00:01It's been 90 years since Luna Park opened its gates here on Sydney Harbour
00:06and this park has become an institution in Sydney's cultural landscape
00:11and an icon facing the foot of the Harbour Bridge.
00:14To celebrate the occasion, the park's invited 90 90-year-olds along
00:19to come and reminisce about the park and what it's meant to them.
00:22And one of those is Barbara Long who joins me here for a trip on the Ferris wheel.
00:26Now Barbara can you tell me, can you share with me a memory about when you came to Luna Park as a young person?
00:32Yes, well as a young person I lived in Paddington.
00:35I was born and bred in Paddington and we didn't have very much money.
00:39So we used to every, maybe once every six months or something
00:43all the kids in our street would get together and we'd pack our lunch
00:47and we'd get the tram and then the ferry across to Luna Park and spend the day.
00:52That was our big day out, it was like our backyard.
00:55And has the park changed a lot since then?
00:57Oh yes, it's much more modern now, yes much more.
01:01Do you feel that it's kept a lot of that character, the original character of the park?
01:06Well I haven't had a lot of time to look around today but I think so, yes.
01:11As long as the front of it's all still intact, it's Luna Park.
01:18Absolutely.
01:19Now Luna Park's management say that today is a great occasion for them to celebrate the work that's been done here over its 90 year life.
01:28They say the offering it presents today is for kids to come along and get off their screens
01:34and have a bit of an in-person experience and it hopes to continue to do that for many more years to come.
01:39And what can we do for kids to do is play golf in this.
01:45And in a
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