Portrait – Moomba King and Queen – Lou Richards and Kim Formosa 1981

VAN DER TOORREN, Bob

Registration number

1661221

Artist/maker

VAN DER TOORREN, Bob

Title

Portrait – Moomba King and Queen – Lou Richards and Kim Formosa

Production date

1981

Medium

photographic paper

Credit line

By courtesy of Bob VAN DER TOORREN Hon. L.M. A.I.P.P. A.R.M.I.T. of Block Arcade Studios
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Moomba, 1981, Lou Richards, Kim Formosa

Summary

Framed colour portrait of 1981 Moomba Queen, Kim Formosa and Moomba King Lou Richards

Formosa, born in 1960, was a 21-year-old receptionist when she became Moomba Queen. She apparently won $2000 and a 2-week holiday on the west coast of the US. According to the 'Gazette', soon after winning she became a model and appeared on television and in a movie.

Lou Richards (1923-2017) played Australian Rules Football for Collingwood between 1941 and 1955 and later become a sports journalist. Three generations of Richards' family (he, his grandfather and two of his uncles) captained the Magies. Real.footy.com.au credits him for pioneering the relationship between AFL and print and broadcast media in Australia. In 1996, he became an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. In 1972, Richards played court jester to Moomba King Johnny Farnham, and the following decade, in 1981, he ascended the throne.