Keith Williams with promotional models and a light aircraft, possibly near the Ski Gardens and Raceway at Carrara, Queensland, circa 1960s, Photographer unknown
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Keith Williams with promotional models and a light aircraft, possibly near the Ski Gardens and Raceway at Carrara, Queensland, circa 1960s, Photographer unknown
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Keith Williams with promotional models and a light aircraft, possibly near the Ski Gardens and Raceway at Carrara, Queensland, circa 1960s
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Keith William's involvement with the Gold Coast began in January 1958 when he launched his weekly water ski shows on the Nerang River at Carrara and he named the former dairy farm the Surfers Paradise Gardens. In 1959 he designed and built Australia's first championship standard go-kart track at the ski gardens and held the national titles on the track in 1960. In 1966-71 he designed and built the Surfers Paradise International Raceway on land opposite the ski gardens. In 1971 he moved the infrastructure from the Ski Gardens to a new site on the Spit on the Southport Broadwater and named the venue Ski Land of Australia and staged the ski shows on a huge artificial lake. (Source of information: Gold Coast Bulletin 31/3/1988, p26; Gold Coast Bulletin 21/6/1989 p4; McRobbie, A, '20th Century Gold Coast People', Gold Coast Arts Centre Press, Surfers Paradise, 2000, pp.111 -113)