More Info →Radio 2ZA Astronaut and "Moon Man"

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on July 23 1969 with the caption, "Radio station 2ZA has gone to the moon - or at least they pretended to yesterday. Broadcasting for two hours in the PDC, two of the announcers present were dressed as a moon man and an astronaut. Here Girls' High School pupils are confronted by astronaut Ross Taylor and 'moon man' Johnny Shearer (right)."

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

July 1969

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_021074

Format

B&W negative