Jack RYAN
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119 Annetts Parade 1948. Photo RF.
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A. J. (JACK) RYAN.
119 ANNETTS PARADE MOSSY POINT.
A. J. (Jack) Ryan set up Radio Station 2CA in 1931, when Canberra's population was about 8,000. He operated the station from his Kingston electrical and records shop for two years before setting it up at a larger site in what is now Fyshwick. He had a controlling interest in it until 1937 when it was bought by Denison Estates, which became Macquarie Broadcasting.
In the early 1930s there were a few telephones, and telegrams. Telegrams were sent by a telegraph office elsewhere using Morse Code, and upon receipt at Canberra a written copy would be produced and delivered to the address, usually by a boy on a bicycle.
At the radio station at Fyshwick, Ryan could hear the lunch time train as it whistled for the level crossing over Dairy Flat Road (between Fyshwick and the railway station). He and his assistant would start playing some 12 inch (30 cm) 78 RPM records, which were usually classical music. Ryan would go by car to the station, where a porter would throw the Sydney papers into the back seat as Ryan lurched to a short stop, Ryan would then hasten back to the Station. He would then present The News, reading from the newspapers. There are people still alive who were around then, and in their lifetimes we've gone from "Ryan's news service" where the news came by train, to real-time colour television showing things happening on the other side of the world.
Ryan bought two blocks at the then Connells Point, nos 117 and 119 Annetts Pde, and in 1946 he contracted a Queanbeyan builder named Weatherby to construct a basic beach house on 119. After World War 2 building materials were in short supply, and the beach house was built using materials from three huts at the old World War 1 Internment Camp at Molonglo. It was where Molonglo Mall Fyshwick is today, not far from the old 2CA studio and transmitting mast. The house was unlined, and the only room walled off was a kitchenette. A rainwater tank was connected to one tap over the kitchen sink. There was no electricity, and an outside pan toilet was included.
In 1948 Ryan took up a career opportunity in Cessnock, and sold 119 Annetts Parade to Netta and Clarrie Fisher. In the 1950s he sold 117 Annetts Parade to Nancy and Albert Arlen.
Ryan died in 1984.
119 ANNETTS PARADE MOSSY POINT.
A. J. (Jack) Ryan set up Radio Station 2CA in 1931, when Canberra's population was about 8,000. He operated the station from his Kingston electrical and records shop for two years before setting it up at a larger site in what is now Fyshwick. He had a controlling interest in it until 1937 when it was bought by Denison Estates, which became Macquarie Broadcasting.
In the early 1930s there were a few telephones, and telegrams. Telegrams were sent by a telegraph office elsewhere using Morse Code, and upon receipt at Canberra a written copy would be produced and delivered to the address, usually by a boy on a bicycle.
At the radio station at Fyshwick, Ryan could hear the lunch time train as it whistled for the level crossing over Dairy Flat Road (between Fyshwick and the railway station). He and his assistant would start playing some 12 inch (30 cm) 78 RPM records, which were usually classical music. Ryan would go by car to the station, where a porter would throw the Sydney papers into the back seat as Ryan lurched to a short stop, Ryan would then hasten back to the Station. He would then present The News, reading from the newspapers. There are people still alive who were around then, and in their lifetimes we've gone from "Ryan's news service" where the news came by train, to real-time colour television showing things happening on the other side of the world.
Ryan bought two blocks at the then Connells Point, nos 117 and 119 Annetts Pde, and in 1946 he contracted a Queanbeyan builder named Weatherby to construct a basic beach house on 119. After World War 2 building materials were in short supply, and the beach house was built using materials from three huts at the old World War 1 Internment Camp at Molonglo. It was where Molonglo Mall Fyshwick is today, not far from the old 2CA studio and transmitting mast. The house was unlined, and the only room walled off was a kitchenette. A rainwater tank was connected to one tap over the kitchen sink. There was no electricity, and an outside pan toilet was included.
In 1948 Ryan took up a career opportunity in Cessnock, and sold 119 Annetts Parade to Netta and Clarrie Fisher. In the 1950s he sold 117 Annetts Parade to Nancy and Albert Arlen.
Ryan died in 1984.
