MINI: Holden Museum Is Closing
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Christian O'Connell's show on Garfield Cangoon Institute. |
| 0:04.5 | Sad news. |
| 0:05.5 | Australia's oldest museum, the Holden Car Museum, is closing up in April. |
| 0:11.7 | I think they've been trying to find a buyer for a while. |
| 0:14.7 | But it's going to be no more out in a Chuka. |
| 0:16.8 | It's been there for years. |
| 0:17.8 | It's sad because it's not that it's not performing well. |
| 0:20.6 | People are still lined up there every day. |
| 0:22.5 | The guys who own it, brothers, they just want to retire, |
| 0:25.4 | but they can't because they don't want to work seven days a week anymore. |
| 0:27.9 | And no one wants to buy the museum. |
| 0:29.5 | It is such a shame that they haven't been trying out for a while to find someone to come |
| 0:32.8 | and fund it and take over it. And like Jack said, it's a big institution out there in Etchuka. And Holdens are, |
| 0:39.8 | they're almost like part of the kind of constitution, the unofficial constitution of Australia. |
| 0:45.3 | When I first moved here and I was sort of finding out about the country and what you're into |
| 0:49.1 | and what you care about, Holdens is this kind of thing where even if you're too young you never had one, your |
| 0:54.7 | mum or dad or your grandparents would have had a Holden. It's like a touchstone for every |
| 0:59.8 | community here in Australia is Holdens. I was going down a wormhole yesterday sort of reading up |
| 1:04.9 | on the company. I was curious to know what that logo is, the lion with his sort of paw outstretched. |
| 1:10.7 | I didn't know it's a lion on his a, he's got a wheel under his paw. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, he's got a tire, or a steering wheel. |
| 1:17.0 | No, it's a stone. |
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