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Inside tip · Coffs Harbour

In which year did Coffs Harbour's Big Banana open?

Answer: 1964

Built to stop traffic at John Landi's roadside banana stall, the 13m banana opened on 22 December 1964.

13m banana · Coffs Harbour

Engineer Alan Chapman cut a real banana into 40 pieces to draw the building plans. A $30 million redevelopment reopened the site in June 1989.

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