Michael Cole celebrity print 1973
Maker unknown
Registration number
1809510
Artist/maker
Maker unknown
Title
Michael Cole celebrity print
Production date
1973
Medium
concrete, brass
Dimensions (H x W x D)
65 x 22.5 x 7 cm
Inscriptions
TV WEEK LOGIE GUEST / MICHAEL COLE / LEFT HIS MARK HERE ON / FRIDAY 16TH FEBRUARY / 1973
Credit line
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
Keywords
Summary
This concrete handprint was formerly located as a part of the iconic McEwans celebrity pavement. Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their handprints and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance to the McEwans hardware store on Bourke Street. The City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection acquired a number of these impressed concrete slabs from the original celebrity pavement in 2005.
"Michael Cole (born 1940) is an American actor, best known for his role as Pete Cochrane on the TV crime drama, ‘Mod Squad’, which ran from 1968-73. Cole was in Melbourne in February 1973 to appear at the TV Week Logie Awards. Lost for words when presented by host Bert Newton with an award for ‘Mod Squad’, Cole said, ‘Oh, shit,’ on live TV, sparking a cause célèbre." - Robyn Annear, 2023