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death of a chair 1972

While I was studying at teacher's college in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1972, I shared a house in Spring Hill with my fellow students. It was affectiona...
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While I was studying at teacher's college in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1972, I shared a house in Spring Hill with my fellow students. It was affectionately known to all and sundry as 'The Hovel' and we were The Hovelmen. One Winter night my fellow reisidents decided they did not like our oly proper lounge chair and and decided to demolish it with what ever implements of mass destruction were to had. I secretly suspect alcohol might have been consumed in large quantities prior to the event. I did not take part as this chair was often the only thing that separated my bum from the cold hard floor. Taken with my small Kodak camera that took 126 film. A shot preserved for history in 1972.
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