-> A reasonably planned inner-city layout (I shan't touch anything further out). -> A decent pub culture. -> Sunsets over the skyline from a rooftop somewhere in Fitzroy. -> Richmond's laneways and hidden artefacts of a roguish past. -> The Vic Market, in terms of meat and produce. -> Long summer afternoons at the Corner Hotel rooftop bar. -> Lambsgo Bar, a temple to beer. -> Walking through the streets of Carlton on a winter afternoon in a big black jacket. -> A wide selection of cuisines on offer that are generally of better quality than inner-city counterparts. -> The Age. -> The Boomtown architecture of the 1880's largely in place.
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)
The fact that the sick, desperate and the damned can be quarantined effectively by dynamiting the bridges over the Yarra River (that no madman would be game to wade through).
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)
I'm talking about you SOUTHERN types.
^
― electricsound, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)
Hey! ;P
I dont know if I agree on t'Age so much these days which hurts me in my heart, but ah well.
To add to list:
- driving over kingsway flyover coming towards the city at night, seeing the CBD all lit up and shiny and brilliant - the coffee here - the parks - the awesome jewish culture in my area
― Trayce, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)
pub parmas.
the napier hotel, fitzroy
chillaxing in the botanic gardens
the running trail i've worked out that goes from richmond -> fed square -> gardens -> swan street -> corner hotel -> my place.
pho from vietnamese places
abbotsford convent
relatively safe, compared to every other city i've ever been
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:50 (seventeen years ago)
sunsets are a treat, totally.
mikey's right tho, south of yarra should by dynamited off the rest of the continent.
― haitch, Sunday, 4 May 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)
GUYS I'M RIGHT HERE.
― Trayce, Sunday, 4 May 2008 04:19 (seventeen years ago)
"Walking through the streets of Carlton....."
I'm a Melb Uni ex-inmate and a Carlton supporter, and dead east from Princes Park up and down those long narrow N-S streets with the traffic islands in the middle is a whole mass of memories from living round there in the 80s (when you could still afford it), and at least the developers (so far) have been told to leave their more macho ideas for the area at home. But Lygon Street is pretty well rooted, and the 'Black Hole of Calcutta' created by that monstrosity at the east end of PP adds nothing.
― Fred Nerk, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)
- Carlton FC - These magical vehicles that run on a regular basis and take you up the road and you don't have to pay any money to go on them which the locals call a "tram". - Happiness in the knowledge that once upon a time there were great quasi-socialist brutalist triumphs like the Gas & Fuel Towers and Spencer Street Station (the latter especially with the 1980s green and orange V/Line livery) before Kennett and Bracks had to ruin everything. - Corner Hotel! - Adopted home city of the greatest man alive. - The Flemington tube in the CityLink is always fun to go through, no matter how many times its shown in commercials for family sedans (and I will be going through it tomorrow on morning on my way from the airport). - It's not Adelaide.
― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)
The vic market totally rullz- I remember finishing the night shift and going to get some unpasteurized roquefort (it was during that time when it wasn't illegal)and figs stuffed with mascarpone at 6am- I live in Perth now (why?) and there are a good places but the vic is like an awesome ikea food superstore of good.
― bingolola, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)
^ this
You're def wrong about The Age though.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
- Cafe culture - 23873247329842398734928749284372983749283749 top quality restaurants - Insanely low violent crime rate - Heightened multiculturalism - Skyline - The weather (it's entertaining) - Loads of park land - Hot people
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)
Good coffee in lots of places Pellegrini's Vic Market meat/produce definitely The way the inner city looks after it rains The Standard, Fitzroy Souvas as far the eye can see Bloody brilliant greek food Excellent cheap Indian food Kickass thai food Awesome vietnamese food Paninis and foccaccia whenever I want Beautiful public gardens
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)
Comedy Festival
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)
The way the inner city looks after it rains
― haitch, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)
North Melbourne FC Cheap inner city pub meals Explosion in Trivia Nights Nash Hotel, Terminus Hotel, Espy, Corner Metro's reincarnation as The Palace (excluding drink prices) The Yarra River between Bridge Rd and Dight's Falls
― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 5 May 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/melbourne-man-wrecks-fathers-ferrari/2008/05/05/1209839513969.html
― haitch, Monday, 5 May 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)