This is Called the Big Gun Shopping strip. I really really wanted to get the Big redback spider down the road but the landscape place has been sold off to make way for new office park...Grrrr it had been there for years!!!!! It has only been sold this year. So I drove down Logan Rd further and grabbed The Big Gun. This local South East QLD icon is listed in the wiki Australia's Big Things.
The Logan City Council web site describes the "Big Gun" at 2922 Logan Road, Springwood, as a 155mm field gun which had a range of almost 30kms. It indicates that some of these guns were placed in strategic positions such as Moreton Island and the mouth of the Brisbane River.

Bernie Smallwood purchased five of these guns in 1958. Four were cut up for scrap, but one was kept and could be seen in Bernie's wrecking yard at Springwood as you drove to the Gold Coast. Bruno Laspina started “The Big Gun Fruit Mart” in 1972 near Bernie Smallwood's original wrecker’s yard. The 7 ton gun was hoisted onto the roof of the fruit mart. The complex was redeveloped in about 2004 and the gun is now positioned on its own special stand sitting high for all to see.

The 155mm M1917A1 "Long Tom" gun was a semi-mobile gun. It had a maximum range of 18.28 kms and could fire either a 96 pound high explosive round or a 109 pound armour piercing round.
Summer Scavenger series 2016 Sambuccasam and Seeka at The Big Gun. TFTC stringy

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