When it reopened it was not as good, but still needs to stay open.
Young Simmo said
12:43 AM Nov 29, 2015
Yes, I remember the original Museum up near Boulder and, when you went in everybody was crowded into the cage and it was lowered down about 100 metres in an old abandoned mine shaft. There could be 20 or more total strangers packed in and standing shoulder to shoulder in the cage. About half way down ,the operator would stop the decent and say, "Now I am going to show what Darkness is really like". He stopped the decent and turned the light off, and believe me I heard a lot of gasps, he left everybody in the darkness for probably 30 seconds to be sure they got the message . I did the trip to take friends down and went through it a few times. After that it was walking around the underground mine looking at Gold Seams in the walls maybe 50 metres away with spot light. I am talking about the 1980s and don't have any idea what it is like today but, if you happen to go past GOOD OLD KAL, check it out.
Simmo
From Golconda, and the Kalgoorlie Boulder Aero Club etc.
G'day Kieth.
Young Simmo said
12:49 AM Nov 29, 2015
Yes, I remember the original Museum up near Boulder, and when you went in everybody was crowded into the cage and it was lowered down about 100 metres in an old abandoned mine shaft. There could be 20 or more total strangers packed in and standing shoulder to shoulder in the cage. About half way down ,the operator would stop the decent and say, "Now I am going to show what Darkness is really like". He stopped the decent and turned the light off, and believe me I heard a lot of gasps, he left everybody in the darkness for probably 30 seconds to be sure they got the message . I did the trip to take friends down and went through it a few times. After that it was walking around the underground mine looking at Gold Seams in the walls maybe 50 metres away with a spot light. I am talking about the 1980s, and don't have any idea what it is like today but, if you happen to go past GOOD OLD KAL, check it out.
Simmo
From Golconda, and the Kalgoorlie Boulder Aero Club etc.
G'day Kieth.
Young Simmo said
12:52 AM Nov 29, 2015
Sorry about that, it is Sat Night, and I went to the TOOT and filled my glass and made a mess of things. Ha, Ha, He, He.
Naughty Young Simmo.
Hey Jim said
06:40 AM Nov 29, 2015
Young Simmo wrote:
Sorry about that, it is Sat Night, and I went to the TOOT and filled my glass and made a mess of things. Ha, Ha, He, He.
Naughty Young Simmo.
Yes Young Simmo,
Now you have us all wondering exactly what it is, that you filled that wine glass with.
Uah Uah Uah, He fell in the Loo'ah, Pulled the chain and up he came ready to do it all over again.
I know off the Naughty corner.
Hey Jim
-- Edited by Hey Jim on Sunday 29th of November 2015 06:41:48 AM
Moonraker said
08:09 PM Nov 30, 2015
The WA state government is facing massive reduction in its tax take due to the down turn in iron ore price and the amount of GST it has to hand over to the East.
Perhaps the museum management should ask the mining billionaires such as Gina and Twiggy to cover the loss each year. I'm sure if asked they would seriously consider saving this great place in return for a brass plaque on the wall! It would probably a be a tax free donation so all up the amount is not very big for billionaires who have benefitted from the mining industry.
I am aways in favor of not relying on governments for this type of stuff anyway.
Dougwe said
08:29 PM Nov 30, 2015
Edit........wrong thread
-- Edited by Dougwe on Monday 30th of November 2015 08:32:57 PM
It will be a shame if this Museum does close..........
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-28/iconic-mining-hall-kalgoorlie-future-in-doubt-lease-end/6982836?section=wa
K.J.
Yes, I remember the original Museum up near Boulder and, when you went in everybody was crowded into the cage and it was lowered down about 100 metres in an old abandoned mine shaft. There could be 20 or more total strangers packed in and standing shoulder to shoulder in the cage. About half way down ,the operator would stop the decent and say, "Now I am going to show what Darkness is really like". He stopped the decent and turned the light off, and believe me I heard a lot of gasps, he left everybody in the darkness for probably 30 seconds to be sure they got the message . I did the trip to take friends down and went through it a few times. After that it was walking around the underground mine looking at Gold Seams in the walls maybe 50 metres away with spot light. I am talking about the 1980s and don't have any idea what it is like today but, if you happen to go past GOOD OLD KAL, check it out.
Simmo
From Golconda, and the Kalgoorlie Boulder Aero Club etc.
G'day Kieth.
Yes, I remember the original Museum up near Boulder, and when you went in everybody was crowded into the cage and it was lowered down about 100 metres in an old abandoned mine shaft. There could be 20 or more total strangers packed in and standing shoulder to shoulder in the cage. About half way down ,the operator would stop the decent and say, "Now I am going to show what Darkness is really like". He stopped the decent and turned the light off, and believe me I heard a lot of gasps, he left everybody in the darkness for probably 30 seconds to be sure they got the message . I did the trip to take friends down and went through it a few times. After that it was walking around the underground mine looking at Gold Seams in the walls maybe 50 metres away with a spot light. I am talking about the 1980s, and don't have any idea what it is like today but, if you happen to go past GOOD OLD KAL, check it out.
Simmo
From Golconda, and the Kalgoorlie Boulder Aero Club etc.
G'day Kieth.
Sorry about that, it is Sat Night, and I went to the TOOT and filled my glass and made a mess of things. Ha, Ha, He, He.
Naughty Young Simmo.
Yes Young Simmo,
Now you have us all wondering exactly what it is, that you filled that wine glass with.
Uah Uah Uah, He fell in the Loo'ah, Pulled the chain and up he came ready to do it all over again.
I know off the Naughty corner.
Hey Jim
-- Edited by Hey Jim on Sunday 29th of November 2015 06:41:48 AM
Perhaps the museum management should ask the mining billionaires such as Gina and Twiggy to cover the loss each year. I'm sure if asked they would seriously consider saving this great place in return for a brass plaque on the wall! It would probably a be a tax free donation so all up the amount is not very big for billionaires who have benefitted from the mining industry.
I am aways in favor of not relying on governments for this type of stuff anyway.
Edit........wrong thread
-- Edited by Dougwe on Monday 30th of November 2015 08:32:57 PM