Vic changes to Melbourne over the years

[The Dice Man]

Some cool photo's, especially the ones of flinder st station area - makes you hate the fed square even more, looks even more shithouse when comparing to how it used to look.

Nah it was way worse beforehand. The old Gas and Fuel buildings were ugly AF! And there were some dodgy shops/mini mall type thing along Flinders st that were terrible and seedy. IIRC they're featured in a scene in Romper Stomper.. Maybe they smash a window there or have a fight.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Nah it was way worse beforehand. The old Gas and Fuel buildings were ugly AF! And there were some dodgy shops/mini mall type thing along Flinders st that were terrible and seedy. IIRC they're featured in a scene in Romper Stomper.. Maybe they smash a window there or have a fight.

GnF building might look brutalist retro cool now days

 

[The Dice Man]

GnF building might look brutalist retro cool now days

Maybe, but that whole area looks much better now IMO, including the railway yards.

What's noticeable in this picture which is now lost, is that churches used to dominate the skyline.

with the gas&fuel towers early 70s:

and currently with fed square:

 

[FRUMPY]

Nah it was way worse beforehand. The old Gas and Fuel buildings were ugly AF! And there were some dodgy shops/mini mall type thing along Flinders st that were terrible and seedy. IIRC they're featured in a scene in Romper Stomper.. Maybe they smash a window there or have a fight.

Still, fed square looks like a 3 yr old built it. Looks shithouse

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[footyfan1978]

I try to recall not having the city circle stations of Museum, Parliament and Flagstaff and hard to recall. They must have started out when I was a young teenager able to sometimes go out with friends and not with family. I cannot recall being in Melbourne before those stations existed, but I do recall Spencer Street Station before it got redeveloped into Southern Cross station. Melbourne always seems to be constantly changing. Docklands, Crown Casino and Federation Square were not around when I was a kid, now they seem like they always been there it hard to remember when they were not. I remember as teenagers because lived way out of Melbourne going into city with teenage friends to go shopping, cinema etc was a big thing when you were 14 or 15. For some reason there were a lot more cinemas in the centre of Melbourne than there are now. All the major shopping centres I guess opened up lots more cinemas so you no longer needed to go into the city in the 1990's.

I think Melbourne is just a much more international city decades on than it felt like in early 1980's.

Before my time, only have to look at old video footage of AC/DC going down Swanston Street on back of a truck playing Highway to Hell to see how much the city changes over a few decades.


The change is constant that it all happens gradually.

Look at Richmond station though, exactly the same as it was when I was a kid. Like Southern Cross station it will be re-developed that we will not recognise it in 10 years time. But as it stands now, you can imagine it looked virtually the same 100 years ago as it does today.

 

[The Dice Man]

I try to recall not having the city circle stations of Museum, Parliament and Flagstaff and hard to recall. They must have started out when I was a young teenager able to sometimes go out with friends and not with family. I cannot recall being in Melbourne before those stations existed, but I do recall Spencer Street Station before it got redeveloped into Southern Cross station. Melbourne always seems to be constantly changing. Docklands, Crown Casino and Federation Square were not around when I was a kid, now they seem like they always been there it hard to remember when they were not. I remember as teenagers because lived way out of Melbourne going into city with teenage friends to go shopping, cinema etc was a big thing when you were 14 or 15. For some reason there were a lot more cinemas in the centre of Melbourne than there are now. All the major shopping centres I guess opened up lots more cinemas so you no longer needed to go into the city in the 1990's.

I think Melbourne is just a much more international city decades on than it felt like in early 1980's.

Before my time, only have to look at old video footage of AC/DC going down Swanston Street on back of a truck playing Highway to Hell to see how much the city changes over a few decades.


The change is constant that it all happens gradually.

Look at Richmond station though, exactly the same as it was when I was a kid. Like Southern Cross station it will be re-developed that we will not recognise it in 10 years time. But as it stands now, you can imagine it looked virtually the same 100 years ago as it does today.

I remember those stations being built. My Mum used to take me into the city on saturday mornings and I vividly remember watching Hey Hey it's Saturday (when it was still a morning show) on those screens they had in Swanston St, next to the Yellow Peril. Ten years later those screens and the Peril were gone but the fountains remained and I was skateboarding there.

I remember the casino being built too, and going to the temporary casino in the WTC near Spencer St station. Back then you got free drinks and you could smoke at a table.

 

[HairyO]

I left in 1985. Grew up in Doncaster. Outer suburb near hobby farms.
Now its inner suburban and a quick trip on the Freeway (which opened maybe a bit before we left).

We had day trips to the city and Dandenongs. And a holiday house in Mount Martha which my grandfather built himself.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I left in 1985. Grew up in Doncaster. Outer suburb near hobby farms.
Now its inner suburban and a quick trip on the Freeway (which opened maybe a bit before we left).

We had day trips to the city and Dandenongs. And a holiday house in Mount Martha which my grandfather built himself.

We used to go to Apple farms in Doncaster to get a bag of cheap fresh apples and a drive in the country on a Sunday

 

[Shell]

Not Melbourne but was talking Torquay on another board.

Can remember that place as just having a few surf shops like a Rip Curl and a Quicksilver and thats it. Look at it now, like a city. (altho i bypass it going GOR these days on the other freeway)

That whole area down there is just getting busier and busier, cannot wait till the make that road bypassing Drysdale.

 

[PT Bar None]

It's weird, I lament the constant increase of glass curtain boxes replacing but have to admit so many things are greatly improved. Use of light is something we do now that was a foreign concept back in the day. I certainly remember plenty of dinge in Melbourne during the '80's and very early '90's.

Spencer St station was horrible before they built Southern Cross Station. I used to hate sitting on the top tier of the old Northern stand/olympic stand at the MCG. The worst of both worlds.

My Grandmother, an uppity woman from a rural hamlet, was very distrustful of the Melbourne food situation. The Myer cafeteria was the only place she trusted to eat at on visits.

I remember there being orchards on Blackburn Road as a kid.

It's all a balance, improvements in keeping with historical significance. Gotta watch the dollar addicts.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I remember there being orchards on Blackburn Road as a kid.

Theres still one left out that way
Now more of a museum and storehouse of heritage apples

Heritage Fruits Society - About Pettys Orchard

 

[FRUMPY]

Not Melbourne but was talking Torquay on another board.

Can remember that place as just having a few surf shops like a Rip Curl and a Quicksilver and thats it. Look at it now, like a city. (altho i bypass it going GOR these days on the other freeway)

That whole area down there is just getting busier and busier, cannot wait till the make that road bypassing Drysdale.

We used to go for the factory second bargains but they are pretty hard to find down there now (or just not worth it as plenty of bargains in melbourne these days).

 

[Blues177]

Gasometers. There were many of them including Arden St, Port Melb, Docklands, Preston, Fitzroy, Heidelberg, Moorabbin.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Gasometers. There were many of them including Arden St, Port Melb, Docklands, Preston, Fitzroy, Heidelberg, Moorabbin.


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and there was Mick Nolan the galloping gasometer

 

[Hawk Dork]

just realised his shirt has little stirrups on it...lol