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(03-13-2016, 03:37 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:It will Carrots..already developer's are moving in and building unit complexes etc and being so close to Northland shops, hospitals, rail etc it has all the facilities you need....
Reckon its a gold mine in the making and all those old housing commish homes will be sold off to developers and the Govt will make squillions...
Most of the Housing Commission homes are in private ownership. Friends of mine bought one in the late 80s and sold it (with modest renovations) in the mid 90s for a tidy profit. The Govt will still make squillions - from stamp duty!
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I've lived in the area for 50 years and the development has largely occurred around the suburb in Heidy Heights, Rosanna, MacLeod, West Preston. West Heidy and the Olympic Village areas are still referred to by the locals as the Bronx..... For good reason.
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Eb... At Warringal I've heard people refer to the folks that come from the other side of the Austin as "the other side of the hill" or "Eskimos". Interesting times at Warringal Village come pension day.... A real education for Eaglemont millionaire matrons picking up cheap groceries at Aldi.
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(03-13-2016, 03:15 AM)DJC link Wrote:One of my schoolmates lived in West Heidelberg and it was always an interesting experience staying at his place.
The butcher at the old Olympic Village shopping centre sells camel meat if anyone's interested.
had my very first souvlaki and my very first taste of barracuda (with chips) at the fish and chippy in the row of shops in Southern Rd up towards the intersection with Rosanna Rd. I think it's still there?
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I think you mean Waiora rd but it's still there
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(03-13-2016, 05:04 AM)Professer E link Wrote:I think you mean Waiora rd but it's still there
Thanks Prof, Waiora Rd is right. Good to know the chippy is still there as I used to like their food when I was young and hard-up.
(now I'm old and hard-up!)
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(03-13-2016, 02:09 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:@EB1
West Heidelberg was literally the wild west show when I first arrived in Melbourne in the 1970s. I know as I lived very close in the early days and we used to sometimes go there to shop - until we learned better! A very different place these days and agree, likely to keep improving due to its location not too far from the city.
We used to have an office in Dougharty Rd in 2008-2009, the drive down Liberty Parade at times was very interesting to say the least.
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(03-13-2016, 11:07 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:DJ....A little piece on the Olympic Village residents and some history......
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-09/me...gh/6916224
You would remember the Olympic basketball courts, they had not changed since the games ..my kids played a bit of domestic vs the Ivanhoe Knights there....they had a lot of trouble working out the ages of their kids did the Knights...U16 kids with beards who drove themselves to games?????
My son played domestic basketball there and my sister was asked to sort out some refereeing issues there. She had taught at the local primary school and knew what she was in for
Ivanhoe Knights; one of the few domestic teams we played against where an all in brawl was likely - and that was my daughter's team. Actually my son's team came pretty close too, but that was with the Ivanhoe refs
I enjoyed the time I spent in West Heidelberg but at 16/17 you're six feet tall and bulletproof. My older brother, who was a copper in Heidelberg Crime Cars, was full of stories about the psychopaths and sociopaths he encountered :o
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