Some more in my series of photos from ten years ago. I seem to have very few of interest from February 2005. Woo hoo! iPod Shuffle! Little Collins Street, looking east. I’m not actually sure why I snapped this (actually I’ve got three similar photos), but note the car that’s got itself stuck between the ... [More]
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Continuing my series of old photos from ten years ago… At the house in Carnegie, we had an old slide (which eventually got left there for whoever moved in after us) and a trampoline (which came with us, but in the end when we’d tired of it, got given to relatives who would use it ... [More]
The Trugo mural in Yarraville. I added this photo to the Wikipedia article on Trugo, which is a sport believed to have been invented by railway workers in the 1920s. this image from Google Streetview, by 2009 the mural had deteriorated a bit. When I went past recently, they seemed to have patched it up, ... [More]
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You know I’m busy when the blog posts are few and far between, and contain a lot of photos… There do seem to be a lot sightings of Google Streetview cars recently. Here’s another. This one was resting. Christmas shopping crowds at Southland shopping centre last weekend. It’ll get busier as the month rolls on, ... [More]
A few photos from the past week or so… Sunday afternoon in Bentleigh. Has either major party pledged to fix the 703 Smartbus? No, neither of them has. The sign closest the camera is telling you to check the timetable… this is because part of the route doesn’t run at all on Sundays. On the ... [More]
Continuing my series of old photos from ten years ago… Southern Cross Station under construction. The bridge with yellow on the right is the Collins Street extension, so this must have been snapped from close to where Etihad Stadium is. Note the “Park and Ride” sign, a misguided attempt to get people to drive most ... [More]
A bunch of photos from the past week or so… OK Google, where’s the nearest rubbish bin? (If you haven’t heard, they’ve all been removed from CBD railway stations.) The trains were a real mess last Monday. This is the moment we all got kicked off a train at Richmond when it became faulty. The ... [More]
I don’t seem to have many photos from October 2004 for my post of photos from ten years ago… it must have been a dry month. A slightly out-of-focus photo of the street sign in ACDC Lane, snapped a couple of weeks after it was renamed on October 1st 2004. It’s in the news this ... [More]
The hi fi box was a big hit with my niece (and nephew) Having obtained a government-provided “boarding pass” (they were handed out with some MXs — I missed out but managed to get one via Kev, who saved it for me), I went searching for the airport rail link. Strangely enough it wasn’t listed ... [More]
Another in my series of posts of ten year old photos: some snaps from September 2004… I don’t seem to have many of interest this month, but oh well. Collins Street and Elizabeth Street, a snap not used in this blog post. Trams were turning around here for a special event up ahead for Olympians ... [More]
Lego MCG at Myer toy department, Emporium If you try to steal this tram seat, it could get messy. Flowerpots. Many flowerpots. At Gazi, the modern Greek restaurant in the old Herald Sun building. Lots of these ads around the place at the moment. What is it? Some kind of big survey thing run by ... [More]
Continuing my series of ten year old photos… This month there’s a few domestic pics thrown into the mix. This is the view out onto St Kilda Road from the National Gallery of Victoria, one rainy afternoon. Quite arty, isn’t it. The photo I mean, not just the gallery. The pedestrian bridge over the Yarra, ... [More]
Another in my series of old photos from ten years ago… In 2004 the situation with crowded trains hadn’t really hit as a big political problem, which is why it took until 2006 for the government to decide not to scrap all the Hitachi trains after all, but expand the fleet. It was certainly occurring ... [More]
Yep, it’s June, so time again for another batch of my old photos from ten years ago. It seems that for some reason I didn’t take very many photos in June 2004. A Hitachi train pulls out of Richmond station. Note the markings of the then five-years defunct PTC on the shelter glass. Other than ... [More]
It must be autumn. PS. Just noting the passing of Sir Jack Brabham, the only Formula 1 driver to ever win in a car he built himself. I couldn’t but help recall Herge’s nod to him in Tintin: The Calculus Affair. (Apparently in the original French, it’s Fangio instead.)
Here’s a puzzler for you: look at this lovely old house. Can you guess the suburb it’s in? Update 12:50pm: Mike got it, by tracking the posts to my Flickr account! It’s in Nicholson Street, central Footscray. While I don’t subscribe to the generalisations of the run-down inner-west, I was delighted to find such a ... [More]