An unusual postcard - Greetings From CAMOOWEAL Q.-showing Australian Aborigines in full regalia posing at the roadhouse vehicle service station ,along with AMPOL oil signs , was recently found by our Shipping Reporter in Townsville.
It had been posted on December 30, 1972 by Queenslanders , having experienced "monstrous" heat , about to head for Darwin in the Top End .
The roadhouse owner , said to have been nicknamed Crockett, possibly after Davy Crockett, King of the American Wild Frontier, who wore distinctive headgear, is visible in a hat looking out from the dark doorway at the right .
Nowadays you can buy online Davy Crockett hats made from skinned raccoons and fox fur .