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I had a family connection to this property a few years back.
Millungera Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station.



Millungera Station
Location in Queensland

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It is located about 144 kilometres (89 mi) north east of Cloncurry and 197 kilometres (122 mi) south of Croydon in Queensland.

The station occupies an area of approximately one million acres, 1,562 square miles (4,046 km2), and is the primary breeding ground for the Acton Land and Cattle Company, which is able to stock 40,000 head of cattle.[1] The property has at least one outstation, Crowfels, which has a Santa Gertrudis stud.[2] The station is situated in the Queensland Gulf country a generally flat tropical savannah with plains of mitchell grass. The property has some frontage along the Flinders River and is close to the Saxby River.

 

That sounds amazing. I like this outgoing type of group. I'm looking forward to getting better acquainted with you folks.

 

I'm still very new here but was made to feel welcome from the get go. I drop in and out depending on work commitments and i'm always made to feel as though I'm part of the family. And........something very special happens at Christmas time that you absolutely have to participate in (if you celebrate Christmas that is).

 

Just wait until you venture beyond this "Introductions" corner and share and/or ask about some stuff!

What are the records in your profile picture?

Even newer but ditto.

 

I do celebrate Christmas and the records are my collection of original Sun Records 78 RPM shellac Elvis Presley's recordings. All five records he recorded under contract for Sun Records before Sam Phillips sold his contract to RCA. I bought these from the lady who purchased them originally new as a young teenager and is now almost 80 years old. They were bought in my home state Texas in the mid-fifties and I was the second person to own them. When I first saw them, I couldn't believe I was seeing the whole collection in that kind of condition. She remembered what she paid for them back in the 50s and she asked me if they would be worth $100 a piece. I could have given her $500 and walked away with all 5 but instead I asked her to sit down so I could tell her the value. She had no hesitancy carrying them and showing them before I told her how much they were worth. After that neither one of us wanted to pick them up.

 

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That's a lovely story

 

I bet she was pleased once she'd got over the shock! And probably very happy to sell them to someone who now gets pleasure from owning them. Win-win!

 

They made me very nervous at first as fragile as they were. I must have checked on them three or four times during the night. Like a first-time parent who just brought home their newborn. Haha.

 

Welcome to the forums @Linny!

I am trying to gain a bit of knowledge in antique photographs as I really enjoy my RPPC postcards.

What areas/items do you collect?

Happy Hunting,
Joe

 

I have no set pattern to my collection. I love the golden age of Hollywood and the Hollywood canteen. This started when my grandfather passed away years ago and some things that he brought home from his time in the service as a Fighting SeaBee in the 101st Construction Battalion was found in his closet where it had been on a shelf for more than 50 years. I was given these things and among the items were well over 200 unused postcards as well as ones written by him and sent to my grandmother while he was on the west coast and Saipan and then on to Hawaii.
I also found almost 70 signatures from the Hollywood canteen that I did not recognize more than a couple of at the time.Through my time studying all these items I managed to put a timeline together on where he was and when he was there.
I have everything from his original paperwork to his discharge papers and everything in between. I also have the US flag that was used at his funeral and put on his coffin. I have his work tags from Pearl Harbor.
The Hollywood canteen was a real showing of American patriotism and I fell in love with the whole idea that our country could pull together to do what they did. I saw a photo with the vice president of the United States standing next to Bob Hope standing next to I believe it was Errol Flynn or Clark Gable in the kitchen of the Hollywood canteen. One was washing dishes the other was drying and the third was putting them up in the cabinets. Can you imagine that happening today? Like I said before I was hooked and I wanted to take each one of those signatures and learn who they belonged to and put a face to them.
It was not a quick thing to accomplish but I walked away with all but one signature identified and I started studying on the life of these people who was kind enough to show a little encouragement to the servicemen when they were just about to go out to war. Some left the Hollywood canteen and shipped out and never came home. It's an amazing story and I have some pretty amazing signatures to show for it. During the time of me studying and learning I met some pretty influential people in the business and I didn't even realize it at the time. I met some real movers and shakers in the industry without even trying. So my collections run from autographs of Laverne & Shirley and Get Smart Don Adams and Barbara Feldon all the way to the Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln. And finally I collect Civil War memorabilia. I didn't mean to make this so long but I don't get to discuss these things with very many people as the interest is not there like it used to be.