick Romberg, and some of the framing is stacked.
It was apparently the only Australian design included in the 1962 publication Industriebau, a seminal international text on industrial design, published by the German Institute for Industry.
My recollection, however, is from the santa show done on the top of the awning - a sort of animated illuminated diorama.
Original Wolfgan Sievers image is here: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictures/0/0/3/im/pi003728.jpg
Image of christmas at ETA by Gary Ayton at http://www.ayton.id.au/gary/genealogy/images/196212_EtaFactory_Xmas.jpg
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