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Property developers and Melbourne’s Chinese New Year Festival
January 30th, 2012 No Comments
Each year Melbourne’s holds a Chinese New Year Festival, and for the Year of the Dragon things were no different, with the streets of Chinatown being blocked off on January 29 to make way for the festivities. All of the traditional Chinese New Year attractions were there, but a few more commercial ones.
Flemington’s forgotten neighbour: Ascot Racecourse
October 31st, 2011 No Comments
With Melbourne in the middle of Spring Racing season, tomorrow thousands of people will be flocking to Flemington Racecourse for a day at the Melbourne Cup. Located on the banks of the Maribyrnong River to the north-west of the CBD, the course has been used horse racing since 1840. However a short distance to the north there was once another racecourse, which has been all but forgotten by Melburnians.
Fast food chains of Melbourne, circa 1982
October 7th, 2011 No Comments
Today in Australia you can find a fast food on almost every street corner, from small family operated Chinese takeaways and pizza shops, through to massive multinational chains. It might be hard to imagine not having a big fast food joint down the road from you, but these advertisements in the 1982-83 Gregory’s Melbourne Street Directory, 14th edition show how few locations they once had.
RACV Board elections: does anyone care?
October 3rd, 2011 7 Comments
If you are one of 2 million Victorians who are RACV members then you would have received one of these packages in the mail a few weeks ago: the paperwork for this year’s board elections. If you can’t find it then you’ve probably thrown it in the bin, just like the majority of RACV members.
Short history of the Queenscliff-Sorrento ferry
September 19th, 2011 1 Comment
For visitors to the towns of Queenscliff and Sorrento on the shores of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, the car ferry that links the two is a familiar sight, and there is no better reason to look at the history of it than today: the 24th anniversary of the first sailing of the service.
