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1950's Part 1- Photos give a revealing insight into everyday life in Melbourne in the 1950s​

The Old Broady Pub is in this one.. 1950s Melbourne:

1950s Melbourne: Photos give a revealing insight into everyday life in Melbourne in the 1950s

1956: Fans get a real close look at Neil Mann and Ian Ridley in the Melbourne v Collingwood grand final.


1950: The Old Tin Shed in Elizabeth St stood next to the GPO. Built in 1906, the shed was intended to be on the site temporarily, but it became a city landmark despite persistent calls for its removal.


April 1950: The handwritten caption on the back of this image describes it as the “township of Broadmeadows”. It is actually a street in Westmeadows that was the site of the original Broadmeadows village.


1950s: Shoppers at Coles.

1950: Children helping their father in his grocery shop.

1951: People relax on the lawns outside the State Library of Victoria.

1951: Children from Scotch Church Elwood Play Centre meet a joey with some help from Joyce Seekamp at Melbourne Zoo.

1951: The Melbourne Town Hall at the intersection of in Swanston St and Collins St.

1951: Tattersalls Lane, off Bourke St. Picture:

1952: Myer's cafeteria packed in the crowds.

1952: Matt Beha and the bells in the GPO clock tower in Elizabeth St.

1953: Children feed swans at the Royal Botanic Gardens.

1953: Dan Curtain, licensee of the Turf Club Hotel in North Melbourne, presents local paperboy Peter Hargraves with a watch for his 15th birthday. A collection was taken up for him by his grateful customers.

1953: Swinging high above a street, rigger Jack Farley directs his invisible crane driver to lower him to a pile of girders on a building site in Spencer St.

29 July 1953: In Sunshine where the roads were unmade and there was no running water, Mrs Anita Steigler and her son Ernst along with the family dog set out for home with a bucket of water. Mrs Steigler uses three of these for the family bath. Also pictured is Mrs Urmgard Stanik, who has to carry water home.

2 October 1953: Main street in Belgrave.

31 December 1953: Bill Young, Brian Collins, David Young and Judith Young enjoy a stroll along Mentone's breeze-swept foreshore.

1953: Kids enjoy the water in the children's pool at Eastern Beach, Geelong.

31 December 1953: Main street in Mentone pictured after all the shops closed for the day.

1954: Drive-in branch of the ES & A Bank at Camberwell.​

 

[MIZMAC]

My best friend and I began our life when we were babies, we were only 5 weeks apart in age
Although we both moved from our first town we remained friends until she passed and we were over 80. I miss her . Another friend I met at 4 years and we still are in touch.

 

[Jarred Santos]

My best friend and I began our life when we were babies, we were only 5 weeks apart in age
Although we both moved from our first town we remained friends until she passed and we were over 80. I miss her . Another friend I met at 4 years and we still are in touch.

What's the secret to having such long friendships, @MIZMAC? With everything going on at any point in a person's life, it does get quite difficult to be in touch sometimes

 

[Gsr]

I remember all my friends from the country primary school I attended (late 50s-mid 60s). We had some great times, walking, riding bikes or horses the three miles to and from school and the amazing fun we had playing in our large school paddock. Cowboys and Indians with grass forts we built, hide and seek, all sorts of ball games and generally just mucking about having fun. One family lived on an island and came to and from school by launch, they had about half mile walk from the drop off jetty. How we loved going to visit them, we went blackberrying, explored the island, made out we were shipwrecked, such fun we had. I have recently found out where one of the girls from this family, who was my age and a great friend, lives now and I hope to go visit her soon. After the school closed us children went to a much bigger school and a lot of us moved to different areas and never kept in touch. I met up with another friend I had at this school in the early 2000s serving in a spotlight shop. She had an unusual name so I asked if she had lived where I used to live and she said yes. We had a few catch ups before she sadly passed away. Great memories.

 

[Jarred Santos]

I remember all my friends from the country primary school I attended (late 50s-mid 60s). We had some great times, walking, riding bikes or horses the three miles to and from school and the amazing fun we had playing in our large school paddock. Cowboys and Indians with grass forts we built, hide and seek, all sorts of ball games and generally just mucking about having fun. One family lived on an island and came to and from school by launch, they had about half mile walk from the drop off jetty. How we loved going to visit them, we went blackberrying, explored the island, made out we were shipwrecked, such fun we had. I have recently found out where one of the girls from this family, who was my age and a great friend, lives now and I hope to go visit her soon. After the school closed us children went to a much bigger school and a lot of us moved to different areas and never kept in touch. I met up with another friend I had at this school in the early 2000s serving in a spotlight shop. She had an unusual name so I asked if she had lived where I used to live and she said yes. We had a few catch ups before she sadly passed away. Great memories.

You must have heaps to talk about, @Gsr! It also must be so nice to reconnect with a dear friend