From roaring ’20s fun fair to modern-day community centre: The evolution of Sydney’s White City
The name White City would be familiar to Aussie tennis fans. For almost 80 years, this open-air site in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington was the premier tennis venue in New South Wales. Less well-known is that it took its name from an all-but-forgotten amusement park that was as spectacular as it was short-lived.