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)." This image shows a male pupil watching the pair.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

July 1969

Digitisation id

2017N_2017-20_021075

Format

B&W negative

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Other