Peter Brock celebrity print 1990

Summary

This concrete footprint 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.

"Racing driver Peter Brock (1945-2006) won the Bathurst 100 endurance race nine times between 1972 and 1987, making him ‘King of the Mountain’. Brock was a leading promoter of the campaign against drink-driving, from the mid-70s driving a car with the number 05 (signifying Victoria’s .05 blood-alcohol limit). He was King of Moomba in 1986." - Robyn Annear, 2023