COVID Reminiscing

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LP, 80's to early 90's, group of about 4 engineers including a young trainee Elec Engineer would frequent the Glen.
Worked on some upgrades to the rail loop in the Comms and Metrol areas and with some companies we dealt with like Siemens would often find ourselves down Richmond/Hawthorn way and the Glen was a nice cheap no frills lunch. I also studied at Swinburne so I knew the area well and even when I finished my degree we were made to go and study at Swinburne for the Microsoft and Novell training courses so that was another excuse to lunch at the Glen. There was a little Pizza bar in Glenferrie Rd just up from the Comm bank and we used to hangout in there too..
We sat opposite the kitchen/servery where the Chef's would hand you the food out, Rocket Eade and his mates were often in the Glen drinking and would sit in the Booth's, they got really annoyed if anyone recognized them and wanted to chat etc....not a very pleasant individual was Eade. Pub did a mixed grill too  with lambchops, snags, bacon, tomato, mushies etc, it was real pub food..not a green in sight,Think it was about $7.50....
We probably walked straight past each other......did eat at the flash pub up the road on the corner past Swinny a few times but only when we had the big bosses in tow who were usually in town taking credit for the work we did and offered us a lunch as a reward.

I had some mates who worked with the trams, out of a depot down in Glenferrie Rd Malvern, one of them was a Electrical Engineer in the maintenance department. Back in the early days he helped design and build the original Restaurant Trams, I also know the guy who did the control system refit on those years ago too. Hungarian or Croatian, used to make this home made honey mead that was a ripper!

My older brother would also drink in the Glenferrie at times with Kelvin Moore, Polkinghorne, Moncrieff sometimes, Eade was viewed as a bit of a downer by the older guys as he was always grumpy or on their back about drinking too much to stay fit. Lethal used to be about too but mostly stayed over at the Glenferrie Oval Social Club, with some of the older players like Tuck and Leon Rice. Actually, most of the Dawks weren't bad blokes, even Dermie despite having a head and mane bigger than a racehorse!

Dermie always had this stupid wad of notes stuck down his pants, made of $20 bills all rolled up like a canister. Shoved it in his front pocket and would wobble-head his way around Chasers, I suppose the wad was a proxy for maybe having a little prick, it certainly got the girls attention when he dragged it out, that is the bills not the prick. He use to drag that wad out at the racetrack as well, usually in front of the bookies, holding it like a carrot to get better odds, but you'd rarely actually see him strip one of those bills off the roll other than when buying a drink for some female! Then he would wobble-head his way out the door or off course having spent $20, like some celebrity passing through a telethon. It was all harmless fun, the stuff young blokes do when they got too much money and fame!