In the mid-1990s the plant was upgraded & a deepwater ocean outfall was completed to meet water quality standards.
Sydney's Water Board maintained an untreated sewage outlet not far from the north end of the beach until the 1960s when a sewage treatment plant was built. By the 1980s topless bathing had become common at Bondi Beach, especially at the southern end. The rule became increasingly anachronistic during the 1950s and was replaced in 1961 with one requiring bathers be "clad in a proper and adequate bathing costume", allowing for more subjective judgement of decency.
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While vacationing in Australia during 1951, American movie actress Jean Parker made international headlines when she was escorted off the beach after Laidlaw determined her bikini was too skimpy. Waverley Council's beach inspectors, including the Aub Laidlaw, were responsible for enforcing the law and were required to measure the dimensions of swimwear and order offenders against public decency off the beach. 52 (1935) governed the decency of swimming costumes and was in force between 19, and resulted in public controversy as the two-piece " bikini" became popular after World War II. The beach was a focal point of the 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests, organized to oppose proposed dress standards for beachgoers. īondi Beach was long a center for efforts to fight indecency in beach attire. The multicultural migration funded and drove the growth of the suburb throughout the 1990s into the turn of the century, moving it steadily from its working-class roots towards an upper/middle-class enclave similar to its neighbors of Rose Bay and Bellevue Hill which was listed as the most expensive postcode in the country from 2003 to 2005. A stream of Jewish immigration continued into the 21st century and the area has a number of synagogues and a kosher butcher. Following World War II, Bondi Beach and the Eastern Suburbs became home for Jewish migrants from Poland, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany. īondi Beach was a working class suburb throughout most of the twentieth century with migrant people from New Zealand comprising the majority of the local population.
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On 6 February 1938 five people drowned and over 250 people were rescued or resuscitated after a series of large waves struck the beach and pulled people back into the sea, a day that became known as "Black Sunday". 'Bondi Bay' - a photo from circa 1900 from The Powerhouse Museum The opening of the pavilion in the same year attracted a huge crowd of 200,000. By 1929 an estimated 60,000 people were visiting the beach on a summer weekend day. The Waverley Council was responsible for building the first surf bathing sheds on the beach in 1903. The first tramway to the beach was established in 1884. In mid-1882, Bondi Beach became a public beach. However, the Municipal Council believed that the Government needed to intervene to make the beach a public reserve. As the beach became increasingly popular, O'Brien threatened to stop public beach access. Between 18 O'Brien purchased his father-in-law's share of the land, renamed the land the "O'Brien Estate," and made the beach and the surrounding land available to the public as a picnic ground and amusement resort. In 1851 Edward Smith Hall and Francis O'Brien purchased 200 acres (0.8 square kilometres) of the Bondi area that included most of the beach frontage, which was named "The Bondi Estate." Hall was O'Brien's father-in-law. In 1809 the road builder William Roberts received a grant of land in the area.
The Australian Museum records that Bondi means place where a fight using bondi sticks (nulla nullas or fighting sticks) took place.
It describes the meaning as "noise made by sea waves breaking on the beach," which is essentially the definition of "surf" in contemporary American English. The first record of "bondi" by European-ancestry Australians was made between 18. "Bondi," originally "Boondi" is an Aboriginal word which has the same meaning as the word "surf" in English. History Bondi Beach, Vicar's Estate Auction, 1923, subdivision plan
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Bondi Beach is one of the most visited tourist sites in Australia sparking two hit tv series Bondi Rescue and Bondi Vet. Bondi, North Bondi, and Bondi Junction are neighboring suburbs. Bondi Beach is located 7 kilometres (4 miles) east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council, in the Eastern Suburbs.
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