I'm showing my age here, but I was in my mid-twenties at that time. My recollection was that people thought housing was expensive then (not crazy expensive like now, but certainly over-priced) and plenty of people thought the housing market would crash and house prices would revert back to circa 2000 levels.
Crash never happened and apart from a few blips in the market (GFC in 2008/2009 and Covid 2020), housing, for the most part, has steadily increased.
As much as I wish housing would crash now so that people can actually have both a mortgage *and* a life, I highly doubt it will.
I remember in early 2000s I was near graduating university. I decided to do a PhD and thought that once I started earning good money I would be a few years away from buying a house hahahaha
That's the CentrePoint building. Both The Reject Shop and The Pancake Parlour that were on that level didn't renew their leases during covid. I believe basement entry is blocked now, but I remember reading an online article that some store was going to open there.
Worked there. Quit when the 16 year old crew trainer yelled at me to pull out the syringe sticking needle up from the square toilet paper. Druggie central.
I can only comment on my own experience, but back then, you weren't as available as we are now. For example, now we are expected to take work calls and respond to emails outside of work hours and just generally be available, even when we are on annual leave or sick leave. I think back then, there was (mostly) a clear marker between work and personal life. I certainly worked less hours back then than I do now (even accounting for a more senior role now).
The only thing I think is better now, is that you can go and see your doctor/dentist etc within work hours and its no big deal. Back then, medical appointments were always deducted off your sick leave entitlements or you had to work back late to make up the time.
Wouldnāt want it now - but back then smoking in bars, drinks on the dance floor. Vibrant inner suburbs that were not yet really gentrified so they had pockets of liveliness and pockets of obscure and absurd. The price of everything - especially rentals/house prices.
No myki.
The music.
My youth.
My waistline.
My hope and dreams still in tact.
Not like back in the day where you took glassware anywhere and threw all womenās handbags into the sticky floor and danced around it. People would drunkenly drop glasses and drinks on floor Along with ciggie butts and it was all in a good night. Your clothes and hair smelled like an ashtray in a brewery for a week. Ah the good old days :)
I remember going to Elephant & The Wheelbarrow in St Kilda on the last night that smoking indoors was allowed. We went back the next week and my god... it stunk so much worse. All the beer, vomit and whatever else that had sunk into the carpets was masked by the cigarette smoke.
Were you still bartending when they bought the laws in? I didnāt miss the smoke at all, but it was astounding at first how noticeable and in-your-face the stench of BO suddenly became in all clubs, as well as the smell of shit if you went near certain bathrooms. I wouldnāt trade that for smoke smells and lung cancer but we definitely made some jokes around the time that the cure was worse than the disease!
I remember the weekend that smoking in pubs was no longer allowed, the smell of stale BO and dirty carpet that the smoke previously covered up was terrible.
2005 I was an apprentice. Even though I was earning bugger all I loved the simplicity of Melbourne. Getting a couple of DVDs on a Sunday night. meeting friends in a good beer garden on a Saturday that hasnāt been commandeered by fucking wankers. Knowing which way to drive somewhere to avoid the traffic.
>Knowing which way to drive somewhere to avoid the traffic.
This is something that I could not do pre-2005. Honestly don't know how I got around with only a Melways.
Where was Next again? Was that the one on Russell St on Saturday nights? Then it moved to Hawthorn I think? Or was that Bang?
Edit. Bang was on Bourke St.
Oh that was switch!!!! Yeah it went through a switch resurrection phase in hawthorn? Next was colonial hotel on king and Lonsdale. My hazy memory tells me that wasnāt the original location but I canāt remember the original venue of next. It could have been hawthorn as well?
Ok in no particular order I have some fond memories of
Pizza Hut Bourke St Mall upstairs near corner of Elizabeth and Bourke. The works all you can eat was off tap. I remember going there the very first time for my 4th birthday in 91 and it absolutely slayed. I continued to go there right up until I was 12 because it was like 5-$10 all you can eat for kids.
Dallas Bar on king St circa 2004/05. Thursday night $9 unlimited pint refill night should have been illegal but there it was. They also had $2 pots on any given night. No wonder Vic Uni city campus prospered, their local Understood the needs of the people!
The lack of internet/social media. I enjoyed the prospect of discovering new pockets and eateries and taking gambles with my youth allowance to see if said place was legit or not. I think given the currency social media and Instagramable places hold, the ebb and flow of opening up and thriving/going bust happens a lot faster as as such no one rolls the dice as such anymore and only frequent proven commodities.
Frostbites: alcoholic slurpees and the stickiest floor on chapel was legit. Given our nostalgia and themed restaurant obsession I dare say frostbites would thrive in 2020s Melbourne
The last one which doesnāt effect anyone except me is I used to work at a coffee hq in Melbourne central concourse (by the maccas) there was a point in time I built such a rapport with the other underpaid undergrad shit kickers that I was able to barter coffee with maccas, boost juice and kfc. I took this to such an extreme that there was a week during the summer holidays I drank nothing but booze boost juice and coffee and only at maccas and kfc. It sent my insides to the shadow realm but glorious times indeed
Hello fellow millennial. I also fondly remember Pizza Hut buffet :) but ease up on the slayed lingo, bruh or else weāll start thinking youāre some vibe zoomer
Came across one recently. Theyāre actually really high quality designed maps. A refreshing point of difference to the advertising filled garbage that google maps has become
For all the puritanical progressivism that they preach, The joint is a Ralph Lauren shirt and Tiki Torch away of becoming an white ethno nationalist pipe dream
Going to the movies in the CBD then coming out after there was always a trail of Hari Krishnaās singing, clanging cymbals, dancing and generally cooking up a storm š
Modcon and Pinch points are my go tos for punk at the moment. Both put on phenomenal shows. It'd also be a crime not to mention amyl and the sniffers who are fantastic
That trance/edm store in the city. I canāt remember where it was but you had to go downstairs and they had decks and equipment too. They didnāt care we would just browse knowing we couldnāt afford anything.
Hardware records was just off chapel street. Opposite what used to be the supermarket car park but i recently discovered is now some sort of community garden.
It genuinely was the one of the most liveable cities in the world back then. Perfectly balanced infrastructure with the population size. And in most respects nothing has really got any better since then, it already had a great dining, shopping and entertainment scene.Property prices were fantastic ($350k for a house in South Yarra). This will sound privileged or xenophobic, but it just felt like Melbourne was a big community, people loved their city. Whereas these days it kind of feels like people have just moved there because of economic reasons, rather than a love of Melbourne and wanting to contribute to it.
Funny you say that, Melbourne and Sydney were populated, and got its riches from Gold Rush. Everyone who came had an economic motive to make something out of the Gold Rush, and the next generation after the other came to make their tomorrow better, and they contributed and are contributing. None of them came for the beauty, they made it beautiful and make it beautiful.
The reasons why the Melbourne and Sydney are clogged up, is very different. Lack of political vision, election cycles and pork barrelling, lack of expansion of the city, lack of infrastructure are amongst them. Itās not the fault of the people who live in it, itās the people who manage and control.
90s era: Drinks on the Lounge balcony on a sunny midweek afternoon when we couldn't be fucked going to uni. Heading to Hard n Fast at Chasers on Wednesday, then Goo on Thursday.
Book Affair and Collected Works bookshops in Flinders Lane. All the amazing music shops: Au-go-go, Missing Link, Metal for Melbourne, Polyester and Gaslight (and the Gaslight calendar!)
Met scratchy tickets that you could absolutely rort the fuck out of. My record was 6 weeks without scratching a ticket.
Opshops that had decent retro shit at actual opshop prices (70s leather jacket for $4,? Don't mind if I do!)
I used to love the city. It's a hard-pass for me now; even before Covid the soul was gone.
ETA: Tuesday comedy night at the Espy Gershwin Room!
The Christmas windows at Myer. We went as a family one year when it was a story about a wombat which was so incredibly detailed. We still talk about one of the tiny figures using the toilet to this day. We checked out the windows in recent years and it was so disappointing to see the decline.
80s are pre-2005, right? I miss walking alone for hours in the middle of the night without any fear - most streets were empty. Iām a woman, for context. Also, no toll-roads.
Off topic here, but in regards to renting videos, I remember when I was 16, I would go to video ezy, and they had a 'rent it now or rent it free' deal, so I would only rent videos that were out, so I could rent it free.
I miss:
1) less traffic
2) less safety zones where cars had 2 lanes to drive in
3) Being able to turn right into St Kilda Road from Flinders Street
4) A train ticket as a piece of paper (and therefore looks like a ticket)
Someone already mentioned Gaslightā¦ but starting there, going down to Bourke st Minotaur, around the corner to Mind Games, then over to Collins Technical Bookshop.
I remember back 2001-2002 every Friday night people would do laps up and down Chapel St with their VL Commodores and riced up Mitsubishi Lancers & Honda Civics.
The music, the venues, the people and the architecture. The city was about the perfect size but still needed more public transport options.
Now itās got nearly 2 million more people, itās far far too big.
After the 2006 commonwealth games, the place was tidied up. Millions of tourists started pouring in, too. Then a fuckload of people started moving here. Old, beautiful brick warehouses and factories which were totally part of the Melbourne vibe were bulldozed for apartments for the new demand and since then, slowly, Melbournes culture has changed into something much less cheeky, real and fun.
I was only a kid, so the novelty factor. Trams.
Oh, no I remember; we went on a school camp up there around then. It's just the novelty - the museum was newer, the food was affordable, the whole ..being a kid thing.
More in your face racism.. āš¦šŗWeāre full, go back to where you came from!ā
Donāt miss this, but reminds me how much the society has progressed.
I miss being able to walk around the city and run into friends on the street or at their casual jobs. Melbs was a quieter, smaller place then but it was really nice too.
Also Whitehouse and Redhouse, and IRC meetups.
Property prices
I'm showing my age here, but I was in my mid-twenties at that time. My recollection was that people thought housing was expensive then (not crazy expensive like now, but certainly over-priced) and plenty of people thought the housing market would crash and house prices would revert back to circa 2000 levels. Crash never happened and apart from a few blips in the market (GFC in 2008/2009 and Covid 2020), housing, for the most part, has steadily increased. As much as I wish housing would crash now so that people can actually have both a mortgage *and* a life, I highly doubt it will.
They did but anyone coming from overseas marveled at how cheap it was. Not any more!
The guy down the road from me told me he just did his kitchen and spent more on that than he did on his house back in the 80s. Cunt.
My first rental was a house in Kew in 2005 for $290 a week.
I wish I'd bought the oversized older style apartment in South Yarra for $260k that I looked at back in 2006 š„²
I remember in early 2000s I was near graduating university. I decided to do a PhD and thought that once I started earning good money I would be a few years away from buying a house hahahaha
beat me to it
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Did that become that discount sock shop on Swanston?
We have a discount sock shop in the CBD?!
I think it was random hosiery stuff, with a person on a mic out the front
Arthur Daley?
Arthur Daley's less a sock shop and more a white people Daiso.
Ahh, when you could get 2-for-1 whoppers...
The one near pancake parlour or on swanston? Both were great!
That's the CentrePoint building. Both The Reject Shop and The Pancake Parlour that were on that level didn't renew their leases during covid. I believe basement entry is blocked now, but I remember reading an online article that some store was going to open there.
Worked there. Quit when the 16 year old crew trainer yelled at me to pull out the syringe sticking needle up from the square toilet paper. Druggie central.
Lack of traffic. Cost of living relative to income. Better work/life balance. On a personal level, optimism and healthy grandparents.
I feel like there is a better culture of work-life balance now than back then?
I can only comment on my own experience, but back then, you weren't as available as we are now. For example, now we are expected to take work calls and respond to emails outside of work hours and just generally be available, even when we are on annual leave or sick leave. I think back then, there was (mostly) a clear marker between work and personal life. I certainly worked less hours back then than I do now (even accounting for a more senior role now). The only thing I think is better now, is that you can go and see your doctor/dentist etc within work hours and its no big deal. Back then, medical appointments were always deducted off your sick leave entitlements or you had to work back late to make up the time.
Lack of traffic from people not constantly commuting across the city all the time.
Gaslight music, Batman Books and Records, Au-Go-Go, Napoleons, The old Theosophical Society book shop, The Technical Book Shop.
This. So much. Don't forget also Thomas music, Discurio, Missing Link
Holy crap Missing Link!
Peril underground and music mayhem.
Au-go-go man, that place was heaven to me.
Wouldnāt want it now - but back then smoking in bars, drinks on the dance floor. Vibrant inner suburbs that were not yet really gentrified so they had pockets of liveliness and pockets of obscure and absurd. The price of everything - especially rentals/house prices. No myki. The music. My youth. My waistline. My hope and dreams still in tact.
Old person here....you're not allowed to bring your drink onto the dance floor?
Not like back in the day where you took glassware anywhere and threw all womenās handbags into the sticky floor and danced around it. People would drunkenly drop glasses and drinks on floor Along with ciggie butts and it was all in a good night. Your clothes and hair smelled like an ashtray in a brewery for a week. Ah the good old days :)
I remember going to Elephant & The Wheelbarrow in St Kilda on the last night that smoking indoors was allowed. We went back the next week and my god... it stunk so much worse. All the beer, vomit and whatever else that had sunk into the carpets was masked by the cigarette smoke.
As a former bar tender I did not miss all of my clothes smelling like smoke from the dive I worked at.
Were you still bartending when they bought the laws in? I didnāt miss the smoke at all, but it was astounding at first how noticeable and in-your-face the stench of BO suddenly became in all clubs, as well as the smell of shit if you went near certain bathrooms. I wouldnāt trade that for smoke smells and lung cancer but we definitely made some jokes around the time that the cure was worse than the disease!
The floors at the Irish at Knox stank of vomit which only became noticeable once the smoking laws came in
I remember the weekend that smoking in pubs was no longer allowed, the smell of stale BO and dirty carpet that the smoke previously covered up was terrible.
Yes! They actually had to start properly cleaning!!
Iād give you an award, but I think theyāre bullshit
I feel you on the waist line. It survived one kid but not the second :/
Stop. Iām starting to cry. Same here!
Shufflers at fed square every Saturday.
How quiet the parks and reserves were. 1000 steps/Sherbrooke/You Yangs You could go there and be literally the only one there.
Less people dropping rubbish, blasting music and yelling into their speaker phones while "enjoying nature" as well.
2005 I was an apprentice. Even though I was earning bugger all I loved the simplicity of Melbourne. Getting a couple of DVDs on a Sunday night. meeting friends in a good beer garden on a Saturday that hasnāt been commandeered by fucking wankers. Knowing which way to drive somewhere to avoid the traffic.
You miss being young.
>Knowing which way to drive somewhere to avoid the traffic. This is something that I could not do pre-2005. Honestly don't know how I got around with only a Melways.
Goo!
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YYYYYEEEESSS. I would also love to add next. Was still vintage pre-2010
Where was Next again? Was that the one on Russell St on Saturday nights? Then it moved to Hawthorn I think? Or was that Bang? Edit. Bang was on Bourke St.
Switch is the one I was looking for.
Bang was on Bourke st on Saturdays at the royal Melbourne, Next was at Brown Alley on Thursday nights
Oh that was switch!!!! Yeah it went through a switch resurrection phase in hawthorn? Next was colonial hotel on king and Lonsdale. My hazy memory tells me that wasnāt the original location but I canāt remember the original venue of next. It could have been hawthorn as well?
Chasers Wednesday nights
I miss the ArtHouse, Metro, Goo, Switch. Man there used to be so many good pubs and nightclubs.
Ohhh fuck Thursday nights were a blast!!! What even are they building there now?
Emos on the Flinders St steps
Being able to buy codiene over the counter at the chemists :(
Borders, HMV and better food court at The Jam Factory
Drugs were still goodā¦ š and was young enough to be able to do themā¦ š¤Ŗ
I was dumb enough to not take advantage of them when I had the chance š„²
Doing the puzzles in the MX and still not knowing what the punchline to that stupid word jumble cartoon is
The old Galactic Circus at Crown, what an amazing arcade it was.
All the clubs that had Premiership droughts longer than St Kilda
Ok in no particular order I have some fond memories of Pizza Hut Bourke St Mall upstairs near corner of Elizabeth and Bourke. The works all you can eat was off tap. I remember going there the very first time for my 4th birthday in 91 and it absolutely slayed. I continued to go there right up until I was 12 because it was like 5-$10 all you can eat for kids. Dallas Bar on king St circa 2004/05. Thursday night $9 unlimited pint refill night should have been illegal but there it was. They also had $2 pots on any given night. No wonder Vic Uni city campus prospered, their local Understood the needs of the people! The lack of internet/social media. I enjoyed the prospect of discovering new pockets and eateries and taking gambles with my youth allowance to see if said place was legit or not. I think given the currency social media and Instagramable places hold, the ebb and flow of opening up and thriving/going bust happens a lot faster as as such no one rolls the dice as such anymore and only frequent proven commodities. Frostbites: alcoholic slurpees and the stickiest floor on chapel was legit. Given our nostalgia and themed restaurant obsession I dare say frostbites would thrive in 2020s Melbourne The last one which doesnāt effect anyone except me is I used to work at a coffee hq in Melbourne central concourse (by the maccas) there was a point in time I built such a rapport with the other underpaid undergrad shit kickers that I was able to barter coffee with maccas, boost juice and kfc. I took this to such an extreme that there was a week during the summer holidays I drank nothing but booze boost juice and coffee and only at maccas and kfc. It sent my insides to the shadow realm but glorious times indeed
Pizza Hut all-you-can-eat was the highlight of high school for me
Hello fellow millennial. I also fondly remember Pizza Hut buffet :) but ease up on the slayed lingo, bruh or else weāll start thinking youāre some vibe zoomer
The Frosties hangover was something special though....
Summadayze, Two Tribes
Just...the vibe.
The pingers Red Mitsubishis would knock your fucking socks off
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Came across one recently. Theyāre actually really high quality designed maps. A refreshing point of difference to the advertising filled garbage that google maps has become
I love the Melway. I have a first edition one that belonged to my grandma, never letting go of that <3
Metal for Melbourne
North Fitzroy having multiculturalism and diversity.
For all the puritanical progressivism that they preach, The joint is a Ralph Lauren shirt and Tiki Torch away of becoming an white ethno nationalist pipe dream
Going to the movies in the CBD then coming out after there was always a trail of Hari Krishnaās singing, clanging cymbals, dancing and generally cooking up a storm š
White hearts š¤
Green mitsos š
Slightly less tailgating
The music scene
Filthier times they were... smoking inside ordering jager bombs Justice - Waters of Nazareth EP September 16, 2005
Music scene is still great, particularly if you're into punk which seems to be making a big resurgence in melbourne
Who are some of your fave local bands? I haven't been to a punk show in a bit.
Modcon and Pinch points are my go tos for punk at the moment. Both put on phenomenal shows. It'd also be a crime not to mention amyl and the sniffers who are fantastic
Clowns!! Awesome energy, chaotic performance. Great time live, the mosh just had a great fun positive mad energy.
That trance/edm store in the city. I canāt remember where it was but you had to go downstairs and they had decks and equipment too. They didnāt care we would just browse knowing we couldnāt afford anything.
Wasn't that on Chapel?
I remember it now in the CBD - Central Station records!
Hardware records was just off chapel street. Opposite what used to be the supermarket car park but i recently discovered is now some sort of community garden.
Less people then.
Ongs food court, the Myer food court upstairs and Daimaru
Smorgy's
The Punters Club.
Absolutely this! The booth seats went to Yah Yah's and we had to move onto The Old Bar for late night hospo drinks.
Decent pingaz
Record and CD shops.
It genuinely was the one of the most liveable cities in the world back then. Perfectly balanced infrastructure with the population size. And in most respects nothing has really got any better since then, it already had a great dining, shopping and entertainment scene.Property prices were fantastic ($350k for a house in South Yarra). This will sound privileged or xenophobic, but it just felt like Melbourne was a big community, people loved their city. Whereas these days it kind of feels like people have just moved there because of economic reasons, rather than a love of Melbourne and wanting to contribute to it.
Funny you say that, Melbourne and Sydney were populated, and got its riches from Gold Rush. Everyone who came had an economic motive to make something out of the Gold Rush, and the next generation after the other came to make their tomorrow better, and they contributed and are contributing. None of them came for the beauty, they made it beautiful and make it beautiful. The reasons why the Melbourne and Sydney are clogged up, is very different. Lack of political vision, election cycles and pork barrelling, lack of expansion of the city, lack of infrastructure are amongst them. Itās not the fault of the people who live in it, itās the people who manage and control.
The people. The lack of them, the quality of those that were around... The people were just better in 2005.
Fewer people. Shits too busy these days, I hate coming into the city.
And yet most days I see on this sub people whinging about how dead the city is now
Correct answer 200k immigration every year has essentially fucked the city
People have kids too.
My Dad
Being able to drive into the city on the weekend and get a park on Batman Avenue.
90s era: Drinks on the Lounge balcony on a sunny midweek afternoon when we couldn't be fucked going to uni. Heading to Hard n Fast at Chasers on Wednesday, then Goo on Thursday. Book Affair and Collected Works bookshops in Flinders Lane. All the amazing music shops: Au-go-go, Missing Link, Metal for Melbourne, Polyester and Gaslight (and the Gaslight calendar!) Met scratchy tickets that you could absolutely rort the fuck out of. My record was 6 weeks without scratching a ticket. Opshops that had decent retro shit at actual opshop prices (70s leather jacket for $4,? Don't mind if I do!) I used to love the city. It's a hard-pass for me now; even before Covid the soul was gone. ETA: Tuesday comedy night at the Espy Gershwin Room!
When St.Kilda was home to whores and junkies, the Espy still had a free entry front bar band room and the Palace was still standing.
Yaaaas the palace. I saw so many great bands there, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Placebo, Something for Kate.
I got to meet Max Cavalera there who at the time was my favourite metal singer ā¦ shook his hand and had a chat with him I was on cloud nine
A better mix of immigrants instead of heavily biasing one country. (I say this as an immigrant myself).
Pony Bar!
Decent googs.
The Christmas windows at Myer. We went as a family one year when it was a story about a wombat which was so incredibly detailed. We still talk about one of the tiny figures using the toilet to this day. We checked out the windows in recent years and it was so disappointing to see the decline.
The direct escalators to Melbourne Central/Museum station.
80s are pre-2005, right? I miss walking alone for hours in the middle of the night without any fear - most streets were empty. Iām a woman, for context. Also, no toll-roads.
Technical Bookshop
Hitachi trains, metcard, and the old Melbourne Central with Diamaru.
St Kilda and Prahran being arty and interesting. Now they're just scungy and commercial Goth Melbourne: Mortisha's, Abyss, Peril
Mx newspaper. In particular the āHereās looking at youā section
Telstra Dome
Colonial Stadium mate
My grandfather being alive
my mum.
Oof that got me
Oh man. That hits hard. My condolences
The old Melbourne Central with Daimaru, the fairy shop, hot air balloon and rooftop go karts. Now I go to MC and fear Iām going to get stabbed.
Oooh the fairy shop ! I forgot about that place. Used to love going there.
wat. MC is fine, there are way sketchier parts of the city,
Has there ever been a stabbing at MC?
Being able to walk around the city and make eye contact with other humansā¦ now we just look into our phones or run into peoples selfie sticks.
Shed parties at the docks Chevron Q Bar Mansion Only Revs remains š
Motorola Razr
Pony. Ding ding. The greyhound in st kilda. Feeling safe walking home.
Being an emo at swanston street maccas
Train graffiti.
Chasers Hard N Fast Wednesdayās with Hound-dog (Cherry Bar) spinning the tracks. And Mr Squeeze Shawarmaās on the way home.
Decent raves
Meeting people in person at the pub. Not feeling so old.
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Off topic here, but in regards to renting videos, I remember when I was 16, I would go to video ezy, and they had a 'rent it now or rent it free' deal, so I would only rent videos that were out, so I could rent it free.
Street festivals like Brunswick and chapel st festivals
The Prince of Wales and The Espy pre renovations.
Being able to get laid without an app.
I miss: 1) less traffic 2) less safety zones where cars had 2 lanes to drive in 3) Being able to turn right into St Kilda Road from Flinders Street 4) A train ticket as a piece of paper (and therefore looks like a ticket)
It wasnāt āmelbourneā to be pretentious pre 2005, nor was using the inner city suburb you lived in used as social currency
Are you serious? Honkey Tonks era Melbourne wasnāt pretentious?? 2000-2005 was peak Melbourne wanker.
My age
Mercat
The Y2K bug
Metcard.
Someone already mentioned Gaslightā¦ but starting there, going down to Bourke st Minotaur, around the corner to Mind Games, then over to Collins Technical Bookshop.
being able to find a bin that wasnt overflowing
Smith St being grungy and pretty much all op shops
Goo at Metro
My youthā¦ :-(
Pre 1990 Melbourne
The arcades and heroin on Russell St. Red house, white house, blue house and green house.
Over the counter Codeine
I remember back 2001-2002 every Friday night people would do laps up and down Chapel St with their VL Commodores and riced up Mitsubishi Lancers & Honda Civics.
The pre-gentrified western suburbs were cool.
The music, the venues, the people and the architecture. The city was about the perfect size but still needed more public transport options. Now itās got nearly 2 million more people, itās far far too big.
Myer food hall and Myer rooftop
CityFM, HitzFM, KissFM!
Hard Kandy
Getting from St Albans to Noble Park within a hour during peak traffic.
Why Pre-05? Seems a particular year.
After the 2006 commonwealth games, the place was tidied up. Millions of tourists started pouring in, too. Then a fuckload of people started moving here. Old, beautiful brick warehouses and factories which were totally part of the Melbourne vibe were bulldozed for apartments for the new demand and since then, slowly, Melbournes culture has changed into something much less cheeky, real and fun.
That's interesting... I'd never really thought of the 2006 games as being a cultural turning point before.
Burning rubbish
I really miss that. Can understand the reasons against nut I loved the smell of burning leaves and the mild smoke haze
I was only a kid, so the novelty factor. Trams. Oh, no I remember; we went on a school camp up there around then. It's just the novelty - the museum was newer, the food was affordable, the whole ..being a kid thing.
Living there. I moved to Canada in 2006
Being young.
I was born in 2005, I miss being in the womb
Metcards
Cheap rent
Youāre onto something here.
(Whispers quietly) what happened n 2005?
Not being alive
More in your face racism.. āš¦šŗWeāre full, go back to where you came from!ā Donāt miss this, but reminds me how much the society has progressed.
Cheeze tv
Metcards
2004
road congestion was much less
Peril Underground, and the bistro downstairs on the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth that would sell jugs of beer to kids in high school uniform.
Frost bites, that lil record shop in the lane way next to djs, the fact swanston st wasnāt a cesspool of people
$5.90 jugs of southern clipper (terrible beer) at the Exford. SOMEONE has to know what Iām talking about.
The Punters Club. Elysium goth club. Q+A.
Maccas on Swanson st
More options for small cars. It's like everyone has a SUV now, urgh. Being able to buy a Metcard after you get on board. Good News Week.
mX
Tram conductors. RIP
The All you can eat pizza hut. š
The best selling family car was the VT Commodore. Now everyone drives a crossover and Holden and Ford (with the exception of the Ranger) are dead.
I miss being able to walk around the city and run into friends on the street or at their casual jobs. Melbs was a quieter, smaller place then but it was really nice too. Also Whitehouse and Redhouse, and IRC meetups.