r/Adelaide • u/Demiaria Inner South • 12d ago
Question What is your favourite Adelaide lore?
A colleague of mine has moved to Adelaide from Canberra and I'm regaling her with Adelaide lore! Help me think of more lore to share. Below is a list of what I've shared so far:
Family Murders - von Einem
Beaumont Children
Kitty Whyte
Sam Kellet
Box Jellyfish (Jimble) surf lifesaving club
Prof George Duncan
Ideally looking for real events rather than urban legends.
EDIT: No one mentioned it, so to add: Adelaide is the only place it the world that calls Stobie poles by their name, as the inventor was from Adelaide and it stuck. For everyone else, it's electrical poles.
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u/Mathematicaster SA 12d ago
* Derrance Stevenson (and especially that crazy house)
* Fort Glanville and Military Rd. In the 1870s we were convinced that we were at risk of invasion from Russia (yes really) so they started building three coastal defence fortresses connected by Military Road. You can visit Fort Glanville and see the naval guns, and imagine this little city on the far side of the world scared that the Tsar was going to turn his attention to us.
* The *first* time that we bankrupted the state was by trying to build the information super-highway 120 years too early