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Listen, any non-Aussie (between 30 and 50) should watch this show. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7HSPnTFVAuFpsKEXoBp8Xqwh9tcl72Dt Between this and my own experiences, I fell in love with this country's wilderness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9hh8tyTC8
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Oh. Oh ok. Ashfield NSW please and thank you. I gotta do some more sourcing but I found a bit of stuff on the same site. Mostly from transport enthusiasts. Ashfield Station, c-1900  Tram 1049 at Ashfield Station, Brown Street side. 1948  Ashfield rail siding, east end of Brown Street, next to station. 1970  Station Street, 1976  Ashfield town center, 1956  Kings Cinema, c-1960  Peek Frean Biscuit Factory, 1980 
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BrigadierSensible posted:I would also like to request: Hm, are you missing Towerhill Pizza Hut or the Pancake Parlour stained glass?
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Elissimpark posted:Hm, are you missing Towerhill Pizza Hut or the Pancake Parlour stained glass? What I miss most about the old Frankston was the cinema with the big crumpled up aluminium foil dome thing that was lit in such a way that it would change colours. My brother and I would stand under it enthralled as we would wait for whatever film we were seeing. Pretty much right next to the Pancake Parlour I think you are describing.
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Now that's something I haven't thought about in years. I can't even picture what would be there now. Edit: lol, there's a Frankston Colour Dome Appreciation Society on Facebook. They tried to save it, but alas. Elissimpark fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Peek Frean Biscuit Factory, 1980 I love that you can reliably judge someone’s age by what they call this building it’s the hardwarehouse building dammit
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i never knew it was a biscuit factory, i just called it the clock building
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Spotted Danny Lim in Newtown yesterday so Sydney still has one good person in it.
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webmeister posted:I love that you can reliably judge someone’s age by what they call this building For us in Perth it's the R&I Tower. (X'ers Bond Corporation, Zoomers Bankwest, Alphas South32)
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webmeister posted:I love that you can reliably judge someone’s age by what they call this building In Melbourne it's if you call it Southern Cross or Spencer St station
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webmeister posted:I love that you can reliably judge someone’s age by what they call this building In Sydney it's what you call Accor Stadium (Stadium Australia, Sydney Olympic Stadium, Telstra Stadium, ANZ Stadium).
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~Coxy posted:For us in Perth it's the R&I Tower. Ob city
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"get out of my loving sun, two-foot"
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EoinCannon posted:In Melbourne it's if you call it Southern Cross or Spencer St station I miss Museum station. Much more mysterious and debonair than Melbourne Central.
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Elissimpark posted:I miss Museum station. Much more mysterious and debonair than Melbourne Central. Sydney has a Museum Station that was built 55 years before Melbourne's so you may as well let it have its own identity, and heck it's been 26 years since it was called Melbourne Central. Mind you, calling it Central is a little confusing since it's a toss-up between Flinders/Spencer acting as a proper Central station. But they still both beat Sydney's one because there are many food options, whereas Sydney just has a weird void of much on any concourse besides a boomer bait cafe at one end and an overpriced greasy bain marie at the other end, with some basic poo poo outside at the Eddy Ave exit. I remember the last time I went through Southern Cross I bought a bento box and a bunch of assorted churros for my train trip, while inside the ticketed area of the station (No station in Syd's CBD has this) and I'm still obsessing over that. EDIT: Fucken train station churros. Sydney got nothin on this poo poo 
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Also it's nowhere near the actual museum lol
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GrandMaster posted:Also it's nowhere near the actual museum lol ?? Musem station is underneath Hyde Park, which is opposite the Australian Museum? It's kinda annoying because the only exits are on the western side, but it's not exactly far away... Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Sydney just has a weird void of much on any concourse besides a boomer bait cafe at one end and an overpriced greasy bain marie at the other end, with some basic poo poo outside at the Eddy Ave exit. Mate you're lucky to even get bins on Sydney stations! Back in the early 00s some genius decided to remove all the station bins, you know, because al-Qaeda was definitely planning to blow them up
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Sydney has a Museum Station that was built 55 years before Melbourne's so you may as well let it have its own identity, and heck it's been 26 years since it was called Melbourne Central. Melbourne Central Station is under the Melbourne Central shopping center.
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Geographic center of Melbourne is apparently currently Bourne Street, Glen Iris. So Glen Iris station should be Melbourne central. Wrong again metro!!!
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:EDIT: Fucken train station churros. Sydney got nothin on this poo poo These are confectionary themed dildos you can't change my mind. I'll be in Melbourne next year and I'm looking forward to stuffing myself with them.
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webmeister posted:?? I remember, it sucked. Now we have these clear bins you can't fit anything bigger than your fist into.
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webmeister posted:?? We were talking about Melbourne though
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webmeister posted:Mate you're lucky to even get bins on Sydney stations! Back in the early 00s some genius decided to remove all the station bins, you know, because al-Qaeda was definitely planning to blow them up Even as a stupid kid I knew that was just a way to pay less cleaning staff.
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Inceltown posted:Even as a stupid kid I knew that was just a way to pay less cleaning staff. Wouldn't you have to pay more because now everyone just throws their poo poo wherever?
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The Lone Badger posted:Wouldn't you have to pay more because now everyone just throws their poo poo wherever? Yeah that's why they said a stupid kid not a smart kid.
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The Lone Badger posted:Wouldn't you have to pay more because now everyone just throws their poo poo wherever? lol Throw your rubbish on the ground at the station. The wind blows it off the platform onto the tracks. The station is now clean! For free! Bing bong simple
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webmeister posted:lol
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gently caress me, those underground shops we always great for loading up on sugar before a long train journey.
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drunkill posted:spencer st is the only privately owned station on the network, so they dgaf about anything, they're currently forcing all the shops to close by jacking the rents up and replacing them with vending machines. That's really fkn disappointing to hear...
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Great lil vid I found on the rail freight facility in Darling Harbour in the 60s. A lot of shots of old Sydney around Ultimo and Pyrmont. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0izTlCTHJc Screencap for interest 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Melbourne Central Station is under the Melbourne Central shopping center. Which was a bit of a thing back when they named it. (Naming a train station after a privately owned shopping centre was frowned upon.) Alternate names for it could have been Latrobe station, (it's on Latrobe St.), or Library Station, (it's right next to the library) but instead they kept with the plan of keeping the name of a shopping centre because ... reasons. I still think changing the name of Spencer St. Station was pointless and stupid. I have old man opinions!
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Whereas in Sydney, the main station was built on top of a cemetery. That's how it got the name - it's the dead centre of town 
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I hate working in Mortuary siding, it really is cursed, there's always incidents.
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Cossie Livs is a recurring character in a People Magazine skit about a chick called Liv who always has swimsuit malfunctions. It's got nothing to do with cost of living. This timeline sucks.
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Kharnifex posted:I hate working in Mortuary siding, it really is cursed, there's always incidents. Elaborate?
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Elaborate? People loving up infrastructure. It's complicated spaghetti mess of tracks and switching points. I worked there for the last six years on and off during the metro project and we found alot of old bodies. We had this archaeology company there at all times to oversee digs, and they did a pop up museum from all the crap that was pulled out which was neat. One day an excavator operator hit a sewer pipe in a dig pit the archaeologists were gently scraping and washing to find stuff. It filled with sewage and no one cleaned it until this dude who looked like Santa, from the archaeological company came and threatened to shut down the entire project, he went red with Christmas spirit shouting. The shunters once showed me ratmans lair, at the end of platform 1/0, near mortuary siding. It had a mattress, cereal packets and rats with the heads cut etc as a warning to the others, the metro construction kind of chased him away. Lots of people still live in the abandoned tunnel between mortuary and ultimo, like a goods track. 
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