In my series of photos from ten years ago I missed May, so here’s a combined post for May and June 2011.
Balaclava station, the 1981 pebblemix version (which followed a fire, if I recall correctly), before it was demolished and replaced in 2014.
The old McKinnon station – with just one Myki reader at the main entrance, which used to cause queues at rush hour, a problem which was still present as late as April 2012.
Hitachi train – crowded at peak. Not sure, but the bloke in the middle looks familiar for some reason?
…and here’s the off-peak version. Note the tags.
Footscray station’s Olympic Doughnuts, with owner Nick Tsiligiris captured at the left of the photo.
Lonsdale Street, showing the old Myer store during the rebuild which retained just the facade, resulting in Emporium.
The statue of Rupert Hamer in Treasury Place. Hamer was the 39th Premier of Victoria, and later a patron of the PTUA.
Southern Cross Station’s roof, as viewed from Media House. (More pics)
Finally, a story in the free MX newspaper highlighting the numerous errors at Southern Cross Station’s screens – a spin-off from a PTUA post earlier that day.
3 replies on “Old photos from May and June 2011”
Thanks Daniel.
I miss Olympic Doughnuts!
I think I know why you think the guy on the Hitachi train looks familiar…he looks an awful lot like former Channel Ten sports presenter Brad McEwan, who used to banter a lot with Sandra Sully on the late night news (although he lived in Sydney when that was taken so no idea why he would be using our trains!)
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