meandering, meaningless research

I've noticed this taijitu a few times, on a building on the corner of Haines and Macaulay in North Melbourne, and I have wondered whether this indicates that the place itself had some particularly interesting inhabitant at one stage but it looks from my meandering, meaningless research that this is probably unlikely, Or at least... 

This snippet from the Age 12 March 1997 p. 49 relates to the company that used to occupy that building, and they sold the building the following year for a figure that surprised everyone. 

The real surprise if you ask me is that the building hasn't been used for anything (as far as I'm aware) in the last thirty years. 

Well, anyway I'm not going to go into this any further and nor am I going to go into the details of Stokoe Motors though here's their first available advertisement when they were at a different premises and classy. 

Melbourne Argus 1 November 1929 p. 11

'let the world know that you hate disco' - 2

I did a search on this blog for 'disco' and I find that I have made many, many references to disco over time. I was moved to thinking about it because I got a great LP recently called French Disco Boogie Sounds 1975-1984 which I highly recommend. It reminded me that really, when it comes down to it, a lot of the music I really like is, if not disco per se, than disco-adjacent and that is probably because I grew up at exactly the right time for it. I can't remember when I actually got on board with disco or came to understand it as a genre but I suppose I was about 10. It might have been 'Rock the Boat' by The Hues Corporation or something like that. I am not sure if I conceptualised this as a type of music, to be honest, and it was always a bit flexible round the edges. 

I don't have time to reflect further, it's a very busy time. Talk later. 

''let the world know that you hate disco' - 1

 

Santa Barbara Independent 18 October 1979 p. 24

misty

 

all i want is some vintage philip brown knitwear as worn on the box

...and then I go searching on facebook marketplace* and things like this come up. What is the world coming to? 

 * to be precise, searching on the phrase 'Philip Brown knitwear'. 

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