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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1464025" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Thanks for researching that for me GB. It pretty much sums it up. We look at the Battle of Brisbane as being humorous these days but it must have been interesting times and very hectic, there was a real fear that Australia would be over run by the Japs and we were very thankfull that the US were here. Even today there are many structures still in use that the US forces built. Sadly Cloudland Ballroom high up on a hill at Newstead was demolished 20 odd years ago and was built by the US as a venue for the troops and had a beautifull timber dance floor supposedly on some sprung mechanism and the whole place was a substantial structure so it gives you an idea of the extent of the US occupation here to warrant building that. In the 40's Brisbane was a bit of a backwater and had virtually no entertainment venues. Cloudland was one if my regular haunts of a Sat night in the early 70's, a great place to pick up chics.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1464025, member: 16453"] Thanks for researching that for me GB. It pretty much sums it up. We look at the Battle of Brisbane as being humorous these days but it must have been interesting times and very hectic, there was a real fear that Australia would be over run by the Japs and we were very thankfull that the US were here. Even today there are many structures still in use that the US forces built. Sadly Cloudland Ballroom high up on a hill at Newstead was demolished 20 odd years ago and was built by the US as a venue for the troops and had a beautifull timber dance floor supposedly on some sprung mechanism and the whole place was a substantial structure so it gives you an idea of the extent of the US occupation here to warrant building that. In the 40's Brisbane was a bit of a backwater and had virtually no entertainment venues. Cloudland was one if my regular haunts of a Sat night in the early 70's, a great place to pick up chics. Ken [/QUOTE]
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