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Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - townsendcalling - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 01:57 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:I think "South of Bell St" has almost become trendy/expensive now following several years of gentrification.
The aptly named ‘Coliseum’. Heidelberg Heights has gone gangbusters pricewise. Give West Heidelberg 8-10 years. It is too close to the city to stay derelict. Long term buyers bargains to be had. (Who would have lived in Collingwood 20 years ago??)
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - Professer E - 02-24-2019
There were a lot of rumours going around about the ????.
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - cookie2 - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 04:39 AM)townsendcalling link Wrote:The aptly named ‘Coliseum’. Heidelberg Heights has gone gangbusters pricewise. Give West Heidelberg 8-10 years. It is too close to the city to stay derelict. Long term buyers bargains to be had. (Who would have lived in Collingwood 20 years ago??)
Yep. I think things are already beginning to stir in "West Heidy". I first witnessed the situation there in the seventies (I lived just off Waiora Rd) and it was definitely a "Fort Apache the Bronx" world then. Many parts of it are now under gentrification and even the old Olympic Village properties are being sold off and renovated. The recent general market softening may even speed things up there.
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - ElwoodBlues1 - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 04:22 AM)Blueboy_Benny link Wrote:Grew up in the "mean streets" of Ivanhoe (the Eaglemont / East Ivanhoe part), so can't really comment
Have to start calling you Silvertail Benny....
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - ElwoodBlues1 - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 05:09 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:Yep. I think things are already beginning to stir in "West Heidy". I first witnessed the situation there in the seventies (I lived just off Waiora Rd) and it was definitely a "Fort Apache the Bronx" world then. Many parts of it are now under gentrification and even the old Olympic Village properties are being sold off and renovated. The recent general market softening may even speed things up there.
Liked the shops across the road from the Olympic Village area, my kids played a few basketball games there at the village, weird old stadium....the shops were nearly all closed
and covered in corrugated tin sheets...looked like an area that had seen war.....
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - townsendcalling - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 04:22 AM)Blueboy_Benny link Wrote:Grew up in the "mean streets" of Ivanhoe (the Eaglemont / East Ivanhoe part), so can't really comment
Alphonse Gagitano territory!!!
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - DJC - 02-24-2019
I spent a lot of time at a mate's place in Liberty Parade when I was in my mid teens. I was amazed at how quickly the word spread that I was from Coburg. We'd be wandering the streets and 3 or 4 Sharpies would approach and grunt, "You're the Coburg boy?" before stalking off. It didn't encourage any interest from the local girls though ... and that was probably a good thing.
I survived unscathed, apart from the mental scars
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - Professer E - 02-24-2019
Sharpie wasn't referring to their intellectual ability.
Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - chalkybill - 02-24-2019
There used to be an American Military camp just over the road from the zoo, called CAMP PHELL. You may recall the BROWN OUT MURDERER came from there. When the yanks left, the dregs of society were housed in the former barracks. They kept the barbed wire fence up (locals said to keep the residents in) After the Olympics the government thought it best to split the inmates up - so half went to Broadmeadows and the other half to the former Olympic Village, thus creating two problem areas. >
> > The former military camp was quickly torn down.Re: Northern Blues Practice Match Called off - DJC - 02-24-2019
(02-24-2019, 08:39 AM)chalkybill link Wrote:There used to be an American Military camp just over the road from the zoo, called CAMP PHELL. You may recall the BROWN OUT MURDERER came from there. When the yanks left, the dregs of society were housed in the former barracks. They kept the barbed wire fence up (locals said to keep the residents in) After the Olympics the government thought it best to split the inmates up - so half went to Broadmeadows and the other half to the former Olympic Village, thus creating two problem areas. >
Some of my relos were in that camp Chalky ????