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11a Clarke Street Crows Nest, an address forever etched in my memory. I first went there back in 1969 as an 8yr old kid to choose a telescope as my Christmas Present. I wound up with an Amasco 2.4" Refractor, though I coveted the 2.4" Unitron which was about 30 bucks more (a lot back then!) In '72 I got my dream, a 2.4" Unitron which cost I think $99 which was still well over a weeks wage for most workers.
From 1973 to 75 I built an 8" Newtonian. I still have the optics and spider but the rest is long gone apart from Eric's infamous book on how to build your own telescope. I gave the Amasco OTA to the owner of a now well known online astronomy shop back in the mid-late 90s when he was working up at the AAO. The 2.4" Unitron I gave away to a girlfriends younger brother in the early 80s.
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