the lyric theatre, yarraville

This building intrigued me last night and I now know it was Stephen Street's Lyric Theatre until 1982 and is of course now apartments. Stephen Street produced most of The Smiths' hits. In more relevant news, I don't know whether the person who lost their teeth in March 1918 after a great foray into moviegoing did so at the Lyric Yarraville or one of the other Lyric theatres. Also what was the reward? 

perry and i walked to yarraville to sun books to buy a copy of robert forster's novel

These pictures are completely out of sequence except the last one. Keeps it interesting

yarraville to tottenham along stony creek

Perry and I decided to take a walk from Yarraville to Tottenham today. Actually, we decided we would walk to Sunshine but my foot hurt too much (don't ask) and I abbreviated the operation. Perry didn't mind. He was at the stop and sniff everything stage of the walk anyway. 

As so often happens when I uploaded the photos here they all came out in the reverse order I took them, but whatever, doesn't matter does it. Here are a few pictures from the Tott end, a bunch of houses I like to imagine are Anders Hansen homes from the late 20s-early 30s but I don't really know that, except he was the main builder in that area and these houses are all more or less the same dimensions and same age. This boarded-up one is interesting...

I love this brick 'n' weatherboard creation it's rad as:

This 'is what it is'... 

I'm in a guessing mood (after about 3/4 hour of fruitless research) so I'm going to say this could once have been the premises of Riverside Manufacturers. It was apparently a big concern in Paramount Rd, Tottenham, in the middle of last century. 

I like to document Pam the Bird wherever/whenever. 

I have a very soft spot (as Rowena Wallace's character on Cop Shop, Pamela, said to George Mallaby as Glenn in an episode I just watched - 'in the head' - for late period Housing Commission homes, which is what I think these might be, in a dead end street in Yarraville. They're nice.

A-a-a-a-anyway, it was a decent enough walk, Perry was extremely well-behaved, it was too hot and glary, which is just life going forward I suppose, I mentioned the bit about the sore foot, fuck that, 

if you didn't blog it it didn't happen

This evening after we went to see The Holdovers (I loved it) on the tram back for a considerable time (like... minutes?) I tried really really hard to remember where Perry and I went this morning. I finally got the memory back because I recalled breakfast, which was an apple and two bananas purchased en route from the Footscray Market. We went to Yarraville, though I thought it was Kingsville shows how much I know. (I am not even sure if there is a Kingsville, because judging from the map, this park is the last thing north of South Kingsville). Anyway... 

Just good honest ordinary houses...

Inc. a lot of these weatherboards, many of them seemingly built of a piece probably on the same day basically. 

Would go again, except that of the two bananas and two apples I bought, well, I had two bananas and an apple for breakfast, then I save the second apple till later, and unlike the first, very nice crispy apple, it was quite soft and I only ate half of it. So if I decide to replicate this experience again I won't get the second apple.