{"id":3486,"date":"2021-09-29T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2021-11-10T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:45:19","slug":"caloundra-queensland-australia-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=3486","title":{"rendered":"CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA &#8211; Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3488\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-1-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>PLACE REPRESENTED: Caloundra, Queensland , Australia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ITEM: Humorous Ornament<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOTES: Old school Australian humour. The wheel rotates to display many humorous quotes on &#8220;The Sport of Kings&#8221;, which is not horseracing but rather betting on horseracing. Have you ever noticed that, inevitably, everything humorous about horse racing seems to revolve about bad luck with the horses? And yet we still gamble. Clearly the &#8220;Caloundra&#8221; is an afterthought to this tourist trinket. There wasn\u2019t, even, a race track at Caloundra (well not till after this trinket, in the mid 80s). Still, it&#8217;s a nice bit of 1960s kitsch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MADE FROM: wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MADE IN: unknown<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MANUFACTURER: unknown<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DIMENSIONS: 14.5cm x 22cm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3495\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3493\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3492\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3491\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3490\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3496\" src=\"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/caloundra-wall-ornament-9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLACE REPRESENTED: Caloundra, Queensland , Australia ITEM: Humorous Ornament NOTES: Old school Australian humour. The wheel rotates to display many humorous quotes on &#8220;The Sport of Kings&#8221;, which is not horseracing but rather betting on horseracing. 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