Upon his discharge from war service in New Guinea, Bert Cowell headed straight back to Avalon Beach. At his wife’s suggestion he thought he would ‘have a go’ at green-grocering. The truck he bought had no brakes but undaunted Bert crawled around in first gear “and then I jumped out and shoved a brick under […]

This classic photo shows the commercial area of Avalon Beach in the late 1930s. ‘Avalon Beach Store’ was built by Stan Wickham in 1934 and in the same year, the ‘Avalon Service Station’ and the neighbouring NRMA Patrol Hut were built by A.J. Small. J.T. Stapleton’s huge real estate advertising sign and agency has been […]

This postcard from the 1920s shows the site in the immediate foreground where the surf club was built in 1934. Car parking in those days was really a ‘free-for-all’ and when necessary spilled up the hill (now the eastern extension of Avalon Parade before it bends south and becomes Surfside Avenue). Note the absence of […]

This great photo was one of a short series taken by professional photographer, Rex Hazlewood in the early 1920’s and may have been commissioned by AJSmall. It has been used by the Society as their insignia photo on letterheads, membership forms and newsletters since 1983. It appears to have been taken from the Bellevue Avenue […]