A game leaves poor Wal penniless, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November, 1989.

Telegraph poles talk for Sandor the loner, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November, 1989. Sandor Berger.

Sandor Berger: Telegraph poles talk for Sandor the loner, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November, 1989. This is his response.

Sandor Berger was one of Sydney's most fascinating eccentrics. For years he left posters and placards across town declaring "Psychiatry is Evil"; or stood by roadsides displaying his message. As he grew older the spread of the posters shrank to the block around the boarding house where he lived. What made him most fascinating was that he lodged a number of vividly written, unpublished books with the State Library. He had a peculiar, highly pressurised type of consciousness, where he could hear things hundreds of metres away. I came across the story because I used to visit someone who lived upstairs in the same boarding house, Jeff Wegener, former drummer for The Saints.
Sandor was incensed by the story I wrote; claiming I should have waited until he issued a press release the following year. This is his response.

And this is a picture of me outside his room trying to talk to him:

On the job, pix, Sandor Berger, The Sydney Morning herald, 13 November, 1989.

Outside Sandor Berger's room, one of Sydney's most renowned eccentrics..
This dilapidated boarding house is now a multi-million dollar home in Darley Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney.

Moving right out the door: the regular delivery man, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 November, 1989.

Once People's Palace, now a fire trap, court rules, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November, 1989.

A rail link with the past, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November,1989. Picture Peter Rae.

ActivePaper ArchiveSydney Morning Herald, 6/11/1989

Oh, Mulga Bill's at Darling Harbour, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 November, 1989.

A 1941 nestegg comes to $93, but that's Myrtle's funeral, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November, 1989. Page One. Pic Steve Christo.