Tuesday, January 16, 2024

radio street

So I was curious about Radio Street but all my meagre imagination could come up with was that it might be some real estate agent's idea of a groovy name connecting to a thing everyone likes. That is, twenty years later and it would have been Television Street and twenty years after that, Pong Street. But imagine my surprise twice when this:

Melbourne Age 14 October 1924 p. 9 

And also, that shed that I said I wondered what it was? Well apparently it was the transmitter building. However, the one thing I will say is that that shed as visible from Ashley st is in no way in the 'spanish mission style'. I mean the other side of it might be. But no.


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